How to Paint Everything

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.

Without further ado, here they are!

General Techniques

How to Paint Everything: Getting Started with Painting and Modelling
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: 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 Pet Everything: The Pets of Warhammer

Halloween Specials

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

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: Weathering
How to Paint Everything: Weathering with Pigments
How to Paint Everything: Human Skin
How to Paint Everything: Leather
How to Paint Everything: Painting Damage – Frag Scarring
How to Paint Everything: Painting Damage – Impact Craters
How to Paint Everything: Painting Damage – Bullet Pings

Basing

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 Base Everything: Better Flying Stands

Warhammer 40,000

Space Marines

Chapters

How to Paint Everything: Blood Angels
How to Paint Everything: Dark Angels
How to Paint Everything: Deathwatch
How to Paint Everything: Emperor’s Spears
How to Paint Everything: Easy Emperor’s Spears
How to Paint Everything: Fists of Fury Part 1, Imperial Fists
How to Paint Everything: Fists of Fury Part 2, Black Templars
How to Paint Everything: Fists of Fury Part 3, Crimson Fists
How to Paint Everything: Flesh Tearers
How to Paint Everything: Iron Hands
How to Paint Everything: Raven Guard
How to Paint Everything: Salamanders
How to Paint Everything: Space Wolves
How to Paint Everything: Ultramarines
How To Paint Everything: White Scars
How To Paint Everything: Successor Chapters of Goonhammer
Which includes:
The White Panthers
Excoriators
The Regal Skulls
Swords of Davion
Ot Neba
Blood Ravens

How to Paint Everything: Grey Knights
How to Paint Everything: Indomitus Space Marines
How to Paint Everything: Astraeus Super-heavy Tank

Characters

How to Paint Everything: High Marshal Helbrect
How to Paint Everything: Marneus Calgar
How to Paint Everything: Mephiston, Lord of Death
How to Paint Everything: Roboute Guilliman

How to Paint Everything: Logan Grimnar on Stormrider as Santa Claus
How to Paint Everything: Lion El’Jonson
How to Paint Everything: Perturabo

Imperium

How to Paint Everything: Adeptus Custodes
How to Paint Everything: Adeptus Custodes Shadowkeepers
How to Paint Everything: Adeptus Mechanicus
How to Paint Everything: Assassins
How to Paint Everything: The Astra Militarum
How to Paint Everything: Imperial Knights
How to Paint Everything: Inquisitors
How to Paint Everything: Steel Legion Skull Masks
How to Paint Everything: Sisters of Battle
How to Paint Everything: Sisters of Silence
How to Paint Everything: Squats

How to Paint Everything: Veteran Guardsmen/Death Korps of Krieg

Chaos

How to Paint Everything: Chaos Knights

Chaos Space Marines

How to Paint Everything: Death Guard
How to Paint Everything: Night Lords
How to Paint Everything: Thousand Sons

How to Paint Everything: 2nd Edition Chaos Space Marines

Characters

How to Paint Everything: Abbadon the Despoiler
How to Paint Everything: Fabius Bile
How to Paint Everything: Horus Lupercal (Sons of Horus)
How to Paint Everything: Mortarion

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

Xenos

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: Drukhari

How to Paint Everything: Harlequins

Characters

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

Other Xenos

How to Paint Everything: Genestealer Cults
How to Paint Everything: Necrons
How to Paint Everything: Orks
How to Paint Everything: T’au
How to Paint Everything: Tyranids

How to Paint Everything: Indomitus Necrons
How to Paint/Build Everything: The Necron Monolith
How to Paint Everything: Leviathan Dimachaeron
How to Paint Everything: Rockfish’s Genestealer Cults
How to Paint Everything: Rockfish’s Se’al Te’am T’au
How to Paint Everything: Rockfish’s Ork Kommandos
How to Paint Everything: The Kill Rig

Characters

How to Paint Everything: Commander Shadowsun
How to Paint Everything: Illuminor Szeras
How to Paint Everything: Szarekh, the Silent King

Warhammer 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: “Greekcast” Eternals

How to Paint Everything: Karazai the Scarred

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

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

Warhammer Quest

Cursed City

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

Blood Bowl

How to Paint Everything: Blood Bowl Scenery

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

Historical Games

How to Base Everything: Historicals

How to Paint Everything: ACW Confederates
How to Paint Everything: Napoleonics
How to Paint Everything: Roman Legions
How to Paint Everything: Samurai

Infinity

How to Paint Everything: Yu Jing

Marvel: Crisis Protocol

How to Paint Everything: Marvel Crisis Protocol

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

Star Wars Legion

How to Paint Everything: Star Wars Legion

Gundam

How to Paint Everything: Gundam

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