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PAINTING·WHITE DWARF 308

Painting Tyranids: Batch Broods

August 2005·pp. 72–77

THE SHORT VERSION

Guy Haley batches devourer Gaunts on a taped painting stick, using broad coats, ink washes and drybrushing while reserving greater care for visible carapace stripes. He adds murky pools, reeds and torn lichen to the bases and explains finishing varnishes. Keith Robertson then presents the studio’s Kraken, Behemoth and Leviathan schemes, with complete recipe descriptions and additional pictured colour variants. Together the features compare practical army painting with more elaborate studio finishes.

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Paints in this article

Every named colour below is searchable across the archive.

Chaos BlackGraveyard EarthBrown InkBleached BoneSkull WhiteVermin BrownKommando KhakiRotting FleshGreen InkRed InkWarlock PurpleBlack InkCamo GreenScorched BrownPurity SealArdcoatBubonic BrownScab RedFlesh WashRed GoreBlood RedSnot GreenTentacle PinkTanned FleshBlazing OrangeHawk TurquoiseFortress GreyCodex GreyRegal BlueLiche PurpleShadow Grey

Includes named steps, pictured colour variants and expressly offered finishing alternatives. Printed “Commando Khaki” is indexed as canonical Kommando Khaki; Ardcoat has no leading apostrophe. Unnamed yellow and white are not converted to guessed paint names.

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The News

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The White Dwarf Team

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Painting the Waystone and Base

The stone receives a black undercoat followed by Codex Grey, Fortress Grey and Skull White drybrushes, then small Camo Green additions for moss and weathering. The ground is painted Bestial Brown, Graveyard Earth and Bleached Bone before flock, ensuring that worn patches reveal natural earth colours. Clump foliage and hedge pieces supply ivy and bushes, with a Bubonic Brown drybrush aging their appearance. The nine-paint index includes colours omitted from the introductory materials list.

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