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PAINTING·WHITE DWARF 505

Stage by Stage: Your Inner Glow

October 2024·pp. 25–26

THE SHORT VERSION

A black-primed ruin is progressively drybrushed with grey before its recessed symbol is painted opaque white. Metalwork is finished first so later white highlights and translucent green glazes can cast light onto the surrounding stone and fittings. The guide also shows how wet blending a turquoise wash over bronze produces a heavy patina with softened edges.

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PaintingWD 505 · pp. 24–27

Hobby Hangout: Quick and Easy Scenery

Lyle Lowery explains how carefully controlled drybrushing can finish attractive terrain quickly and form the foundation of a convincing glow. He recommends starting with little paint, testing the brush and retaining just enough moisture to avoid a chalky result. The accompanying guides apply these principles to Spearhead scenery and rusty Ork buildings, while a reader question supplies the studio’s blue Saurus recipes.

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PaintingWD 505 · p. 24

Painting Question: Saurus Warriors

The studio supplies the missing Sons of Horus Green in a reader’s attempt to reproduce blue Saurus skin. Mixed colours distinguish the main hide, pale belly and dark scales, with separate edge highlights for the scales. A warm, darkened gold recipe complements the blue-green flesh rather than treating the metal as a separate colour problem.

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PaintingWD 505 · p. 27

Hobby Hacks: Rusty Ork Buildings

Ork scenery begins with black and silver sprays, followed by clan-coloured details. Very thin brown and orange washes collect in recesses to suggest rust without complicated individual weathering marks. A second method uses the fine grit in Typhus Corrosion beneath a light orange drybrush, adding the rough surface of heavily oxidised metal.

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