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The Flesh Tearers look great. Onion layers are a nice addition.
The GS cloak conversions are a nice touch. Give a little bit of variation.

Those flayed ones look cool, looking forward to seing them painted

Every addition makes them look better. I wish the kit looked like this!

Not Online!!! wrote:To be or not to be...
Actually is a question in regards off Flayers that could be interesting to answer, considering they are allready soulless but flayed ones are also nuts?

And i'd say "horatio" turned out well

It's a question generally more applicable in WH40k; is we consider warp presence to be a "soul", than many sentient and sapient creatures are "soulless". Do they "exist" in the sense that Shakespeare intended Hamlet to ponder? I would argue yes - Hamlet posits the existence of an afterlife for the soul after death. He ponders not the end of "being" of the immortal soul but the end of "being" of the mortal mind. Additionally, if one accepts the Flayed Ones to be "mad", then can they be "mad" without having a mind for which that madness to exist in? In this essay I will-

gobert wrote:Cool conversions Gwyn, they look work really well as part robot part ghost

Thanks gobert! I think some of the ghostiness will disappear when my painting reshapes the ghost-body into a flesh-cloak.

Viterbi wrote:Very cool concept and execution, those are some scary- Flayed Ones. Can't wait to see them painted.

I hope my paint job satisfies and heightens the scare factor!

DJJazzyJeff wrote:The Flesh Tearers look great. Onion layers are a nice addition.
The GS cloak conversions are a nice touch. Give a little bit of variation.

Thanks DJJazzyJeff. That's a lot of Js. DJJJJJazzyJJeff. I'm hoping to vary the skin tones of their flesh-cloaks to give a little bit more variation.

Guardling wrote:Those flayed ones look cool, looking forward to seing them painted

You're in luck... Thanks Guardling!

Da Boss wrote:Every addition makes them look better. I wish the kit looked like this!

Thanks Da Boss! Personally I also prefer my look to the kit (even though the new ones are a marked improvement from what I've seen), but we'll see.

I got my first bits of paint down on them! I ran out of primer just before I was able to prime the underside of all of them, but I think they're primed enough to take paint.
Started with the metal. Unlike my more pristine minis, I've done something new with this. Leadbealcher base, then a single wash each with Seraphim Sepia and Agrax Earthshade. Corroded metal shows how little the Flayed Ones have been taking care of their bodies, more concerned with covering up their metal "bones" with skin and flesh.


I do intend to give these guys a dry-brush after to bring them back a little bit more vibrancy. But not too much.

I'm considering expanding this scheme to varying degrees across my army to deviate a little bit from the boring "steel with accents" look that Necrons get. If I do, I would tint more the lower in "social class" and less in the upper classes, with no tint in maybe Lychguard and up (Flayed Ones/Tomb Blades/Cryptothralls>Warriors/Destroyers>Immortals/Pilots/Deathmarks>Lychguard/Royal Warden/Praetorians>Lord/Crypteks>Overlords, roughly). It's a tempting idea.

Cool idea on changing the tarnish on the Necrons. Kind of a marker for their standing in society. The flayed ones are already looking the part

Nice start, metal looks nicely aged.

Gotta say,that is a nice aged metal indeed.
How'd you achieve that?

gobert wrote:Cool idea on changing the tarnish on the Necrons. Kind of a marker for their standing in society. The flayed ones are already looking the part

Thanks gobert. Another advantage is that because I can do it with just washes and dry-brushing, I can update old models really quickly if I decide to do that.

Viterbi wrote:Nice start, metal looks nicely aged.

Thanks Viterbi!

Not Online!!! wrote:Gotta say,that is a nice aged metal indeed.
How'd you achieve that?

Leadbelcher, Seraphim Sepia wash, then a light Agrax Earthshade wash. It won't stay this aged, but it will be notably aged compared to my other minis when I'm done with it.

Here you can see the lightened and final metal, as well as blood effects on the claws, the skull-masks done, and starting work on the eyes!

Yeah. I think that are some nice fredynators
And the highlighted bits really did help it.

Thanks Not Online!!!

Did a ton of work in the last go. Finished the eyes, and got the first coat of contrast or base-and-washes on all of the flesh! I'm aiming that each Flayed One has two different "tones" of flesh on them. Like an onion or an ogre, they have layers!

I find all of the contrast washes are very similar and all very light, so I always have to add my own darker tones non-contrast.




Next, gotta highlight the skin, add blood to it, fix up some odd tubes on the legs, and base them!

Do you think they cut onions well?

Also, the dual layering for contrast seems like a great idea.

They're looking better and more creepy with each post!

These flayed ones are looking tops and the conversion is a great idea for those spare heads (...hmmm now i think about it my son has the recruit box....).

Not Online!!! wrote:Do you think they cut onions well?

Also, the dual layering for contrast seems like a great idea.

Fun fact, Flayed Ones are the only Necrons known to cry!

amazingturtles wrote:They're looking better and more creepy with each post!

Thank you! I hope the finished product is the creepiest!

darkkt wrote:These flayed ones are looking tops and the conversion is a great idea for those spare heads (...hmmm now i think about it my son has the recruit box....).

Also a good use for those awkward AoS starter "5 Glaivewraiths" when glaivewraiths come in units of 4 xD
The legs are the only INCONVENIENT part, and you can sub those out for any robot legs that aren't too big that you can get your hands on! I personally think the Sicarian legs are best because they get across an animalistic feel, but any work if you can figure out a way to put them under the robes!


So I DID finish the guys, bases and everything (though I'm just about out of Agrellan Badlands). And I did my photoshoot. But then looking over my photos, there were a few where the skin highlights were clearly "this is a line of off-white paint on top of a darker tone", not nearly as thin as I thought they were when I was doing it. So I deleted all the photos and gave them a wash to subdue the highlights and blend them into the rest. Sooooo, pictures pending!

I did start on the next project. Firstly, I put some Aggressors with flamers in Green Stuff to strip to turn them into Flesh Tearers. I think Aggressors are pretty decent in Flesh Tearers. T5 Sv 3+ W3 is good enough to hopefully survive to T3. T2 12" Assault 6d6 auto-hit S4 AP-1... well it's not great. But hopefully it's enough weight of fire to get rid of a screening unit to get at the big boys that they really want to get on T3. But once we hit T3, that's 16 attacks (3 each, +1 for sergeant, +1 each Savage Echoes, +1 each Shock Assault), 4+ to hit hurts (-1 to hit), but S8 w/ +1 to rolls (Fury Within), AP-5 (Fury Within and Assault Doctrine), D2 will RIP apart pretty much anything.

Unfortunately the main bit of the next project requires me to get my hands on new primer. I had already primed the minis, but the gaps in the fit were too big for me now, so I had to green stuff gap fill them, and now they need a touch more primer. I guess it's small enough that I can paint on the primer though, because the Flayed Ones ate up the last of my can!

Nice job mane, those Flayed Ones are a brilliant concept and they're painting up nicely. Super uncanny and unsettling - looking forward to the finished pics!

Flayed ones finished pictures!

From the front!


Left shoulder


Right shoulder


Head-on at eye-level.


A slightly higher view of the right shoulder, so you can see the spines poking through the skin cloaks.


A close-up in different light.


And with a bit of the rest of the army!

i'd say, those are your best models yet.

They fit perfectly what Flayers are.
They look like the mechanical mad horror that they are supposed to be.
In short, they have charachter.

Nice work, those are exceptionally creepy!

Goodness me, those are gross! The skin looks freshly flayed, especially in the army pic. Well done!

They're a great contrast to the bright colours of the rest of the army. Really cool unit.

Not Online!!! wrote:i'd say, those are your best models yet.

They fit perfectly what Flayers are.
They look like the mechanical mad horror that they are supposed to be.
In short, they have charachter.

Thanks Not Online!!! I'm glad they look sufficiently underpants-on-head!

aku-chan wrote:Nice work, those are exceptionally creepy!

Thank you aku-chan! I'm a little creeped out myself tbh.

JoshInJapan wrote:Goodness me, those are gross! The skin looks freshly flayed, especially in the army pic. Well done!

All credit to freshness to the wonder that is a light and indiscriminate brushing of Blood For The Blood God. Plus I always chicken out when my highlights are too light, but making it look paler would make it look more aged.

I'm realizing now that flayed skin probably wouldn't bleed more when it's "pierced" by the spines like I painted, which either adds to the freshness or makes it look like the skin is their own skin being pierced, but good enough for me and the girls I go out with.

theCrowe wrote:They're a great contrast to the bright colours of the rest of the army. Really cool unit.

There's no purple on them anywhere either! They really are "aside" of the army. They don't fit into the Lord's Order of Battle, but fit their fluff of a gaggle of hangers-on who follow the army around and pick opportunistically at the edges of the battle.

Now that Novokh is a pretty hot sub-faction for Necrons, mostly because it gives Gauss Reaper Warriors (who are going to be close-up and personal anyways) a little staying power in melee, I wonder whether we might see more Flayed Ones on the table? I also admit wondering how much the new Flayed Ones will fit in next to mine. The painting was super easy and flew by, but the conversion really was quite a pain. But 10-20 Flayed Ones is so much fun...

Anyhow, who can recognize the next project?

I would say the finished flayers are indeed the creepiest. Well done!

No idea what the new project is but the bases look fun!

Great work on those Flayed ones, quite inspiring looking through the process

I have no idea but considering the flayers, this also will turn out great i'd assume

amazingturtles wrote:I would say the finished flayers are indeed the creepiest. Well done!

No idea what the new project is but the bases look fun!

The bases are fun, it's a bit of a shame I'm gonna be obscuring them a bit...

maxwin wrote:Great work on those Flayed ones, quite inspiring looking through the process

I'm glad my slow blog pace isn't THAT dreadfully boring! I paint in really tiny batches normally as I work, so y'all get many many updates on single project!

Not Online!!! wrote:I have no idea but considering the flayers, this also will turn out great i'd assume

They're surprisingly going to be very similar to the Flayers...

Another hint, I've painted stone that looked like this before (Athonian Camoshade still drying):

Love those flayed ones, they fit the background much better than any of GWs attempts.
Those bases look like the banshee bases to me, you've made the right decision to paint the bases before putting the banshees on - there are some very hard to reach bits if they are all built as I found out when I painted a set. Then I built some more and did the same again

Finished Flayed Ones look amazing, very nice contrast between the metal and flesh tones. But what really sells them are those bone-colored faces with their green glowy eyes.

Maharg wrote:Love those flayed ones, they fit the background much better than any of GWs attempts.
Those bases look like the banshee bases to me, you've made the right decision to paint the bases before putting the banshees on - there are some very hard to reach bits if they are all built as I found out when I painted a set. Then I built some more and did the same again

*dingdingdingding* we have a winner! The bases are Myrmourn banshees, which I will be painting up in my "skin-veil weeping-eye" scheme to match the Chainrasps further up in the scheme. Their "bodies" underneath the veils will be more white and less violet, however, to get more "bride" across.

Mostly I separated the bases because I had to do gap-filling on the ETB main bodies, but I wanted to paint SOMETHING while I waited. But now that I have I'm glad I did. Even though, like the Chainrasps, I'll be putting a layer of mist or fog (cotton ball fluff) over the base... I think I'll go lighter than I did with the Chainrasps though! Make it more "wisps" than "cloud".

Viterbi wrote:Finished Flayed Ones look amazing, very nice contrast between the metal and flesh tones. But what really sells them are those bone-colored faces with their green glowy eyes.

Thank's Viterbi! I think the metal and flesh are both interesting tones, but the clean-ness of the faces and the eyes draws attention to them. Tbh I wasn't as happy with the eyes this time around, I'm glad you liked them!

Another colour laid down and finished on the bases! Nice bright green vines, creepers, and leaves. Though I'm realizing now I should redo the leaves in yellows, oranges, and reds, especially considering my roses are going to be on the pink side. Soooo, I'll go back and redo those after I finish the pink roses and the bones.

Those Flayed Ones turned out rather nicely.