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Notes from my painting desk

The paints and steps behind each finished model, and the recipes I come back to.

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55 painted schemes 274 photos 44 recipes 162 paint matches

Fresh off the bench

The newest finished schemes, each with every paint and step.

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Find your army

Paint schemes for Warhammer 40k, Blood Bowl, Age of Sigmar and Necromunda and more. Pick a game or an army to see how I painted it.

Learn a part

Miniature painting recipes for one part at a time, like armour, flesh and weapon, each a short list of steps you can follow at the desk.

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New to painting? Start here

Four short recipes, in this order. Each one adds a single new skill.

How I paint a Space Marine, the finished model Start to finish How I paint a Space Marine 10 stages, from the box to the table, with a photo at each step and the paints and recipes for each.

Paint Schemes

How I painted each model: the exact paints, the order they went on, and the finish they gave.

Purity Seal, seal painting recipe

Purity Seal

Seal5 steps · on 7 schemes
Quick and easy
Start to finishHow I paint a Space MarineThis recipe comes up at Details.

Paints

WraithboneCitadel⇆Screamers PinkCitadelPink HorrorCitadel⇆Reikland FleshshadeCitadel⇆

Steps

5 steps, on a primed model unless a step says otherwise
  1. 1
    basecoatWraithboneCitadel
    Base all of seal parchment·Artis Opus Series S 3
  2. 2
    basecoatScreamers PinkCitadel
    Base seal·Artis Opus Series S 3
  3. 3
    highlightPink HorrorCitadel
    Subtle highlight on seal·Artis Opus Series S 1
  4. 4
    washReikland FleshshadeCitadel
    Wash seal and parchment·Vallejo Pro Modeler 2
  5. 5
    edgeWraithboneCitadel
    Re-establish some highlights

On 7 finished schemes

More recipes like this

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Paint Inventory

The paints I actually own - every pot on my shelf, not a catalogue of what exists. This is what the schemes and recipes are painted with.

PaintBrandTypeHueUsed in

Paint Conversion Chart

Citadel colours matched to their closest Vallejo, Pro Acryl and Two Thin Coats equivalents, by eye, over time. Nothing here is a measured colour match - the dots say how close each one really is.

Still filling this in: 8 of the 108 colours used in the recipes here have no row yet. Mostly Vallejo. A blank means not mapped, not that no equivalent exists.

How close the match is: near identical usable avoid
4 how many of my recipes and schemes use it - tap one to see them

CitadelVallejoPro AcrylTwo Thin Coats