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.

Our ongoing Hobby 101 series is sponsored by The Army Painter. They have generously provided us with many of the tools and paints used in the production of these articles, which cover the basics of the hobby - from clipping and cleaning to priming and finishing.

Hobby 101 – Basic Techniques & Getting Started

Hobby 101: Starter Sets to Begin Your Journey Hobby 101: Clipping & Model Preparation Hobby 101: Miniature Assembly Hobby 101: Priming Hobby 101: Painting Basics – Traditional Acrylic Paints Hobby 101: One-Coat Painting – Speed Paints, Contrast, and More Hobby 101: How to Use Varnish with Miniatures Hobby 101: Basing Hobby 101: Transporting your Models Hobby 101: Painting Palettes Hobby 101: Transfers and Decals

Hobby 102 – Next Steps & Advanced Concepts

Hobby 102: Color Theory Hobby 102: Mixing Paints Hobby 102: Weathering Hobby 102: Airbrushing Hobby 102: Paint Opacity and Glazing Hobby 102: Working with Decals and Transfers Hobby 102: So You Want To Build A Display Board

We're big fans of Halloween and painting all manner of ghosts and goblins. We've done a series of articles just on painting creepy, crawly stuff.

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

We've split our How to Paint series into a series of pages with more detailed guides. For some of the bigger factions, we've broken those into separate articles for things like Space Marine chapters, where we're likely to have multiple approaches to each of those subfactions. You can find the main article by clicking on the banner below.

How to Paint Space Marines

Space Marines are the prime example of the need to split these up - each founding chapter has its own page with multiple takes on their scheme, including pre-Heresy schemes where those are different enough to matter.

Space Marine Guides - Click to Expand

First Founding Chapters

Successor Chapters

Other Space Marines Guides

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

Space Marines 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

How to Paint the Adepta Sororitas / Sisters of Battle

How to Paint Everything: Adeptus Custodes How to Paint Everything: Adeptus Custodes Shadowkeepers How To Paint Everything: Adeptus Custodes Blade Champion

How to Paint Everything: Adeptus Mechanicus

How to Paint Everything: Assassins

How to Paint Everything: The Astra Militarum How to Paint Everything: Rockfish’s Green Guard How to Paint Everything: Steel Legion Skull Masks How to Paint Everything: Veteran Guardsmen/Death Korps of Krieg How to Paint Everything: Imperial Knights

How to Paint Everything: Inquisitors

How to Paint Everything: Sisters of Silence How to Paint Everything: Squats

How to Paint Everything: Chaos Knights

How to Paint Chaos Space Marines

As with Space Marines, we've given each legion its own page with multiple methods for achieving results, as well as a look at pre-heresy schemes. If you're not interested in navigating through the article itself, you can find the linked guides below.

Chaos Space Marine Guides - Click to Expand

First-Founding Legions

Renegade Chapters

Special Models

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: Vashtorr How to Paint Everything: Mortarion

The other traitor legions have their own codexes and so we've broken them into their own separate articles, each with different techniques and special models to cover.

How to Paint Everything: Death Guard

How to Paint Everything: Thousand Sons

How to Paint Everything: World Eaters

How to Paint Everything: Emperor's Children

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

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

How to Paint Everything: Drukhari

How to Paint Everything: Drazhar

How to Paint Everything: Harlequins

How to Paint Everything: Genestealer Cults

How to Paint Everything: Rockfish's Genestealer Cults How to Paint Everything: Genestealer Cults Reductus Saboteur

How to Paint Everything: Necrons

How to Paint Everything: Indomitus Necrons How to Paint/Build Everything: The Necron Monolith How to Paint Everything: Illuminor Szeras How to Paint Everything: Szarekh, the Silent King

How to Paint Everything: Orks

How to Paint Everything: Rockfish's Ork Kommandos How to Paint Everything: The Kill Rig

How to Paint Everything: Tyranids How to Paint Everything: Leviathan Dimachaeron

How to Paint Everything: T’au

How to Paint Everything: Commander Shadowsun How to Paint Everything: Rockfish's Se'al Te'am T'au

How to Paint Everything: Leagues of Votann

How to Paint Everything: Lumineth Realm-Lords How to Paint Everything: Seraphon How to Paint Everything: Stormcast Eternals How to Paint Everything: The Stormcast Eternals in Age of Sigmar Dominion

How to Paint Everything: "Greekcast" Eternals How to Paint Everything: Karazai the Scarred

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

How to Paint Everything: Nagash, Lord of the Undead How To Paint Everything: Flesh-Eater Courts How to Paint Everything: Skeletons How to Paint Everything: Draculas and Other Vampires How to Paint Everything: Zombies (and Rotting Corpses) How to Paint Everything: Ghosts (and Ethereal Beings) How to Paint Everything: Ghouls (and Pallid Flesh) How to Paint Everything: Werewolves and Wolfmen (and fur)

How to Paint Everything: The Kruleboyz in Age of Sigmar Dominion How To Paint Everything: Ogor Gorgers

How To Paint Everything: Age of Sigmar Spearhead Terrain How to Paint Everything: Sigmarite Mausoleum/Garden of Morr

How to Paint Everything: Middenheim, Talabecland and Hochland How to Paint Everything: Bretonnia Knights of the Realm

Warcry – How to Paint Everything: Hunters of Huanchi Chameleon Skinks

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

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

How to Paint Everything: Blood Bowl Scenery

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

How to Paint Everything: Yu Jing How to Paint Everything: Nomads

MCP Terrain

How To Paint Everything: Asgardian Shrine How To Paint Everything: Battle for Asgard How To Paint Everything: Dark Future Terrain How To Paint Everything: Rejuvenation Chamber How To Paint Everything: The Shrine to En Sabah Nur How To Paint Everything: Tomb of Dracula How To Paint Everything: Wakanda Terrain

Kings of War

How to Paint Everything Kings of War: Champions – Faith and Fury

Halo

How To Paint Everything – Halo: Flashpoint Spartans

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

Frosthaven

How to Paint Everything: Frosthaven Boneshaper and Banner Spear How to Paint Everything: Frosthaven Deathwalker and Drifter

Star Wars Legion

How to Paint Everything: Star Wars Legion How to Paint Everything: Star Wars Legion Imperial Riot Control Squad

Gundam

How to Paint Everything: Gundam

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Hobby 101 – Basic Techniques & Getting Started

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The Imperium

Space Marines

First Founding Chapters

Successor Chapters

Other Space Marines Guides

Space Marines Characters

Adepta Sororitas

Adeptus Custodes

Adeptus Mechanicus

Assassins

Astra Militarum

Imperial Knights

Sisters of Silence

Chaos

Chaos Knights

Chaos Space Marines

First-Founding Legions

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Special Models

Death Guard

Thousand Sons

World Eaters

Emperor's Children

Chaos Daemons

Xenos

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Drukhari

Harlequins

Genestealer Cults

Necrons

Orks

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