Best of: Tale of Painters September 2025

Welcome to this month’s recap! September on Tale of Painters was wild. We reviewed loads of new kits and products, inc. the Helsmiths of Hashut army set, had fantastic showcase posts like Stahly’s Saturnine Dreadnought and a stunning Necron army, and more. So catch up now on what you’ve missed!

Tale of Painters is the unofficial miniature painting hobby magazine. For over 15 years, we’ve been your go-to source for honest reviews of the latest Warhammer models, miniature paints, and hobby tools. We also have 300+ detailed tutorials and painting guides, and of course, inspiring paint jobs and projects to share. Here’s a roundup of our best posts this month.

Reviews

We had an epic unboxing of all the models from the Helsmiths of Hashut army set:

Plus more reviews:

• Stahly tried The Army Painter’s new Speedpaint markers
• We saw the release of two new First Founding Space Marine characters in our review of Raven Guard’s Aethon Shaan and Imperial Fists’ 1st Captain Darnath Lysander
• An unboxing of the updated Knight Questoris kit with the new Knight Defender upgrade sprue
• The Legiones Astartes got a MkII Assault Squad and the super-heavy Fellblade, learn more about those kits here
• Last but not least, we have unboxed Lady Malys and the new Drukhari Archon here

Also check out the video Stahly made for his Speedpaint markers review:

Tutorials & tips:

A collection of the best Salamander green paints, both for 40k and 30k:

Plus more:

• A collection of our five best Imperial Knights posts, with model showcases and a magnetizing guide

Miniature showcases:

• Ultramarines Terminator characters and a Repulsor from Dunk
• A beautiful custom Necrons Dynasty army showcase from out guest nicholas.painting
• Stahly painted a Saturnine Dreadnought in the black and red of the Sons of Horus 1st Company …
• … and a new model from the Helsmiths of Hashut range, an Infernal Cohort Champion in the colours of Muspelzharr
• Plus we have a scary looking Night Lords Kill Team from Dunk

Patreon update

We’d love it if you supported our work on Patreon. In addition to weekly behind-the-scenes posts, you’ll get bonus content like extra high-res sprue images for all our Warhammer reviews and more detailed masterclass PDF tutorials. You’ll also be supporting Stahly’s paint swatch project. He’s made it his mission to catalogue the colours of all miniature paint brands into professional, cross-compatible paint swatches and keep them up to date.

Here are this month’s key updates:

• A new swatch that combines all the colours from the Vallejo Game Color and Model Color in one handy chart. If you already bought or acquired both the individual Game Color and Model swatches, you can get this one for free. Here is how to get the swatch.
• Plus there is the new update V2.4 for the handy comparison chart of acrylic washes that covers now 127 washes from 11 brands. The update adds the four washes from Monument Hobbies‘ AMP range plus increased accuracy for Green Stuff World Wash Inks. Here is how to get the free update (follow this link to purchase the chart if you don‘t have it yet).

Thank you for engaging with our content this month. We hope it provided some useful tips and inspiration for your hobby. Feel free to leave us your feedback or suggestions here in the comments or on the feedback channel of our friendly hobby Discord server. Thanks a lot, and happy hobbying!