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Citadel Toolbox: Army Painting with Flat Drybrushes

September 2006·p. 71

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Large flat brushes speed up several repetitive stages of painting an army. The examples cover restoring missed areas of black undercoat, overbrushing a brown base while leaving darker shading, applying an all-over ink wash and drybrushing raised detail. The guide connects speed with brush care: keeping paint out of the ferrule and cleaning thoroughly prevents the wide bristles from losing the shape that makes these methods effective.

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Painting Your Free Models

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Painting the Balrog

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