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Painting and Converting Your Armies: Metalica

April 2021·pp. 20–23

THE SHORT VERSION

A gallery explores Metalica through lancers, altered Tech-Priests, Secutarii and weathered war machines. Contributors describe warm whites, red airbrushed armour, electric weapons and oil effects, while a grot-crewed looted Skorpius demonstrates that the same kits can inspire an entirely different army’s inventions.

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