Festive Grotto
December 2025·pp. 116–121
THE SHORT VERSION
The studio’s festive challenge produces a deliberately eccentric winter village and cast of characters. A Great Unclean One becomes a pudding, a manufactorum and crypt become gingerbread buildings, Nurgle creatures form a carol choir, and Ushoran receives a tree, socks, candy canes and an unnervingly happy expression. Contributors explain how ordinary kit parts, modelling putty, wood offcuts and even a piping bag support the transformations.
Other entries include a daemon-run sleigh shop, a present-filled Drop Pod, Blood Bowl Gnomes, winter Gloomspite Gitz and a gingerbread chapel. Several artists name the colours and texture products behind their icing, frozen bases and seasonal schemes; those explicit products are indexed, while unnamed reds, greens and browns remain descriptive rather than guessed recipes.
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Find this article in White Dwarf 519, pp. 116–121.
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