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How to Paint Everything: Painting Damage – Bullet Pings

Daniel "Skails" Rodenberg - November 20, 2018

This step by step is for minor bullet pings on Armor. My base color is unbleached titanium, which looks like it falls somewhere between screaming skull and ushabti bone in GW paint. The brown is burnt umber, it looks...

Painting

How to Paint Everything: Painting Damage – Frag Scarring

Daniel "Skails" Rodenberg - November 8, 2018

This is a short step by step for painting on an explosive blast mark. It's based on a mortar shell impact on concrete. It could also represent acid spit/splash corrosion with some green or yellow mottled into the scarring....

Game Design

How to Run a Campaign Part 2: Narrative Campaigns

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - October 12, 2018

So my previous article of 5,000 words on the basics of campaigns didn’t scare you off, huh? Well, here’s a shitload more. This week I’m going to be discussing Narrative Campaigns. Narrative Campaigns are the type you most commonly see...

Battle Reports

Writing Better Battle Reports

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - September 28, 2018

Battle reports are great. They’re a great way to talk about the game we love, show off cool models, and discuss the kinds of cool moments that drive us to play. At their best, battle reports tell a great...

Resources

How to Run a 40k Campaign, Part 1: The Basics

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones - September 17, 2018

At some point, I think just about every 40k player thinks about running or playing in a campaign. After all, what's cooler than the idea of having sweeping battles, where your army competes with others for the fate of...