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MODELLING·WHITE DWARF 457

Converting Your Models: Forge Worlds

October 2020·pp. 78–80

THE SHORT VERSION

Industrial settings support unusual scratch-built machines and heavily adapted servants of the Machine God. Calum McPherson’s towering Tech-Priest, Lewis Collins’s Armiger-based grot aircraft and Thomas Elliott’s hunter-killer robot show how recognisable parts can be recombined into new silhouettes, with painting notes reinforcing dirty metal and worn armour.

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CommunityWD 457 · pp. 4–9

Contact!

Readers share family terrain projects, lockdown learning and finished models, while the replies discuss custom rules and photographing miniatures. Detailed responses supply recipes for pale blue and white armour, copper details and Daniel Jackson’s Arkhan the Black, whose bone, spirits and blue armour receive separate treatment.

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FictionWD 457 · pp. 10–17

The Terminus

Vazya and the indebted enforcer Bakhin investigate a legendary train that supposedly carries passengers to treasure. Its locked carriages and increasingly disturbing companions lead instead to an underground cult and a monstrous revelation; the final return to the city turns the tempting local legend into a means of drawing in further victims.

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EditorialWD 457 · pp. 18–21

Worlds of Warhammer: Dark Humour

Jordan Green considers why grotesque comedy belongs in settings filled with catastrophe and cosmic horror. Orks, grots and troggoths follow their own coherent but absurd logic, yet looking at those same creatures through an ordinary soldier’s eyes restores their danger and prevents their comic appeal from reducing them to harmless relief.

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