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Paint guides & recipes
Step-by-step painting recipes with paints, techniques, and shopping lists — each opens in the paint projects workbench. Prefer to experiment first? Try the scheme designer and paint converter.
Warhammer 40,000
- Ultramarines — Battle-Ready Bluebeginner · 9 stepsThe classic bright-blue power armour with gold trim: a forgiving base-wash-layer ladder that scales from one sergeant to a whole tactical squad.
- Blood Angels — Deep Crimsonintermediate · 8 stepsRich layered red armour with black casings and green lenses — one more highlight step than the Ultramarines ladder, rewarded with real depth.
- Orks — Waaagh!-Ready Greenskinsbeginner · 8 stepsFast, horde-friendly green skin with battered black cloth and rusty metal. Built for batch painting: do each step across the whole mob before moving on.
- Necrons — Awakened Legionbeginner · 7 stepsAncient living metal with eerie green energy — arguably the fastest full army recipe there is: silver, shade, drybrush, then let the green do the talking.
Age of Sigmar
- Stormcast Eternals — Gilded Sigmaritebeginner · 9 stepsWarm gold plate with deep blue heraldry: big, smooth armour panels make this a great first project for wash-and-layer fundamentals.
- Nighthaunt — Spectral Processionintermediate · 7 stepsGhostly robes that fade from deep sea-green shadow to pale, chalky tips. The whole effect is two drybrush passes — control the gradient, and the army paints itself.
- Sylvaneth — Heartwood Groveintermediate · 8 stepsWeathered bark bodies with vivid spring growth: drybrushing does the wood texture for you, then saturated greens make the leaves and eyes pop against it.
The Old World
- Kingdom of Bretonnia — Men-at-Arms Liveryintermediate · 12 stepsRank-and-file peasantry in quartered blue-and-red livery over mail and padded cloth. Written for batch painting: run each step down the whole regiment before the next.
- Tomb Kings of Khemri — Ancient Sandsbeginner · 9 stepsSun-bleached skeletal legions with faded gold and turquoise funerary inlay. Bone is base-wash-drybrush; the desert-royalty accents lift it from a plain skeleton horde.
These recipes are editorial suggestions written by this site, not official colour schemes or reproductions of any published guide. Steps use common hobby techniques with widely available paints; treat every recipe as a starting point and adjust to taste. Paint names belong to their respective owners.