Paint Guides

Learn how to paint your sinister dungeon daises. Download a PDF paint guide.

Rosebushes, planters, and flowering shrubs are some of the new greenery found in Cities Reforged: Tudor Village, and Hamster is here to show you how to bring your unpainted garden to life! Alternate paint schemes and pieces not covered in...

Verdant. Grassy. Green. Paintmeister Hamster demonstrates step by step how to paint our new grass banks pieces from Tudor Village. A printable pdf paint guide is scheduled to be available in 2026.

Learn how to paint your various Starforged accessories. Download the printable PDF here.

Learn how to paint your Starforged walls and floors. Download the printable PDF here.

Learn how to paint your Starforged Catwalks and Pipelines. Download the printable PDF here.

Learn how to paint your sinister dungeon walls and floors. Download a printable PDF paint guide.*Since filming this video, Hamster has since changed the first step on the green goo highlights, and now recommends mixing Arcane Acid with Moss Green...

Learn to paint some of the accessories from Cities Untold: Lowtown. Download the step-by-step PDF guide for Lowtown Accessories.These Pokorny Paints and Golden paints are used in the following paint schemes:  Thatched RoofSchool Bus, Olive Dry Brush, Cardboard, Terracotta Dry...

Learn to paint parquet pieces from Cities Untold: Lowtown. Disclaimer: we use UV printing, rather than hand painting, to decorate our Parquet Floors. Therefore, this guide will not be an exact match for our factory-finished pieces. However, Erin, our Art...

Learn to paint scaffolding pieces from Cities Untold: Lowtown.  A step-by-step PDF guide for Lowtown Scaffolding. These Pokorny Paints are used in the scaffolding paint scheme: Black, Base Wood, Terracotta Dry Brush, and Cavern Stone Dry Brush.

Learn to paint Cobblestone and Seawall pieces from Cities Untold: Lowtown.  For brevity, this video is cut specifically for Cobblestone and Seawall instructions. However, you can watch the full video, which covers batch-painting rustic wood, modular roofs, cobblestone, and elevation...

Learn to paint Modular Roof pieces from Cities Untold: Lowtown.  For brevity, this video is cut specifically for Modular Roof instructions. However, you can watch the full video, which covers batch-painting rustic wood, modular roofs, cobblestone, and elevation pieces from...

Learn to paint Rustic Wood pieces from Cities Untold: Lowtown.  For brevity, this video is cut specifically for Rustic Wood instructions. However, you can watch the full video, which covers batch-painting rustic wood, modular roofs, cobblestone, and elevation pieces from Cities...

Paintmeister Hamster demonstrates how to easily batch paint your Classic, Vaulted, and Sinister walls and floors to make all the details pop on your table! *Note that for the Sinister pieces, he has since changed the first step on the...

Want your pieces to pop more? This bonus Joy of Dwarven Painting will show you how to raise the contrast--or range between highlights and shadows--on any piece, even factory painted! Edited by Casey Carbone

In our first bonus Joy of Dwarven Painting video, Hamster's here to show you how to add weathering effects--you can even use these techniques to punch up your factory painted pieces! Edited by Casey Carbone

We use Golden's Interference paint line quite a bit for special effects on our pieces, but they can be a little confusing! This quick video will show you how to use these clever paints to add a shimmery effect to...

In this bonus Joy of Dwarven Painting lesson, Hamster gets transparent about painting your transparent pieces! LED or not, these tips will help you tackle any piece you want to shine light through. Edited by Casey Carbone

By popular demand, Hamster leads us through making a custom autumn paint job for our trees! He shares his mixtures along the way, but you can also copy this format and replace it with your own colors to easily design...

Wildlands features a lot of beautiful wildlife that vary from the standard paint schemes. This PDF compiles all the plants and trees with a list of every paint we used and how to apply them! This guide will be updated...

The Archaean Ruins were some of Wildlands' most beautiful pieces. This guide will take you through its simple but elegant paint scheme! Download our PDF Painting Tutorial.

Our Erinthor Mountains Paint Guide video is ready to view.(Updated June 2022 with correct Product Number on Phthalo Green.) Download our PDF painting tutorial. In addition to Pokorny Paints, this paint guide also uses GOLDEN 4030, Interference Blue.

Wildlands saw an update to the Dreadhollow Forest as well as its new sister biome, the Bleakmyre Swamp! While similar, they have different finishing touches, and they're both covered here! Download our PDF Dreadhollow painting tutorial.

Learn to paint the trees, stone escarpments, and forest floors from the Dreadhollow Forest. For supporting information, download our PDF tree painting tutorial.

Learn how to paint your caverns in our fearsome Underdoom paint scheme. Download our PDF Underdoom painting tutorial.

How to paint caverns pieces in the ice paint scheme. Download our PDF Ice Caverns painting tutorial. In addition to Pokorny Paints, this paint guide also uses:GOLDEN 4030, Interference BlueClear Gloss

Dive into the caverns with our standard Caverns Deep paint scheme.Download our PDF Standard Caverns painting tutorial. In addition to Pokorny Paints, this paint guide also uses:GOLDEN 4030, Interference BlueGOLDEN 4070, nterference VioletClear Gloss

Learn the secrets for painting your Hellscape pieces with an inferno paint scheme. In addition to Pokorny Paints, this paint guide also uses:GOLDEN 8530, Hansa Yellow MediumGOLDEN 8532, Napthol Red Light

How to paint the Forsaken Temple in the standard red & black paint scheme. Download our PDF Forsaken Temple painting tutorial.

Lady Sabelle demonstrates how to paint marble to match the Limited Edition marble paint scheme.

How to paint the limited edition jade paint scheme of the Forsaken Temple.

How to paint the earthen burrow tunnels.

A walk-through on painting your daises from the Dungeon of Doom. Download our PDF Dungeon of Doom: Daises painting tutorial.

Learn how to paint your vaulted and classic dungeon walls and floors. Download the Dungeon Walls and Floors PDF Paint Tutorial.

Almost all of our pieces are dry brushed in one way or another, so here's a video to learn how.

Basic painting tips, including brush recommendations, primer recommendations, and a paint test chart for painting our unpainted pieces.

Download our Classic Erinthor Mountain PDF painting tutorial.

Download our Castle Builder System: Battlements PDF painting tutorial.

Download our Castle Builder System: Roofs PDF painting tutorial. In addition to Pokorny Paints, this paint guide also uses GOLDEN 8571, Iridescent Copper.

Download our Castle Builder System: Walls and Towers PDF painting tutorial.

Please read these important painting tips before you begin painting. Download our City Builder System: Sewers PDF painting tutorial. In addition to Pokorny Paints, this paint guide also uses Clear Gloss.

Please read these important painting tips before you begin painting. Download our City Builder System: Streets PDF painting tutorial.

Important note: the steps for the Tudor paint theme changed between our original City Builder System release and the newest Cities Reforged: Tudor Village campaign. The updated paint theme will not be available for our painted sets until Tudor Village...

Please read these important painting tips before you begin painting. Download our City Builder System: Fieldstone Buildings PDF painting tutorial.Newer castings of our fieldstone pieces allow you to skip the first step of base-coating your pieces in a mixture of...

How to get started painting terrain.

Advanced terrain painting techniques beyond basic drybrushing.

Learn techniques for painting game tiles with Stefan Pokorny and two lucky fans.

Techniques for painting cavernous terrain.

A demonstration on how to paint cavernous water terrain tiles.

How to create a lava paint scheme for our caverns pieces.

A lava paint tutorial for our Lava River pieces.