Though my guards may sleep and my ships may lay at anchor, our foes know full well that the big guns never tire.
Lufgt Huron, Master of the Astral Claws, 909.M41
The Badab War remains one of the most iconic conflicts in Warhammer history, filled with distinctive Space Marine Chapters, striking colour schemes, and battle-scarred veterans. This comprehensive painting series explores the techniques, colour recipes, and artistic principles needed to recreate the grim aesthetic of the Badab War on your own miniatures. The Lil’Legend Badab wars series is the most comprehensive guide to painting the factions of this conflict.
Whether you’re painting the Astral Claws, Red Scorpions, Lamenters, Executioners, Fire Hawks, Minotaurs, or any of the other Chapters that fought during the conflict, this series will teach you how to to paint them.
Throughout this series, you will learn:
- Professional miniature painting techniques suitable for beginners through to advanced painters.
- Step-by-step colour recipes for multiple Badab War Space Marine Chapters.
- Realistic battle damage, chipping, scratches, and weathering techniques.
- Advanced edge highlighting, volumetric highlights, and colour placement.
- Airbrush and traditional brush painting workflows.
- How to paint convincing metallics, lenses, cloth, leather, and purity seals.
- Oil paint weathering, enamel washes, pigments, and finishing techniques.
- Chapter-specific heraldry and iconography.
- How to create atmospheric display-quality miniatures suitable for gaming or competition.
- Tips and workflows used by professional commission painters.
Whether you’re building a narrative force, a Horus Heresy collection, or a display army inspired by the Badab War books, these tutorials are designed to help you paint miniatures that capture the brutal, war-torn atmosphere of one of Warhammer’s greatest conflicts.
Gathered into a single thread, we have EVERY BADAB WAR tutorial released to date. This page is a living document and will be updated when new materials are made available.
