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Been working on these guys off and on for a while, Here's my original post from a while back.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/299272.page

Since then I've changed all the bases to be ripped up bits of cork instead of the temple floor bases I was doing with Hirst arts molds. I went with a rocky volcanic moon kinda color scheme for them since the rusty red on the models and dirt browns on the bases would make em just look like one big brown blob.

ANyway, I just finished about 20 more warriors.. now I have like 8 warriors left, 3 destroyers and a few scarab bases then I'll be done till I guess they start doing new models, hopefully soon.. But I might get a FW tomb stalker too one of these days. Anyway here's some new pics of all my rusty robots.

Nice, really effective rust technique you have.

They look great loving the look of them! Best necrons i have seen!

Excellent work. I'm re-working my 'Crons as we speak to something like this. I like the 'shiny rust' look, as it were, you went with.

Thanks Gonna get the rest of my warriors done, then move on to the destroyers. I'm gonna make the skeleton parts be rusty like the warriors, but the back beetle body part be old bronze like the lord.

I'd love if I could find a way to somehow etch/carve necron glyphs into the beetle bodies, without it looking dumb.. like the same symbols as what's in the decals, only not decals but part of the model itself.

All kinds of wicked

the aged/weathered look turned out great!

It's an attractive color, but it doesn't segment as starkly as a washed metallic, meaning the shape of the bodies gets lost, somewhat. I'd try and at least paint the eyes, if not a chest glow, as well, to get a bit of variety in there.

I agree, I do think they look a little too brown/red overall.. couldn't think of a good way to break it up but then I figured I'd have the basic warriors be all rusty, and other things will have other metals like bronze, brass, gold, etc.

I tried doing lighting on the first few and paint a yellow/green glow coming from the gun rods, but I just couldn't get it to look right so I just gave up.

Trying to think of how I'd do a monolith.. all brown & rusted might not look good on such a big model.

Maybe less rust the bigger/more important the miniature is? Then the preponderance of rust on basic troopers would sort of tell a story of neglect and awakening.

Nice color, though!