Reddit reviews Warhammer Age of Sigmar Paints + Tools Set

Depends on what you mean by "best" and "beginner" ...

Are you looking for the best in bang for the $$ as someone beginning in the hobby?

Best as in "easy" for a beginner to use?

OR best as in the best quality paints/colors regardless of price or difficulty?

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Here's a quick rundown:

• Games Workshop / Citadel Paints - These are easy to use for a beginner because all of the Games workshop guides, the paint app, and Warhammer TV videos use these paints in an almost paint by numbers fashion. This helps a beginner easily match the classic paint schemes on the box. Due to these detailed guides, you can buy exactly the paint pots you need. And they are readily available to pickup individual paint pots at your local GW store. Downside is the price and paint pots vs paint droppers.
  
• Army Painter - Arguably the value winner as the boxed sets let you get colors for a bit under $2 a dropper bottle. Though you need to spend a little upfront to grab a while boxed set. Paints are solid mini paints, but require LOTS of shaking before use to make sure the medium and pigments blend well. Metallics leave a bit to be desired, but are plenty good for a beginner. Washes/shade are excellent. Army painter also has a nice line of colored spray primers that match the brushed sets. Allowing you to get a very smooth and quick first layer down along with the primer..
  
• Vallejo - Quality paint dropper that for the most part, is cheaper than GW paints. Lots of 3rd Party painting guides use Vallejo. Available in kits or individual bottles. My problem is that I have trouble getting them locally or via my prefered online vendors. They are frequently out of stock or have stopped carrying them.
  
• Reaper - I don't have personal experience with these paints but have a friend that loves them and the ability to inexpensively order exactly what colors you want directly from the reaper website.
  
• Scale75 - Expensive high end paints that are likely more than a beginner needs. I'm just starting to get into them. Don't have enough experience to recommend them, yet.
  
  
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  Suggested starting kits:
  
  
• Games Workshop - 40k - https://www.miniaturemarket.com/gw-60-12-13.html or AoS - https://www.amazon.com/Warhammer-Age-Sigmar-Paints-Tools/dp/B07FNS1Z8P/
  
• Army Painter - https://smile.amazon.com/Miniature-Painting-Bonus-Wargamer-Regiment/dp/B01MTXRUUT/ + to make shaking them easier https://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Steel-Shakers-250-balls/dp/B01GEN9MK0/
  
• Vallejo - https://www.amazon.com/Game-Color-Intro-Set-16/dp/B000PHCTRK/
  
  Don't forget spray primers first.

Thanks for the advice, very much appreciated! In the end I have decided to grab this set. With te current ebay discount deal I got it for £20 all in so seems like good value for money and should be a good start!

As others have said, splitting either the tempest of souls or the souls wars box with someone is probably the cheapest way to start. There's also a great value paint set for the two factions that come in the boxes, stormcast and nighthaunt, as well. (Although I'd recommend an x-acto knife instead of the little piece of metal they give you). If you don't have anyone to split it with, or if you're not interested in stormcast or nighthaunt, then the start collecting boxes are your next best bet. Flesh eater courts and skeleton hordes are good value for the death factions, and the Khorne goreblade warband or either nurgle box is a good value for chaos. You can get a better look at all the factions on games workshop's website, but the prices there are a bit higher, which is why I've been linking to amazon. Simply going for the cheapest box might be tempting, but I'd make sure that you actually like the army you're buying. I know from experience that if you don't really like the look or feel of an army, it can be really difficult to feel motivated to paint and assemble them. I have a blast painting goblins, for example, but trying to paint fyreslayers was super boring to me.