Thank you! Go ahead and get your stuff painted, you will not be sorry. The return (gaming time) on the time invested is huge. It took me three weeks to go from bare metal to ready to play for 4 different mercenary units, and that was just fiddling around with it maybe 30 minutes every other evening.
Check out the modern range from Pico Armor too to supplement, especially the less “popular” ones. For example, I am using a Chinese vehicle for my tracked calliopes.
Good gaming!