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PAINTING·WHITE DWARF 369

The Alliance of Arnor and Khazad-dûm

September 2010·pp. 88–89

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Christian Byrne gives Dwarves and Arnor warriors a shared visual identity through blue and off-white cloth, complementary green-blue details and contrasting silver and bronze armour. Different beard colours and alternated uniform placement supply variety, while Bleached Bone highlights draw those differences together. Notes on individual heroes explain warm beard washes, clean metallic contrasts and bright eye reflections; an alternative selection of Dwarf heroes lets the same collection serve as Erebor.

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InterviewWD 369 · pp. 70–75

Painting Masters: Joe Tomaszewski

Joe Tomaszewski describes the route from painting Lord of the Rings figures and winning Golden Demon silver to commission work and the ’Eavy Metal team. He contrasts the bold, all-round readability of the studio style with directional lighting and explains why non-metallic metal gives him control over reflections but suits some display contexts better than others. His selected work demonstrates balanced warm and cool colours, reptile-inspired patterns, freehand, digital camouflage and increasingly confident reflective armour across Straken, Sigvald, Tycho, Eldar and other subjects.

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PaintingWD 369 · pp. 76–83

Ask ’Eavy Metal

The returning painting clinic turns readers’ questions into worked examples for power weapons, Chapter armour, Eldar colours, living and necrotic skin, tarnished metal and elaborate banners. Each answer pairs practical colour stages with an explanation of the effect, from reserving the brightest energy highlights for a focal point to keeping weathering washes local enough that a metallic model remains readable. A final banner gallery shows the same principles in finished standards from several game ranges.

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PaintingWD 369 · p. 76

Painting Power Weapons

Joe Tomaszewski builds a radiating energy field on a black power axe with successively narrower blue and turquoise lines. Bleached Bone and fine white highlights increase the intensity around a raised focal point, while leaving darker outlines makes the lightning structure clear. The accompanying advice treats the design as a flexible effect whose colour and pattern should suit the miniature.

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