How to Paint Age of Sigmar

Age of Sigmar gives you more room to be bold than 40k does. The setting is high fantasy rather than grimdark, so schemes tend toward brighter, more saturated colour, ornate gold, and ethereal effects - glowing weapons, translucent ghosts, magical energy. The three-step battle-ready method (basecoat, shade, highlight) still does most of the heavy lifting, but AoS is where contrast paints and glazes really shine, because so many units want smooth gradients or a wash of colour over bone, cloth and spectral flesh.

Big cavalry, monsters and centrepiece models are the norm, so it pays to have a scheme that scales from a rank-and-file trooper up to a dragon without becoming a chore. Metallics and gemstone effects carry a lot of AoS armies - a clean gold trim recipe and a quick two-step gem (a bright base with a gloss dot of highlight) will serve you across half the factions below.

Each guide gives the signature palette, the painting order, and the exact cross-brand paints to use, then hands off to the scheme generator so you can recolour the whole thing to build a custom warband.