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PAINTING·WHITE DWARF 524

Paintin’ Wazdakka

May 2026·pp. 92–93

THE SHORT VERSION

Tom makes bright, highly saturated Evil Sunz red the focal point of Wazdakka’s model, contrasting polished armour with dark working metal, leather and a dusty base. The two pages provide detailed mixed-colour recipes for Wazdakka and Fixit’s differing skin, red and yellow markings, copper, steel, clothing, tyres, skulls and terrain. Layered glazes and fine highlights separate sun-bleached flesh, hard reflective edges and worn surfaces; the rokkit flame’s cyan-to-warm transition is discussed without an accompanying named-colour recipe.

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Ogryn CamoGauss Blaster GreenLoren ForestCaliban GreenRhinox HideKrieg KhakiDorn YellowWhite ScarElysian GreenSons of Horus GreenIncubi DarknessKhorne RedNurgling GreenSkarsnik GreenWaaagh! FleshEvil Sunz ScarletMephiston RedAbaddon BlackWild Rider RedFlesh Tearers RedAverland SunsetYriel YellowSkrag BrownFulgurite CopperStormhost SilverGore-grunta FurDoombull BrownSnakebite LeatherLeadbelcherRatling GrimeCorvus BlackDark ReaperDeepkin FleshCorax WhiteEshin GreyDawnstoneAdministratum GreyXV-88Mournfang BrownLupercal GreenUshabti BoneSkeleton HordeReikland FleshshadeScreaming SkullSkavenblight DingeWyldwoodContrast MediumKarak StoneMorghast BoneGryph-hound OrangeAggaros Dunes

Every explicitly named paint and medium in the full recipe charts is indexed. The flame discussion names colour families but no individual paint products.

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LoreWD 524 · pp. 20–31

Armageddon: A Planet at War

A conversational guide introduces Armageddon as an industrial hive world whose huge population, manufacturing capacity and strategic position make its survival important to the Imperium. It separates the planet’s actual wars from the versions preserved in Imperial records, where Angron’s invasion was suppressed, and follows the conflict through Ghazghkull’s assaults and the long rivalry between the Ork warlord and Commissar Yarrick.

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LoreWD 524 · p. 23

The Warriors of Armageddon

Armageddon’s Steel Legion favour mechanised infantry, with Chimeras and protective clothing suited to a poisoned industrial world. Invasion has reversed the normal outward flow of regiments, as the planet increasingly consumes both its own recruits and soldiers sent from elsewhere. The illustrated survey distinguishes the indigenous legion and jungle-fighting Ork Hunters from supporting Krieg, Cadian, Mordian, Elysian, Savlar and Catachan formations.

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LoreWD 524 · p. 25

Best Enemies

Yarrick and Ghazghkull are presented as enemies whose mutual hatred has become inseparable from a grudging respect. The Commissar frustrated the Ork assault on Hades and pursued his opponent beyond Armageddon, while Ghazghkull repeatedly sought his death yet came to value Ol’ Bale Eye as his best enemy. The sidebar traces that recurring pursuit rather than treating either invasion as a self-contained encounter.

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