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Carmelina Enoch: It will depend how you plan to use the acrylic paints. Are you planning to thin them down a lot and use them more like watercolors, or do you plan to keep the paint pretty thick more like oil?If you're going for a more watery technique I would recommend watercolor paper, which you can buy in large sheets from most art stores. First you'll need to prep the paper so it won't warp. To do this saturate the paper with water until it's wet all over (dabbing with a wet sponge is good), and then tape the paper down, really tight so it's stretched flat, to a large board or flat surface which is larger than the paper (tape it down with brown tape that you can lick and stick - not ready-glued tape like masking tape or duct tape). Once the paper is dry you can paint on it using water-based paints and it will no longer warp (or warp much).If you're going for more of an oil effect you'll need something heavier than paper, like canvas on a board, or any hard-flat surfac! e. A card table would probably work quite well, but make sure the paint will stick completely to the surface (wash the surface with alcohol first to remove potential oils and gunk), and brush some kind of medium (like a matt medium) over the top once the paint is dry to prevent flaking and damage.Good luck with your project! It sounds like fun.As for the units, most game shops sell pewter or plastic miniature figures that you can paint (for games like Dungeons & Dragons or Warhammer). You can sometimes get big lots of them on eBay for pretty cheap....Show more