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Get a professional painter’s insight into brushes for miniature painting. How many brushes do you need, how to clean your brushes, and why you should keep your old and damaged brushes?
Creating Realistic Miniature Bases with Meadow Flowers
Learn how to enhance your miniatures with Meadow Flowers Tufts and create stunning and realistic bases that tell a story. Perfect for all skill levels.
Getting The Most Out Of Your Fanatic Mega Paint Set
The Fanatic Mega Set comes packed with 50 paints, giving you everything you need to complete your next hobby project. Taking up the challenge, four hobbyists from around The Army Painter offices pi...
Painting The Dark Angels | Unlocking The Secrets Of The Unforgiven
The Dark Angels are a unique Space Marine army, containing several colour schemes within the one chapter - all of which can be fielded together! Learn how to paint all of these with the help of War...
The NMM and TMM Painting Techniques
Metallic elements are omnipresent in the vast universe of miniature figures. There are generally two broad approaches to painting metallics on miniatures: the Non-Metallic Metal (NMM) technique) an...
The Army Painter Academy: BattleTech Clan Wolf Mech
Welcome to the next installment of The Army Painter Academy, a series where we break down how we paint a miniature step-by-step, complete with pictures for every bit of paint applied along the way....
The Arena of Escalation: Painting Commander Farsight in 12 Easy Steps
Learn how Oliver painted his striking Commander Farsight for the Arena of Escalation in 12 easy steps with Warpaints Fanatic, Air, and Speedpaint!
Learn How to Paint True-Metallic Metals (TMM)
Unlock the secrets of painting True-Metallic Metal (NMM) with our step-by-step guide. Learn to create stunning bronze, silver, and gold effects using Warpaints Fanatic Metallic paints.
Learn How to Paint Non-Metallic Metals (NMM)
Unlock the secrets of painting Non-Metallic Metal (NMM) with our step-by-step guide. Learn to create stunning bronze, silver, and gold effects using Warpaints Fanatic acrylics.
The Army Painter Academy: T'au Fire Warrior
Welcome to the next installment of The Army Painter Academy, a series where we break down how we paint a miniature step-by-step, complete with pictures for every bit of paint applied along the way....
Painting the Dark Angels Dreadnought: Behind the Scenes
Today we pull back the veil and lay bare the secrets that went into painting this venerable Dark Angels Dreadnought, as Thomas takes us through his process of blending the might of Warpaints Air wi...
Paint Like a Pro: 10 Tips for Beginner Must-Haves
Get a professional painter’s must-have equipment and tools for starting miniature painting with Steffen's top 10 tips. From brushes to proper lighting, we've got it covered!
Painting the Lion: Behind the Scenes
The Lion, Primarch of the Dark Angels, is a terrific centerpiece miniature from Games Workshop, worthy of the spotlight in any hobbyist's collection. As such, we knew it deserved the extra attentio...
The Army Painter Academy: Ravenwing Outrider
Welcome to the second installment of The Army Painter Academy, a series where we break down how we paint a miniature step-by-step, complete with pictures for every bit of paint applied along the wa...
Warpaints Fanatic | Matching Colour Schemes
Warpaints Fanatic is fast approaching and with it many hobbyists are wondering how to transition an existing collection of models into the new paint range. Matching your colour schemes to maintain...
The Army Painter Academy: Dark Angel Intercessor
Welcome to the first installment of The Army Painter Academy, a series where we break down how we paint a miniature step-by-step, complete with pictures for every bit of paint applied along the way...
Thomas Tackles the Tyranid Screamer-Killer
Welcome to our first in-depth look at how we tackle certain models within The Army Painter studio. We hope to bring you even more of these in the future, including guides with step-by-step photos, ...
How To Do Object Source Lighting
Your Guide to Object Source Lighting What Is Object Source Lighting? Object source lighting, or OSL, refers to a light source on your miniature that may exist on the model, the base, or elsewhere t...
Warpaints Fanatic: How to use Flexible Colour Triads
Up your game with the Flexible Triad System We first introduced the Triad System with our industry-leading airbrush-ready Warpaints Air. This method, beloved by hobbyists and professionals alike, o...
Speedpaint 2.0: 5 Tips and Tricks
Speedpaint 2.0 is renowned for its versatility and ease of use, making it a favourite among hobbyists and painting enthusiasts. Even though Speedpaints make for perfect tabletop-ready miniatures wi...