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here are my Necrons so far I've converted loads more they just need painting now

Why did you take all of the pics from a top-down angle?

Take some better pictures, seriously.
It might be worth it since the models look quite decent.
; )

I'll take some more when I get in will be in about 3 hours

Howd you make the Night Scythe? It looks fairly like what it's meant to be.

Looks like a destoryer with the wings and plates of a command barge.

@Harriticus: That looks like a destroyer body, with the wings from a Command Barge and the barge's back armor laid over the join.

I really don't understand what you're going for with the poses...are they all standing on banana skins?

Harriticus wrote:Howd you make the Night Scythe? It looks fairly like what it's meant to be.

it is the top part of a destroyer body then i cut the wings from the command barge and used the base plate from the command barge then just lots of green stuff for the crew cab to seal it its really simple to do all you need is the barge kit and a destroyer but like most i had a load of destroyers laying around that wont be used at the min.

imperial monkey wrote:I really don't understand what you're going for with the poses...are they all standing on banana skins?

like I said I just thought that Necron armies all usually look boring so thought I'd give them running/bracing for impact stances to be different than the standard pose, I was tempted to put fur on them and try making them Wolfie but decided against it.

Here are the better pics

Not a fan of the four legged/hunched over necrons, but it does make your army stand out

The night scythe is really well done, although i feel it may be a bit small, but we have nothing to reference its size against really so who knows

Overall i'd say good work and keep on trucking

Cheers zomjie

Like the paint job. Poses are unique, though some may call cheese when determining cover/line of sight. I hope you posed the models for aesthetic reasons and not to powergame.

Nightscythe is good. Paintjob is alright. Id never play against it though since they are so low to the ground, to many LOS issues. Atleast with the overlords and lychguard they are pretty large models.

I'll be takin them to tourneys and I did Model them purely to be unique why on earth would I want to restrict my lines of sight with immortals and warriors lol

Also there is nothing to say you couldn't model every model laying on it's belly as long as its on the right base.

It would make a great diorama where the entire Necron army gets hit by a Tremor Blast and knocked over. but nice painting and conversions too!

Cheers Gus

Im sorry but i think the posing attempt for your crons is horrible, looks like they belong in a prison shower scene, also why the feth would you give them fur? For flayed ones i could see that making sense for blending in with certain pray but warriors /anything else would look horrible like that.
I will also agree with some other posters that a whole lot of bs can come from how you have posed them as it seems like you tried to get an advantage with them that way

the following is for example reasons only as i dont know you so im bringing up a possible scenario.
johny no name "ok im shooting at your lych guard with my (insert name of unit here).... wtf i cant draw los since they are crouching behind cover" by next turn you would probably try to shoot out of cover causing such a storm that it would not be funny (other choice of words came to mind but knowing my luck they would not get caught by the swear filter)

Positive time. That Night Scythe looks good

@ tazz

Alas I have never spent any time in a prison/prison shower room so I'll leave you with your fantasy and soap.lol

I'm not a nasty guy I don't play like a pinicity old sod I play for fun and I usually score highly for sportsmanship. If I wanted to play like that then I could just put them all on their bellys and see them never get shot at but that's not the idea of the game.

The reason why I was thinking about putting fur on them was because both me and the mrs really like playing and the fluff of the space wolves so was thinking of doing it like an undead space wolve army

Thank you for your comments though

Legend wrote:@ tazz

Alas I have never spent any time in a prison/prison shower room so I'll leave you with your fantasy and soap.lol

(my edit in: if you ever saw the show superjail you would get why i came up with the analogy for your crons posing, trust me don't watch it..... its bad)

bloody hell i set myself up for that

Never thought of the undead space wolves which given thought would look pretty sweet if executed well.

Also good to hear you dont play as a old sod and il google up pinicity later (but thats why i put "the following is for example reasons only as i dont know you so im bringing up a possible scenario. "

Keep up the creativity dude, i've seen lots of stuff that aint my cup of tea but its always good to see even that my negativity can garner at least something positive (even if its just a shred) for feedback at times

i like them a lot...... The paint looks thick or is that the drybrushing either way it lends itself to Necrons.

I like the paintjobs and the Night scyth. But I'm not a huge fan of the Overlords/Lords that are bent over.....It just looks goofy to me, but I think the Cypteks pose is pretty menacing.

The Warriors are pretty cool as well.

EDIT: Oh, and the Lychguards pose makes him look like he's about to smash into his face into the ground because he comically tripped on a banana peel...

Tazz Azrael wrote:

Legend wrote:@ tazz

Alas I have never spent any time in a prison/prison shower room so I'll leave you with your fantasy and soap.lol

(my edit in: if you ever saw the show superjail you would get why i came up with the analogy for your crons posing, trust me don't watch it..... its bad)

bloody hell i set myself up for that

Yeah you did lol I haven't scene it but it doesn't sound like my cup of tea

The idea was to have them pose like wolves with space wolve heads, legs, arms and body's obviously only one arm and a leg of a space wolf for example, but decided against it for my first whole Army conversion.

Do you think the doom/night scŷthe should be on a large flying base?

Cheers honaw

Legend wrote:

Tazz Azrael wrote:

Legend wrote:@ tazz

Alas I have never spent any time in a prison/prison shower room so I'll leave you with your fantasy and soap.lol

(my edit in: if you ever saw the show superjail you would get why i came up with the analogy for your crons posing, trust me don't watch it..... its bad)

bloody hell i set myself up for that

Yeah you did lol I haven't scene it but it doesn't sound like my cup of tea

The idea was to have them pose like wolves with space wolve heads, legs, arms and body's obviously only one arm and a leg of a space wolf for example, but decided against it for my first whole Army conversion.

Do you think the doom/night scŷthe should be on a large flying base?

Cheers honaw

I actualy have not seen the large flying bases yet (yes thats pretty sad) So far the base that its on looks good but you never know, the larger base sounds like it could be a better idea if the scythe is prone to "drunken sailor syndrome"(falling over) as i call it

and this is going completely off topic but i just finished my online WHIMIS training and i got to thinking "i wonder how hazardous all these materials that GW pumps out are"

Not a clue lol but the large flying base is about 6" long and oval but it is sturdy on the normal flying base just wondered what the general concensus was

10 points for creativity, I will say I have not seen a single necron 4-legged beast like army. While it looks really unique, I could see some pinicity old sod at a tourney having a problem with it.

The Paint is also really good, I like the blue effects on them, I dont know why but I keep thinking of vikings clad in iron any time i glance at the pics. Dynamic work on the painting sir, and again i do respect the creativity there man. keep it up!

Cheers arktor I'm fully prepared for power gamers at tournaments I'll just throw the hard back rule book at them and ask them to find where it says they have to be standing up. Then tell them to man up and stop acting like a child it's a game people play for FUN lol

Imperial Monkey wrote:I really don't understand what you're going for with the poses...are they all standing on banana skins?

If you use this army in tournaments a lot of people will accuse you of modelling advantage bunch the bent over shower scene necrons and a low flying base doom scythe that is supposed to be a flyer and have a flying base. Doom Scythe is a flyer type and must be on a flyer base or it could be a DQ before your first game even starts. The rule for LOS is you have to see the body of the model so besides fun games, you might be labeled as a WAAC player.

Defeatmyarmy wrote:

Imperial Monkey wrote:I really don't understand what you're going for with the poses...are they all standing on banana skins?

If you use this army in tournaments a lot of people will accuse you of modelling advantage bunch the bent over shower scene necrons and a low flying base doom scythe that is supposed to be a flyer and have a flying base. Doom Scythe is a flyer type and must be on a flyer base or it could be a DQ before your first game even starts. The rule for LOS is you have to see the body of the model so besides fun games, you might be labeled as a WAAC player.

Night/doom scythes are not flyers they are type= fast, skimmers

People can accuse all they like I'm not doing anything wrong and as previously stated I don't play like a pinicity old sod and always score highly for sportsmanship.

Remember that body includes heads, arms and legs and middling the crons how I have makes them easier to see and since I have to draw Los from their eyes it makes it harder for me to shoot.

Thanks for your comments though.

Wow quite a lot of negativity here. Personally I think its an interesting and imaginative take on the necron. To take the modelling a step farther what about adding extra legs/arms wing cases to give them a more insect/beetle like vibe.

really not fond on the lychguard,
looks like a ball of robotic limbs and weapons to me!

no seriously, i had trouble locating a head if it even has one!