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Basing Cookbook: Armageddon Dust and Dunes

November 2016·p. 128

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The two granular desert paints are shown with ten combinations of warm washes and drybrushes. The thicker Dunes creates more pronounced ground texture, while successive yellow and pale highlights provide alternatives to a single uniform sand colour.

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