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This is my first blog on progress and I have been really enjoying working updating this. I welcome all sugestions and hints and have no problem sharing any information or answering any questions you may have.

I did it. I finished a 2500 point list in about a month. Fully painted and assembled to a high table top quality. I have more stuff I will go back and try to make it look better but at least I can play with this army with pride. I refuse to play with a sea of grey plastic. Sadly still waiting on a second order of bases that I should have ordered sooner. But I will keep posting updates and touch ups I do. So this blog is not done.

Total Points Painted: 2914
Total Points Assembled: 2914
Total Models on finished bases: 86/92

My final army goal and the models I have are not quite the same but I am pushing forward and painting everything I have before I buy more.
I started all of this after the new necron codex came out.

So far I have painted and assembled -
48 Necron Warriors
16 Canoptek Scarabs
Amenemhet (Immotek Model but giving him name for my fluff)
Command Barge
Doomsday Ark
Monolith
10 Lychguard
10 Deathmarks
4 Crypteks
1 Lord
2 Ghost Arks
1 Annihilation Barge
2 Overlords

Working on painting -

Primed but nothing painted on -

Assembling -

New in box -

Ordered, incoming -

Might be looking to pickup in near future
3 Annihiliation Barge
4 Arks
Trazyn the Infinite
1 Destroyer Lord
6 Heavy Destroyers
10 Pratorians
12 Warriors
4 Scarab bases (3 bases worth but split 3 to a base instead of 4)

Background:
Part of the Ogdobekh Dynasty their worlds came through the great sleep large unscathed. They own a great number of ships, vehicles, and warriors. They did not have as many immortals but they do not let that affect their plans, they have more than an adequate number of warriors. Their Phaeron is Amenemhet the Tinkerer. Amenemhet is responsible for many experiments on various animals and species in an attempt to find a biological body for their conensiousnes’s to transfer to.

The planets of the Tundra Cluster had all agriculture and mining operations. The Imperium of Man was not heavily involved other than exploitation of planets in the area. What pitiful humans that were on their worlds were quickly eliminated or taken for experiments, silently. Having detected the humans they blocked transmission off world with dampening fields. The guard contingent was quickly wiped off their planets. The planets and their abundant materials were once again the Necrons.

At this time they are experimenting with human pyskers they have captured trying to figure out how the warp works to see if they can use it to their advantage. None have proved usefull yet. They can use the web ways but they seek a way to travel to places the web ways have lost.

Colors:
Had a question on the colors I am using for my models so I thought I would share to make it easy for anyone who might find a color they like.
Base Coat Necron Bodies - 3 Parts Boltgun Metal/2 Parts Regal Blue. I mix this by pouring regal blue into a new bottle of boltgun. It's messy but it works well and you have a lot of this to use.
Base Coat Necron Weapons - 3 Parts Lich Purple/2 Parts Boltgun Metal. I mix this by pouring boltgun into a new bottle of lich purple. Again it's messy but it works well and you have a lot of this to use.
Eyes/Detail work on most weapons - Scorpion Green
Feed pipes on most weapons - Hawk Blue
Wash - Badab Black
Vehicles - Regal Blue
Gold - first layer is a 1 part burnished gold, 1 part scortched earth. 2nd coat is burnished gold. Easy way to do gold
Sholder plates - base coast with necron body mix than do a light layer of tin bitz.

Vehicles - after basecoating use an extremly heavy layer of the wash to really darken the vehicles. I have not come up with a way I like to highlite that back out so I am just leaving it dark.
Weapons should also use a heavy layer of the wash. Make sure you don't get too much on details, use a clean brush to brush away stuff on top of details so that the Scorpion Green and Hawk Blue don't get dulled out.
Body's use a moderate layer of the wash to darken the bodies a bit.

I used heavy layers of wash to really darken my army. I intend to base them on that ice world base, and will post pictures of it when it comes in next week hopefully.
Any more questions feel free to ask and I will add the information here.

All Lessons learned in progress -

Scarabs - Glue them upside down on stand first, a lot easier that way.

Warriors - Glue left arm first, and keep it kind of pointing out and to the left.

Immotek - Paint Cloak before assembling rest. (Not a big deal though if you don't)

Ghost Ark/Doomsday Ark should not have the pilot section assembled before painting. Sadly I will never get the inner parts to look as good. Keeping middle section unassembled was fantastic for painting and you can see the whole thing so really necessary.

Monolith - Paint EVERYTHING before assembling. I do mean everything. There aren't that many pieces. Inside and out since you can kind of see inside. Impossible to do this once it is assembled.

Monolith - You may have to trim the green stuff to get it to go in the holes when you are finished painting.

Deathmarks and Lichguards weren't that bad to assemble. I need to pay more attention next time I do lychguards because 2 hand are not quite right but didnt feel like taking the time to fix it. So as a future warning to anyone assembling their own necrons watch which way the hand are supposed to be. Also one of the weapons has an upside down hand (one of my 2) and I didn't like putting it on in a wierd position so the hand just isn't quite right.


I have updated my list to reflect what my current goal is going towards creating. This is 2500 points worth of stuff with what I have already bought and about $150 more of purchases to finish out the army to 2500 points. (then I can just add a a box here or there and be happy)-

Hq - Finished
Necron Overlord Warsythe 100 - Finished
Command Barge 80 - Finished
2 Cryptek destruction, 1 solar pulse 90 - Finished
Immotek 225 - Finished
2 Cryptek destruction with solar pulse 90 - Finished
Lord Res Orb, Warsythe, mindshakle 90 - Finished

Troop - Finished
8 Warriors Cryptek 104 - Finished
Ghost Ark 115 - Finished
8 Warriors Cryptek 104 - Finished
Ghost Ark 115 - Finished
20 Warriors Immotek and Cryptek 260 - Finished

Fast Attack - Finished
10 Canoptek Scarabs 150 - Finished

Elites - Finished
8 Deathmarks (Cryptek) 152 - Finished
8 Lychguard (Lord) 360 - Finished

Heavy - Finished
Doomsday Ark 175 - Finished
Monolith 200 - Finished
Annihilation Barge 90 - Finished

Total 2500

For basing I have decided to go with these -> http://dragonforge.com/Painting%20service/for%20sale/base_sets/sci-fi/ice%20world%20series.htm

Your paint scheme is good, I would add some highlights onto those gauss flayers.

its been recommended before some lich purple highliting on the wires, I am just scared because I don't want to make it too bright... if it was a different color that might work.. But I don't know.

The purple is a nice touch \m/

Going to try to go for better lighting on the next set of pictures but you can't really see that the bodies are actually a blueish metal too. They aren't just standard boltgun.

runmymouth wrote:Going to try to go for better lighting on the next set of pictures but you can't really see that the bodies are actually a blueish metal too. They aren't just standard boltgun.

This, it could be that the lighting isn't doing it justice.

StasisNid95 wrote:

runmymouth wrote:Going to try to go for better lighting on the next set of pictures but you can't really see that the bodies are actually a blueish metal too. They aren't just standard boltgun.

This, it could be that the lighting isn't doing it justice.

Ok I will see what I can do, I tried to really darken the purple because I will take some pictures of my big cannon when I get home that hasn't been washed in baddab black and it's wayyyy to bright.


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Lessons learned today,

Ghost Ark/Doomsday Ark should not have the pilot section assembled before painting. Sadly I will never get the inner parts to look as good.

Monolith - Paint EVERYTHING before assembling. I do mean everything. There aren't that many pieces.

You already know that I like the color scheme so the biggest suggestion I can make is to put some edge highlights on the vehicles. It will help to punch them up a notch. Here's a site that I absolutely love - Massive Voodoo. While their English isn't always the best, these guys are true masters of the art. Take a look at their basic techniques page under what they call "edge-accentuation". It's really easy to do and fast once you get the hang of it.

TheKellector wrote:You already know that I like the color scheme so the biggest suggestion I can make is to put some edge highlights on the vehicles. It will help to punch them up a notch. Here's a site that I absolutely love - Massive Voodoo. While their English isn't always the best, these guys are true masters of the art. Take a look at their basic techniques page under what they call "edge-accentuation". It's really easy to do and fast once you get the hang of it.

Thanks for the link been looking into it.

I uploaded finished Monolith pictures. Well finished in terms of it may see some finishing details looked at later but it is definitively tabletop ready. Get to start on a new box tommorow


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Lessons learned today,

Monolith - You may have to trim the green stuff to get it to go in the holes when you are finished painting.

Also the monolith will take a lot longer to do detail finish up painting than you might think.

Lunchtime Update, got the Lychguard punched out at lunch.

Deathmarks and Lichguards weren't that bad to assemble. I need to pay more attention next time I do lychguards because 2 hand are not quite right but didnt feel like taking the time to fix it. So as a future warning to anyone assembling their own necrons watch which way the hand are supposed to be. Also one of the weapons has an upside down hand (one of my 2) and I didn't like putting it on in a wierd position so the hand just isn't quite right.

As a side note, with all these extra weapons I really could create some nice planet fall weaponry (not quite right but will look cool).

Onto the photos.

Tonight I got most of the basic detail work done. Need to do gold crowns, tin bitz shoulders and touchup around green spots that got out of lines. About 65% of the way through painting these guys.

Yea for a day off of work, got some stuff done this morning. Hoping to get my first box of deathmarks done this afternoon. Unless the wife has a lot of things for me to do...

I think these guys have had the most details I have done so far (Even more than Immotek and overlord). I really like the way they turned out.

Now for the finished guys.

So got deathmarks and the lychguard done today. All the warriors got an upgrade on colors as well!!

I also attatched some more finished pictures for your viewing pleasure!

So I finished another box of deathmarks this morning. After bottling the beer that has been brewing I am gonna go to the store and pickup another box of stuff. Next up is most likely warriors because my army is looking kind of small and what better way to build it up faster than more warriors.

Today i decided to post a few pictures of my warhammer wall to go along with the assembled box of warriors/scarabs.

And the warriors got a paint job today.

And had enough time to fully assemble another squad of warriors and 3 scarabs. Also updated top text to include information on colors.

Whoa that's quite a nice collection you've got on those shelves there! Nice to see more necrons, the doomsday ark looks cool.

I would suggest thinning your paint. Water works ok, but if you can find it, Tamiya X20-A is an amazing paint thinner that will allow you to brush paint on in super-thin layers without brush strokes. This will make the details on the model crisper and not to mention save you paint.

I'll take a look into it, should I add the thinner to my plate or my paint pots? I do already add some water to my paints on my plate. And thanks for the compliment on my armies

runmymouth wrote:I'll take a look into it, should I add the thinner to my plate or my paint pots? I do already add some water to my paints on my plate.

Add it to your plates/palettes. I use droppers to suck it out of the bottle and drop it onto blobs of paint I dab out of the jar in about a 1:1 ratio. It's some good stuff!

Ok I will go find some of that and give it a shot. Thanks for the advice!

Ok so I timed a full painting from after primed to fully painted/detail work completed. It took about 2 hours of work. Not bad at all. Sadly going to be out of town for thanksgiving so no new models painted until Next weekend most likely when I get a chance to go back by the store. At least I hit 2k points in about 16 days. You too can fully paint/assemble your armies too! I'll be able to answer questions as I am going to my mother-in-laws and no men are going to be around...


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Yes It is sadly true that my necron warrior looks better painted than my dreadnought. Give me a break dark angels were my first army and thats a metal model. I hate painting/assembling metal never comes out as nice.

Well its been a while since I did any updates but was waiting on new models and bases to come in to my local store and to my house.

So getting ready to work on more stuff. Gonna clean and de flash my new bases now.

Cool! Keep it up mate!

lipsdapips wrote:Cool! Keep it up mate!

Thanks for the encouragement. De flashing and washing the bases has been complete

So I have been busy lately so haven't quit gotten as much done yesterday and this morning but I did find time to assemble my lord and cryptek's. They are all fine cast so it wasn't very much fun. Some of the staffs were bent and i tried running them under hot water to unbend them. I also lost a tail on one of my crypteks in the sink. So sadly one will always be missing his tail...

I assembled the lord first and broke his staff. It wouldn't glue back together easily and it was still beant so i decided to convert one of the staffs from my box of lychguard. Looks pretty shard so no complaints here, just had to cut off a hand.

Crypteks weren't that bad once i washed them but that is when i lost a tail in the sink.

Purple is always awesome on Necrons.

Thanks I do enjoy the purple myself. As to the update just a base coat on the cryptek's and lord.

So got the 4 Cryptek's and Lord painted up today.