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Since buying the codex my mind has been filled with the thoughts of necrons and as such I decided that it would be my 2012 project army. Over the last few months I have put together all the bits I need for my first planned 1500pt list, Christmas saw the last kits needed before building/painting commences.

Here for those interested is the list I'm working to

HQ

Necron Overlord w/warsycthe, 100
Command Barge 80

Royal Court 3 x Crypteks with harbringer of destruction and one with solar pulse 125

Troops

Necron Warriors x 9 117
Ghost Ark 115

Necron Warriors x 9 117
Ghost Ark 115

Necron Warriors x 9 117
Ghost Ark 115

Fast Attack

Scarabs x 5 75

Scarabs x 5 75

Scarabs x 5 75

Heavy Support

Annihilation Barge 90

Annihilation Barge 90

Annihilation Barge 90

1496

Here's what that list looks like in kit form



4 Barges


3 Arks


3 boxes of Warriors; Deathmarks and Lychguard (Cryptek conversions)


Resin Bases from Voodoo works


Up Next, Who knows probably warrior squad and paint scheme test.

Looks like it will be a painting intensive project. Good lUck

Seeing that amount of kits in one place outside a GW store makes my wallet weep. But on a more serious note good luck with it, looks like you've got a mammoth job ahead of you. Look forward to seeing some sample paint schemes.

Ok so finished the first squad but boy did it take some effort and swearing. Firstly because I'm using resin bases I had to pin each model to the base and from experience with resin bases pinned both feet to prevent spiny model syndrome. Why is it that none of the necron legs fit on a base? Necron warriors seem to be a massive pain in the behind putting together and I ended up pinning the body to the legs so as to get a good join and the poses I wanted. Cryptek also required some pinning to make him stable but I'm quite pleased with the result. Then came painting and this led to it's own trials. I have discovered that unless you have a steady hand (Mine shake like a sh!!ing dog) extreme contrast edge highlighting looks like it was done by a 4 year old with a wax crayon, which led to the first colour change (from space wolves grey highlight to hawk turquoise highlight). Second discovery/rediscovery gw yellow paint is just plain awful and to get anything like the smooth coat I'd require would take 6 or more thin coats and be far more time consuming than nessecary for an army so I reluctantly changed to green.

Cryptek - Harbringer of Destruction with Eldritch Lance and Solar Pulse



and a back view



Warrior



back view



Group shots





and some scarabs



Up next a barge (in a few weeks)

lol, those scarabs are funny

Nice paint job!

Great paint job! - those bases look really good also. Your effort is paying off.

Id like to hear about your process for assembling and painting the Barges and Arks. Do you paint in stages or pieces and then assemble later?

Scarabs are fantastic! Haha

Ok finished the first barge! Don't know if I'm getting sausage fingers or the kits are getting fiddlier but this was a real PITA to put together and had plenty of swear words thrown at it. For ease of painting I kept it in four main sections for painting (Main body and pilots, Prow and controls, Main Gun mount; and underslung gun mount) and the arms off the pilots. It was still akward to paint but if I'd stuck it together completely it would have been almost impossible. So enough rambling here we go.









Next 2nd squad with another cryptek.

No the kits are getting fiddlier...

looking great

Second squad and Crptek done.
Squad



Warriors



Crptek of Destruction




Up next Command Barge w/magnetized overlord!

Keep up the great work!

Quick update finished Command Barge with magnetised Overlord.

Used 2mm x 1mm magnets one in each foot to allow me to use the same model for both mounted and disembarked overlord.

Overlord

back view

feet showing magnet placement

Base with magnets


Barge (empty)


Barge




Thats it for now up next another barge and maybe a ghost ark.

After realising what a mammoth task building and painting ghost ark is gonna be and having that new army itch I have decided to build and play an interim list. So yes this list isn't what I've set out to build and it steals the odd concept from other people but it also allows me to try out some combos that wouldn't fit in my original list.

HQ

Necron Overlord w/warsycthe, semipertinal weave and mind shackle scarabs in a command barge.

Necron Overlord w/warsycthe, semipertinal weave, mind shackle scarabs, res orb and phaeron.

Royal Court 1
Harbringer of Destruction w/solar pulse
Harbringer Of Destruction w/gaze of flame
Harbringer of Despair w/veil of darkness
Harbringer of the Storm w/lightning field

Royal Court 2
Harbringer of Destruction w/solar pulse
Harbringer Of Destruction w/gaze of flame
Harbringer of Despair w/veil of darkness
Harbringer of the Storm w/lightning field

Troops

5 Necron Warriors
5 Necron Warriors
15 Necron Warriors (overlord goes here with stormtek)

Elite

5 Deathmarks (Veiltek and Stormtek go here)

Fast

8 Scarab Bases

Heavy

Annihilation Barge

Annihilation Barge

Ok this is doable in the time frame and allows me to play around with a few ideas, just not sure on how to distribute the royal courts? Ideas welcome.

Nice painting. How did you do the solar pulse?

Hammer18 wrote:Nice painting. How did you do the solar pulse?

Cheers! Solar Pulse is just a res orb from barge kit with another orb (from back of warscythe in praetorian kit) pinned to it.

Now more piccies another Barge





More in a few days!

Great scheme, and brilliant work rate. Look forward to more.

I like the color scheme, keep it up!

Tis a nice army and thou art doing a good jobeth.

Im a little shocked that you didnt get some detailed bases for the barges.

This army is amazing. That Palate is simple but looks awesome for it.

I dare say you've made me incredibly fond of the one-eyed heads...... and I curse you a thousand times for it. Might be i need to replace a lot of heads now.....

Thanks for all the comments guys!

Been hard at work firstly building and kit-bashing then for last 2 nights painting as fast as I could to get my interim list finished and here are the results.

First up 7 more Warriors



and 7 more scarab bases (waiting on some puppetswar cyber beetles to make more swarms)



Now fun Stuff Deathmark Squad


individual

Back view


Crypteks

with the crypteks I wanted each sort to be different and to have wargear represented somehow, so I have given each it's own style of staff then painted the crystaline bits in different colours.

2 Harbringers of Destruction (1 with solar pulse)



2 Harbingers of the Storm with Lightning Fields



2 Harbingers of Despair with Veil of Shadows



Overlord and lord with Sycthe (ok he's a lychgaurd but I'm using him as a lord with sycthe)




Thanks for looking

Looking awesome! I especially like the customization of the different harbinger crypteks. I might want to shamelessly steal that concept-- er, model mine with some influences from your ideas.

Dr. Temujin wrote:Looking awesome! I especially like the customization of the different harbinger crypteks. I might want to shamelessly steal that concept-- er, model mine with some influences from your ideas.

Steal away!

Long time since last update original list has been scrapped partialy due to ghost ark kit being a nightmare to build and paint and partialy due to new ideas. So here are a couple of new units for the Dynasty first up is the Monolith





and last 2 Sypders both 2nd hand with repair/kitbash new hand on one.




2nd Spyder



Up tomorrow Imotekh, Crypteks, and puppetswar scarabs.

That's a very nice and smooth blue. I'm liking the colour scheme overall as well. Can't wait for the Crypteks.

Another night shift another- set of models finished.

First up Crypteks - 2 Harbingers of Destruction and a Harbinger of Eternity w/chronometron (slightly wangy posistioning on one of the destek arms but was all I had left bitz wise)





Imotekh - words cannot express how much I loathe finecast it is a horrible material and from my admittedly limited experiences with it has the worst quality control of any product ever. Bubbles are one thing but fuzzy casting and parts that split where the two halfs of the mold would have been are just inexcusable. Yes I know you can take them back and swap them but why should I? Why can't GW get it right in the first place?




Puppetswars Cyberbeetles or extra scarab bases - these things are cool and allthough they have flash and require a little bit of care pre-painting they are cheap as chips and look good when done.




Thats all for now thanks for looking.

Yikes, I am seeing all the horrible deformities on Imotekh and fretting a bit. And that's the reason I'm trying to avoid using Finecast if at all possible. Other than that, good work on the Crypteks as usual! And nice looking scarabs, too! I might go and buy some at this point.

Immortals w/ Tesla carbines - These models weren't to bad to build the only thing was having to keep the right guns with the right left arms with the right bodies to ensure everything lined up just right, luckily I was aware of this prior to clipping them off the sprue can only imagine the nightmare it would be had I been snip happy.

Front



Back



Group Shot



Up next - Obyron, Lychguard and more scarabs.

Yeah, I was having a problem with the Immortals, since I had some of the torsos turned in a way where I couldn't correctly place the guns, and it was rather frustrating to reposition them. Anyways, looks good so far. Can't wait for Lychguards!

Well been busy building and painting for last 3 days here are the results.

Obyron




2 Lords (1 w/res orb)



Lychguard w/sword and shield





Wraiths (idea stolen from Ravix http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/434102.page ) easy to make and don't look bad at all (mounted on 40mm bases).




whipcoils


Thats all for now, might finally get round to finishing off the ghost ark in a few weeks.