Sprue & Glue

The Citadel paint ranges, explained

Base, Layer, Shade, Contrast, Dry, Technical. Six words on the lids that tell you nothing, and what Games Workshop says each range is actually for.

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20 August 2026
How a Warhammer miniature is actually made
From concept art to the sprue on your desk, and why there is a faint line running across your model's face that nobody at the factory could have prevented.
20 August 2026
Meet the eighteen primarchs
A beginner's introduction to the Emperor's sons: a short piece on each of the eighteen we are allowed to know about, in legion order, gaps included.
20 August 2026
Miniature scale, and why nobody will tell you what it is
28mm, 32mm, heroic, true scale. I went looking for an authority on what those mean and found hobby blogs quoting each other. That absence is the honest answer.
20 August 2026
The people behind the plastic
Games Workshop does credit the people who make its miniatures. Almost always by first name only, inside a studio voice, in a form you cannot follow anywhere.
20 August 2026
The Stormcast Eternals, and what the studio changed
Games Workshop's designers described the brief behind the new Stormcast in unusual detail: not fixing them, but making one painted model turn into an army.