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2011/11/15 10:44:39
Subject: Necrons of Acheron, 2011 refresh (Update Jan 28th, some electronics done)
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Necrons of Acheron - Creating the 2011 Necrons
Hello, all. This thread is to document my path to adding the 2011 Necrons ("Newcrons") to my pre-existing Necron Army.
Before we get any further, I think it's best to tell you how I roll, so you can decide if you're interested in following this or not. I love modelling, but I'm substantially less enamoured of painting. I can, and do, paint my armies completely, and pride myself on never fielding a model that isn't painted, by myself, to the best possible standard I can do at the time I paint them. However, because I don't like it, I'm slow. Consequentially, this wll be a slow moving, slowly updated workblog. Probably not more then once a week. If you followed my CSM blog, you know I shelved that as incomplete. I haven't abandoned them, I just got bored with them. That being said, for me, Necrons are different. The Dawn of War video games are what got me into 40k, and I have always considered myself to be a Necron player. For me, Necrons are serious business, and up until this release, I had not worked on my Necron army in 6 months because it was done. I had not a single Necron model left that I wanted that I didn't have. It is, to date, the only army that I have done that I feel I have completed (Orks are getting close though). That was an immense sense of pride to me. So, long story short, this might be a slow ride but it has a definite ending, and it will get there.
Enough foreplay, lets get down to it.
Units:
My intended build will be the following:
10x Immortals armed with Tesla Carbines
10x Deathmarks
10x Lychguard, build TBD (possibly 5/5 split on weapons)
10x Triarch Praetorians with Rods of Covenant
1x Command\Annihilation Barge
1x Ghost\Doomsday Ark
Concepts
One idea I have is that when possible, I will add green rods back where they normally would go. Not a big fan of the new ones, and I rather liked the green rods (yes, I know a lot of people hated them). I will generally not be using the GWS plastic green rods, but will be casting my own from clear resin with tint added.
For the Ghost\Doomsday ark, I intend to go a little more radical. I never really liked the concept of a short bus for troops that can transport; the concept used in the flyer with the portal on the belly I found much more reasonable. So, what I intend to do is the same. I'm going to follow the build as a Doomsday ark for the rear and, up to the front 20%, For the front 20%, I'm going to build a translucent green portal, similar to the monolith. Similar to my existing monolith, I'm going to add an electronics package to make the portal slowly pulse.
For the command\annihilation barge, I intend to magnetize the Overlord platform and Annihilation guns to make them swappable. I also will almost certainly remove the pilots, as I dislike the concept. I may add an electronics package to it, depending on how small the final boards come out.
Electronics:
From Electronics Goldmine, I put in an order for 10 each of the following:
100k Vertical Trimmer resisters
555 timers
PNP transistors
superbright green LEDs
1k trimmer potentiometers
Also, a sheet of copper clad scissor cut board to make the actual modules. Please don't order any of this stuff, since I haven't settled on a final design. I'm going to try for a variation on these plans here. I would have greatly preferred to order the premade electronics kit from my previous vendor, but I think they may have gone out of business, which is a shame.
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Priming:
I'm going to start with the Immortals & Deathmarks, since those seem like easy models to get me back in the groove of things.
Starting with 10 of each. The bodies were primed in black, and the heads were primed in white. My finished color scheme will be boltgun metal, washed with devlan mud, touched up with mithril silver highlights on the immortals (a little boring but it looks good and will match my others. The faces will remain white with some sort of ornamentation on the head. Maybe a necron symbol off the sheet.
For the deathmarks, to emphasize their uniqueness in the army, I'm going to go with deep red access, blood red highlights, and white faceplates. The eyes will be red, and I'll try doing some OSL with an airbrush. We'll see how that goes. The power sources will remain green, as they are standard Necron power sources, presumably.
Casting:
I also started casting some stuff. The first thing I did was was create some test resin, with different tint recipes. I added the test colors to a mold I had already made of 1/8th plastruct acrylic rod.
I then moved on to something else. When I was chopping the Tesla Carbines off the sprue, I determined that the tip of a brush handle fit within the little cage on the end. I decided to make little translucent resin lenses to fit inside the cages.
First, using a non-sulfuric clay, I packed a 1oz cup. Then I created depressions with the tip of the brush, with the cutoff point marked in drafting tape.
I didn't catch a picture of this next step (oops) but I poured a little resin right atop that, about 1/3" deep, to create an inverse impression. A little bumpy pad.
Once that was done, in about 30 minutes, I took the bumpy pad out of the clay, and put it bumps-up into a larger, wider 2oz cup. I then filled it in with platinum cure silicone to make a mold.
3 hours later, I demolded it. This is the result:
After deciding that I liked the color #2 best (2oz clear resin, 1 drop yellow tint, 1 drop green tint), I used a syringe to fill in the dimples. These will become the lenses.
That's it, for the moment!
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2011/11/15 10:53:10
Subject: Necrons of Acheron - Creating the 2011 Necrons
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your ideas sound very promising.
can't wait to see some progress.
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2011/11/15 11:11:34
Subject: Re:Necrons of Acheron - Creating the 2011 Necrons
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Ok, I edited the post to add the first batch of pictures. I'll have more this weekend.
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2011/11/15 12:36:25
Subject: Necrons of Acheron - Creating the 2011 Necrons
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Looks fantastic. Your stuff is gonna have more cool factor than mine.
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2011/11/15 12:48:17
Subject: Necrons of Acheron - Creating the 2011 Necrons
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This is looking to be a great blog, subbed.
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Charlies well spent Paycheck
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2011/11/15 13:07:19
Subject: Necrons of Acheron - Creating the 2011 Necrons
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Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany
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It promises to get interesting, so ill follow!
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2011/11/15 18:14:18
Subject: Necrons of Acheron - Creating the 2011 Necrons
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Nice looking forward to the finished product
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Lustria, Altdorf, Phalanx and Cadia...
I need to cut down on my armies.
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2011/11/19 20:06:16
Subject: Re:Necrons of Acheron - Creating the 2011 Necrons
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OK, I got some work in on my Deathmarks. So far, has been a comedy of errors.
My original plan was to do some OSL on the little green orbs on the back via airbrush, and to do the same for the red eye. The first problem was that my new compressor is not optimal for this job. I fixed the problem with it leaking air - it just needed some teflon tape. The real problem is it's geared towards pushing 100psi. Trying to ratchet it down to 20-25 psi is rough; the stock regulator not good with such fine adjustments that far down. I really wanted 15 PSI and failed on the heads, which means they got blasted a lot more then I intended. The second one from the left is pretty solid, the rest just have too much paint. I glued them in place for now but I made sure not to strip the paint and primer from where I glued them in places, so I can easily remove them if I want to try again.
The centered Necron is what I wanted. The ones to the left and right of it are what I mostly got.
So, the backs: I did manage to get the pressure where I wanted it where I did the OSL on the back shoulderpads. This wasn't so bad. I then layered up to a nice bright green, around Scorpion green. I blew it when I decided that there wasn't enough contrast between the necroballs and the shoulders. I washed them with some of Les Bursley's wash, specifically because the color settled more then GWS wash. Unfortunately this dulled the color down way too much. I started layering it up again, but it doesn't look as nice as it did before I washed it.
The backs are probably fixable - I'll just redo the surround areas and re-layer up the necroballs. The heads will need to be redone, I think. Luckily I have lots of spare heads so I can leave these on for now and at least feel like I made some progress.
No good progress on the electronics. I spent around 4 hours working on them with a friend of mine and couldn't get it to work. The schematic we had sucks, turns out, and we haven't really found a substantially better one.
So, going to read the new Stephen King book and alternate that with working on the rifles. The rods I cast myself I'm pretty pleased with; they have a very nice blood-red shade. Kind of dark but not too dark I don't think. When I get more progress done on the rifles, I'll show you.
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2011/11/19 20:16:02
Subject: Necrons of Acheron - Creating the 2011 Necrons
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Looking good so far.I'll be watching this Blog for updates! Can't wait to see more!
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2011/11/19 20:17:47
Subject: Necrons of Acheron - Creating the 2011 Necrons
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Impressed with all the casting your doing, good luck.
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"But me no buts! Our comrades get hurt. Our friends die. Falkenburg is a knight who swore an oath to serve the church and to defend the weak. He'd be the first to tell you to stop puling and start planning. Because what we are doing-at risk to ourselves-is what we have sworn to do. The West relies on us. It is a risk we take with pride. It is an oath we honour. Even when some soft southern burgher mutters about us, we know the reason he sleeps soft and comfortable, why his wife is able to complain about the price of cabbages as her most serious problem and why his children dare to throw dung and yell "Knot" when we pass. It's because we are what we are. For all our faults we stand for law and light.
Von Gherens This Rough Magic Lackey, Flint & Freer
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2011/11/20 18:29:08
Subject: Re:Necrons of Acheron - Creating the 2011 Necrons
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OK, made some more progress today.
I cut off all the necroballs on the rifles, as I didn't like how they looked. I then painted all the rifles with 50/50 Boltgun Metal & Chaos Black. I did highlights in 50/50 Blood Red\Mechrite Red, except for the little hose - that was pure Mechrite. The little channel things on the back of the files I drybrushed with a light pink color, and then washed them with Baal Red and cleaned up again with the base rifle color. The back of the right hand and the trigger fingers are blood red.
I had previously removed the central tube thing that would formerly have been a green rod. I had recast some rods in a deep blood red, and here they are:
I learned an awful lot about these Deathmarks that makes me wish I could do them over again. I will be redoing the heads, but we covered that. It turns out it's sort of hard to get the two arms to line up right unless you pin the left hand to the rifle, which I started doing by the third one. Also, there are some recessed areas I filled in with thinned down red. The ones near the muzzle worked fine, but there is a wider channel above the left hand; that one I wish I had done in a different color. Both the GWS red and the Khador Red have a propensity to crack if it's even a little bit thick, and it looks like that happens even if you do several thin layers. You're either going to have it so thin the black shows through, or it's going to crack, I don't think there is a middle ground. If I could do it over again I would have just dropped in a layer of thin white and then some Baal red wash.
So, moving on: I need to trim down the red rods I cast to the right length, and I need to do the bases, and then dullcote and glue in the rods. I'd like to add some scopes, if anyone has an idea how to do that effectively. Obviously SM scopes won't do, I'm thinking some sort of scratchbuild that I recast 10x.
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2011/11/20 18:34:01
Subject: Necrons of Acheron, 2011 refresh (Update Nov 10th, Deathmarks almost done)
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Blood Angel Chapter Master with Wings
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Subscribed!
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2011/11/20 19:21:34
Subject: Necrons of Acheron, 2011 refresh (Update Nov 10th, Deathmarks almost done)
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Utilizing Careful Highlighting
Finland... the country next to Sweden? No! That's Norway! Finland is to the east! No! That's Russia!
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Seriously? Acheron? my local GW has used that name for almost every campaign they have had
(sometimes the name changes to Chaeron)
Awesome work on everything dude! this will help me alot with my own necons who also have red shoulderpads...
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Sweet Jesus, Nurgle and Slaanesh in the same box!?
No, just Nurgle and Slaanesh, Jesus will be sold seperately in a blister.
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2011/11/21 01:43:23
Subject: Necrons of Acheron, 2011 refresh (Update Nov 10th, Deathmarks almost done)
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Horrific Howling Banshee
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They look pretty slick to me
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2011/11/21 02:02:08
Subject: Necrons of Acheron, 2011 refresh (Update Nov 10th, Deathmarks almost done)
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That is a nice conversion
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2011/11/22 08:14:40
Subject: Necrons of Acheron, 2011 refresh (Update Nov 10th, Deathmarks almost done)
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I'm really liking the red rods on those Deathmarks. The white facemask with the glowing mono-eye makes a nice focal point for the model. Finally, great idea with the red trigger fingers! Subscribed!
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2011/11/22 09:41:09
Subject: Necrons of Acheron, 2011 refresh (Update Nov 10th, Deathmarks almost done)
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Mechanicum Jon wrote:I'm really liking the red rods on those Deathmarks. The white facemask with the glowing mono-eye makes a nice focal point for the model. Finally, great idea with the red trigger fingers! Subscribed!
I wish I could say the red trigger fingers were my idea, but of course I cribbed it from somewhere else.
I'm starting to segue from the Deathmarks into the Immortals. First tonight I added some sand to 40 bases. When I get home, I'll prime them and start cutting the Deathmarks off the temporary bases. I only glued one foot, and with Marines I'd just twist them to remove the bases, but previous experience with Necron Warrior ankles has left me a sadder, wiser man. I also got the next 10 Deathmark heads ready to prime when I get home. No changes in the scheme, I just need to take another whack at getting it cleaner then I did on the first try.
For the carbines, here is what I'm thinking:
I removed that weird... clip thing at the bottom that looks like, as my wife noted, the "gun's wangs". It just looks out of place and like it would get caught on stuff. For the middle part, I also removed that, as you have already seen. I'm not 100% sure what I'm going to replace it with, but I'm thinking either 3 or 5 rods resized to fit. Kind of give it a gatling gun look, unless someone has a better idea. I'm also considering doing the rods in blue, but I'm on the fence about that. On the one hand, I'd like the color of the rods to signify what they do - green for gauss, red for synaptic disintegrators, and blue for Tesla - but the problem with that is I'm pretty sure there will be some Tesla based weapons I'll own that will be difficult to add rods to. Tesla destructor on the Annihilation barge, for example. What do you guys suggest?
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2011/11/22 11:34:43
Subject: Necrons of Acheron, 2011 refresh (Update Nov 10th, Deathmarks almost done)
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Coming on, looking forward to see more.
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2011/11/22 13:46:30
Subject: Necrons of Acheron, 2011 refresh (Update Nov 10th, Deathmarks almost done)
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Ouze wrote:Mechanicum Jon wrote:I'm really liking the red rods on those Deathmarks. The white facemask with the glowing mono-eye makes a nice focal point for the model. Finally, great idea with the red trigger fingers! Subscribed!
I wish I could say the red trigger fingers were my idea, but of course I cribbed it from somewhere else.
I'm starting to segue from the Deathmarks into the Immortals. First tonight I added some sand to 40 bases. When I get home, I'll prime them and start cutting the Deathmarks off the temporary bases. I only glued one foot, and with Marines I'd just twist them to remove the bases, but previous experience with Necron Warrior ankles has left me a sadder, wiser man. I also got the next 10 Deathmark heads ready to prime when I get home. No changes in the scheme, I just need to take another whack at getting it cleaner then I did on the first try.
For the carbines, here is what I'm thinking:
I removed that weird... clip thing at the bottom that looks like, as my wife noted, the "gun's wangs". It just looks out of place and like it would get caught on stuff. For the middle part, I also removed that, as you have already seen. I'm not 100% sure what I'm going to replace it with, but I'm thinking either 3 or 5 rods resized to fit. Kind of give it a gatling gun look, unless someone has a better idea. I'm also considering doing the rods in blue, but I'm on the fence about that. On the one hand, I'd like the color of the rods to signify what they do - green for gauss, red for synaptic disintegrators, and blue for Tesla - but the problem with that is I'm pretty sure there will be some Tesla based weapons I'll own that will be difficult to add rods to. Tesla destructor on the Annihilation barge, for example. What do you guys suggest?
So do you cut them off the temporary bases? Looking to do this soon and may have used too much glue on my first one and thats probably what I am going to have to do for some is just cut the base away to leave the model undamaged.
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2011/11/22 16:16:38
Subject: Necrons of Acheron, 2011 refresh (Update Nov 10th, Deathmarks almost done)
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runmymouth wrote:So do you cut them off the temporary bases? Looking to do this soon and may have used too much glue on my first one and thats probably what I am going to have to do for some is just cut the base away to leave the model undamaged.
Yes, I cut them off. I only glue one foot and very little glue to make it easier. If you try to twist them off, they tend to break at the ankle.
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2011/11/22 17:34:53
Subject: Necrons of Acheron, 2011 refresh (Update Nov 10th, Deathmarks almost done)
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thanks, yea i was thinking about that later but didnt decide i was going to rebase them until i was about 40 models into it.
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2011/11/26 06:58:29
Subject: Re:Necrons of Acheron, 2011 refresh (Update Nov 10th, Deathmarks almost done)
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OK, got some more stuff done. Deathmarks first:
I redid the heads (actually, my spare heads) using my old compressor, which of course had no problem with 15psi. The finished effect is pretty similar, granted, but it's a lot more subtle IMO and is just about what I hoped the end result would look like.
I blu- tac'd one of the original heads in place for some contrast. They're based, as you can see.
At this point, I think they're ready for dullcote. I'm going to do that tonight. I wasn't able to get the OSL effect on the back to work as well as I would have liked, but I suspect I've got it as good as I'm currently capable of - I'm disinclined to strip these and try again. Not perfect, but not too bad either.
So, moving on to Immortals. The base Necrons are bog-standard Boltgun Metal washed with Devlan Mud. The hoses are in green. They'll look like the reference ones on the GWS site. All of my converted immortals use this scheme, but I think I might break convention and color some of the armor different, like the Deathmarks. On the other hand I do this enough and my side will look like a basketball player convention. Have to think it over.
I took some pains to use putty on the seam on the shoulderpads to smooth them out. Clearly, I did not take enough pains. At least 4 of them have visible joins. It's not too late to file those down and try again, I've found boltgun metal goes pretty well on bare plastic in a pinch. I really have got to get some brush-on primer.
Here are some of the ideas I have for the tesla Carbines.
The 2 barrel, 1/8", is a lot easier to do. On the other hand, the double barrel looks very similar to the Gauss Blasters, the 5/32 rods in a tri-barrel configuration might look better, and if I recast them all in one piece, would be just as easy. I'm thinking translucent blue for the rods. I figure I'll make a mold of one, recast it 5x in normal resin, then remold and then do 2x5 in clear. The normal resin can be demolded in around 20 minutes and is definitely done in an hour. The clear resin takes at least 2 days before it stiffens enough to demold without it distorting, and I don't know if it's my resin or my technique, but it never dries 100% rigid. My rods are somewhat flexible and can be bent, like a soft jolly rancher. It's not a problem per se but I wish they were actually acrylic.
On a side note, these are probably my last terrible pictures. I ordered a new camera from Amazon on Black Friday, and it should be here Monday. I understand it's a poor craftsman who blames his tools, but in my defense my tools got dropped one time too many, methinks. My current camera, in addition to having ever-worsening focus, also has absolutely no manual controls for exposure or whatever. So perhaps my photography will be better. On the other hand, about half the pictures in this update were taken with my Nexus One at work, so it will remain a mixed bag.
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2011/11/26 10:55:47
Subject: Necrons of Acheron, 2011 refresh (Update Nov 10th, Deathmarks almost done)
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Looking awesome buddy, loving the OSL!
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2011/11/29 00:36:52
Subject: Re:Necrons of Acheron, 2011 refresh (Update Nov 10th, Deathmarks almost done)
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Very little progress, enormous amounts of frustration.Turns out, I have screwed the Immortals up considerably, but not irreparably. I also blew $200 that I totally did not have on an impulse buy.
Immortals first. When the boxes came, I determined which parts I needed for the Deathmarks and which I needed for Tesla Carbine Immortals. I clipped them off the sprue, bagged up the spares, and then threw out the instructions. Why?? Why did I throw out the instructions? You guys should see the gak I save. I have the box for every retail CPU I ever bought. In my immediate view is an 8800GT which is not under warranty, terrible artifacting, not a single discernable use, just sitting on my shelf, has been for at least 2 years. So is the goddamn box for it. Why do I save this? Better yet, why didn't I save the instructions for the Necron Models that I bought less then a month ago?
Turns out, you need the instructions for the Immortals. I knew from just a casual glance that there were around 3 different poses for the guns. What I did not realize was that they were matched to a specific spine, and a specific left arm. So I wound up with like, 5 of gun A, and like 2 of spine A, and so forth. I was able to, my the random luck of the draw, assemble 6 of them as intended with minimal effort. I was able to make 2 more work with some effort. There are 2 left, however, that I have spent literally the last hour pinning and trying to make fit, short of cleaning up the spares, priming, and painting them. I'm sure I'll be able to figure it out without having to redo the arms, but man did I shoot myself in the foot on this one. I hope at least one person reading this either has or will get Immortals and realizes from my frustration that they need to read the instructions first. They're even numbered this time, FFS!
So, other note, my new camera arrived. It was an impulse buy on Black Friday, $200 on Amazon. What I mostly take pictures of these days are miniatures. Turns out, Yakface was right, and this was is not even slightly better at taking pictures of miniatures than my old one. Although it does do so in enormously higher resolution. The new camera (like the old) does not allow for setting the white level; it has around 6 different white level presets. It does have a 2 inch macro, which is about the same as the old one. It does have some manual settings I can adjust, so it's my hope that as I familiarize myself with it, it will eventually take better pictures of miniatures than my old one. It's definitely a much better general purpose camera, my old one needed a tripod for pretty much anything.
A lot of this is normal behavior for me when any relatively expensive purchase is delivered (yes, for me, $200 is expensive-ish). When the item doesn't levitate out of the box with a halo while an angelic choir plays in the background on arrival, I start to do a little monday morning quarterbacking about the wiseness of the purchase. I'm stupid that way I guess.
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2011/11/29 02:38:58
Subject: Necrons of Acheron, 2011 refresh (Update Nov 10th, Deathmarks almost done)
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Wow. Triple barrel tesla carbine is a fantastic idea!
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Mathhammer is NOT Warhammer.
**Necrons**Thunder Barons (Counts-as) Grey Knights**Ogre Kingdoms** |
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2011/12/04 01:55:20
Subject: Re:Necrons of Acheron, 2011 refresh (Update Nov 10th, Deathmarks almost done)
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OK, I know that non-picture-having updates go over about as well as rubber crutches in a polio ward, but I'm at work and I feel like this has gone a while with no update. Besides, I need help.
Immortals: I wound up adding one more rod to the tri-barrel. The quad barrel build is taller than it is wide, and so fits perfectly. I cast 5 of them in normal resin, and then remolded the recasts into a 5 piece block. I then cast them in clear resin, tinted blue. I also cast more of the tesla carbine lenses in blue as well. Pictures when they are cured enough to demold - the clear resin takes much longer to set than the normal resin. Tonight I am going to shop around for a new vendor of water-clear resin. I'd greatly prefer one that cured both faster, and more stiff. That's what she said.
Lychguards & Praetorians: I have started the assembly on these. I haven't 100% decided on a color scheme yet, but am thinking gold torsos and normal necron legs and arms. Entirely gold bodies - Too ostentatious?. I did get a can of Army Painter plate mail to give both of these elites a lighter, cleaner look then the rest of my army, and I plan to wash them with thinned down badab black and maybe a glaze of asurmen blue. Still working on the assembly, though - which brings me to my next area.
My question is, what do you guys use to fill joins and cracks? I tried testor's contour putty to fill the joins in the middle of the shoulderpads, and I'm not much happy with it - it dispenses a lot more than I'd like, and it seems hard to smooth into place. Is there a product you guys like better?
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2011/12/04 02:00:45
Subject: Necrons of Acheron, 2011 refresh (Update Nov 10th, Deathmarks almost done)
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Those Deathmarks are AMAZING!
I love all the original things you're doing with the guns too
Sorry I cant help with gap filling though
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2011/12/04 02:38:17
Subject: Necrons of Acheron, 2011 refresh (Update Nov 10th, Deathmarks almost done)
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Tail-spinning Tomb Blade Pilot
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Yea I myself have had no end of frustration glueing arms on. Why I fully assemble the new kits before cutting the next one out. I don't even paint the guns seperately anymore. Automatically Appended Next Post: Like the triple barrel but not sure they look weak enough for what they are.
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2011/12/10 23:11:26
Subject: Re:Necrons of Acheron, 2011 refresh (Update Dec 3rd, putty problems)
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Last Remaining Whole C'Tan
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OK, here's an update.
The Deathmarks are for now, complete done and dullcoted. I then rebrushed the rods with some gloss gel to bring the shine back up. Probably would have been better to have simply added them after they were done, like I did with all my previous Necrons, but the end result looks the same anyway, so no harm no foul. Here's my first voting-enabled image of them.
At some point, I'd still like to add some sort of scopes to them, but I haven't yet decided what I want to do with that. They need to clearly be scopes, but also clearly Xeno in origin, but better than the original Necroballs that were there initially. I really like the scope on a hunter/killer vehicle mounted missile, and might scratchbuild and then recast something similar to that, but for now, here's what I got.
So, moving on to the Immortals. They are in what I am aware is the world's most boring Necron color scheme, but I already have 10 immortals and I'd like them to match. Besides, it became a cliche because it looks good, dammit, and it's easy to achieve. I want all my troop-level necrons to keep this sort of dull, dirty look to them. My higher-end necrons will be shinier and cleaner.
Finished Necron Immortals with Tesla Carbines:
And a rotational view, in full size, mega-flaw-revealing resolution:
Same drill. I added the resin components, dullcoted the models, and then added gloss medium to bring the shine back, wished I had just added the resin bits after. Still, pretty happy with the result. The lighting makes the resin bits seem shinier than they actually are.
So, next up: Lychguards. I have 10 Lychguard models freshly primed. 10 with Warscythes, and 10 with swords & shields. I primed them with Army Painter, since it's more of a chainmail color and I want them lighter colored. I still haven't 100& decided on the accent colors for this squad, but am considering dark angels green. Maybe just gold highlights. I don't know.
Also, my wife got me the new Necron Overlord for my birthday yesterday. It's my first Finecast model. It's about what I expected: the detail is good, had 3 spots with air bubbles that will need to be repaired. The nearest Gee-dubs is about 2.5 hours away, so I'd rather just fix the problems then wait forever for a replacement to come with may have the same or worse problems.
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2011/12/26 11:28:34
Subject: Re:Necrons of Acheron, 2011 refresh (Update Dec 26th, 2 handed Lychguards done)
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Last Remaining Whole C'Tan
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Here's an update on my progress. No WIP shots, unfortunately; I wound up doing almost all the work on these over the last 3 days in a frenzy of work and didn't stop to take pictures. So I posted them to the Showcase instead.
I haven't yet decided what will come next. I plan to do at least 5 Lychguards with shields, and 5 Praetorians with Rods. I also am considering the pistol+sword combo for Praetorians but would need to replace both weapons, as I don't care for the default on either.
Yes, I know these models are overcosted in game and kind of suck. Don't care, I love how they look.
I got an Imotekh for Christmas, so he's coming soon too.
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