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Painting a Bloodwrack Medusa

October 2013·p. 114

THE SHORT VERSION

Dan uses pale flesh and green scales to suggest a creature living beneath wet mountains. Thin green glazes blend the torso into the tail and add light around the eyes. Allowing a shade to thicken produces controlled mottled markings. A green-blue wash over the weapons suggests weathered bronze, with a separate note offering the same thickening approach for tiny text.

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Skull WhiteCaliban GreenLoren ForestCoelia GreenshadeRakarth FleshPallid Wych FleshWaywatcher GreenStegadon Scale GreenNuln Oil

Nuln Oil is named for an optional text-painting example in the technique sidebar. The bronze foundation of the pictured weapons is not named and is not guessed.

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Bloodwrack Medusa Pale torso Green scales Glaze transition Mottling Verdigris

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Opening Salvo

Jes Bickham introduces the Dark Elves as a counterpart to the High Elf release earlier in the year. New infantry, shrines and monsters give the army a broad visual renewal. Their first battle in the issue tests that force against greenskins. Completed display projects and a return to the Horus Heresy add other major collecting themes.

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ReviewWD 406 · p. 6

Cauldron of Blood

A towering Khaine statue rises above a magical basin and its curving staircases. Witch Elves and a Death Hag create a symmetrical ceremonial crew around the sacrifice. Crone Hellebron can replace the Hag and occupy different positions on the structure. Compatible figure fittings also connect the centrepiece to the new infantry kit.

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ReviewWD 406 · pp. 7–9

Bloodwrack Shrine

A Medusa rises from a bowl beneath a mirror intended to protect the Dark Elves from her own gaze. Mirrored masks serve the same purpose for her attendants. Serpents, an ancient spear and a painfully distorted body express Atharti’s curse. Shared components also allow a Medusa or shrine characters to stand separately when the other main assembly is chosen.

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