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Curious to hear what people think of the Necron Warriors I started.
Keep in mind they're roughly painted models, and should look better if I decide repaint my army with this paint scheme.
Thanks for any input in advance.

Some brighter pictures are in my gallery page.

that's very cool.
How did you do it?

this would make a badass army.

Undercoated Chaos Black, drybrushed Chainmail, covered 50-75% with blue ink, 1 coat (Think I have enough to repaint my army, even though they don't make it anymore apparently. If any one knows where to find more, please let me know.), painted random parts with Thraka Green, Leviathan Purple, and Asurmen Blue Washes, 2 coats each.

Looks great! Very nice job seriously.

Looks good!

I like.

I use Windsor and Newton inks, although they do result in a glossy finish. They are available from craft and art stores.

Cheers

Thanks everybody, the initial idea came from Blue Ink dipped DE poisoned blades I made way back when. Having a little trouble thinking what color to paint the blade on the gun, the chest marker, and metal tubes (or what ever those things are) that would go well with this. Chainmail or boltgun with shining gold on the marker look ok, but there's a lot of contrast between that and the "Oily" stuff. Not too sure about Tin or Bronze. (Don't have them).
Any Help?

Thinkin' about using the ceramic look on those parts and seeing how much those "Light collecting" (Glow in the dark) tubes and paint cost.

Boltgun metal with a black inking in the recesses.

Blue, purple and green all go well with yellow or white. So I would suggest any sort of gold metallic. A red/green metal like bronze or brass would probably muddy any difference between pieces of the model you wanted to enhance. I would shy away from any black metal completely. Since it's already your base color it would just disappear.

Thats a great idea and a good test mini.

I have had success coating over liquid silver spray with glazes, you just have to mix the glaze from some acrylic gloss medium LIQUITEX make a great set of products for this! Their Gloss medium will actually stick even over gloss spray paint bases!

http://www.liquitex.com/Products/fluidmedglossmedvar.cfm

I'm sure this could be combined with GW washes or even full strength normal colors to make pigments (green, blue and purple) to get the oil in water color idea across.

I have attached some examples of minis I coated (just one color not several like the cool Necron) with this technique. The Exodites in Blue and Black, the Thousand Sons in Black (note the glows in different colors) and the Khorne guys in Red over Gold!

MacGyver wrote:...Chainmail or boltgun with shining gold on the marker look ok, but there's a lot of contrast between that and the "Oily" stuff. Not too sure about Tin or Bronze. (Don't have them).
Any Help?

Starting with a sprayed liquid silver base is a real time saver. Give it a shot, it looks awesome over regular clean plastic, adn will save you hours of brush work painting chainmail etc. over primer.

Also note in my examples the purple on the sorcerer was a glaze I made over stark white from the liquitex product and Lich Purple GW paint and thats it, no shading at all! Glazes can be easily applied specifically and locally when mixed with a thick consistency (not like inks). You could easily make a green, purple and blue set and mix them into models (heh, I guess you have already)

Good luck

Here's a possible complete scheme, quick coated, I came up with, with a friend. Still needs lots of touch ups and detail.
Not sure about the black gun...

BTW, the emblem is white with gray detail, opposite of the blade.

Augustus wrote:
Starting with a sprayed liquid silver base is a real time saver...

I prefer to completely hand paint my models. It's cold here and spray usually doesn't set well.
Thanks for the advice.
-MacGyver

The oily effect you have on the body and limbs of the model is wonderful... so much so that the black of the gun really just falls flat. It makes it look like you got lazy and didn't put any effort into the gun.

Something that I've been doing lately for my Eldar, that may or may not work well for your guns, is to paint the gun shining gold, hit the details with the citadel red wash, then go back and highlight the gun with burnished gold. It gives the weapon a kind of rich coppery look that might go well with the iridescent figure.

great paint scheme look forward to seeing more of this necrons

Wicked scheme really.

Here's an update.

willydstyle wrote:The oily effect you have on the body and limbs of the model is wonderful...

Seconded.

A piece of advise, take your pics against a white background and it will be easier for us to see the details and color variance. You can use a white sheet of paper.

Also I'm sure the glazes would work over regular painted on paint. But it looks like you already have that under control! Good work.

I think the gun parts would look fine in the same multicolor as the necron itself, instead of black, but I think the dark finsihed one is decent too!

EDIT:

Why sand? Looks fine, but curios.

I'll see how it looks on white. Too much light and they're impossible to see, due to reflections.
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Sand because my DE have purple bases, one terrain set I started a while ago matches that and the other is about this yellowish color already (I really need to start working on those again). My Choas have brownish-red bases, but have no terrain to go with it (Probably won't for a while or possibly ever.). I originally wanted to make a desert and an alien world, back when I only had DE, and this was kind of what I just happened to end up with overtime. Also yellowish-orange (what this started as) was like the exact opposite of my old scheme.
Edit:
In yellow I have only painted the GW moonscape, which could easily be stripped. If you think you have a better idea, please let me know.
-MacGyver

Agreed - might be easier to see with a lighter background. Looking good though.

That's probably the most interesting necron scheme I've ever seen. If you stuck with just blue/purple and applied it just a little more sparingly, it'd look an awful lot like the heat-patina on tempered steel.

Bravo, I say.

*golf clap*

That is the best necron army i have ever seen!

awsome but i'm pretty biased towards necrons as they are the only army i play.

Here it is with quick basing, and a lighter background. I'll probably get to the detail next week. Then mass production begins!
-MacGyver

Can we have more pictures in normal lighting pwease?

Its so dark to see anything ><

LunaHound wrote:Can we have more pictures in normal lighting pwease?

Its so dark to see anything ><

Just realized that after posting, here's a new one (They look darker here than when viewed in a preview).
Edit:
Guess that isn't much better...
Also makes the blade look too light.
-MacGyver

Here are some more (Taken from a different angle.). I have those energy saving bulbs, so I have to use a floor lamp while painting, thus that is the light source.
Edit:
New rear view.
-MacGyver