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MODELLING·WHITE DWARF 520

Wretched Hovels

January 2026·pp. 66–67

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Templates define the buildings, but roughened coffee stirrers, sticks, broom bristles and gritty caulk give them an improvised and decaying character. A hand-built water wheel completes the newer corpse mill; separate airbrushed translucent browns and greens followed by a pale drybrush tie the mismatched construction materials together.

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