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Hi All,

I thought I'd post up the results of speed painting a Necron army in just less than a week. After pulling a massive, massive amount of overtime at work the week before Christmas with a painful VDI rollout involving the SAN from hell, I walked into the local gaming store and pulled practically every box off the shelf in a fit of retail therapy.

I then spent a couple of days after Christmas removing mold lines, and primed the entire army at once. From that point I thought I would keep track of how long I spent on actually painting the army, aiming to get it done in as quick a window as possible. I had a 5 day holiday before heading back to work, so painted each day through this break, then upon returning to work I managed to fit a very small amount of painting here and there between flights which added up to roughly a day and a half to give me a total of 6 and a half days

My goal was less than a week, so given the massive shortcuts taken, and my normal paint time table of about 6 months, I was very satisfied with the results.

Excuse the quality of the photos, my camera has just died on me so I had to borrow the wife's, for which it is now apparent I needed a tripod :/ Anyway, enough babbling, here they are!

Lord on Command Barge:





Second Lord on Command Barge:





Double Dragon Lord Punch!



The first of two Cryptek squads:







The second of two Cryptek Squads:



The Immortal Squad:







The first 10 warriors, which I run as 2 5man squads:





The second 10 warriors, which I run as 2 5man squads:







And a Ghost Ark that I guess I'll sometimes use, but I just bought it because I like the model:





The first Wraith squad, converted from some plastic pipes and a paperclip:







The Scarab Squad:



And the second Wraith Squad. The shields count as Whip Coils:





Finally for Heavy Support, the first of 3 Annihilation Barges:







The second of 3 Annihilation Barges:





The third Annihilation Barge:



And the obligatory blurry group hug:



Cheers,
- Charlie

for speed painting your object source lighting is amazing!!

The OSL in the entire army was done in maybe 10-15 minutes tops with an airbrush. I've only recently started using one and have a lot of learning to do with it but with a little bit of control it's really great for that sort of thing.

The image in my mind right from the outset was for the focus to be simple but effective OSL as the focal point, so I was quite pleased with the results.

Wow! that OSL is amazing and I really love the white chipped look.

There are several great techniques in this army for only a week's worth of painting. OSL/Weathering/custom bases really bring the army together. Some of the transitions with the your green (the non airbrushed transitions) are a little rough, but for a weeks worth of work, it's a fantastic army.

Very inspirational. Thanks for sharing.

HAHAHAH !!!!!!! I had same idea in terms of Necrons painting with Airbrush .... !!! 5 days of pain and the outcome is:

I like those models, I hope my crons come out as good ... first major project in a loooong time.

Love the scheme you went with. It works very well!!

Any chance on a quick how-to on how you paint the orbs??

Love how you've retrofitted your Warriors with the new Flayer rods. I am going to have to do the same to mine some day...can't stand the boring rods that come standard.

Nice work. That's a lot of Necrons. Good work on the OSL, but you already knew that. Nice army.

6 days? lol wut?

Amazing work. Wow... I would have guessed that this took you much, much longer.

the OSL is very very very well done.. not too much just enough to make it realistic.. amazing

Looks great, I love the weathered white paint. My only complaint is that the base metal looks way too clean and flat compared to the white. Some rust or even just a black wash with some chainmail or mithral highlights would have done wonders. Overall very nice though.

Very nice work there...I had always thought a white scheme would look great on Necrons...hadn't seen it done very well though 'till now...I think its that slight hint of dull orange from the weathering/rust echoed in the sand on the bases that really pulls it all off...nice conversions too, simple yet effective...with respect though, my only slight criticism would be I think as a force theres too much OSL going on. You have great skill and I understand why its all there but I've always felt it to be a way to show off a hero-type model and not something to do that heavily on grunts, ya know? Still 10/10!

Goodness! These are absolutely spiffing old chap. I love them. Wonderful weathering!

I have to agree that the green itself is more than a little rushed in areas, and the metal looks a bit flat.

The green already took more than the entire rest of the figures combined, so I wasn't keen to increase the time spent there even further (lest I wind up missing the bulk of this years tournament season!)

The initial test figure I had done had the metal looking less flat, but this hugely detracted from the overall finish. In the end I wound up doing zenithal airbrushing for the metallics, so from other angles it tends to change shade a bit. It meant however that the metal for the whole army took rougly an hour of painting and 2 hours of airbrush cleaning

The models look great. I really like your OSL and the weathered white gives them an ancient sand blasted/worn look. Beautifully done.

Those are some sharp models. Your OSL is awesome. Great Job

I love the weathering on the white. Looks awesome.

Wow! Excellent work. Love it.

great osl, and the details in the vehicle, specially the corrision is neat... good work...

Looking great, love the weathered paint. Planning to try the same kinda look for my bigger stuff to when I finally get around to it.

They look awesome!

Thanks guys I'm quite stoked with them truth be told, given my normal timeframes - and they managed to pick up second best painted and piloted me through to 1st overall at a tournament last weekend.

I stopped reading after he said something about "painful VD"

chuckwilliams wrote:I stopped reading after he said something about "painful VD"

Haha... Virtual Desktop Infrastructure -_-

Great paintjobs, astounding given your time to do them. I noticed the necron warriors....do the new ones not come with clear green rods anymore, or is that a conversion of yours?

Wow, I just want to say that working your butt off for 6 and a half days is NOT speed painting. You did excellent and put a lot of work in. These are not speed painted, these are grind painted. So jealous. In two days I made one squad of warriors, though they do look pretty good.

MightyGodzilla wrote:Great paintjobs, astounding given your time to do them. I noticed the necron warriors....do the new ones not come with clear green rods anymore, or is that a conversion of yours?

It's a conversion from the new immortals being cut out and cleaned up

Wow, great army you have there! The OSL looks awesome and I'm really digging the weathering effects you did on the armor. The wraiths are awesome too. I may have to try that conversion out eventually.