Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

You're making me green with envy

My blog is being neglected...damn assignments, no time to paint :(

Anyways, (hold on a second, im not trying to be an a**, but I hope you're open to CC)

I feel that the green highlights are way to rushed, as if you're under a strict dead line. Use a fine detail brush, start with a thinned down layer of snot green, then, mix some snot green with scorpion green in a 1:2 ratio, and go over it. Mix some scorpion green with some white, and swipe on a thin line, just to give it a smooth highlight.

For OSL, I have an easy and effective way, depending on where the weapon/orb/etc is facing, drybrush some snot green, but before it dries, brush on some scorpion green, then a bit of white so it blends in nicely, this aim is not to exaggerate.

As for the monolith, i'de give it another thin coat of the blue/purple, also, try lightening up the same colour with white, and highlight some areas, its looking a little flat, same goes for the ark.


In all seriousness, you're on the right track, im liking your material, and with a little bit of work, you can make it even better


Good luck!

I like the metalic paint recipe. I am debating using house of color airbrush paint. Its pretty thin but I am not sure what the chemical coponants of it are.

StasisNid95 wrote:You're making me green with envy

My blog is being neglected...damn assignments, no time to paint :(

Anyways, (hold on a second, im not trying to be an a**, but I hope you're open to CC)

I feel that the green highlights are way to rushed, as if you're under a strict dead line. Use a fine detail brush, start with a thinned down layer of snot green, then, mix some snot green with scorpion green in a 1:2 ratio, and go over it. Mix some scorpion green with some white, and swipe on a thin line, just to give it a smooth highlight.

For OSL, I have an easy and effective way, depending on where the weapon/orb/etc is facing, drybrush some snot green, but before it dries, brush on some scorpion green, then a bit of white so it blends in nicely, this aim is not to exaggerate.

As for the monolith, i'de give it another thin coat of the blue/purple, also, try lightening up the same colour with white, and highlight some areas, its looking a little flat, same goes for the ark.


In all seriousness, you're on the right track, im liking your material, and with a little bit of work, you can make it even better


Good luck!

Thanks for the CC and yes I really do appreciate some of those. As to the Ark/Monolith I am still trying to figure out what I want to do now that it is based for table top ready. I am not sure what I can do because i tried drybrushing on some more blue and just didn't like what it went back to. I am deffinitly debating on what I want to do with that.

As for my greens they are a bit rushed yes as I was not sure how I wanted to do them. Going to work on OSL on orbs and ship stuff when I get everything finished. My goal is to finish everything for xmas so that my wife can "give me a painted army for xmas". I definitively am not opposed to going back and tweaking some stuff. I just don't know what I want to do to anything beyond the osl on orbs (and I am going to try what you said on those) and something but I am not sure what to the vehicles.

What types of area would i want to highlite with regal blue/white mix?

Also as for the detail work I am using a thin detail brush but am still pretty new at painting. (A large portion of my armies (Fantasy) all were done by painted figs) So I am still learning basic techniques on painting in general. I deffinitly appreciated any help and feedback though and thanks for your input!

Looking good, sir. I really like the metallic blue you cooked up. I think it fits well with the totally alien background of the Necrons. Keep it up.

mstersmith3 wrote:I like the metalic paint recipe. I am debating using house of color airbrush paint. Its pretty thin but I am not sure what the chemical coponants of it are.

I haven't heard of house of color but let me know how it turns out. I might eventually look into an airbrush but I am still working hard on my brush techniques before trying more advanced and difficult techniques(faster but easier to screw up).

40kFSU wrote:Looking good, sir. I really like the metallic blue you cooked up. I think it fits well with the totally alien background of the Necrons. Keep it up.

Thanks for the encouragement!

Ok got around to getting the stuff for basing done at lunch for 10 of my bases. I need to thank TheKellector for his assistance with the magic wash.

Hope to get this finished up tonight or at least a long way through painting and getting the bases ready. Then comes the hard part of trying to unglue all my models and rebase them all.

Also try to make sure your brush doesnt have regal blue residue in brush. Had to paint a few of them twice to get white. As you see the sample ones I show have a blueish tint when I painted them white.

Well I am working on getting my bases finished this evening.

Conclusion of the basing process:

Step 1: De-flash the bases.

Step 2: Wash the bases with soap and water.

Step 3: Dry bases.

Step 4: Prime bases in white.

Step 5: Paint bases white.

Step 6: Wash bases in ice blue wash.

Step 7: Get model off old base.

Step 8: Paint feet again after getting excess material off feat.

Step 9: Glue model to new base.

Last but not least for the night I finished the rest of the bases. Was a lot of work but I really really like how they turned out. I give 10/10 for these bases. Very little flash to clean. Very nice details and definitively look way better than GW bases. Hopefully the next few days will see me transfering all of my models from the old blackies to these nice new bases. Gonna save 6 for models not assembled yet so some warriors will be SOL as I only have 70 25mm bases.

Just edited this post as to not self bump without any work or reason. I see it is hard to see the wash with my blue flash. Going to have to see what I can do take a better picture of that.

And some work on rebasing. Lost a food and could not recover it. Sad but I will find a way to make it look good.

Got some more work done today on debasing my models. Have a graveyard of reusable 25mm bases. Just have to reglue all the models on the new bases.

That is a lot of necrons. Jesus!! I'm digging the bases!!

baneofmorgoth wrote:That is a lot of necrons. Jesus!! I'm digging the bases!!

Thanks, and yes it is. I can't recommend highly enough these bases, got them from dragon forge. Was kind of leery of spending $1 a 25mm base, but after getting them and finishing them they are really worth it. Think I am going to have to look at buying aftermarket bases for all my armies in the future. Only problem I have is that the guy in the vehicle barely fits in and bumps his head.
http://dragonforge.com/Painting%20service/for%20sale/base_sets/sci-fi/ice%20world%20series.htm

Well got everything rebased that I could. I really like how the scarabs turned out. Some of the bases of the scarabs didnt quit make it so i decided to put one directly on the base. Well see for yourself. I turned off the flash on these pictures and they turned out a lot better.

Well now that those models are based (table top finished but probably not done). Waiting on some more bases to come in because I had to make another order.

I started work on my ghost arks. I am going to do both middle sections, paint, then assemble them. I will then assemble and paint the prow and back part after doing the middles. Figured I could assembly line all 20 warriors and the 20 weapons. Not my favorite part but hey it will look good with my army.

Only piece of advice for these are assemble from the bottom up on the warriors. Glue the chest pieces together and put the head on but then assemble the other 3 bottom parts before putting together. Make sure you have the bottom piece 5 one way and 5 the other so that they can attatch to the ark correctly after painting.

It has been a long two days. The ghost arks take a long time to both assemble and base coat. But now that I have the warriors all painted up I just need to detail the guns and do a little clean up on the warriors and I can assemble the middle hull sections. The front and pilot section just need green detailing and the pilot needs a gold helm and green detailing. Another day's worth of work and both ghost arks will be done!!!!

An awesome side note on this model. This thing is well detailed. I love the scarabs crawling up the damaged warriors.

So my almu mater won the 3rd round of playoffs today 49 - 13!!! Eat um up Katz... Anyways back to the painting. I did detail work on all the weapons and touch up on the warriors. Time was flying by as it took 2 hours for assembly and painting. I need to paint a few blue that were just primed black but don't have detail colors to paint on (end of weapon train and the bottom where the flight base connects to arches.

Only detail work left on the back part, front part (really small amount of green), and the pilot. I would say im 90% done with both of them now and a little bit of painting and glueing tommorow should finish up these 2.

I like what you have going here. I was skeptic of your color choices in the first few picks, but after seeing the rest of the pics you've posted I am sold.

I also really like that shelf you got. I think I am going to spend tomorrow building something similar.

keep up the good work.

The shelf was $30 (or 50 but i cant remember)at ikea. I think it's the billy. May be cheaper to buy then build. It's more expensive in other colors but white is really cheap as I remember.

Thanks for the compliments too. My wife wasn't sure at first either but it's come together nicely.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
It also looks like I need to be careful on unique naming pictures. Some got overwritten... :(

2 completed Ghost Arks. These took a lot of work!! I am definitively not going to be doing 2 at once again.

Those Arks look really nice. Im pretty impressed with how quickly you got them done, especially with all those Necrons. I think the Badab Black wash looks a little better. Bases look cool too.

liking the arks, quite Well done indeed

40kFSU wrote:Those Arks look really nice. Im pretty impressed with how quickly you got them done, especially with all those Necrons. I think the Badab Black wash looks a little better. Bases look cool too.

Thanks yea I have been working my butt off to get it all done. I still think I like the color you use on your vehicles better. But I do like the way mine turned out.

bigfish wrote:liking the arks, quite Well done indeed

Thank you very much!

Not feeling great today but got a chance to finish up a bit of assembly. I am gonna go back and nap now. But I finished assembling everything I had left.

seems you got a good and steady cashflow

Joske De Veteraan wrote:seems you got a good and steady cashflow

I watched your youtube video and I rememeber you reviewing the necron codex. Ammusing As for the steady cash flow, its near xmas and my wife is "giving" me this painted army. Well half of it really. The other half is pre spending gifts I am getting. I have $100-$150 a month for warhammer stuff.

Well was home sick today and didn't feel like doing much but I did get a bit done. Finished the deathmark that had a broken foot from transfering to new base. I also finished up the annihilation barge. Just another overlord and detail work on 5 lychguard and I am done.

very nice!, but you should slow down, it seems like your getting a very tiny bit sloppy with details as you progressed. Remember take it slow, Its suppose to be fun, not a chore! }~{ Just take your time and have fun with it! :3 Still looking good though!

Kyran wrote:very nice!, but you should slow down, it seems like your getting a very tiny bit sloppy with details as you progressed. Remember take it slow, Its suppose to be fun, not a chore! }~{ Just take your time and have fun with it! :3 Still looking good though!

You do have a point, part of it is I really just want to get these all to a table top standard. Holidays are taking up more time and I haven't been feeling well. With that said there is some stuff I want to go back and touch up. If you see something that looks sloppy please tell me what it is so I can go fix it. I think I got everything to have at least neat lines and to be of at least the same standard as the previous stuff.

Annihilation Barge rocks. Funny your wife is buying you an army. My wife usually tells me if I keep buying "little guys" she will break my face or throw me out a window or both.

Thank you I do like how the lines turned out with the green effects. As for the wife, she chooses to allow me to do this so that I can't say anything about her hobby yarn costing $10+ a spool. Or that new top she wants costing $25+...

I do see what he was talking about on the lines on the pilots some blue where there should be some body color and a little sloppy on the bottom. I will touch those up tonight.

Have no fear on the weapons and engine effects though. Those are deffinitly going in for some major upgrades after I get my army up to a nice table top standard. If the wife lets me tonight I shall get the last 5 lychguard detailed and the other overlord detailed. Then minus the bases for these guys (on order) everything will be done!