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COMMUNITY·WHITE DWARF 388

Your Local Store: Bolton

April 2012·p. 114

THE SHORT VERSION

Bolton’s large Hobby Centre is introduced through its towering Helm’s Deep display and cabinets filled with customer armies recognised at Throne of Skulls. The profile describes a community able to support building, painting and games at different scales within the same space. Its nineteen-year local history provides the background for an established group sharing projects and advice.

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Bolton Helm’s Deep display customer armies

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Contents lists Your Local Store at106, where the actual feature is Games Day. The Bolton profile is printed114 and Preston printed117.

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CommunityWD 388 · pp. 102–105

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The four collectors expand their Middle-earth forces to five hundred points, name their unnamed Heroes and play their first scored games. Painting the completed army is worth five points, with further rewards for the result on the table. The instalment records both battles and publishes each force, setting up a final combined game and centrepiece painting challenge rather than treating collection building as separate from playing.

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