Guides
Practical guides for miniature painters
Guides
Painting Techniques
A reference to every common technique, from base coating to OSL.
Paint Finishes & Ranges
Base, layer, shade, contrast - and the brand ranges explained.
Miniature Paintbrushes
Every brush type and what to look for in a good one.
Brush Care
Make your brushes last years instead of weeks.
How to Clean an Airbrush
The three levels of cleaning, and when each one is actually needed.
Recommended Tools
The hobby gear beyond paint and brushes worth owning.
Gift Ideas
The best gifts for painters at every budget.
Community Palettes
Create, publish and share your paint schemes.
Painting Techniques
Washes & Shades
The single highest-impact step in painting.
Edge Highlighting
Make armoured miniatures pop.
Drybrushing
Fast highlights for texture, fur and rust.
Thinning Paints
The habit that fixes most beginner problems.
Wet Blending
Smooth, seamless colour transitions.
Slapchop
Grey undercoat, drybrush, contrast - a whole army fast.
Basing Miniatures
The finishing step that ties an army together.
Getting Started
How to Start Painting
Your first model, step by step.
Warhammer 40k for Beginners
Pick an army and get started.
Age of Sigmar for Beginners
Getting into the Mortal Realms.
How to Start Kill Team
The best low-model-count way in.
Horus Heresy Legions
Painting the 30k Space Marine Legions.
Painting Trench Crusade
Mud, rust, blood and bone - schemes for every warband.
Starter Kit
What you actually need to begin.
Reviews
Live Prices
Buying Guides
Best Paint Sets by Value
Every set ranked by price per paint.
Best Paint for Miniatures
Which range to buy first.
Cheaper Than Citadel
Pot sizes, price per ml, and which swaps hold up.
Best Brushes
Synthetic vs sable, and the sizes you need.
Kolinsky Sable Brushes
What the money buys, and how to make it last.
Best Contrast Paints
Citadel vs Army Painter vs Vallejo.
Wet Palette Guide
The best upgrade for keeping paint workable.
Best Painting Lamp
Why CRI beats brightness, and which daylight lamp to buy.
Best Airbrush Compressor
Tank or tankless, how loud it really is, and what to buy at each budget.
Plastic Glue & Cement
Cement, super glue or PVA - and when each one is right.
Paint Racks & Storage
Pot shape decides the rack - Citadel pots versus dropper bottles.
Carry Cases & Army Transport
Pluck foam or pre-cut trays, and why a tray only ever fits one maker's case.
Paint Shakers & Mixers
Agitator balls, electric shakers and what actually mixes a pot.
Sprue Cutters & Nippers
Single-bevel vs double, the GodHand question, and cutting cleanly.
Static Grass Applicators
What an applicator buys you, and when tufts are enough.
Pin Vices & Magnets
Drilling, pinning and magnetising - the sizes and bits that fit.
Kill Team Terrain
What a killzone is, why it is not decoration, and which boxes have one.
Best 40k Terrain Sets
Every boxed 40k terrain set GW currently sell, ranked by what you actually get on the table for the money.
Paints by Game
Paints for Bolt Action
Vallejo vs Army Painter vs AK for 28mm WW2.
Paints for Necromunda
The underhive core, plus one colour per House.
Paints for Kill Team
Ten operatives changes what is worth buying.
Paints to Start 40k
One primer, four bases, two washes, two layers, a metal.
Lord of the Rings Paints
Rohan to Mordor - the film schemes, in pots you can buy today.
Paints for Star Wars: Legion
Stormtroopers, clones, rebels and droids - the old official sets, in pots you can still buy.
Paints for Shatterpoint
Hero-scale characters - white armour, faces, sabers and beskar.
BattleTech Paint Schemes
Every Great House, Clan and mercenary command, with the pots.
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