Welcome to How to Paint Everything! Here at Goonhammer we’ve been working on a series of articles about how to paint, well, everything. We’re not there yet – it turns out there’s a lot of possible factions and paint schemes in Warhammer! – but we’re well on the way. These articles are not just dry painting tutorials from a single person – they also include some background on the subject, whether that’s the history of the Ultramarines or the story of Yvraine, a variety of different approaches to the painting, and some suggestions for taking your freshly-painted force to the table.

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General Techniques

How to Paint Everything: Getting Started with Painting and Modelling
How To Paint Everything: Project Management in Warhammer
How to Paint Everything: Getting Started with Airbrushing – The Basics
How to Paint Everything: How to Make a Simple Wet Palette
How to Paint Everything: Heraldry
How to Paint Everything: Freehand
How to Paint Everything: Underpainting
How to Paint Everything: Using Clear Primer
How to Paint Everything: Checks, Hazard Stripes, Zig-Zags, and Other Heraldic Details
How to Paint Everything: Gemstones, Lenses, and Vials
How to Paint Everything: Synthwave
How to Paint Everything: Masking and Stencils
How to Paint Everything: Working with Decals and Transfers
How to Paint Everything: Picking a Custom Colour Scheme
How to Paint Everything: Faces for 10mm Miniatures

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Materials

How to Paint Everything: Lazy Non-Metallic Metal
How to Paint Everything: Object Source Lighting (OSL)
How to Paint Everything: Power Weapons
How to Paint Everything: Marble
How to Paint Everything: Graffiti
How to Paint Everything: Gold and Gold Trim
How to Paint Everything: Weathering
How to Paint Everything: Weathering with Pigments
How to Paint Everything: Human Skin
How to Paint Everything: Leather
How to Paint Everything: Horns and Antlers
How to Paint Everything: Tentacles
How to Paint Everything: Painting Damage – Frag Scarring
How to Paint Everything: Painting Damage – Impact Craters
How to Paint Everything: Painting Damage – Bullet Pings
How to Paint Everything: Weathered Copper/Bronze and Patina

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Our ongoing Hobby 101 series is sponsored by The Army Painter. They have generously provided us with many of the tools and paints used in the production of these articles, which cover the basics of the hobby – from clipping and cleaning to priming and finishing.

Hobby 101 – Basic Techniques & Getting Started

Hobby 101: Starter Sets to Begin Your Journey
Hobby 101: Clipping & Model Preparation
Hobby 101: Miniature Assembly
Hobby 101: Priming
Hobby 101: Painting Basics – Traditional Acrylic Paints
Hobby 101: One-Coat Painting – Speed Paints, Contrast, and More
Hobby 101: How to Use Varnish with Miniatures
Hobby 101: Basing
Hobby 101: Transporting your Models
Hobby 101: Painting Palettes
Hobby 101: Transfers and Decals

Hobby 102 – Next Steps & Advanced Concepts

Hobby 102: Color Theory
Hobby 102: Mixing Paints
Hobby 102: Weathering
Hobby 102: Airbrushing
Hobby 102: Paint Opacity and Glazing
Hobby 102: Working with Decals and Transfers
Hobby 102: So You Want To Build A Display Board

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Scary Stuff

We’re big fans of Halloween and painting all manner of ghosts and goblins. We’ve done a series of articles just on painting creepy, crawly stuff.

How to Paint Everything: Draculas (and other Vampires)
How to Paint Everything: Eldritch Gods, Horrorterrors, and other Weird Monsters
How to Paint Everything: Ghosts (and Ethereal Beings)
How to Paint Everything: Ghouls (and Pallid Flesh)
How to Paint Everything: Skeletons (and Bone)
How to Paint Everything: Werewolves and Wolfmen (and fur)
How to Paint Everything: Zombies (and Rotting Corpses)

How to Paint Everything: Classic Movie Monsters

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Bases

Your model isn’t done until you’ve finished the base. In this series we cover how to paint different types of bases and create specific effects.

How to Base Everything: Why Do We Base?
How to Base Everything: Metal Spaceship Decks
How to Base Everything: Desert and Wastelands
How to Base Everything: Pools of Slime
How to Base Everything: Jungles
How to Base Everything: The Floor is Lava!
How to Base Everything: Swamps
How to Base Everything: Urban Bases
How to Base Everything: Beach Bases
How to Base Everything: Water Bases
How to Base Everything: Goblin Green Bases
How to Paint Everything: Industrial Bases

How to Base Everything: Better Flying Stands

We’ve split our How to Paint series into a series of pages with more detailed guides. For some of the bigger factions, we’ve broken those into separate articles for things like Space Marine chapters, where we’re likely to have multiple approaches to each of those subfactions. You can find the main article by clicking on the banner below.

The Imperium

Space Marines

How to Paint Space Marines

Space Marines are the prime example of the need to split these up – each founding chapter has its own page with multiple takes on their scheme, including pre-Heresy schemes where those are different enough to matter.

Space Marine Guides - Click to Expand

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Adepta Sororitas

How to Paint the Adepta Sororitas / Sisters of Battle

Adeptus Custodes

How to Paint Everything: Adeptus Custodes
How to Paint Everything: Adeptus Custodes Shadowkeepers
How To Paint Everything: Adeptus Custodes Blade Champion

 

Adeptus Mechanicus

How to Paint Everything: Adeptus Mechanicus

 

Assassins

How to Paint Everything: Assassins

 

Astra Militarum

How to Paint Everything: The Astra Militarum

How to Paint Everything: Rockfish’s Green Guard
How to Paint Everything: Steel Legion Skull Masks
How to Paint Everything: Veteran Guardsmen/Death Korps of Krieg

Imperial Knights

How to Paint Everything: Imperial Knights

How to Paint Everything: Inquisitors

 

Sisters of Silence

How to Paint Everything: Sisters of Silence
How to Paint Everything: Squats

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Chaos

Chaos Knights

How to Paint Everything: Chaos Knights

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Chaos Space Marines

How to Paint Chaos Space Marines

As with Space Marines, we’ve given each legion its own page with multiple methods for achieving results, as well as a look at pre-heresy schemes. If you’re not interested in navigating through the article itself, you can find the linked guides below.

Chaos Space Marine Guides - Click to Expand

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The other traitor legions have their own codexes and so we’ve broken them into their own separate articles, each with different techniques and special models to cover.

 

Death Guard

How to Paint Everything: Death Guard

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Thousand Sons

How to Paint Everything: Thousand Sons

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World Eaters

How to Paint Everything: World Eaters

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Emperor’s Children

How to Paint Everything: Emperor’s Children

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Chaos Daemons

How to Paint Everything: Daemons of Khorne
How to Paint Everything: Daemons of Nurgle
How to Paint Everything: Daemons of Slaanesh
How to Paint Everything: Daemons of Tzeentch
How to Paint Everything: Tzaangors

How to Paint Everything: Be’Lakor

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Xenos

Eldar

 

Aeldari

How to Paint Everything: Craftworld Alaitoc
How to Paint Everything: Craftworld Biel-tan
How to Paint Everything: Craftworld Iyanden
How to Paint Everything: Craftworld Saim-hann
How to Paint Everything: Craftworld Ulthwé
How to Paint Everything: Other Eldar Craftworlds

How to Paint Everything: Maugan Ra
How to Paint Everything: The Visarch
How to Paint Everything: Yvraine
How to Paint Everything: The Yncarne

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Drukhari

How to Paint Everything: Drukhari

How to Paint Everything: Drazhar

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Harlequins

How to Paint Everything: Harlequins

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Genestealer Cults

How to Paint Everything: Genestealer Cults

How to Paint Everything: Rockfish’s Genestealer Cults
How to Paint Everything: Genestealer Cults Reductus Saboteur

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Necrons

How to Paint Everything: Necrons

How to Paint Everything: Indomitus Necrons
How to Paint/Build Everything: The Necron Monolith
How to Paint Everything: Illuminor Szeras
How to Paint Everything: Szarekh, the Silent King

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Orks

How to Paint Everything: Orks

How to Paint Everything: Rockfish’s Ork Kommandos
How to Paint Everything: The Kill Rig

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Tyranids

How to Paint Everything: Tyranids
How to Paint Everything: Leviathan Dimachaeron

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T’au Empire

How to Paint Everything: T’au

How to Paint Everything: Commander Shadowsun
How to Paint Everything: Rockfish’s Se’al Te’am T’au

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Leagues of Votann

How to Paint Everything: Leagues of Votann

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Age of Sigmar

Grand Alliance: Order

How to Paint Everything: Lumineth Realm-Lords
How to Paint Everything: Seraphon
How to Paint Everything: Stormcast Eternals
How to Paint Everything: The Stormcast Eternals in Age of Sigmar Dominion

How to Paint Everything: “Greekcast” Eternals
How to Paint Everything: Karazai the Scarred

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Grand Alliance: Chaos

How to Paint Everything: Daemons of Khorne
How to Paint Everything: Daemons of Nurgle
How to Paint Everything: Daemons of Slaanesh
How to Paint Everything: Daemons of Tzeentch
How to Paint Everything: Tzaangors

How to Paint Everything: Rotbringers Sorcerer of Nurgle

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Grand Alliance: Death

How to Paint Everything: Nagash, Lord of the Undead
How To Paint Everything: Flesh-Eater Courts
How to Paint Everything: Skeletons
How to Paint Everything: Draculas and Other Vampires
How to Paint Everything: Zombies (and Rotting Corpses)
How to Paint Everything: Ghosts (and Ethereal Beings)
How to Paint Everything: Ghouls (and Pallid Flesh)
How to Paint Everything: Werewolves and Wolfmen (and fur)

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Grand Alliance: Destruction

How to Paint Everything: The Kruleboyz in Age of Sigmar Dominion
How To Paint Everything: Ogor Gorgers

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Grand Alliance: Terrain

How To Paint Everything: Age of Sigmar Spearhead Terrain
How to Paint Everything: Sigmarite Mausoleum/Garden of Morr

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Warhammer: The Old World

How to Paint Everything: Middenheim, Talabecland and Hochland
How to Paint Everything: Bretonnia Knights of the Realm

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Warcry

Warcry – How to Paint Everything: Hunters of Huanchi Chameleon Skinks

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Aeronautica Imperialis

How to Paint Everything: Imperial Navy
How to Paint Everything: Ork Air Waaaagh!
How to Paint Everything: T’au Air Caste
How to Base Everything: Aeronautica Imperialis Bases

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Warhammer Quest: Cursed City

How to Paint Everything: The Heroes of Cursed City
How to Paint Everything: The Monsters of Cursed City

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Blood Bowl

How to Paint Everything: Blood Bowl Scenery

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Necromunda

How to Paint Everything: House Escher, Part 1
How to Paint Everything: House Orlock
How to Paint Everything: Retro Goliaths
How to Paint Everything: Slopper and Scabber
How to Paint Everything: Necromunda Barricades
How to Paint Everything: The Dreaded Ambull

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Historicals

How to Base Everything: Historicals

How to Paint Everything: ACW Confederates
How to Paint Everything: English Civil War
How to Paint Everything: Napoleonics
How to Paint Everything: Napoleonic British Rifles
How To Paint Everything: Horses
How to Paint Everything: Napoleonic Spanish
How To Paint Everything: Napoleonic British – Oils
How to Paint Everything: Napoleonic French
How to Paint Everything: Napoleonic Russians
How to paint everything: WW2 era Grigio Verde Uniforms
How To Paint Everything: WW2 North Africa Vehicles
How to Paint Everything: Napoleonic British (Lupe)
How to Paint Everything: Napoleonic French Artillery (1813-15)
How to Paint Everything: World War I German Infantry
How to Paint Everything: Roman Legions
How to Paint Everything: Samurai

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Conquest

How To Paint Everything: Conquest City States
How To Paint Everything: City States (Thanqol’s Method)
How To Paint Everything: City States Promethean and Hephaestian
How to Paint Everything: Hundred Kingdoms
How To Paint Everything: Sorcerer Kings Mahut
How to Paint Everything: Old Dominion
How To Paint Everything: Conquest Old Dominion OSL
How To Paint Everything: Conquest Sorcerer Kings Part 1
How To Paint Everything: Conquest Sorcerer Kings Part 2
How To Paint Everything: The Spires – Rob’s Method
How to Paint Everything: The Spires – Thanqol’s Method
How To Paint Everything: Conquest W’adrhŭn
How to Paint Everything: Conquest Nords 

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Infinity

How to Paint Everything: Yu Jing
How to Paint Everything: Nomads

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Marvel Crisis Protocol

How to Paint Everything: Marvel Crisis Protocol Basics
How To Paint Everything: Painting Crisis Protocol in 60 Minutes

How To Paint Everything: Abomination
How To Paint Everything: Angel and Archangel
How To Paint Everything: Apocalypse
How To Paint Everything: Beta Ray Bill
How To Paint Everything: Black Panther
How To Paint Everything: Black Panther, Chosen of Bast
How To Paint Everything: Crimson Dynamo
How to Paint Everything: Crossbones
How To Paint Everything: Darkstar
How To Paint Everything: Gladiator
How To Paint Everything: Green Goblin
How To Paint Everything: The Hood
How To Paint Everything: Ice Man and Shadowcat
How To Paint Everything: The Invincible Iron Man
How To Paint Everything: Maverick
How To Paint Everything: Mephisto
How To Paint Everything: Mighty Thor, Lady Sif, Thor Hero of Midgard, and Loki, Prince of Lies
How To Paint Everything: Namor the Sub-Mariner
How To Paint Everything: Nova
How To Paint Everything: Phoenix Unleashed
How To Paint Everything: Professor X and Shadow King
How To Paint Everything: Red Guardian
How To Paint Everything: The Red Skull
How To Paint Everything: Shang-Chi and Silver Sable
How To Paint Everything: Sunspot
How To Paint Everything: Ulik
How To Paint Everything: Ultron, Metal Tyrant and Ultron Drones
How To Paint Everything: Ultron
How To Paint Everything: Ursa Major
How To Paint Everything: Warlock
How To Paint Everything: War Machine
How To Paint Everything: Weapon X
How To Paint Everything: Yondu

MCP Terrain

How To Paint Everything: Asgardian Shrine
How To Paint Everything: Battle for Asgard
How To Paint Everything: Dark Future Terrain
How To Paint Everything: Rejuvenation Chamber
How To Paint Everything: The Shrine to En Sabah Nur
How To Paint Everything: Tomb of Dracula
How To Paint Everything: Wakanda Terrain

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Star Wars: Shatterpoint

How To Paint Everything: Star Wars Shatterpoint Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More
How To Paint Everything: Anakin Skywalker for Star Wars Shatterpoint
How to Paint Everything: Assaj Ventress for Star Wars: Shatterpoint
How To Paint Everything – Appetite for Destruction Squad Pack for Star Wars: Shatterpoint
How To Paint Everything: Boba Fett, On Contract
How to Paint Everything: Star Wars Shatterpoint – Certified Guild Squad Pack
How to Paint Everything: Clonetroopers and Stormtroopers for Star Wars: Legion and Star Wars: Shatterpoint
How to Paint Everything: Star Wars: Shatterpoint – Clone Force 99 Squad Pack
How to Paint Everything: Star Wars Shatterpoint Deploy the Garrison Squad Pack
How to Paint Everything: Star Wars Shatterpoint Fear & Dead Men Squad Pack
How to Paint Everything: Star Wars Shatterpoint Fearless and Inventive Squad Pack
How to Paint Everything: General Grievous
How to Paint Everything: General Obi-Wan Kenobi
How To Paint Everything: General Veers for Star Wars Shatterpoint
How to Paint Everything: Star Wars Holograms
How to Paint Everything: Lead by Example for Star Wars: Shatterpoint
How to Paint Everything – Star Wars: Shatterpoint Lord Maul
How to Paint Everything: Shatterpoint Core Set Mandalorians
How To Paint Everything – Star Wars: Shatterpoint Not Accepting Surrenders Squad Pack
How to Paint Everything: Real Quiet Like Squad Pack for Star Wars Shatterpoint
How To Paint Everything – Requesting Your Surrender Squad Pack for Star Wars: Shatterpoint
How To Paint Everything: Snowtroopers and Snow Basing for Star Wars Shatterpoint
How to Paint Everything: That’s Good Business for Star Wars: Shatterpoint
How to Paint Everything: Star Wars Shatterpoint: This is Some Rescue Squad Pack
How To Paint Everything: Star Wars Shatterpoint: This Is The Way Squad Pack
Shatterpoint – Building and Painting Twice the Pride
How To Paint Everything: Today, The Rebellion Dies Squad Pack
How to Paint Everything: Shatterpoint We Are Brave
How to Paint Everything: Star Wars Shatterpoint What Have We Here? Squad Pack
How to Paint Everything: Star Wars Shatterpoint Witches of Dathomir Squad Pack
How to Paint Everything: Star Wars Shatterpoint Wisdom of the Council Squad Pack
How to Paint Everything: Star Wars Shatterpoint You Cannot Run Duel Pack
How to Paint Everything: You Have Something I Want Squad Pack for Star Wars: Shatterpoint

How to Paint Everything: Star Wars Shatterpoint Terrain
Star Wars: Shatterpoint Demo Terrain Speedpainting

Kings of War

How to Paint Everything Kings of War: Champions – Faith and Fury

Halo

How To Paint Everything – Halo: Flashpoint Spartans

Carnevale

How to Paint Everything: The Doctors

Fallout: Wasteland Warfare

How to Paint Everything: The Brotherhood of Steel

Dropfleet Commander

How to Paint Everything: Dropfleet Scourge
How to Paint Everything: Dropfleet UCM

Frosthaven

How to Paint Everything: Frosthaven Boneshaper and Banner Spear
How to Paint Everything: Frosthaven Deathwalker and Drifter

Star Wars Legion

How to Paint Everything: Star Wars Legion
How to Paint Everything: Star Wars Legion Imperial Riot Control Squad

Gundam

How to Paint Everything: Gundam

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Terrain

How to Paint Everything: Munitorum Armoured Containers
How to Paint Everything: Fronteris Terrain
How to Paint Everything: Graffiti
How to Paint Everything: Sector Imperialis and Battlezone Manufactorum Ruins
How to Paint Everything: Sector Mechanicus Terrain
Adeptus Terrainicus, Pt 1: Ruined Buildings
How to Paint Everything: Imperial Scatter Terrain
How to Paint Everything: Blood Bowl Scenery
How to Paint Everything: Ork Terrain
How to Paint Everything: Crab-Stuffed Mushroom’s Ork Kill Team Terrain
How to Paint Everything: Marvel Crisis Protocol Wakanda Terrain
How To Paint Everything: Asgardian Shrine
How To Paint Everything: Battle for Asgard
How To Paint Everything: Dark Future Terrain
How To Paint Everything: Rejuvenation Chamber
How To Paint Everything: The Shrine to En Sabah Nur
How To Paint Everything: Tomb of Dracula
How To Paint Everything: Boarding Actions (Kill Team: Gallowdark/Into The Dark) Terrain

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