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PAINTING·WHITE DWARF 443

Basing Your Models: Contrast Skulls

June 2019·p. 25

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Twelve skulls compare traditional bone shades, cool greys and stranger Contrast colours over the same pale undercoat. Heavy application gathers in the recesses and a protective varnish finishes the pieces, providing a quick way to vary the bones scattered across a Ghur battlefield.

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