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PAINTING·WHITE DWARF 449

Painting the Ironbeaks

December 2019·pp. 6–7

THE SHORT VERSION

The Ironbeaks combine warm, shaded flesh with cool blue quills and restrained red markings. Bailey credits his painting collaborator Tim, and explains how thin glazes and progressively paler flesh highlights maintain a unified organic appearance across a collection assembled from very different kits.

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Rakarth FleshReikland FleshshadeFlayed One FleshPallid Wych FleshKhorne RedLahmian MediumThe FangLothern BlueKantor Blue

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Kroot skin Quills Colour cohesion Glazing

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