Step-by-step tutorials for painting Dwarvenite by hand. Techniques taught by Dwarven Forge's lead painters.

The videos below demonstrate a variety of different painting techniques. We are continuing to release painting tutorials for our product lines.

Paint Guides

Increasing Contrast -- Joy of Dwarven Painting

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

Weathering Effects -- Joy of Dwarven Painting

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

Using Golden's Interference Paint -- Joy of Dwarven Painting

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...

Painting Transparent and LED Pieces -- Joy of Dwarven Painting

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

Fall Forest

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 Flora and Fauna

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

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.

Erinthor Mountains

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.

Dreadhollow 2.0 & Bleakmyre Swamp

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.

Classic Dreadhollow Forest

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

The Underdoom

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

Ice Caverns

How to paint caverns pieces in the ice paint scheme. Download our PDF Ice Caverns painting tutorial.

Caverns Deep: Standard Paint Scheme

Dive into the caverns with our standard Caverns Deep paint scheme.Download our PDF Standard Caverns painting tutorial.

Hellscape!

Learn the secrets for painting your Hellscape pieces with an inferno paint scheme.

Dungeon of Doom Forsaken Temple: Red & Black

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

Lady Sabelle Paints Marble!

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

Dungeon of Doom Forsaken Temple: Jade Edition

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

Dungeon of Doom: The Burrows

How to paint the earthen burrow tunnels.

Dungeon of Doom: Daises

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

Dungeon of Doom: Dungeon Walls

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

How to Dry Brush!

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

General Painting Tips

For the very best results painting your Game Tiles, we recommend: 1) Watch our basic painting tutorials. These early videos featuring Stefan demonstrate some basic techniques that apply to all our sets. Then checkout our Joy of Dwarven Painting series for guides...