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PAINTING·WHITE DWARF 460

’Eavy Metal Gargants!

January 2021·pp. 80–81

THE SHORT VERSION

Aidan Daly shares the mixed colours behind the studio Kraken-eater, with recipes for skin, ropes, jawbone, cloth, tentacles and weathered boat timber. He works from the deepest details outward, first modelling light and volume and then using glazes to bring the large surfaces together.

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Abaddon BlackAggaros DunesAkhelian GreenBaneblade BrownCadian FleshtoneCelestra GreyCreed CamoDark ReaperDryad BarkFenrisian GreyKarak StoneMournfang BrownNaggaroth NightNight Lords BluePlaguebearer FleshRhinox HideScreamer PinkSotek GreenStegadon Scale GreenTallarn SandTemple Guard BlueThunderhawk BlueUshabti BoneVolupus PinkWhite Scar

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