Painting is not as hard as it looks, and even mediocre paint jobs will still look good in numbers.
If you're nervous about wrecking pricey models, you could try sourcing some of the old metal minis from the 80's and 90's - they're smaller, simpler, and crucially, made of metal, so you can dunk them in the nastiest paint stripper you can find as many times as you like and you won't melt them.
Painting is not as hard as it looks, and even mediocre paint jobs will still look good in numbers.
If you're nervous about wrecking pricey models, you could try sourcing some of the old metal minis from the 80's and 90's - they're smaller, simpler, and crucially, made of metal, so you can dunk them in the nastiest paint stripper you can find as many times as you like and you won't melt them.