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PAINTING·WHITE DWARF 369

Scions of the Dark Lord

September 2010·pp. 90–91

THE SHORT VERSION

Christian’s Evil alliance balances dark iron and heavy rust with brighter skin, cloth and the Eye of Sauron. Specific examples include the Shadow Lord’s pale inscriptions, the Shade’s green-blue ghostly base mixture and pallid Orc flesh built from grey or Ice Blue and brown wash. Tin Bitz, stippled Vermin Brown and small bright metallic chips make the armour look corroded without losing contrast, while common bone-coloured highlights hold the disparate contingents together.

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Bleached BoneRed GoreCodex GreyBadab BlackHawk TurquoiseSkull WhiteDark Angels GreenRegal BlueAstronomican GreyDevlan MudBlazing OrangeBaal RedIce BlueTin BitzVermin BrownBoltgun MetalMithril Silver

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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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