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Satellite Uplink: Classic Models

November 2025·pp. 120–125

THE SHORT VERSION

Studio hobbyists celebrate the anniversary with older miniatures that carry personal meaning, including classic Space Wolves and Deathwing, Aeldari seers, a Saturnine Terminator, Chaos characters and Skaven. Their notes explain the appeal of revisiting childhood collections, recreating older colour schemes with current skills and preserving the character of distinctive sculpts.

The gallery also includes Archaon, Catachans, Gorkamorka models, an Inquisitor warband and Blood Bowl teams. Several contributors describe specific paint choices, from the warm gradient of Archaon’s sword to a rapid Contrast-based method for Guardsmen; the colour index includes those explicitly named products without inventing recipes for the remaining models.

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Paints in this article

Every named colour below is searchable across the archive.

Mephiston RedKhorne RedIncubi DarknessWild Rider RedFire Dragon BrightTau Light OchreWhite ScarDorn YellowLugganath OrangeTroll Slayer OrangeDoombull BrownBalthasar GoldAgrax EarthshadeGoblin GreenChaos BlackPraxeti WhitePoxwalkerCreed CamoSnakebite Leather

Only paints explicitly named in the article or its recipe tables are indexed; mixtures are indexed by their constituent named paints.

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