Stage by Stage
Follow our stage-by-stage assembly & painting guides and you'll have the core of your army ready for battle in no time at all.
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Space Wolves - Assembly and Painting Stage-by-stage
Are you a Wolf Lord looking to gather your own Great Company? Need some advice on how to assemble your Space Wolves, or some tips on how to paint them so they look great? Then look no further than this useful stage-by-stage guide. |
October 2009 |
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Tau Vehicles Stage-by-Stage Assembly and Painting
The Tau Empire utilises an array of skimmers to ensure battlefield dominance. Here we introduce stage-by-stage assembly guides for the Hammerhead, Devilfish and Piranah, as well as a detailed explanation on how to paint Tau vehicles. |
September 2009 |
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Tau Empire: Fire Warrior Stage-by-Stage Painting
In this article we look at how to paint Tau Fire warriors in clear, stage-by-stage steps, and present a gallery of Fire warriors from famous Tau septs. |
September 2009 |
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Bretonnian Knight Stage-by-Stage Painting
The Knights of the Realm are at the heart of the armies of Bretonnia. In this article we present a clear guide to assembling and painting Knights of the Realm, as well as alternative examples of Bretonnian heraldry. |
August 2009 |
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Ogre Kingdoms - Ogre Bulls Stage-By-Stage Painting
Ogre Bulls are the core of the Ogre Kingdoms army. Here we demonstrate how to paint them with clear, stage-by-stage instruction. |
July 2009 |
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Ogre Kingdoms - Gnoblars Stage-By-Stage Painting
Malicious, cruel and utterly expendable, Gnoblars are nonetheless an essential part of every Ogre army. Here we demonstrate how to paint these cunning little blighters with clear, stage-by-stage instruction. |
July 2009 |
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Lizardmen - Cold One Cavalry Assembly and Painting Stage-by-stage
The thunderous charge of Cold One Cavalry strikes fear into the hearts of the Lizardmen's enemies. Nick Bayton demonstrates how to build and paint these lethal cold-blooded warriors in easy to follow steps. |
February 2009 |
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Lizardmen - Saurus Warrior Assembly and Painting Stage-by-stage
The footsoldiers of the Old Ones, the Saurus are cold-blooded soldiers, relentless in battle and unflinching in their devotion. Hobby guru Nick Bayton talks us through the basics of assembly and painting Saurus Warriors in this stage-by-stage guide. |
February 2009 |
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Lizardmen - Skinks Stage-By-Stage Assembly and Painting
The Skinks are a valuable part of any Lizardmen army. Here Nick Bayton demonstrates how to assemble Skinks, and presents two methods of how to paint them with clear, easy to follow stages. |
February 2009 |
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Lizardmen : Stegadon Painting Stage-by-stage
The all-new plastic Stegadon from the Lizardmen range is a simply monstrous model that can be assembled and painted in loads of different ways. Here's how we reared one from plastic sprue to final, painted monster. |
February 2009 |
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Lizardmen - Temple Guard Assembly and Painting Stage-by-stage
The immovable guardians of the Slann Mage-Priests, the Temple Guard are the elite of the Saurus, skilled fighters who are utterly unflinching in battle. In this article Nick Bayton demonstrates how to build and paint these unwavering Lizardmen. |
February 2009 |
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Citadel Spray Gun - Painting Iyanden Eldar
Nick Bayton uses his Citadel Spray Gun, Foundation Paints and Citadel Washes to tackle the age-old challenge of painting yellow in this stage-by-stage tutorial for painting Iyanden Eldar. |
October 2008 |
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Citadel Spray Gun - Three Painting Techniques
Using his Citadel Spray Gun, Washes and Foundation paints, Nick Bayton paints an Ent, a Beast of Nurgle and an Imperial Guardsman, using a different core technique on each miniature. |
October 2008 |
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Citadel Spray Gun - Painting Chaos Warriors
Thanks to the new Citadel Spray Gun, painting regiments has never been easier. Here Nick Bayton gives a stage-by-stage demonstration on how to quickly and effectively paint a regiment of Warhammer Chaos Warriors. |
October 2008 |
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Citadel Spray Gun - Army in an Afternoon
Armed with his trusty Citadel Spraygun and an armful of paints and Washes, the Studio's own Nick Bayton rises to the challenge, and paints an entire Mordor Army for The Lord of the Rings - in an afternoon. |
October 2008 |
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Painting Space Marines - Stage-by-stage
This article contains tips and guidelines on how to paint four of the most famous Codex: Space Marine Chapters - the Ultramarines, White Scars, Salamanders and Crimson Fists. |
October 2008 |
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Space Marine Drop Pod: Painting Stage-by-Stage
With your Space Marine Drop Pod built, all you need to get it battle ready is to paint it! In this article the Studio Hobby Team's resident painting-machine Chris Peach takes us through a stage-by-stage guide on how to paint it in the colours of the Ultramarines Chapter. |
October 2008 |
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Space Marines - Rhino Painting Stage-by-stage
This article offers detailed instructions on how to paint an Ultramarines Rhino, perhaps the best-known vehicle in Warhammer 40,000. |
October 2008 |
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Painting Necron Warriors
This article gives step-by-step directions on how to paint your Necron Warriors in 5 easy stages. |
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Painting Black Templars Space Marines
In this article, detailed instructions are given on how to paint your Black Templars Space Marines. |
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Painting Black Templar Neophytes
By following the step-by-step instructions found in this article, you will have a squad of Black Templar Neophytes you can proudly field. |
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Painting Blood Angels Space Marines
This article contains step-by-step instructions on how to paint your Blood Angels Space Marines. |
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Painting Dark Angels Space Marines
This step-by-step guide shows you how to quickly and effectively paint your Dark Angels Space Marines. |
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Painting Ultramarines Space Marines
This article contains step-by-step instructions on how to paint your Ultramarines Space Marines. |
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Painting Black Legion Chaos Space Marines
This step-by-step painting guide shows you how to paint a Black Legion Chaos Space Marine. |
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Painting Death Guard Chaos Space Marines
The Death Guard are the pestilent followers of the Chaos God Nurgle. This stage-by-stage painting guide shows you how to paint them effectively. |
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Painting Emperor's Children of Slaanesh Chaos Space Marines
The Emperor's Children Chaos Space Marines fight for the glory of Slaanesh. This painting guide shows you how to simply but effectively paint your miniatures. |
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Painting Khorne Berzerker Chaos Space Marine
Khorne Berzerkers are the frenzied followers of the Blood God. This article shows you how to quickly and effectively paint these rage-fuelled warriors. |
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Painting Thousand Sons Chaos Space Marines
Mystical warriors bound to the service of the Chaos God Tzeentch, the Thousand Sons are implacable foes in battle. This painting guide shows you how to effectively yet simply paint your miniatures. |
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Painting Cadians
This article provides detailed step-by-step instructions on how to paint your Imperial Guard Cadians. |
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Painting Ork Boyz
In this article you will find detailed instructions and a stage-by-stage painting guide using a simple-but-effective color scheme for painting your Ork Boyz quickly and getting them onto the table fast. |
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Eldar Guardian Painting
Below, you will find a simple-but-effective color scheme using only 14 colors. Follow the detailed instructions and check out the stage-by-stage images for reference as you paint your model. |
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Painting Dark Eldar Warriors
Following the stage-by-stage instructions in this article will reward you with a great painted Dark Eldar warrior. |
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The Empire: Painting State Troops
The stage-by-stage painting article below walks you through a relatively simple paint scheme for your Empire State Troops that uses 17 colors. Follow the instructions for each step and check out all the imagery for reference as you go. |
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The Empire: Painting the Helblaster Volley Gun
The Helblaster Volley Gun is a snap to paint, as it's composed mainly of metallic hardware on a wooden frame. In this article, you'll find a simple stage-by-stage way to paint your Helblaster Volley Gun. |
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The Empire: Archers Stage-by-Stage Assembly and Painting
Archers are an invaluable resource to Empire generals: capable of skirmishing ahead of the main army's advance, disrupting the enemy with a hail of arrows. We show you how to build and paint the new Empire Archers in this easy to follow guide. |
June 2009 |
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The Empire: Steam Tank Assembly and Painting
The Steam Tank is a massive iron-clad behemoth that can obliterate enemies with its cannon or crush them beneath its wheels. This stage-by-stage guide will show you how to assemble and paint this impressive multi-part plastic kit. |
June 2009 |
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The Empire: Greatswords Stage-by-Stage Assembly and Painting
Greatswords are the elite of the Empire's infantry. Now available as an all-new plastic set, you can create your own unique regiment of these veteran warriors. Get your Greatswords assembled, painted and ready for battle with this tutorial. |
June 2009 |
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Dwarfs: Painting Ironbreakers
An expedition to a fallen hold should not be undertaken lightly. Experience is essential when venturing into dark, foe-infested tunnels. This article gives advice on painting a unit of Dwarf Ironbreakers for just such an expedition. |
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Dwarfs: Painting Dwarf Warriors
Dwarf Warriors are a staple of any Dwarf army. Follow the stage-by-stage instructions in this article to learn how to paint these essential troops. |
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High Elves: Painting Spearmen
Spearmen are a staple of any High Elf army. Follow the stage-by-stage instructions in this article to learn how to paint these essential troops. |
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Painting Arcane Ruins
The Arcane Ruins set is a terrain piece that has a lot of character and will look good on any gaming table. With their weathered, rocky texture, the Arcane Ruins are also ideal for drybrushing. Follow this guide to painting your Arcane Ruins. |
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Painting Ork Clans
In this article we will show you how to paint your Orks as one of the Ork clans. Here you'll find step-by-step instructions as well as a gallery of models painted by the 'Eavy Metal team. |
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Beasts of Chaos: Painting Beastman
This article gives stage-by-stage directions on how to paint a Beastman. |
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Painting Grey Knights Space Marines
The following article provides detailed instructions on how to paint your Grey Knights Space Marines in 5 easy steps. |
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Painting Witch Hunters Sister of Battle
This article provides detailed instructions on how to paint your Sisters of Battle. |
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Rangers of Arnor Step-by-Step Painting Guide
Learn how to paint the Rangers of Arnor with this stage-by-stage painting guide. In the article, you will find detailed instructions, reference images for each stage, and a list of the paints we used. |
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Warriors of Arnor Step-by-Step Painting Guide
Find everything you need to know about painting the Warriors of Arnor with this stage-by-stage painting guide. You'll find detailed instructions, reference pictures, and the paints we used to get terrific painting results in this article.
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Step-by-step Rohan Horse Painting
An article that shows how you can paint Rohan horses in 4 easy steps. |
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Stage-by-Stage Riders of Rohan Painting
This article looks at how to go about painting Riders of Rohan. |
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Bred For War: A Morannon Orc Painting Guide
Follow this stage-by-stage guide to painting Morannon Orcs and you'll have a great looking horde of warriors in no time at all. |
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Painting a Knight of Dol Amroth
This is a Step By Step Article on how to paint a Knight of Dol Amroth |
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Step-by-step Haradrim Painting
This article shows you how to paint Haradrim with step-by-step photos and text. |
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Painting Hobbit Characters
There are some simple painting techniques that you can use on all manner of Hobbit folk. Here we will show you how to paint some of the Hobbit characters from The Lord of The Rings Strategy Battle Game. |
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Painting Wargs
Wargs appear at several points through The Scouring of the Shire supplement, sometimes ridden by Orcs, at other times arriving by their own volition. Here you'll find a stage-by-stage guide to painting Wargs. |
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Moria Goblin Step-by-Step Painting Guide
Find everything you need to know about painting Moria Goblins with this step-by-step painting guide. You'll find detailed instructions, reference pictures, and even the paints we used to get terrific painting results in this article, so check it out!
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Painting Bloodletters
The new plastic Bloodletter set offers you more detailing and modelling options than ever before. Take a look at our step-by-step guide to painting Khorne's ferocious assault troops. |
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Painting Daemonettes
The new plastic Daemonette regiment set offers you more detailing and modelling options than ever before. Take a look at our stage-by-stage guide to painting these beguiling children of Slaanesh. |
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Daemons of Chaos: Painting Bloodletters
The Bloodletters of Khorne are an iconic daemon regiment. Now available as a plastic regiment set, they can be assembled and detailed in more ways than ever before. Get your Bloodletters ready for war by following our stage-by-stage painting guide. |
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Daemons of Chaos: Painting Daemonettes
The new plastic Daemonnettes of Slaanesh regiment set provides a Daemons of Chaos army with a core of fast and deadly troops. Get your Daemonettes ready for the battlefield by following our painting guide. |
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Painting Eldar Aspect Warriors
A collection of simple stage-by-stage guides to painting each of the Eldar Aspect Warriors. |
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Dark Elves: Black Ark Corsair Stage-By-Stage
Nick Bayton turns his skills towards the Dark Elf Corsairs, showing how to assemble and paint these astoundingly detailed multi-part plastic miniatures in this clear, comprehensive stage-by-stage article. |
August 2008 |
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Dark Elves: Cold One Knight Stage-By-Stage
The Studio's Nick Bayton presents a detailed stage-by-stage guide to painting a Dark Elf Cold One Knight. If you want your own Dark Elf heavy cavalry to look their best, start here. |
August 2008 |
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Dark Elves: Painting Spearmen
This article looks at how to paint a basic Dark Elf Spearman using only a few colors. The techniques shown here could apply to your entire army. |
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Orcs & Goblins – Painting and assembling Goblins Stage-by-stage
Goblins are the cruel, vicious and diminutive cousins of the Orcs, and while their size is a disadvantage they more than make up for it in terms of sheer malice. In this article we'll show you how to assemble and paint these green-skinned villains. |
April 2009 |
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Orcs & Goblins – Painting and assembling Orc Boyz Stage-by-stage
Big, green and very, very mean - Orcs live to fight and fight to live! In this article we'll look at how to assemble and paint Orc boyz, including clear stage-by-stage details. |
April 2009 |
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Imperial Guard: Cadian Assembly and Painting Stage-by-Stage
The Cadian Shock Troops are perhaps the most famous Imperial Guard regiment, renowned for their expertly drilled and highly trained soldiers. In this article we'll look at how to build your own Cadian Shock Troops and paint them in the same style as the Studio's army. |
April 2009 |
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Imperial Guard - Catachan Assembly and Painting Stage-by-Stage
Tough and uncompromising, Catachan Jungle Fighters hail from one of the galaxy's most notorious death-world. In this article we look at how to build and paint these swift-moving, hard-hitting Imperial Guardsmen. |
April 2009 |
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Imperial Guard: Chimera Assembly and Painting
The Chimera is a powerfully armed armoured personnel carrier, and a common sight in the armies of the Imperial Guard. In this article, we look at how to assemble and paint your own Chimera with clear stage-by-stage instructions. |
August 2009 |
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Skaven: Doomwheel Stage-by-stage Assembly and Painting
The Skaven Doomwheel is one of Clan Skryre's more bizarre machines, a rat-powered war machine that zaps its enemies with arcs of lightning. This mighty stage-by-stage assembly and painting guide takes you from frame to the finished, painted model. |
November 2009 |
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Tyranids: Hormagaunts and Termagants Assembly
In this guide we show you how to assemble a Hormagaunt and Termagant, using clear step by step photography and instructions. So grab some Plastic Glue, a Hobby Knife and Plastic Cutters and we'll get started! |
January 2010 |
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Tyranids: Genestealer Stage-by-Stage Assembly
In this guide we show you how to assemble a Tyranid Genestealer, using clear step-by-step photography and instructions. So grab some Plastic Glue, a Hobby Knife and Plastic Cutters and we'll get started! |
January 2010 |
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Tyranids - Ravener Stage-by-Stage Assembly
In this guide we show you how to assemble a Tyranid Ravener, using clear step-by-step photography and instructions. On the second page is a complete frame diagram that you can reference to throughout the assembly process. |
January 2010 |
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Tyranids - Warrior Stage-by-Stage Assembly
In this guide we show you how to assemble a Tyranid Warrior, using clear step-by-step photography and instructions. So grab some plastic glue, a Hobby Knife and Plastic Cutters, then we'll get started! |
January 2010 |
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Beastmen: Beastmen Stage-by-Stage Assembly and Painting
The Beastmen are ready to set forth from the forests and rampage through the Old World. But before you do that you'll need an army and this article shows you how to assemble and paint the foot soldiers of the warherd in clear stage-by-stage steps. |
February 2010 |