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August–September 2020·pp. 4–9

THE SHORT VERSION

Readers show a newly invented Stormhost, Nurgle artwork and finished models while asking practical hobby questions. Paul Claridge supplies his Black Legion armour and trim recipe, and the replies help a young Gloomspite collector locate rules for the large Forge World squigs seen in an earlier issue.

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Worlds of Warhammer: Mapping Hysh

Phil Kelly explains the design of Hysh’s Ten Paradises from a symbolic wheel, mirrored geography and deliberately meaningful names. Collaboration with the map’s artist turns a rough conceptual sketch into a setting whose symmetry, Chaos scars and runic geography can inspire campaigns and personal collections.

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Crusaders and Aliens: Necrons

The Necron design team explores degradation, madness and repair as ways to individualise an apparently uniform metal race. Undamaged nobles contrast with ruined Warriors, altered Destroyers and unsettling Canoptek servants, while visible internal construction and damaged faces suggest what sixty million years of decline have done to their bodies and minds.

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