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I decided that with my 2.5 weeks off from work before I have to set up my class room that I would set a little project for myself. Taking my Necrons from this:


To fully painted in 5 days! I catalogued all the work on Capture and Control in several posts which you can find below. I am posting up the finished results here along with my total work times. Comments and Criticism are welcome, thanks Dakka! More, better quality, pics in post #6!

Day 1: http://www.captureandcontrol.com/2012/08/hobby-blitz-necron-army-in-5-days-day-1.html
Day 2: http://www.captureandcontrol.com/2012/08/hobby-blitz-necron-army-in-5-days-day-2.html
Day 3: http://www.captureandcontrol.com/2012/08/hobby-blitz-necron-army-in-5-days-days-3.html
Day 4: http://www.captureandcontrol.com/2012/08/hobby-blitz-necron-army-in-5-days-day-4.html
Day 5: http://www.captureandcontrol.com/2012/08/hobby-blitz-necron-army-in-5-days.html

Total time for Day 1: 2 hours
Total time for Day 2: 4.5 hours
Total time for Day 3: 2.5 Hours
Total time for Day 4: 3.5 hours.
Total time for Day 5: 2 hours

Total Hours: 14.5 hours Not too shabby!













I will be running 1500 points of these models on Saturday in our 2nd 6th ed tournament at Game Empire Pasadena. Hope you enjoyed my 5 day project!

Latest update:

After much success with this army it is time for me to sell it off. I am moving on in both gaming and 40k so this one's hitting the chopping block. If you liked it you can check out the auction here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/121090899614?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Looks great! That is an AMAZING amount of work for 5 days. I really love the gold and blue scheme (I do green and gold myself).

5 Scythes? Dayummm

G. Whitenbeard wrote:Looks great! That is an AMAZING amount of work for 5 days. I really love the gold and blue scheme (I do green and gold myself).

5 Scythes? Dayummm

Thanks! I was fairly confident I could pull it off. I hit a few bumps in the road along the way but overall it went well. I am really loving the color scheme I chose, and 5 scythes, ya.

5 days? Looking at it, you would think maybe a couple of months or so. You sir have a very fine army! And it just blows me away that it's only 14 hours of work

Love the gold and blue fliers.

Liked the color sheme

Thanks for the replies everyone! Here are some more pictures I took of the army at the tournament today I was literally 2 or 3 points away from receiving Best Army and only 8 points shy of Best Overall!

Absolutely bang-up job! The gold and blue looks really nice, especially on the fliers. It's amazing that you could paint all that in five days, you must have been working day and night to get that all done. Good job!

BigAdmech wrote:Absolutely bang-up job! The gold and blue looks really nice, especially on the fliers. It's amazing that you could paint all that in five days, you must have been working day and night to get that all done. Good job!

Thanks! Actually I worked about 3 hours a night after my son would go to sleep around 8 or 9. It did help to have one day where I got to work 4.5 hours uninterrupted! It also helped being off of work.

At first I was "Eh, hey are ok" then I saw the pics of them on the tabletop without all that orange saturation and it wow'd me, They Look Great!

Robinson92 wrote:At first I was "Eh, hey are ok" then I saw the pics of them on the tabletop without all that orange saturation and it wow'd me, They Look Great!

Ya, it's hard taking pics at my place. We stopped doing Battle Reports at home too because of the odd orange coloring we get.

I always admire fellow players who have the ability to speed paint with this type of quality and precision. Did you catch any sleep in this 5 days period? Great work, love the teal color on the models.

nice love it...espically the Overlord riding the scarabs

If I post you my latest models can you have them done in less time??

Only kidding.

Commissar41.0 wrote:nice love it...espically the Overlord riding the scarabs

Ya, he was my favorite model in the army to paint. I want to do him again but with one of the cooler looking scythes from the Lychguard set. We'll see...

SpiritOfKantor wrote:If I post you my latest models can you have them done in less time??

Only kidding.

Ya, sure no problem

Great job, man!

and I know how that kind of time crunch feels.

5 days is the amount of time most people spend on a squad, and it usually doesn't look like THAT! Great job!

They look great! Like the others, I am really amazed that it took you so little time. Truly impressive.

I also see you're at Game Empire! I go out there and game once in a blue moon. Awesome place, but takes a while to get to from West L.A. Maybe I will see you around someday!

A great paint job dude, I only feel guilty looking at them as it would take me that much time to get a squad stuck together :(

mauzer wrote:5 days is the amount of time most people spend on a squad, and it usually doesn't look like THAT! Great job!

Thanks! I think the colored primers really help cut down on the time it takes to paint my armies these days.

Xenocidal Maniac wrote:They look great! Like the others, I am really amazed that it took you so little time. Truly impressive.

I also see you're at Game Empire! I go out there and game once in a blue moon. Awesome place, but takes a while to get to from West L.A. Maybe I will see you around someday!

If you ever come up for one of our monthly RTs I will probably be there. I won't be at Oct or Nov due to my second child being born but from Dec on you'd have a good chance of running into me. I also play on Tuesday nights which is our 40k league night. Everyone there knows my online handle so if you ask who Overwatch is they can let you know if I am there or not. Or just ask for John.

Lt. Donomar StubbornBull wrote:A great paint job dude, I only feel guilty looking at them as it would take me that much time to get a squad stuck together :(

Thanks! Don't feel guilty there was a time where I took weeks to finish 5 guys.

 OverwatchCNC wrote:

If you ever come up for one of our monthly RTs I will probably be there. I won't be at Oct or Nov due to my second child being born but from Dec on you'd have a good chance of running into me. I also play on Tuesday nights which is our 40k league night. Everyone there knows my online handle so if you ask who Overwatch is they can let you know if I am there or not. Or just ask for John.

Cool! Hey, I actually am interested in the RTTs there, since my local place (Aero Hobbies) holds them so infrequently. They are Saturdays at 10:00am, correct? 1850 points? Are allies allowed?

Congrats on the baby! I am getting married this Saturday, myself. Hoping to have a little one running around within a year!

They are the second Saturday of each month, points varies. Check the tournament discussions section, disdainful runs the events and posts the details for each event there.

I'm diggin on the second set of photos more. I think that the blue pops out better in more realistic lighting. I dont know why, but the gliders seem very Stargate-y in their color scheme. (If that comment doesn't make sense to you, feel free to ignore it.)

Very nice work. Inspiring that you can produce such quality at such speed!

Great color scheme and paint job, wish I could do that quality in so quick

Spartiat1s wrote:
Great color scheme and paint job, wish I could do that quality in so quick

Ditto. I seem to get far too easily distracted by other projects!

 Jimsolo wrote:
I'm diggin on the second set of photos more. I think that the blue pops out better in more realistic lighting. I dont know why, but the gliders seem very Stargate-y in their color scheme. (If that comment doesn't make sense to you, feel free to ignore it.)

I actually never watched Stargate but I will assume it was a compliment!

Update:

I am moving on in 40k so it's time to sell! Check out the auction here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/121090899614?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

You sir, are now going to be my argument to the lazy gits who say it takes too long to paint an army,

You show that with a plan and some actual determination to finish something, painting an army isn't a chore at all and can easily be accomplished on a weekend/week provided free time is available!

Thanks! It is true, planning is definitely the key to speed painting. Share away!

edit: A few pics of the army in action.