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The Car Show

February 2025·pp. 110–119

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The studio’s conversion challenge turns an improbable assortment of kits into racers: a Goliath buggy, an insect-like Mechanicus machine, a skull-filled Khornate hot rod, Genestealer scout vehicle, illuminated tuk-tuk and paired Doomwheels. Builders explain the parts, poses and small engineering decisions behind their entries. Racing heats then narrow the field to four, where breakdowns leave Connor’s stripped-down Escher Chemrunner ahead of Wes’s road train and Paolo’s Steel Legion vehicle.

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Planet Warhammer!

Readers discuss squeezing painting into the first months of parenthood, returning to the hobby after difficult years, and discovering unfamiliar Space Marine Chapters through store painting challenges. The gallery ranges from Ushoran and a Bad Moons Deff Dread to Mephiston and Holga Clovenhorn, while a news item celebrates the Tome Keepers’ appearance in Space Marine II.

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PaintingWD 509 · p. 7

Model of the Month: Norn Emissary

Marcin Kamiński turns a hornet spotted near his beehives into the starting point for a Tyranid colour scheme: yellow and red carapace, complementary purple flesh and turquoise psychic details. His process begins with a black-to-grey zenithal undercoat, then combines thinned Contrast mixtures and drybrushed highlights to create controlled gradients without making the creature a literal insect copy.

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LoreWD 509 · pp. 8–11

Worlds of Warhammer: Fundamental Truths

Colin explains how recurring “anchoring points” make a vast fictional setting coherent. Colours, psychology, military doctrine and reasons for fighting establish recognisable factions, from Codex-minded Ultramarines and the sacrifice of the Sisters of Battle to Ork superstition and T’au coordination. Exceptions gain their force from that shared baseline: Cawl, the Lamenters and the Farsight Enclaves work because the audience understands what they diverge from.

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