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Painting guides, battle reports, prize reveals and hobby news — everything we spread across the table between draws.

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Painting Tutorials 2 step-by-step guides, filtered by difficulty and topic.

Emperor's Children Horus Heresy Mk III painting guide cover with a purple and gold Mk III miniature

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Emperor's Children Horus Heresy : Step-by-Step Painting Guide

Paint rich third Legion purple from an Imperial Purple spray foundation, with controlled purple highlights, brush-painted metallics and a Marine Juice finish. No airbrush required.

Lewis 2 Oct 2026 12 min read

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Finished Dark Angels Horus Heresy Mk III miniature with black armour and a red earth base

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Dark Angels Horus Heresy : Step-by-Step Painting Guide

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Paint gritty Dark Angels armour with sponge-built blue volume, brush-painted metallics and a Marine Juice finish. No airbrush required.

Lewis 22 Sep 2026 8 min read

Miniature painting desk with an armoured model, brushes and paints, a laptop showing tutorial steps, and competition tickets marked with a tick.

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Making Room for Paint, and Our First Free Draw

Building Lewis somewhere to share his painting knowledge, while another first for Legion Comps is completed.

Rob 19 Sep 2026 5 min read

A selection of Horus Heresy miniatures painted by Legion Comps co-founder Lewis.

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One Month In: A Winner, a Wobbly Livestream and What Comes Next?

Our first monthly draw, a crash course in OBS, and why Legion Comps was never meant to be just another raffle site.

Lewis 1 Sep 2026 9 min read

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How We Draw a Winner We Cannot Know Yet

Most competition sites eventually show you a winner and ask you to trust that everything happened fairly behind the scenes. We decided that…

Rob 28 Aug 2026 7 min read

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Real people, real prizes and one very public learning curve…

Building Legion Comps in public: the wins, the mistakes, the lessons, and what we’re changing as we learn how to do competitions properly.

Lewis 18 Aug 2026 6 min read

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Legion Comps: Week One

What could possibly go wrong?

Rob 13 Aug 2026 7 min read