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Painting Question: The Lord of Skin and Sinew

February 2021·p. 4

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Drew Palies and Pedro explain the pallid flesh and contrasting leather of the Unmade leader. Layered skin colours, controlled recess shading and thin coloured glazes build a flayed, unhealthy appearance while preserving separation between skin, straps and metallic fittings.

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CommunityWD 461 · pp. 4–9

Contact!

Readers submit miniatures and questions, including darkly imaginative conversions inspired by Blanchitsu. The correspondence combines personal hobby experiences with practical painting suggestions, using the photographed models to show how unusual colours and reused components can support an individual collection.

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LoreWD 461 · pp. 10–13

Worlds of Warhammer: Ages of the Mortal Realms III

Phil Kelly concludes his chronology with Sigmar’s return, the Realmgate Wars and the founding of new cities. The sequence links these victories to the Necroquake and the growing ambitions of Nagash, placing the present Broken Realms conflicts in a longer history of fragile recoveries.

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LoreWD 461 · pp. 16–23

Tome Celestial: The Charnel Kingdom

Arkhan’s invasion of Ymetrica brings the Ossiarch Bonereapers into an uneasy partnership with Varshorn’s deluded ghouls. When the bone tithe falters, the skeletal legions turn on their allies, transforming a joint campaign against the Lumineth into a vicious struggle over bodies and survival.

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