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PAINTING·WHITE DWARF 340

Modelling Workshop: Army Building

April 2008·pp. 84–91

THE SHORT VERSION

Fil Dunn, Neil Green and Chad Mierzwa demonstrate organised batch assembly and painting across Skeletons, Space Marines and Corsairs. Neat base colours, simple shading and selected highlights make complete units attainable without treating every trooper as a display piece. The guide covers fitting ranked models, leaving awkward parts separate, basing and adding identifying details. A finished Vampire Counts battalion shows how manageable blocks of work and a final character reward can sustain a larger project.

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