Warhammer 40K & Wargaming Blog
Recently, I found myself painting a lot of Tau, so I thought it would be a good idea to share my paint-recipe for easy Tau armour. It really can be done in three simple steps. I hope you enjoy this tutorial. This painting tutorial is a guest article by Tom from Mini Brush Studio. For […]
I recently completed painting a Raven Guard Space Marines force. I painted the Camo-Cloaks of the scouts in an urban camouflage scheme that I present in this months painting tutorial. I think this camouflage scheme would also look great on other miniatures with a city-fight theme. I hope you like it. This painting tutorial is […]
This month – as I painted a lot of Ravenwing miniatures and will move on to painting Raven Guard Space Marines next week (!) – I decided to share my recipe for painting the black armour plates on a Ravenwing Land Speeder! Of course, this works for any black armour. I hope you like it. […]
I have been asked how I make cool bases, especially if I need to do a lot of them for larger armies. The following is a quick guide on how to make good-looking bases for gaming models using the Citadel Texture Paints as a base. In this case, I used Stirland Mud. This hobby tutorial […]
Gold is a surprisingly common colour for Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40K. Not all miniatures are completely in gold, like the Blood Angels Sanguinary Guard but, but there are small gold-sections on a lot of miniature. In this tutorial I present a short guide to painting gold with Citadel Metallic Paints. There are different ways […]
This is a tutorial on using two of Games Workshop’s Citadel technical paints – ‘Ardcoat and Lahmian Medium – to apply decals to miniatures in a way so they appear to be perfectly part of the armour and are not clearly discernible as decals applied on top of the paint of a miniature. This painting […]
The new plastic Lizardmen Skink Priest for Warhammer Fantasy is one of the most popular minis for painters at the moment. At the 2013 UK Games Day, the Golden, Silver and Bronze Demon for Warhammer Fantasy Single Miniature were all (!) won by Lizardmen Skink Priest miniatures. So the topic for this months tutorials can […]
Gemstones and other ornamentation are important visual elements for a Blood Angels army. Doubly so for blood-drop shaped stones, a central part of Blood Angels iconography. These Terminators from Space Hulk have a lot of details like this sculpted on. Painting them, I decided to paint gemstones purple, contrasting nicely with the red armour. This […]
For a Dark Angels army, it is good to have common elements that ties the different parts of the army – Deathwing, Ravenwing and regular Dark Angels – together. For me, one such element is the red spot colour. The following is a brief tutorial on how I paint the red eye lenses on a […]
