Warhammer 40K: 10 Essential Tips For New Players

Two thin coats.

This is best bit of early painting advice you could ever receive. Thin down your paints and apply two thin coats of a base paint. However, although this is a solid bit of painting know how to avoid your models having a lumpy paint job, what is more important is the man who said it.

Duncan. He has been a legend of the game for many years as he was originally working directly for Games Workshop as their painting tutorial expert.

Over the last year he has transferred to his own company the inventively named, Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy. Here you can find a tonne of painting tutorials and advice from the friendliest guy in tabletop gaming.

If you’ve ever seen a meme about Warhammer and it’s not about toaster loving robot men, then there’s a good chance that it is about thinning your paints with Duncan’s smiley face plastered on it.

All hail, Lord Duncan! All hail thinning your paints!