So third thread I am running consecutively with my other two so updates may be a little slower than I usually manage!

The idea, to make a Necron army in the theme of Terminator, all shiny chrome and stuff! I wanted to bang this one out fairly quickly so the majority of the work will be done with an airbrush using the amazing Alclad 2 paints. GW have released some really cool new models for the Necrons so I have been tempted to scratch that itch I had ages ago. I had already bought loads of the models so got quite a bit to be getting on with including 3 monoliths! I haven't decided yet whether to do their eyes green and keep all the green theme going or to make their eyes red and go with the full terminator theme. Please vote for how you would like to see them come out by posting!

So made a start with a test model which I posted on my Emperors wings blog and reposted here so you can see what I'm up to!





Did a base of scarabs as well to see how they would come out.



Obviously it's just the chrome layer at the moment but I will add more detail later.

So got some warriors, scarabs, a lord and some destroyers made ready for painting.





I lightly modified a couple of warriors to look like they were getting back up, just because it was cool!



So another project off to a roaring start! Just got to get into my signature now to update it with the new blog!

gak man! How many armies do you have going? I'm still trying to digest all of your Death Guard.

Lookin' fly. I don't ever recall seeing a super-shiny Necron army, should be interesting. As for eye lenses, green is the natural colour calling me but... red could be so kick-ass beyond belief. I suppose you'll be whipping out the Mr Sheen on them from time to time?

Eiríkr wrote:gak man! How many armies do you have going? I'm still trying to digest all of your Death Guard.

Lookin' fly. I don't ever recall seeing a super-shiny Necron army, should be interesting. As for eye lenses, green is the natural colour calling me but... red could be so kick-ass beyond belief. I suppose you'll be whipping out the Mr Sheen on them from time to time?

Thanks Eiríkr, had most of the army waiting to be built for about 8 years so don't think I rushed out and bought all these guys yesterday!

Well some progress tonight, I have been spraying that lot with the gloss black undercoat. I'll post some wip pics up later. Keep watching this space for another update soon!

In a funny twist and as strange as this may seem, Reaper Man 2020, I had a similar idea but without the cool paints that you have decided you use.

Have a look. Note there still isn't a good picture up of my minis yet though I hope that changes soon.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/421991.page

ceorron wrote:In a funny twist and as strange as this may seem, Reaper Man 2020, I had a similar idea but without the cool paints that you have decided you use.

Have a look. Note there still isn't a good picture up of my minis yet though I hope that changes soon.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/421991.page

Thanks for dropping by, I've had a look at your blog and am looking forward to the updates, it will be cool to compare how we progress!

So managed to get a bit done tonight, did most of the gloss black undercoat but ran out of time so a couple need a final coat. First I took a pic of the test model infront of a black background to see if he looked cooler so here's the pic;



The gloss black crons;



Probably more to see tomorrow!

Hi guys! So did some more work today, got the chrome on and it looks great!

First up is the lord;







Here are the lot of them just sprayed;



The warriors are quite nice in the gloss black undercoat;



Much cooler in the chrome!



The Scarabs are cool as well;



The destroyers are gorgeous, especially the big areas at the back;





Next I'll finish them off with red eyes etc. I have managed to lose all the tips to the warriors gauss weapons which isn't very clever! Probably won't get much done this weekend as I'm up to see my brother.

To quote firefly "shiny"

But in all seriousness, I really like them. I will be following this closeley

prototype_X wrote:To quote firefly "shiny"

But in all seriousness, I really like them. I will be following this closeley

I think kaylee might faint from Shiny-overdose with these guys.

prototype_X wrote:To quote firefly "shiny"

But in all seriousness, I really like them. I will be following this closeley

Thanks! I'm doing dome more work tonight!

Epherous wrote:

prototype_X wrote:To quote firefly "shiny"

But in all seriousness, I really like them. I will be following this closeley

I think kaylee might faint from Shiny-overdose with these guys.

Kaylee would love it! I'd like to get some loving from Inara!

So I was on Iffys blog earlier and decided I needed a Blingee too, what do you think? My new Avatar?


how to put my picture in the blingee and how to save it in pictures

Reaper Man 2020 wrote:

I'd like to get some loving from Inara!

That wont be cheap!

Oh and definatley you new avatar!

So I didn't get as much time as I expected to paint tonight but managed to black up the lords cloak, put some shade in his recesses and some red in the eyes.





I really need to make the eyes pop more but they are so small, I'm thinking I might do OSL. Who votes yes?

Shinyyyyy

I vote OSL

These are looking really good.

Swordwind wrote:Shinyyyyy

I vote OSL

I'm a little scared to do the OSL and I'm not sure whether to use the airbrush or the good old paint brush to do it. Better test it on the warrior!

GiraffeX wrote:These are looking really good.

Thanks GiraffeX, they are coming on quickly but at the expense of the other two armies I'm supposed to be working on!

I put the tournament dates in my chaos blog, just wanted to make sure you saw them

Intersting look with the chrome. I would suggest some kind of accent colour to offset the chrome though otherwise it just looks like a lot of chrome! Maybe a tan or beige to really accentuate the shiny areas? As for the eyes, I would suggest making them a little brighter, maybe orange rather than red?

I think they look good as they are! maybe slightly brighter red, but with the OSL i think it will be really striking, looking forwards to seeing how you manage with OSL reaper, Whenever i try it looks like i just missed with my paint. =p

What chrome paint did you use and where did you get it? looks great.

GiraffeX wrote:I put the tournament dates in my chaos blog, just wanted to make sure you saw them

Thanks, I also found the PM too.

InyokaMadoda wrote:Intersting look with the chrome. I would suggest some kind of accent colour to offset the chrome though otherwise it just looks like a lot of chrome! Maybe a tan or beige to really accentuate the shiny areas? As for the eyes, I would suggest making them a little brighter, maybe orange rather than red?

Thanks for the tips, I'll be trying some ideas out this week and I'll post up the results. With the eyes, I am finding them very small so difficult to give them a lense effect, we'll see what I can do!

J-paint wrote:I think they look good as they are! maybe slightly brighter red, but with the OSL i think it will be really striking, looking forwards to seeing how you manage with OSL reaper, Whenever i try it looks like i just missed with my paint. =p

Yes I know what you mean, I'm going to have a try with the airbrush first, lets just hope I'm not too heavy handed!

bryanisgone wrote:What chrome paint did you use and where did you get it? looks great.

The paint is Alclad 2 paints you can find retail outlets on their web site: http://alclad2.com/ You will need an airbrush and you will have to buy te gloss black to undercoat them and then the Chrome for over the top. I also bought the aqua gloss but I'm not convinced it is neccessary. Hope that is helpfull.

Stop press! Reaper anouther blog! Will be following this one also just love em! I've allways have a soft spot for necron want to start an army one day!

Thanks Hazzer!

So I was waiting for some body parts to dry for the Pre Heresy Death Guard and thought I would have a go at the OSL for the Necron eyes in red, I've tried to different techniques and both still need some work but i thought I would post the initial results so you guys could say which was best! I of course will do the lenses properly later but you get the idea.

1st effort;



2nd effort;



Once I get a few votes either way I'll reveal how i did each one.

I tried method 1 on a warrior too but tried to wipe some excess paint of his brow which took the chrome with it to!!



So let me know what you all think and keep an eye out for an update on the Death Guard blog too!

Looking good reaper, personally i like the first one, but having said that i think its a bit strong on the warrior, maybe slightly less coverage next time, but the effect is really good i think.

1st!

The firist effect is deffently far better, looking good reaper! Keep it up man!

Looking really great!, Im getting a terminator feel from him, Its simple yet effective. No 1 gets my vote too.

proto

Ok clearly the 1st technique is most popular so I'll go with that! I'll do the lenses properly too and show you the end results. The first technique is airbrush (you had probably guessed that) and the second was a thin application of Tamiya clear red.

I still can't find the ends of the warriors guns so it will meen buying another box and press moulding the missing components! Damn I hate it when I loose something!

Thanks for all the votes guys!

A quick update, no pictures yet, I have been building as I have decided to play the Necrons in the up and coming Rapid Strike tournament at Spiky in Reading. I have built 5 death marks, 5 Triarch Praetorians with voidblades and particle casters. I haven't got any Crypteks so I used some of the spare parts from those two kits and some spare warrior parts to build two Crypteks. I might make more of them depending on how many I need in the army. I'll try and throw some pics up this evening but it might be friday.

Wow. Those are some shiny necrons! I'm glad that someone is going a different direction with them. Almost everyone I've seen is going 'ceramic' or non-metalic metal. Your lord looks great!

Thanks for the compliments and thanks for posting!

Looks nice. Shiny creates the image of straight off the production line. Ok its not to my taste, i prefer my necrons oily, dirty and old metal, but its bold and adventurous to try this scheme. I think so OSL around the green on the weapons would look really good. I'm subbed to this, keep up the work!

CYLONS!!!!
the paint job is cool but the coloring seriously reminds me of Cylons lol.

Thanks Brinscan, I even have plans to light the Monoliths!


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ratch wrote:CYLONS!!!!
the paint job is cool but the coloring seriously reminds me of Cylons lol.

Thanks ratch, that was kind of what I was going for though it was terminators I actually had in mind! I was picturing the future in T2 when Skynet had just produced them all and they were shiny and new, and deadly!

OOh now that you mention it, they do look like Terminaters more then Cylons xD

So a little later than promised, pictures of my kit bashed Crypteks and the deathmarks I built the other day;





More updates to come this weekend as I am starting on all the vehicles.

Decided, maybe not wisely, to light my monolith with LEDs. Sorted out how to connect it all up but not entirely decided on what to light. I will light the top crystal and the portal but I dont know whether or not to light any more of it. What do you guys think? I've also realised that buting from maplin is a mistake, I have probably doubled the cost of the model already!

Well I have just spent the best part of a day trimming up and building a Ghost Arc! What a nightmare! There are so many pieces! Should get to painting it tomorrow hopefully.
I've also nearly finalised my list for Rapid Strike, Ive been play testing a bit and I'll post it up when it is done for your perusal and any comments.

Good luck at Rapid Strike, thats one of the ones I considered going too, hmm maybe next year when I have a more playable army.

Cant wait to see the monolith.

Thanks Giraffex, The monolith is proving a little more difficult than I thought. Mainly it is placing the batteries, I thought I would have them inside the monoith but I couldn't work out a way to replace the batteries when they run out so I'm going to place them on the base out of sight on the board but if you pick it up it will be obvious.

Approved. Have you though of doing some red rods for the older nids?

Reaper Man 2020 wrote:Thanks Giraffex, The monolith is proving a little more difficult than I thought. Mainly it is placing the batteries, I thought I would have them inside the monoith but I couldn't work out a way to replace the batteries when they run out so I'm going to place them on the base out of sight on the board but if you pick it up it will be obvious.

I don't really know my way round a Monolith so wont be much help, what's it like underneath is it just flat?

Make one of the sides or the bottom held together by magnets. Should allow for ease of access and still hold together. If you do the bottom, make sure you strap the batteries to the sides or it will fall off every time you move it.

Now there is an idea! I haven't got any magnets and havent used them before but there is always a first time, I should buy some and have a play!

The hardest part with magnets is securing them so they don't pop off from the pulling force.

Make a hole and then greenstuff over them?

Pretty much. I used some overly strong magnets, and they will bust through the gs and glue in transport to and from games.

Any suggestions on where to buy? I know I can get them on ebay but Dark Sphere also have them.

I've used magnets to hold arms on my necrons for a while. I haven't had any problem with them pulling out. I just drill and hold them in with CA glue. (then primer and paint).

It's probably different if you are planing on mounting the magnets on the surface. I'm not sure if there is enough material on the bottom of the Monolith to drill into, but I have the feeling that more, light magnets will work better than fewer larger magnets.

Sounds like a great project, Reaper.

Thanks Anpu-adom, as the base of the monolith is quite large that might be an idea but I'm not sure there is much to attach them to as the gluing points are quite small where they connect to the walls.

Hi reaper, just checking in again! I'm liking the kitbashed Crypteks man!

Really nice OSL dude! If you have the spare time a guide would be much appreciated!

HAZZER wrote:Hi reaper, just checking in again! I'm liking the kitbashed Crypteks man!

Thanks Hazzer! Nice of you to drop by again. The kit bashed cryptecks are way cheaper than buying fine cast ones too!

TH3FALL3N wrote:Really nice OSL dude! If you have the spare time a guide would be much appreciated!

I'm going to be doing loads more panting soon so I'll pop a quick tutorial in, there is not much to it, you'll probably be a bit disappointed.

Right guys I need a bit of help with my tournament army list..... I am taking the Necrons and have made what I think is my final list. I would like opinions on what you all think as I have to submit it to the organisers later today, no pressure!

Here's the list;

Overlord Warscythe, Mind Shackle Scarabs. 115
Command barge. 80
Cryptek with solar pulse. 55
Cryptek with veil of darkness. 60
Overlord Warscythe Mind Shackle Scarabs. 115
Command barge. 80
Pulse Cryptek. 55
8 Warriors. 104
Ghost Arc. 115
8 Immortals. 136
5 Warriors. 65
3 Wraiths, pistol, coils. 120
2 Monoliths. 400

Total 1500 pts

The idea is that the lords stay in the command barges making sweep attacks with the Warscythes. The crypteks will join the Immortals and the Warriors. The monoliths will roll forwards to sit on objectives and be able to teleport in the warriors or immortals. The veil Cryptek also allows another teleport. The barges and ghost arc allow for more mobility and the wraiths are very quick also. I am kind of wishing I could fit some scarabs in as they are great against mechanised armies.

Any thoughts?

Reaper Man 2020 wrote:

HAZZER wrote:Hi reaper, just checking in again! I'm liking the kitbashed Crypteks man!

Thanks Hazzer! Nice of you to drop by again. The kit bashed cryptecks are way cheaper than buying fine cast ones too!

And they wont be a misscast! The armylist looks great btw!

Thanks Hazzer, I should have some more photos up by the end of the Easter weekend. I need to kit bash another Cryptek for the list and build a second command barge as well as both monoliths but hopefully I can turbo charge my airbrush and get them done in time! I hope the army list works, I am a little worried that I will come a cropper with all the Grey Knight lists that are bound to be going to the tournament too, I don't really have any anti psyker stuff in there, some gloom prisms would have been nice. Oh well it is submitted now so it's kind of fixed, I would still like people's opinions though.

I didn't see this yesterday, you should have posted your list in the army list forum bit.

I cant advise on Necrons don't know the army list. On the other hand I've not seen many Grey Knight armies at tournaments usually just the one.

Yes I should use the correct forums more!

Anyway a bit of progress for you all as I have been a bit quiet over the last couple of weeks!

First up I have an old Necron lord, I didn't like the old head so I have updated him with a newer one;



I have started work on the first lit Monolith but I think I will have to buy some magnets if I am going to store the batteries inside.



Here is where the switch will be;



The first coat of the gloss black went on this evening;





I also started the first coat of gloss black on the Flayed ones as I hadn't used all the paint!



They aren't in the army list but I may as well get some paint on them while I can!

The tournament is fast approaching so I need to get a move on and paint these guys, hopefully I'll be in line for the best painted army!

Thanks for everyone's patients, I've been quite busy this last month with real life stuff, I even have a flying exam tomorrow so it still hasn't really let up yet!

How many minis do you have to paint and by when. Looks like you have quite a few and some electrical work. Once you get going though you should be fine.

Flying exam sounds exciting well for those of us not taking the exam lol, does that mean you will be able to fly small planes or passenger? sounds most interesting.

GiraffeX wrote:How many minis do you have to paint and by when. Looks like you have quite a few and some electrical work. Once you get going though you should be fine.

Flying exam sounds exciting well for those of us not taking the exam lol, does that mean you will be able to fly small planes or passenger? sounds most interesting.

Well I have to build the army list above for the tournament, So I have nearly built the Ghost Arc, it is in bits ready for spraying before final assembly. The two command barges and the lords to go with them are under coated in the gloss black. The warriors just need the ends of their guns spraying and the rods put in plus some finishing touches like the eyes and cables and basing. The Immortals I haven't even built yet!, The Crypteks are built and gloss black. I haven't built the wraiths yet but they are quite simple. The Monoliths are trimmed up ready for spraying and putting in the electrics, I can't decide whether to fully light one and not bother with the others or partially light all three? What do you think GiraffeX?

As for the flying exam, it is a renewal of my Instrument Rating which allows me to fly in cloud and do approaches to airfields in cloud/bad weather. I have my commercial licence and I am an instructor too. I work for the British Army as a civilian defence contractor, I do the assessment and instruction for the people who want to be pilots for the army. Great view out the office window!

Sounds like a very good job.

In regards to the Monoliths I'd say either light them all or none at all, If you want a chance at best painted army they need to be consistent.

I'm looking forward to seeing some shots of them lit up

The necrons are looking good man! Keep it up!

Ok the Crypteks and the command barges with the lords are all chromed up, did a few flayed ones while I was at it and also the death marks and the pratorians. I'm going to a bit more tonight and I will post up some pics. The barges look great, really Skynet!

I'll be checking back later to see these pics

Here you go GiraffeX!

First up is the command barge! Really worked well and as usual the pictures don't do i any justice.







Next the lords to go with the command barges;



Here are the kit bashed Crypteks, I've done five in total.

first one solo;







Finally the death marks;



So all I have done so far is the chrome and the red highlight for the start of the eyes, got to work more on them and then work on the weapons, green bits etc and possibly touch up some chrome in places.

Still got ot build the three monoliths, the Immortals and the Wraiths but I am making progress and more work to come on the weekend.

They are coming along really nicely, I think the command barge is very sexy in all its chromeness.

Last night I put together the 8 Immortals and the 3 wraiths, they are ready for painting tonight! I'll post some pics tonight. Not long now the deadline is looming and I'm feeling the pressure.

Reaper Man 2020 wrote:Last night I put together the 8 Immortals and the 3 wraiths, they are ready for painting tonight! I'll post some pics tonight. Not long now the deadline is looming and I'm feeling the pressure.

You can do it!

Lol!

Once again, these really impress, Reaper. I wish I could see them irl.

The necrons are looking good reaper!

Just got to build the monoliths now, I really need to finish this weekend! I'll post some pics up on sunday. Oh and had my first playtest of the tournament list unfortunately against other Necrons so an odd match and I lost mainly due to his scarab farm and my inability to roll anything other than 1s & 2s. Didn't fail a leadership test though!

So no surprise that I haven't finished despite devoting all of Sunday to the models! working every night this week to get them done for Saturday! I'll post some teaser pics soon. Lighting the monoliths is a mare! Oh and I now have an Imoteck with lit led eyes!

So finished late last night and one of the monoliths is finished! Lots of work and I realised I should have sealed the chrome before assembling and unfortunately there are little finger prints and rubbed off bits on it now, not noticeable until you get close up and I also had to abandon soldering in some of the LEDs as it was just taking too long! I will come back to those after the tournament and connect them up. I have taken some work in progress pictures but they are at home and this is just a quick update in my lunch break at work! The second monolith is all painted up but not assembled and I haven't wired in the LEDs either but having done the first one the second should be easier!

All the other models are made and based including the Ghost arc but I need to paint in eyes and green bits and bobs to finish them all off, I will just have to be up until whenever tonight in order to finish!

I had a little accident with the airbrush last night, I was soo pissed off! The paint had to much thinner in it and although the test squirt looked fine on the box, it then fired too much paint out which seeped in to all the recesses, thought I had fixed it three more times before I gave up as it was ruining models! Grrrrrrrrrrrr! So a bit of touch up rescuing to do too!

I'm sure you can pull it off in time, are you going to get some in game shots for us tomorrow?

Looking gofrwad to the monliths reaper!

Hi everyone! So finished the Tournament, Rapid Strike at Reading's Spiky Club! The 1500pts force was completed at 3 am the night before!!! I was quite knackered for the tournament and it has made me vow never to paint a new army for a tournament again and go with something I already have painted! I played three games in total. The first game I played against Eldar and won gaining maximum points for the win and 6 bonus points for destroying the most expensive HQ, Most Expensive non HQ unit and for having one of my models nearest the center of the board. A flying start considering I haven't played much 40k with this set of rules (edition). THis game was objectives, there were 4 of them. A great guy I played against and I gave him my sportsmanship nomination.The second game was a nightmare scenario for me against marines, spearhead, kill points. He set up behind one ruin which he fortified with a techmarine and as I didn't have much in the way of ranged weapons I had to attempt to rush him and I got massacred! Didn't enjoy the game or the opponent. Third game was much closer and I only lost out on the draw due to being a bit tired and making some school by errors. It was two bases but the objective placed by your opponent, Vs Dark Eldar. Managed to wreak lots of havoc but cocked up and didn't contest his objective on the last turn when I could have! As for the painting competition... it was a bit strange as the judges decided on which armies could be entered and I wasn't selected. This was even more bizarre as they in addition to the voted army they also nominated their favorite army for a second painting prize. What annoyed me more was that it seemed that the nominated prize went to one of their mates who they seemed to think had been short changed at other tournaments. Well rant over, overall had a really good day and returned home for some much needed rest. Got quite tied up in playing and forgot to take any photos of the games except one but did get some pics of the other armies so here we are enjoy;

My Army first all painted up, I think people just assumed I had spray painted the army and no skill was involved but I did put a lot of effort in and tomorrow I'll upload some WIP pics for the monoliths.





Oh yea, put three LEDs in the first monolith, 2 Ultra brights and a large one, that one managed the whole tournament, for the second one I lit 6 more LEDs and the batteries died after the first game. I think I will unsolder them and just stick with the three.

Some of the coolest armies that were up for votes now;

Another Necron Player with some cool conversions!









the space marines I played in the second game, Doom Eagles;



Emperor's Children;







Nids;







Orks, they won the Judges Painting prize and he came first in the tournament!





A nice Dark Eldar force but not the one I played against.



A really well painted Tau force!











This was the deserving winner of the voted painting prize.

Well I hope you all enjoyed the update and the eye candy! Tomorrow hopefully I'll get time for the tutorial on lighting Monoliths!

Glad you had a good day, I bet you must have been tired after staying up to 3am that is indeed madness

I've seen the Doom Eagles army before but not had the pleasure of playing it yet.

Looking forward to seeing the Monoliths up close, you have reminded me to check my batteries for my tanks as I have an event this weekend coming.


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I cant believe how they did the best painted army thing though thats just bizarre.

Thanks for posting GiraffeX. I'll do some photos of the Monoliths later, already snipped 6 leds out of the wiring and the batteries are coping much better. Might take a rest from the Necrons for a while, I'm going to start my golden demon enteries next so the blogs might suffer a bit.

Reaper,
I'm sorry that you had a negative response to your painting. I'm afraid that you'll continue to get 'out of a can' type response, but you shouldn't let them get to you. You are painting the army for your enjoyment (and the enjoyment of your followers here).
I too, am excited to see your monolith, guts and all.

Looks like you had a helluva time reaper!

Looked like a good tormi!

Thanks guys! I did have a great tournament and I'm looking forwrd to some more this year, it is great to get back into playing!

Ok so second attempt to write the making of the monoliths as either my internet browser or Dakka crashed last time when I was nearly finished Grrrr!

So to start with you need a few bits, some wire, a soldering iron, a switch, a battery holder, a drill ( I used a power drill and the mini hand drill GW do), ultra bright green LEDs and some smaller standard LEDs. Oh and a scalpel.



I cut a hole in the base for the switch to fit into.





I then attached the battery holder, two AAA batteries are ideal for three LEDs but not many more as I found out later.



I then drilled a hole through the central pillar pointing towards the portal and glued a super bright LED pointing in that direction. I also drilled a hole in the crystal holder base and into the glued crystal and again glued an ultra bright LED into the base of the crystal.



I also drilled a hole in the back wall of the monolith shown here undercoated in the gloss black, which actually looked very cool & could be a future theme if I ever do another Necron force.



I magnetised the portal wall and the edges that it would attach to.



Finally I soldered the LEDs in parrallelto the batteries and the switch. I did try and wire six smaller leds on to the big long green bars on the two walls in two sets of three in series but they drained the batteries very quickly and so I just snipped them out of the circuit. The rear wall LED was an extra large one that fitted the hole well (they were on offer in Maplin).



Finally the fineshed product;










Well there is how it is done! I must say that buying all the required gear more than doubled the cost of each monolith! Any C&C welcome and if anyone has any further questions feel free to ask.

That looks really cool, thanks for writing up how you went about wiring it up.

If your going to some more tournaments this year we may end up bumping into each at other.

That monalith looks so cool!!! only if you could put LED's in bettewn the panels so it looked like DoW! Btw blogs been updated!

GiraffeX wrote:That looks really cool, thanks for writing up how you went about wiring it up.

If your going to some more tournaments this year we may end up bumping into each at other.

It would be cool to meet!

HAZZER wrote:That monalith looks so cool!!! only if you could put LED's in bettewn the panels so it looked like DoW! Btw blogs been updated!

Thanks Hazzer!

so I have taken a few more photos of my army. I still want to do a bit more touching up but they are def table top standard!

First up some warriors;



some Immortals;



Overlord;



Crypteks;



Finally the command Barge;



Any C&C welcome.

Looking good man!

Loving the monolith reaper! And everything else for that matter! The glow from the globe on the overlord in particular is really nicely done.

Thanks guys,

I should be finishing up Imoteck soon, I'll post some pics of him and his led eyes!

hmm monolith is sick, but the crons.. i feel like they are missing something. They look good, but they are missing a oomphff. I feel like you should do a golden shoulder pads...or something really solid and catchy to help break the model and add that extra look at my sexy butt.

cormadepanda wrote:hmm monolith is sick, but the crons.. i feel like they are missing something. They look good, but they are missing a oomphff. I feel like you should do a golden shoulder pads...or something really solid and catchy to help break the model and add that extra look at my sexy butt.

Hmm.. I think I know what you mean, maybe I will revisit them and add a little something extra.

So a picture of Imoteck, as far as I am with him, I suspect I left him on my desk with his eyes glowing as the battery seems to be flat now!



Probably won't be much progress on these guys for a while as I turn my attentions back to other projects but I must admit the Night Scythes are calling to me!!

Just added a new blog in my sig for random projects and models, check it out!

The painting one?

I love the look of them. Great idea.

Mat

Thanks combat engineer!

Yes Haz, the painting one, my new Slith in there!

Reaper-

First off, I just wanted to say that your Cy-crons look awesome! And I love the conversions.

... and because of their awesomeness, I was wondering if you could share some tips with working with Alcad II Chrome. You're really the only person I've seen attempt it on GW models, and I'd like to do the Canopteks of my Crons in chrome too...

... Sooo, what's your secret process, oh Master of the Shiny Ones? What Primer/Base coat are you using? Better luck with laquers or enamels? Do you let them dry fully or apply the alcad after only an hour? How resilient is the chrome (does it rub off easy, or do you need to wet it to take off the shine?)? Have you sealed the models after chroming them, and if so, did it change the shine?

There's alot of misinformation out there regarding this paint. I'd appreciate any help you could give.

Thanks!


BTW- Fixed wing or Rotor? I fly Medevac in the US Army.

First off I see some really cool poses and conversions. The Crepteks are especially nice. The look better than the GW model! The color scheme is great, lots of ceramics out there but nothing like your chrome. The eyes are sweet too, really matches the theme you have going.

DeChevalier wrote:Reaper-

First off, I just wanted to say that your Cy-crons look awesome! And I love the conversions.

... and because of their awesomeness, I was wondering if you could share some tips with working with Alcad II Chrome. You're really the only person I've seen attempt it on GW models, and I'd like to do the Canopteks of my Crons in chrome too...

... Sooo, what's your secret process, oh Master of the Shiny Ones? What Primer/Base coat are you using? Better luck with laquers or enamels? Do you let them dry fully or apply the alcad after only an hour? How resilient is the chrome (does it rub off easy, or do you need to wet it to take off the shine?)? Have you sealed the models after chroming them, and if so, did it change the shine?

There's alot of misinformation out there regarding this paint. I'd appreciate any help you could give.

Thanks!


BTW- Fixed wing or Rotor? I fly Medevac in the US Army.

Thanks for all the compliments and it is fixed wing, though the army kindly let me have 1hr on a squirell and I got on quite well, I could hover, hover taxi and fly a circuit! Great to hear from a fellow pilot!

As for the Alclad paints, I used the Alclad gloss black as an undercoat, I got the big bottle and haven't run out yet. Give the models two light coats of this and I tended to let it then dry for at least 24hrs (no need to wait that long between coats of the gloss black). Then I applied a coat of the chrome, the lighter you are with this coat the darker the chrome and it seems shinyer too to me, you get more of a Hematite effect. After that coat is applied to your tastes you may want to touch up a bit more chrome as it is easy to miss bits. After that it is quite easy to accidently rub off the chrome so be carefull with handling them. I then coated them in Alclad's Aqua Gloss, which is what they reccomend. Be careful with this stuff and don't let it dry in your airbrush or you will ruin it. After all the paints flush out with water and then use the Alclad airbrush cleaning fluid, it is very good for their paints but you will want a well ventilated area as it really smells bad. I'm sure you could gloss varnish them instead though I would stear clear of Ard coat/matt varnish as they will loose their shine.

Hope all that is helpful! Safe flying.

40kFSU wrote:First off I see some really cool poses and conversions. The Crepteks are especially nice. The look better than the GW model! The color scheme is great, lots of ceramics out there but nothing like your chrome. The eyes are sweet too, really matches the theme you have going.

Thanks 40kFSU, always nice to be appreciated. The cryptecks are also way cheaper than the fine cast ones too, I basically sacrificed a box of warriors to make crypteks and make up some of the other types of models like Immortals that I have some spare parts for.

These boys might be in action this weekend for my clubs tournament but just can' decide which army to take!

The Necrons were in action today at the Angry Badgers tournament, Badger Brawl. This is my local gaming group. So it was three games, I won my first and third game getting me a third equal result. My list looked like this;

Imoteck

Over lord + command barge, warscythe, res orb, Phlyactry, phase shifter, mind shackle scarabs

Royal court

Lord, warscythe, res orb, mind shackle scarabs

Harbringer of destruction, eldritch lance, solar pulse

Royal court

Harbringer of destruction, eldritch lance, solar pulse

6 Warriors + Ghost arc

6 Immortals

3 Wraiths 2x whipcoils

4 Scarabs

3 Tomb Spyders, gloom prisim, 2x fabricator claws

Doom Arc

Monolith

Had a hard fought battle aginst wolves in the first game, came down to kill points to decide it, I had killed way more and had just over 1300 points left on the table.

Second game was against another Necron player, quite a different army though, he made every dice roll he needed (or so it seemed) where as I had a mare at one point I rolled 6 dice and 5 came up with ones.

Third game against Grey knights, actually went really well, he sat Cortez and a squad of termies in the corner on an objective for the entire game and they did nothing, I killed most of the rest of the army, held one objective and contested his cortez objective with my command barge and the over lord. The other two objective had one each of our units but they werent troops choices so I won with one objective!

Overall I felt I needed another troops choice for objectives, the doomsday arc wasn't that good, I should have taken a cryptek or two with viels of darkness for teleportation shinannigans. Scarab farm worked well and the scarabs ate thier way through a LR redeemer, a chimaera and a group of psykers in the third game.

Well lots of fun and the last time I'll be playing with 5th edition, so game on 6th!

Some very good news for me to share with you all, my wife and I are expecting a little girl in December! Might be the death of my hobby though.

Gratz! #3 is due for the wife and I any day now. Sleep will be at a premium for a time, but you'll get over it.
Gratz again, and good luck!

Congratulations Reaper! I have a 2 year old girl, she is the best. Dont worry about the hobby. I actually get more hobby time than usual since she was born. I have been home a lot more and when a kid is napping all you can really do is sit there and be quiet, perfect for modeling! Enjoy!

Congrats Reaper, I'm sure you will find some time for hobby stuff.

Anpu-adom wrote:Gratz! #3 is due for the wife and I any day now. Sleep will be at a premium for a time, but you'll get over it.
Gratz again, and good luck!

40kFSU wrote:Congratulations Reaper! I have a 2 year old girl, she is the best. Dont worry about the hobby. I actually get more hobby time than usual since she was born. I have been home a lot more and when a kid is napping all you can really do is sit there and be quiet, perfect for modeling! Enjoy!

GiraffeX wrote:Congrats Reaper, I'm sure you will find some time for hobby stuff.

Thank you all for your Congratulations! I am very excited about becoming a father, I even get to paint the Nursery!!

Painting a nursery is considerably more rewarding but considerably less fun than painting mini's. Go figure.

So the Necrons are getting some more love this week! I have built three Night Scythes and sprayed them gloss black along with the Doomsday Ark ready to get their chrome paint jobs!

Nice... I have 2 arks ready for paint... I'll probably pick up 3 scythes early in the new year.

I can't wait to see how you make this fit in with the rest of your army!

Whoop! Two of my blogs/pics on the front page of Dakka at the same time! Necrons are up there! Did some chroming today pics later.

Looking nice!

How are you doing your wash/shading? I was going to say the Nuln Oil/Badab Black is a bit matte for such shiny Necrons, but I suppose that might add a very nice effect to it, to counterbalance all the glares. The reason I was curious is because I use a glossy, very strong wash for my silver Grey Knights, and I was wondering how the washes flow on that chrome paint (very oily, I imagine!).

Fenrir posted this link in another thread http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.com/2011/10/tutorial-using-dayglow-colors.html A good bright red may emulate the glowing eyes of Terminator.

Great stuff here, If i was playing necrons I'd give it a try, as it is i might try this stuff on a few pieces of kit for my guardsmen.

Johnnyhorse wrote:Looking nice!

How are you doing your wash/shading? I was going to say the Nuln Oil/Badab Black is a bit matte for such shiny Necrons, but I suppose that might add a very nice effect to it, to counterbalance all the glares. The reason I was curious is because I use a glossy, very strong wash for my silver Grey Knights, and I was wondering how the washes flow on that chrome paint (very oily, I imagine!).

Actaully I just used badab black but I didn't wash I just put it in the recesses. It flows fine, I top the chrome off with Alclad aqua gloss.

Alleton wrote:Fenrir posted this link in another thread http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.com/2011/10/tutorial-using-dayglow-colors.html A good bright red may emulate the glowing eyes of Terminator.

Great stuff here, If i was playing necrons I'd give it a try, as it is i might try this stuff on a few pieces of kit for my guardsmen.

Interesting thread. Thanks for dropping in! Give the Alclad a go, they have a fantastic range of metallic paints.

Here we go, the chroming of the Scythes and the Doomsday Arc. They are not finished yet, I haven't even attached the weapons yet to the scythes! Still I am very pleased with the results so far.

They have a very nice bling to them already.

That's amazing. They're just as shiny here as in your misc blog

Very Terminator! They need to fight an outnumbered foot slogging guard army for full effect.

GiraffeX wrote:They have a very nice bling to them already.

Yes all in keeping with the terminator theme!

monkeytroll wrote:That's amazing. They're just as shiny here as in your misc blog

Lol! Yes when I read the post there I realised it implied more photos here! There will be by the end of the week.

TheLionOfTheForest wrote:Very Terminator! They need to fight an outnumbered foot slogging guard army for full effect.

Thanks for dropping in TLOTF, yes I think a Tanith army would work well!

Updates soon.

Nice work, i really like the monolith

 tom191 wrote:
Nice work, i really like the monolith

Thanks Tom, they took lots of effort and quite a while to put together but they look so cool lit up!