Citadel Colour - Painting tips & guides

Painting is the essence of Warhammer. Whether you are just starting out and wish to hone your painting skills, or you are an experienced artist seeking a quick reference, this invaluable companion will assist you in achieving excellent results more effortlessly than before.

The latest iteration of the app includes:

- Full utilization of Contrast paints with our comprehensive guides

- Options for both Contrast and Classic method painting tutorials

- Access to an expanded selection of high-resolution images of models for painting inspiration

- Enhanced navigation with improved search, sorting, and refinement features

- The Projects feature for organizing your preferred Paint by Model and Paint by Colour techniques into custom lists

- Detailed explanations of essential painting methods, covering everything from shading to the use of Contrast paints

- Instructions to create a variety of colors through easy-to-follow steps

- Extensive color schemes for numerous miniatures, with fresh guides being added regularly

- Techniques and advice for effectively basing your miniatures

- Tools like the Inventory and Wishlist to help you manage your paint collection and plan upcoming projects

The Citadel Colour Range

Base Paints

These robust and highly pigmented paints provide the bedrock for your paint schemes, giving you strong, solid colours on which to build.

Contrast Paints

Designed to work over our light and neutral Base and Spray paints, our groundbreaking Contrast paints can colour, shade, and highlight at a single stroke, or create bright and saturated single-coat coverage on your miniatures.

Layer Paints

Use Layer paints to add saturation and brightness to your miniatures, or create eye-catching highlights to make your armies stand out even more on the tabletop.

Shade Paints

Shade paints add depth to your miniatures. They're formulated to flow into gaps and recesses to emulate shadows, intensify your colour scheme, and accentuate highlights and lowlights.

Dry Paints

Swiftly add highlights to complicated textures such as fur and chainmail through a technique called drybrushing, made quick, easy, and effective with our range of Dry Paints.

Technical Paints

Technical paints are an easy and effective way to create churned up battlefields or alien landscapes on your bases, or to add gnarly and atmospheric effects like gore splatters, ageing, and weathering to your miniatures.

Air Paints

Air paints are ideally formulated for use with the airbrush of your choice.

Spray Paints

Spray paints are designed to prepare your Warhammer miniatures to be painted. They're applied before anything else, covering them in a single even coat. Our range of colours means you can get your miniature ready quickly, no matter the colour scheme you’re working on.

Why Choose Citadel Colour?

Iconic Colours

Get the perfect hue for your miniatures with colours that are designed to bring Warhammer miniatures and terrain to life on the tabletop. Match the iconic colour schemes you’ve seen in the books, box art, and beyond.

Exceptional Quality

Every batch of Citadel Colour paints is tested to ensure consistency from one pot to the next – so you get great quality, all the time.

A Broad Spectrum

Get all the colours you need straight from the pot with our range of more than 300 paints, so you can get on with painting miniatures you can be proud of – no mixing required!

Creating Since 1984

Nobody knows miniatures like us – we’ve been painting them for four decades, so we know what works! That’s why you can rely on our paints to get the dazzling results you want.