My First Necron - Ancient Brass

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**Grim.Badger**

This is my first Necron, so gentle C&C please

Edited to show the later pics:

**origarmi chicken**

I love the blue it is a good contrast to the brass
well done

**Slipstream**

I like it. What made you opt for red instead of the normal green?

**Matrim**

the Red doesnt quite suit the brass.

however, the brass is done really nicely, with the slight green at the hinges.

**RaegMachine**

Looks awesome!

**Skalk Bloodaxe**

I like this. It looks like a Necron that was stored away wet in a bad place. The blue corrosion / discoloration of the brass is excellent. The red is different. It doesn't look "bad" per se, it just looks "different". Offer some backstory to why it's red and maybe it will fit better. Or, it's your model and if you're happy with it then that's all that really matters.

**DPBellathrom**

I agree with Matrim, green would go better than red but other than that nice work

not sure about the eyes though, if its glowing your looking for I would highlight the edges a bit more

**Perkustin**

The 'Verdigris' effect is wonderful. Not a big fan of source lighting, and i think it is imfamously hard to pull off with red. I think a light blue would go better personally..

**lunarghost**

Cool, i personally like the red eyes. I mean the thing looks like its rusted beyond comprehension, wouldn't you be pissed if you were covered in rust when you awoke. I sure would.

**TRISKELION7**

You captured the very essence of rust! The vision of khorne bezerkers looking like this just came into my head it looks awesome!

**Aduro**

The aged color to the brass is Very well done indeed and looks cool. The red itself doesn't look bad, but I don't think the object source lighting effect you did came out very well. With the "glow" being the same color as the source, the eyes and symbol just look like you couldn't paint inside the lines.

**sum1thtdiesalot**

The red is very interesting. I do believe that there is a company that makes red gauss tube things for the necron guns. Pretty sure they have blue ones too

**Slinky**

I like it - only comment might be that the base might look better with a different coloured rim, a neutral colour rather than metallic?

**fasterthanlight**

First necron i've seen in a while that i liked... brass is good, the verdigris weathering is perfect.

The red however lets it down for me... The normal necron green would look great... as would yellow i think, in an ancient egyptian kinda way as it would play off the blue/green of the verdigris.

FTL

**Munch Munch!**

Awesome dude. Would you mind doing a tut for that great rust colour?

**Klaivex**

I agree with the red not quite fitting, but the brass with the blue accents looks amazing.

**Grim.Badger**

I chose red because it compliments brass, rather than the contrast that you would get from green trim (brass is metallic orange/yellow and so is on the same side of the colour wheel as red), plus I like red! mmmmm red!

Aduro wrote:....I don't think the object source lighting effect you did came out very well. With the "glow" being the same color as the source, the eyes and symbol just look like you couldn't paint inside the lines.

Yeah, it was just an experiment really after I messed up, instead of fixing my mistake I decided to have a go at something different

sum1thtdiesalot wrote:The red is very interesting. I do believe that there is a company that makes red gauss tube things for the necron guns. Pretty sure they have blue ones too

Thanks, I knew about them but I don't like the tubes (plus the Monolith crystal would be hard to replace). I much prefer painting them

Slinky wrote:I like it - only comment might be that the base might look better with a different coloured rim, a neutral colour rather than metallic?

I have no idea what happened there as the base rim is scorched brown! Must be the camera.

Munch Munch! wrote:Awesome dude. Would you mind doing a tut for that great rust colour?

It's really easy!

Basecoat Chaos Black.
Light drybrush Boltgun
Heavier drybrush Dwarf Bronze
Wash liberally with heavily watered down Hawk Turqouise

Although I worked out the brass myself, the Verdigris idea came from someone else at my LGS.

**Element206**

Very nice work, like your weathering!

**Grimtuff**

These look familiar....

My Crons have exactly the same colour scheme.

**Praxiss**

I have seen red rods for sale before, but for some reason the only ones i can find on a quick search were these on Ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WARHAMMER-40K-NECRON-ALTERNATIVE-FLUORESCENT-RED-RODS-/330495650095?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item4cf313692f

**Myrthe**

VERY nice patina weathering on the brass ... really gives the model a sense of age.

I like the red eyes and think that a pinpoint of almost white would go a long way to reinforce the eye as the source of light. Then again, it could well be there already and the camera flash obscured it.

**NecronBender**

Brass came out awesome! I like the red too.

**TedintheShed**

I love the tarnishing aspect you lent to this brass- the coorision looks very natural.

Not a fan of the red- I think a blue would have looked better, although for many too monochromatic.

**Draglide12**

Very... tomb lordsy. I like it.

**Mordoskul**

Masterstroke.

**templarboy**

TRISKELION7 wrote:You captured the very essence of rust! The vision of khorne bezerkers looking like this just came into my head it looks awesome!

Brass doesn't really rust. The tarnish effect is great. I think the red is making everyone think of rust. The verdigris is well done. Looks like an old lamp my mom has. Good job.

**Mad4Minis**

Very nice...you did well on the aging of the brass.

**Skinnattittar**

Simple, but effective I would say. Wish Guard could be so easy and get such nice results....

**WanderingFool**

Looks great!

**Samus_aran115**

Wow! Looks totally real, although I'd opt for some source lighting with the eyes.(Paint the area around they eyes white, then wash it with baal red or something)

Looks great!