So I needed a break from painting blue things and as Necromunda was my all time favourite GW game I decided to get stuck into Necromunda: Dark Uprising.

The plan is to get the scenery painted up first (as I can use it for Kill Team/40K) and then get one of each gang painted up to start with.

So apologies for the huge photo dump but here is the progress so far with the scenery.

I have shied away from the overly weathered look, mainly because I am rubbish at it.

Very nice start StraightSilver.

Cheers,

CB

That looks great. I like the color scheme

I love those classic Necromunda colours. The whole thing is very impressive. Really nice job.

love this

Looks excellent. Bet if you played in a dark room and used some mood lighting(like small battery powered tea light candles) it would really set the tone of the grim dark hive.

They're looking good. I think they have the right amount of worn look to them, they looked used but also maintained, which is a good look to me

Clean and crisp - nothing wrong with that.

Looking pretty slick so far. Keep it coming!

Cheers everybody. I don't have a huge update as I am finishing the last of the single walls and they all look pretty much the same.

The Necromunda decal sheet is very cool though so thought I would post a pic:



Other than that I have magnetised the columns and walls and am planning to get the pipes and doors started this weekend.

If the UK weather will hold off long enough for me to do any priming..... last weekend the paint was coming out of the can sideways and apparently this weekend won't be any better.....

Another small update. Sadly in between work and the terrible UK weather I've not been able to get any more priming done so made a start on one of the doors.

Very WIP right now, was just sketching in to see how it looked.

Your terrain looks like it would be a blast to play on. Nice work, I would definitely feel immersed in the game playing on that terrain!

Thanks King Thor. I've not managed to get any games in on it yet but looking forward to getting it all set up.

I need to get a couple of gangs painted up but for now I might use the scenery for some Kill Team.

First door finished:

Another great piece StraightSilver.

Cheers,

CB

Cheers CB.

I managed to get the rest of the doors done over the weekend so that's now all of the doors, columns and walls done, plus 4 floor tiles. Now the floor tiles are finally back in stock I will need to do another 3 sets (12 tiles...) to get it up to a 4x4.

For now though the doors, columns and walls from the first set are done. Just the stairs, pipes, barricades and platforms to go.

Looks great, really crisp and clean.

Looks amazing! Did you paint in the numbers on that terminal?

That looks great, it sorta reminds me of Mos Eisley

Cheers chaps.

The numbers on the terminals are actually decals.

The Enforcers decal sheet has their numbers in black and white so you get a spare set of each depending on your paintjob, so I commandeered the white ones.

I just glazed over the top to match it in with the screens.

I shamelessly stole this idea from another group but sadly can't remember the name of the guy that did it first.

And actually it is a bit Star Wars as well, hadn't noticed until now.

That’s excellent work. I’ve a zone mortalis set the forge world one. Adding up the cost of the current plastic GW bits and pieces the old forge world tiles were excellent value for money! Makes a change from feeling ripped off by FW.

 Knockagh wrote:
That’s excellent work. I’ve a zone mortalis set the forge world one. Adding up the cost of the current plastic GW bits and pieces the old forge world tiles were excellent value for money! Makes a change from feeling ripped off by FW.

I know exactly what you mean, I'm regretting not getting the FW ones now....

HI everybody,

A quick update, working from home now has the advantage that I get more painting done which is at least one silver lining.

I've spent this week getting all the "add on" bits done before moving onto the stairs and platforms.

At this rate though I should have the first set of scenery completed by the end of this week and next week i will make a start on the gangs.

For now though here's what I've managed to get done over the last few days:

Plasma conduits






Water tank (6 of these but I ran out of magnets...)



Lift




Terminals - all 6 now finished

Some ore beautiful work StraightSilver.

Cheers,

CB

The green you used for the terminals is quite nice!

How did you paint the green on the terminals? It looks awesome!

Agree, the green terminals are lovely. The space invaders score wins it for me though!

Cheers guys.

The green on the terminals is actually a P3 paint called Necrotite Green.

It's a lovely, vivid green.

I then shaded the bottom of the screens by glazing down with a mix of Coelia Greenshade + Lahmian Medium.

I then re-glazed with Necrotic Green to smooth out the blends as best I could and then glazed in the highlights at the top of the screen with a mix of Necrotic Green + Flash Gits Yellow.

Then applied the decals as normal and once dry hit the top half of the screen with a very thinned glaze of Necrotic Green to take the edge off the white.

Then glazed the entire screen with Lamenters Yellow which smooths it all together but also brightens the green so it almost looks like it's glowing.

On the home straight now, managed to get the platforms done this weekend.

The photos haven't come out well (the metal areas are more heavily weathered in real life) but will get more once I start putting it all together.

So just the stairs and handrails to go before I move on to some gangs.

It's going to be really neat to see it all come together, and i can't wait to see how you approach the gangs too

I love the colour scheme, this would work great as the inside of an Imperial spacestation/battleship for kill team or zone mortalis games

Still loving this. What is your recipe for the blues?

Cheers chaps.

@Arakasi - it might be the daylight bulb in the lamp but the tiles etc are painted in Mechanicus Standard Grey. Having said that, Mechanicus Standard Grey is a blue/grey and the spray version has a blue/green hue to it. But essentially it Mechanicus Standard Grey spray, Agrax wash, drybrush Mechanicus Standard Grey, then Dawnstone, then Ushabti Bone.

Not the most exciting update today - I have been painting stairs, lol.

A few tiny bits to touch up but otherwise they're done.









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Thanks! Simple yet effective. I had noticed a difference between the Mechanicus Standard Grey spray and pot, but hadn't taken the time to articulate it...

Very nice work on the terrain and I may steal your recipe for some of it, have the Zone Mortalis box still lying around. It looks really great, love the terminals on the other page, really lots of attention to detail!

It's a little thing, but the colour on the banisters are perfect!

Hey, stairs are important. It gets tiring fast when it's only ladders you're hauling your archeotech up.

And those are some nice looking stairs.

The patience! The stairs look great. Table is gonna be unreal all together.

Cheers everybody.

So I finally managed to get the first box of terrain finished. Then got ill and ran out of superglue which means I have 250 magnets sitting around doing nothing....

Sorry for the truly terrible pics but I started playing around with the terrain and I'm happy with it so far. I've left everything modular so this is just a layout I set up but when I can get all the floor tiles out I will take some better pics.












My plan was to now start Goliaths as I have lots of them, but.... the Enforcers are just too cool so I have built 5 which I plan on painting up this week.

Hopefully now I'm feeling better I should be able to get more done.

StraightSilver,

Very nicely detailed painting on the terrain.

Exalted.

Cheers,

CB

Cool little terrain setup, gotta be proud of that! The enforcers really are cool looking, can’t blame you for letting them jumpy the queue!

Terrain looks great set up, hope you can finish with the magnets in due time and are feeling better!

Enforcers sound great a s a next project, excited to see how you'll paint them up.

Cheers chaps, tiny update for today.

So I have made a start on the Enforcers. I always paint one up as a test model to decide on colours etc and then realised why I was going to do Goliaths first...

I don't have all the paints I need for painting black.... doh! So I just paid a fortune on ebay for the colours I need so hopefully judging by the extortionate postage rates they should arrive tomorrow....

I also made a start on their bases.





The Enforcer test model is my first ever attempt using contrast paints. I absolutely hate painting black and would never do it for an army but for a dozen or so models for Necromunda I don't mind. But as I don't often paint black (probably why I didn't have enough paints...) I thought I'd try out Black Templar.

I did some fairly unconventional stuff though, lol. I actually painted and highlighted the cloth parts before applying the Black Templar. You can't really see them that well in the photo but this then gives me a guide to highlight up from now.

The cloth bits need highlighting up using Skavenblight Dinge and Stormvermin Fur (2 of the paints on order)

The armour areas look messy now but they have just had a sketch in of Dark Reaper. This will glazed down with Corvus Black and then highlights of Thunderhawk Blue and Russ Grey (the other 2 paints on order...).

But for a test piece it's coming along better than expected and the contrast paint made life easier. I just wish it would stop rubbing off the model.......

This all looks really amazing!

Nice start on the enforcer, now I want to built and paint mine too

Cracking start on the enforcer, I love the yellow you’ve gone for

Cheers chaps, I think Averland Sunset might be my new favorite colour.

Some slightly better photos.

Frustratingly still waiting for paints to arrive so I made a start on another Enforcer and tried out an idea on the wrist mounted screen, It's supposed to be an ECG monitor, similar to Tempestus Scions. A bit messy but hopefully be able to get it neater next time and then if it's not too much of a pain will go back and tidy this one up.

I really, really want to get the black finished on the test model to see if the recipe works but you can see better in the photos how much of a difference using contrast paints has made.

Although they're a bit messy you can see where the highlights will eventually go.

If the paints arrive tomorrow I should have 5 of these completed before the weekend which means I can start of the Subjugators.






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Is that chest and left knee symbol painted on? (if so, very well done )

 Arakasi wrote:
Is that chest and left knee symbol painted on? (if so, very well done )

The stripes are freehanded but the other kneepad and chest are decals.

Well, you have applied them expertly then, as I can't see the edges.

 Arakasi wrote:
Well, you have applied them expertly then, as I can't see the edges.

Cheers, I have to give credit to Micro Sol and Micro Set plus varnish for that.

Fantastic work so far on the enforcers, and the scenery looks really top-notch. I love that you have kept the flexibility in there, and I will have to try and make the same thing happen with my set when I finally get around to it.

Really interesting to see the thought process and step-by-step on the black and elsewhere.

Cheers IGtR=

Well my paints finally arrived!! Considering the paints were £12 and the postage was £14 I should think so too..... never using Ebay again...

So I have tried out the recipe I had in mind and have applied highlights to the black areas on the test model:







I'm happy with the black cloth and will use that. The contrast paint really, really helped with this.

I'm not 100% sold on the black armour though. Admittedly it isn't helped by the model having rivets in the most annoying places, lol. I will wait to see what it looks like with the rest done though but right now it looks more blue than black. I guess as these guys are sort of police that doesn't really matter too much but isn't the look I was going for.

I might redo it with a grey recipe but I wanted the carapace armour to stand out from the other black leather.

Thoughts?

I like the blue look as it helps differentiate armour from cloth - but it's not what you were after, and it is definitely more blue than black.

Not sure if a black glaze might bring it back a bit, or just make it dirty. It's probably worth trying a grey recipe to see how that looks - maybe a more extreme highlight on the armour, bringing the very highest points to white? That should stand out from the softer highlights on the clorth.

Cheers Monkeytroll. I tried a grey black on another model but didn't like it as much and the blue black has grown on me now.

That meant I had another model to see if I could replicate the test model on and so far the recipe is working so will start batch painting from tomorrow.

I also really need to get the heads done so I can attach them.... the little necks look weird..... lol.

StraightSilver wrote:

 Arakasi wrote:
Well, you have applied them expertly then, as I can't see the edges.

Cheers, I have to give credit to Micro Sol and Micro Set plus varnish for that.

That just confirms it . As for the blue/black - I can only recommend not shading the black at all and only doing the edge highlighting (this may actually be the case, I can't absolutely confirm it from the photos), edge highlighting as thin as possible, and perhaps using a darker blue for the majority of the edge highlights and only lighter at the very raised areas/points. But I'm not sure how good that advice is - the only reason I could think to suggest thinner edge highlights is because the images are so large. Shrunk down to model size, well - I can't apply edge highlights as thin and neat as you do .

Cheers Arakasi, I'm running with the blue now.

Not as much work done as I had hoped, sadly work kicked up a notch in the last couple of weeks which has meant I didn't get as much time to paint.

The first 5 Enforcers are almost done though, feel like I rushed them a bit today but I am also conscious I have another set of terrain to paint and a lot more gangs, lol.

Once the 5 Enforcers are finished, which I'm hoping will be tomorrow, I will make a start on the 6 Subjugators and then should have enough to play a game (whenever that might be....)

Quick taster, not 100% with the heads but they'll do for now.

That blue is so clean, it's fantastic! Great job using the yellow accents too

 Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:
That blue is so clean, it's fantastic! Great job using the yellow accents too

Cheers. I actually ran out of both Averland Sunset and Yriel Yellow today which is a bit of a nightmare. Saying that I have used lots of both on my Necromunda stuff.

I had just enough to get the heads finished off though and I'm glad they are now finally attached, lol. I ordered paint from GW a week ago when the webstore re-opened but it looks as though they haven't been shipped yet so I will have to build my next set of models until they arrive.

Great job on the enforcers, their screens are particularly impressive. The subtle glow on their shoulder torches are nice too. I hope the yellows arrive soon so you can get the force all finished off!

The yellow stands out, but I actually think the dark blue is more impressive.

Great work on the enforcers, love the red lenses to complement the main colors! May do a little drop of dark shade or contrast paint into the sergeant's eye sockets to give some more depth?

Cheers chaps, I'm really happy with the blue black now, didn't like it initially.

And I agree on the Captain's face, I intend to add some glazes to the face as it's lacking contrast at the moment.

I used Wraithbone primer instead of Corax White by accident and didn't realise. As it's quite glossy it wouldn't take paint in the same way and it meant the flesh basecoat ended up being thicker than intended.

Another tiny update. I have built the 6 Subjugators and made a start on one. I hadn't realised how different they are to the Enforcers until I started painting them.

I also thought I would do the heads early on as well, lol, as the Enforcers looked weird without them for ages.

Still a way to go and I have made some mistakes on this too so will go back and tidy up. But these are quite fun to paint but also a bit fiddly.

Fantastic Stuff Dude

Cheers JoeRugby.

Looks like the Subjugators are gonna take waaaay longer than the Enforcers. Didn't realise how much extra stuff they had on them.

Slow progress but test fitted the riot shield and got a little bit more done.

Wow - your blue/grey and yellow black nearly made me gnash my teeth with jealousy! Outstanding work! And I would agree that it has the *right* amount of grime and damage, not an excessive amount. It also does really harken back to classic WD advertisements I used to admire as a young fellow.

Well, it's been a while since I picked up a paint brush. Unfortunately my job has been super busy due to the pandemic (I manage health and safety in a medical research building so it's been pretty full on) which has left very little time for hobby.

Because I'm still feeling very rusty I wanted to start something different so have made a start on some Delaques. These probably weren't the best models to start with after a long break as they are actually way more fiddly than they first seem.

I also wanted to have a play around with the contrast paints as I hadn't really had much use out of them.







Not overly happy with them so far, but they are still very WIP. I think the biggest issue was the white undercoat - Corax White on a cold day does not come out smooth, and on one or two of the models it's really grainy. However, the experiment using contrast paints on their leather coats has, I think, worked. I wanted an aged leather effect and I think it's not bad.

But it is good to be painting again but I think I will go back to scenery for now just to get back into it a bit and have fun drybrushing.

Honestly I thought "cool aged leather effect" before I read that this is a undercoat bug & not a feature, so, not bad at all!

Loving your stuff so far, I very nearly used a similar colour scheme to you zone mortalis stuff

Cheers chaps.

I have now finished the Delaques but the camera on my phone is terrible and in all the photos I took they didn't look any different, lol.

I am going to start on some Slave Ogryns next. I really should be doing more scenery but the Ogryns are an itch I want to scratch.

Will try and get some pics soon.

Wow, the colour choices here are amazing.

I love the blue-greys and yellows on the terrain, and the Arbites. But then the sinister palette for the Delaques is coherent but clearly different. When you have it all done it is going to look fantastic.

Thanks Da Boss. I'm enjoying painting up Necromunda stuff as it's a lovely break from Ultramarines but also because you can paint 5-10 models and move onto something else.

I've made a start on the Slave Ogryns. These are a lot of fun to paint.

Very WIP and apologies for potato cam pics, lol.

Love everything. So crisp and clean. I go a little dirtier with my stuff but mostly to help cover my mistakes. But love your painting style. Can’t wait to see more.

Cool Ogryns, they look like a fun box of minis, even if the options are a bit limited from what I hear

Cheers chaps.

I've made a start on one of the fists.

That’s a great yellow you’ve got on the power fist. Lovely weathering with the paint being rubbed off on the red stripe

Gorgeous stuff all around! I'm especially impressed by your skin work!

Nice, Looking forward to seeing those Ogryns complete!

Great work on the Ogryns - skin looks particularly gorgeous. I too look forward to seeing them all finished up

I may just have to pick this lot up, despite my pre-existing collection!

Thanks for sharing

Thanks everybody, I am enjoying painting the yellow which I never thought I would say. The downside is it's making me think about starting an Imperial Fists army.... noooo....

And cheers with regards to the skin, it's the bit I actually enjoy painting the most so usually leave it until last but wanted to get a couple of testers done.

So most of the skin on these is still WIP.

I thought I would have had these finished by now but I haven't managed to get as much painting done recently due to work.

So some more WIP pics - I hope to at least have their arms on by the end of the weekend.... lol.

Still chipping away at these.

Nice, good idea for a colour change to stop the arms looking samey

Beautiful yellows and fleshes. Very warm against your cool base, great composition.

Cheers chaps, I must admit the composition between bases and warm tones was purely accidental but I will now say it was planned...

And I wish now I had maybe added more red in but I will wait to see what they look like when the welders go on.

I have to admit I've enjoyed painting yellow and am now suppressing the urge to start a new Space Marine army.....

Almost there...

Brilliant stuff!

Great skin tones and yellows. They’re a beautiful unit

Awesome ogryn gang, and the yellow and mechanicus red look fabulous together

Thanks for sharing

Well, despite not updating this thread for a while I have actually managed to get some painting done.

I now have enough terrain painted to fill 3 tiles, or 4 if I add scatter. The plan is to get 9 tiles done with at least 2 levels, but hopefully 3 so I still have a way to go yet.

I also managed to paint up a Cawdor gang too, and finish the other gangs to starter level, which means I have starter gangs for Cawdor, Delaque, Enforcers and Ogryns.

The Cawdor gang was another contrast paint / speed paint experiment. I think it worked but it taught me that I hate painting brown, I hate painting Cawdor and I still haven't quite mastered either Contrast paints or glazing....

I'm happy enough with them but I might go back later and make some changes.

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Very nice work, are you keeping the ZM pieces modular or gluing them into larger chunks?

 Guardling wrote:
Very nice work, are you keeping the ZM pieces modular or gluing them into larger chunks?

Cheers Guardling. I have kept everything modular so far, except the platforms for the most part. But all the walls etc are separate and I have made the platforms in small sections that can be joined together.

I like the idea of it being a big Lego set.

Slight Threadomancy but I wanted to prove I was still alive and, more importantly, still working on my Necromunda stuff.

I haven't been posting regular updates as for the last few months as I have essentially been painting the same thing over, and over, again.....

I didn't get a chance to take many pics, or set everything up but I have now completed:

52 x columns
57 x wall sections
20 x doors
9 x floor tiles
Assorted stairs and floors

I think this adds up to about 3 and a half Dark Uprising sets and has taken way longer than expected but it does mean I (hopefully) won't have to paint any more walls.... The lights alone have driven me insane, lol.

I have also now completed 4 starter gangs (Cawdor, Delaque, Enforcers and Slave Ogryns) but still need to carry on with scenery for now.

It's become apparent that I need a lot more floors and stairs so they will be next....

These are most of the walls.... as I say nothing desperately exciting.... lol.

Nice to see you back, and with a lot to show!
Now you just need to put them together in interesting layouts and sprinkle some gangers on!

Wow, that’s a massive Necromundian wall! Good to see you still about, as Guardling said, hopefully we can get to see your gangers too!

Can only agree with Gobert and Guarding, looks very impressive.

Thanks chaps, I must admit it's a relief to have them finished - the lights have probably been the slowest part and I'm hoping I never have to do any again.... Although I won't know if I have enough sections until i lay it all out but combined with the Sector Mechanicus terrain I'm hoping it will be.

And I will try to get some pics of the table so far and will add the gangs I have completed.

I am just deciding whether to crack on with more terrain or to make a start on a Van Saar gang next.....

Those walls are great, do you have posted here already the various paints that you used?

 ph34r wrote:
Those walls are great, do you have posted here already the various paints that you used?

Cheers.

The wall sections are as follows:

Undercoat Mechanicus Standard Grey
Agrax Earthshade wash all over (50/50 Agrax/water - but this is the old formulation wash, haven't tried the new ones yet).
Drybrush Mechanicus Standard Grey
Drybrush Dawnstone
Light Drybrush Ushabti Bone

Archways:

Basecoat either Wraithbone or Rakarth Flesh (doesn't really matter which, but either will go over the grey undercoat easily
Re-Basecoat Ushabti Bone
Seraphim Sepia Wash
Drybrush Ushabti Bone
Tidy up inner edges with 50/50 mix Mechanicus Standard Grey/Dryad Bark

Lids/Roofs

Undercoat Vallejo Bone spray or Army painter bone spray (or any bone rattlecan I guess)
Seraphim Sepia wask
Drybrush Ushabti Bone

Metallics (mostly)

Leadbelcher basecoat
Wash Agrax Earthshade/water 50/50
Then wash Seraphim/Sepia/water 50/50 (the amount you thin is dependent on taste - the less water the more aged)

Then everything else is pretty straight forward. The reds are normally Mephiston Red, shaded with Agrax and then highlighted with Evil Sunz Scarlet and the yellows are Averland Sunset, Seraphim Sepia wash and then highlighted Yriel Yellow

The posters are from the GW Necromunda decal sheets and I usually give these a glaze of Seraphim Sepia to get them to blend in better and dirty them up a bit.

This thread is very inspiring, most of my scenery is unpainted but i'll be very happy if mine turn out to be anywhere near as good as yours!

Your painting is so clean, a treat to behold. Good work!

Cheers everyone.

OK, so I finally had time to get all of the scenery out and put it on a a table.

It's fully modular, like Lego, so the layout isn't fixed, I just wanted to see where I was up to and if I needed to add anything else.

I think I now have more than enough Zone Mortalis terrain painted for a 3x3, possibly enough even for a 4x4. I do need to make up some new platforms though as the way I have built the ones I currently have doesn't allow to me to join areas together for multiple levels.

But, otherwise, I think I am finished scenery-wise for a bit so can concentrate on gangs for a bit.

Awesome! would love to play on a board like that StraightSilver, the different levels in there are super cool and the paint job is on point Nice job

Nice to see you still around!
Terrain looks great, I don't even want to think about painting so much!
Look forward to seeing more gangers from you, the previous ones were pretty sweet

Thanks chaps, I must admit painting all that scenery has driven me a little insane....

I think I will paint up some Van Saar next, just for a bit of colour.

That board is to die for! Excellent work straightsilver! I think you deserve some Van Saar based recuperation