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.
Posts
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What a wet palette actually does
How the thing works, what the three that publish their own specs contain, and how to build one from a lunchbox if you would rather not spend the money yet.
What Contrast paints changed
One coat, done, skip the hard part. What Games Workshop actually claims for Contrast is narrower than its reputation, and more interesting.
Where Warhammer came from
Games Workshop's own timeline says it was founded in 1975. Warhammer arrives in 1983 and 40,000 in 1987, which makes the company a shop for eight years first.
Why plastic looks like plastic
A plastic miniature is shaped by having to get out of a steel mould, and that one constraint explains more about your models than the concept art does.