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MODELLING·WHITE DWARF 306

Building a Gondorian Ship

June 2005·pp. 113–115

THE SHORT VERSION

Nick Davis builds a large three-masted patrol ship from stepped foamboard layers separated by insulation-foam blocks. Tape establishes the hull shape before softened balsa strips cover it with planking; gunwales, a forecastle and a poop deck provide scale and elevation. Dowel masts, a spoked wheel, stiffened sails and PVA-treated rigging finish the structure. Successive grey drybrushes weather the wood, while layered browns and bone give the sails stained cloth.

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The White Dwarf Team

Guy Haley celebrates the new plastic Carnifex and improves movement trays before a large Goblin battle, then recounts how Animosity and a Ravenwing force spoiled two games. Paul Rudge strengthens his Haradrim with Easterling shields while Christian Byrne converts a Black Legion commander and starts Dwarfs. Nick Kyme reports two more campaign wins for his gun-heavy Dwarfs, and Greg MacGregor recalls a successful rehearsal against the Mûmak before the team’s final Battle Companies encounter.

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ModellingWD 306 · pp. 24–27

Lethal Engineering

Phil Kelly shows how small changes of limbs, heads and weapons can give individual roles to otherwise repetitive Tyranid broods. Termagants become hunters or firing beasts, separate Spinegaunt arms suggest movement, and Gargoyle bodies produce airborne-looking Hormagaunts. The final technique uses partly cured epoxy to stretch thin strands of drool between jaws or from living weapons, with a warning that restrained effects look more convincing than excessive slime.

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ModellingWD 306 · p. 24

Gaunts: Hunting, Hissing and Aiming

Termagant poses are built around the fleshborer arm: lowering it suggests searching for prey, turning the head away suggests communication, and bringing both arms up aligns the eyes with a firing weapon. The feed arm is adjusted gently to fit the chosen stance, either by extending the elbow or removing a small wedge before closing it. This approach gives a brood visual purpose without replacing its basic components.

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