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Primed for Action: How to Paint Space Marines

April 2005·pp. 60–63

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Adrian Wood describes building a chapter-specific modelling and painting book that complements the general Citadel guide and the army codex. A hundred illustrated uniforms provide inspiration, detailed Ultramarine company markings establish a reference structure, and named individual troops, personalised liturgy and unusual Chapter examples encourage readers to make an army recognisably their own.

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