Painting

Army Showcase: Jack’s Imperial Fists

Finishing your own army is core to the Warhammer 40,000 hobby. In our Army Showcase series, Goonhammer contributors take a look at the armies we’ve been collecting for years, and the new ones we’ve just finished – what drew...

How to Paint Everything: Steel Legion Skull Masks

This is a step by step run through of how I am painting skull masks on my steel legion models. These are representing guardsmen from the Ministorum cemetery world of Certus Minor. Skull masks would also be a good...

How To Paint Everything: Easy Emperor’s Spears

.embed-container{height:unset; padding-bottom:25px;} .embed-container{height:unset; padding-bottom:25px;} In our How to Paint Everything series, we take a look at different armies of the Warhammer universe, examine their history and heraldry, and look at several different methods for painting them. This week, Goonhammer's resident...

Goonbowl Painting Challenge – The Darkoath Chieftain

Way back in February, Lupe challenged us all to a painting contest. Each entrant had to paint up a Darkoath Chieftain in their own style, and then take 3 photos from different angles, after which they'd be eligible for...

The Corroad to NoVA Part 3: Actually Playing Warhammer

Welcome back to the Corroad to NoVA! If you’re somehow reading this and don’t know what the Road to NoVA series is, check out TheChirurgeon’s intro post here. Part 1 and part 2 of my personal series are here...

How to Paint Everything: Which Dark Angels Green Is Best Dark Angels Green? Citadel, Vallejo, Instar and Contrast head to head!

Hello friends! Welcome to my new series where I paint things from an 'average painter's mindset'. I'm no Lupe, Richp, Brin or Booley but I feel that an everyday painter can have some insights on a review for other...

Time for the Real Work: TheChirurgeon’s Road to NoVA, Part 3

Welcome back, dear reader! When we last left off, I was anxiously beginning to chart the hours remaining I had to hobby before NoVA. I ended up with a conservative figure of about 130 hours to work with. That...

The meandering road towards NoVA – Week 2

Not a whole ton to report this last week, I haven't gotten to play any practice games yet (I haven't even built all the models for it yet...), nor have I had any conceptual rethinks of the list. One...

A meandering road towards NoVA – Part 1

All these other fools with there road to NoVA posts have inspired me to make one of my own. I don't actually know if I'm going to NoVA, but it's a good goal, and a good way to Just...

Coda’s 2019 and 2017 Chapter Challenge Astartes

Without further ado: "During M42, The Custiam Capitis or The Head Guard in low gothic, chapter operated not as a cohesive whole but rather small detachments of ten to twenty Astartes. These detachments were sent by Roboute Guilliman himself to...