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Start Here: Warhammer Painting Made Simple

Welcome to Jon Grant Miniatures

This site is designed to help you paint Warhammer miniatures to a clean, consistent tabletop standard using simple, reliable methods.

You don’t need complicated techniques or dozens of specialised tools to get good results. The goal here is to give you a clear, repeatable process that works across whole armies, not just single models.


My Approach

I’ve been part of the Warhammer hobby for over 35 years, focusing on painting armies to a high-quality tabletop standard.

My approach sits between “Battle Ready” and display painting:

  • Cleaner and more refined than basic tabletop
  • Fast enough to use across full armies

I focus on classic, dependable techniques such as:

  • Layering
  • Shading
  • Highlighting

Rather than relying on contrast-heavy shortcuts or overly complex methods.

If you want your models to look clean, consistent, and coherent on the table, without overcomplicating things, you’re in the right place.


What Standard Are These Guides?

These guides are aimed at achieving a high-quality tabletop standard:

  • Above basic “Battle Ready”
  • Below time-intensive display painting

The focus is on:

  • Clean results
  • Consistent quality
  • Techniques that scale across armies

The Core Painting Workflow

Most guides on this site follow a simple, repeatable process:

  1. Basecoat – Apply your main colours cleanly
  2. Shade – Add depth with washes or recess shading
  3. Layer – Re-establish colour on raised areas
  4. Highlight – Add definition and contrast
  5. Base – Finish the model cleanly

This workflow is designed to give reliable results across entire armies.

Start Here

If you are completely new to painting miniatures, begin with these guides:


Painting Different Parts of a Model

These guides show how to paint common parts of Warhammer models using simple, repeatable methods.
  • How to Paint Metallics (coming soon)
  • How to Paint Skin (coming soon)
  • How to Paint Leather (coming soon)
  • How to Paint Zombie Flesh
In the next section you can find guides to painting individual miniature and whole armies.

Painting by Army and Model

As the site grows, you will find more guides organised by faction and model type:


Next Steps: Improving Your Painting

Once you are comfortable painting individual parts of a model, the next step is improving consistency and applying the process across complete miniatures.

At this stage, the focus is not on more complicated techniques, but on doing the basics cleanly and reliably every time.

  • Build consistency across multiple models
  • Improve neatness and brush control
  • Apply the same process across a full unit or army
  • Develop a clean and coherent overall finish

Future guides will expand on this by showing how to apply these methods to complete models, units, and armies.

You can continue working through the guides above while keeping these goals in mind.


Getting Started with Warhammer

Once you are comfortable with painting the basic techniques, you may want to use your miniatures on the tabletop.

Over the years, I have played almost every Games Workshop game. My current favourites are:

These systems offer different ways to build, paint, and collect miniatures, depending on your interests. Warhammer Underworlds allows you to explore painting the whole range of factions in Warhammer Age of Sigmar.

If you would like to see


Final Thoughts

Painting Warhammer miniatures is a skill that improves steadily with practise. You do not need to master every technique or chase perfect results to produce models that look strong on the tabletop.

Work on being neat and mastering brush control.

A clean, consistent approach built around simple methods will take you much further than constantly changing techniques or overcomplicating the process.

Focus on applying the same steps clearly and reliably, and your results will improve naturally over time.

If you are unsure where to go next, continue working through the guides on this page and gradually build up your confidence with each stage of the process.

The goal is not perfection, but a finished army you are proud to put on the table.


Discussion

Are there any guides you would like me to add to this hub?

Let me know in the comments, I’d be interested to hear what’s worked for you.

Happy hobbying!

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More of my Miniature Painting Guides can be found here. 

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