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Echoes from the Warp: Writing a Codex Timeline

December 2019·pp. 66–69

THE SHORT VERSION

Alexander Tuxford describes a Warhammer Fest exercise in which visitors helped develop a hypothetical Ork codex incident with writer Andy Clark. The example explains how a short timeline entry can give both sides a convincing objective, communicate setting through action and leave useful possibilities beyond the battle’s immediate outcome.

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Painting Question: The Cleaved

Dan Hyams’s question prompts a recipe for pale pink Chaos armour stained with carefully diluted brown streaks. Green cloth provides a cool contrast, while progressively lighter flesh colours pick out the armour’s edges without losing the sickly appearance that distinguishes the warband.

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PaintingWD 449 · p. 5

Model of the Month: Black Templar Sword Brother

Francesco Olivieri gives a Primaris Lieutenant the red heraldry of a Sword Brother and a near-black armour mixture with a small blue component. Successive grey and white marks define damage and sharp highlights, giving an otherwise dark miniature readable edges and a worn campaigning appearance.

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Reader Spotlight: The Ironbeaks

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