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I would like some help with my new necron army colour scheme. I have decided to use at least liche purple and hawk turquoise for immortals and most likely to the rest of my army. Are there any other dark colours that I could use to make them look cool?

I would recommend how I used both of those colors in my blog on my sig. I would also look through other work in progress blogs because there are lots of cool color scheme's out there.

runmymouth wrote:I would recommend how I used both of those colors in my blog on my sig. I would also look through other work in progress blogs because there are lots of cool color scheme's out there.

Very nice color scheme! My Dynasty is currently more of a rusted color. Lots of Boltgun Metal then a custom drybrush to give it that "I just took a couple million year nap" rust color. I also really like Liche Purple with a wash of delvan mud for my capes. And red eyes. I swear it looks decent, haha.

The purple/Turquoise should make a nice base for your army, a nice way to customise a little more if you don't like the standard green is to find alternative coloured rods for the models that still use them (going with destroyers/warriors here and any conversions to use them).

Other than that mixing up your palette with washes/lightened versions of your base colours for shading and highlighting and you should be sound.

There's many dark colours that can bring out your Necron force to dazzle your friends and opponents with. Dark Angels Green with Snot/Goblin green highlights, Mechrite Red and Blood Red, Bestial Brown w/ Kemri accents and a little bleached bone extreme highlighting. Regal blue is such a strong, bold blue that's good for highlighting darker blues. Liche and Hormagaunt Purple are kind of hit and miss, since the Hormagaunt Purple has more of a chalkier colour to it, and Warlock Purple is a bit bright.

There's hundred of different combinations you could try.

*Edit* Of course, I'm completely off tangent here!

Hawk Turquoise is a really tricky colour to highlight, simply because its a little 'too' green or blue. What'd I do to highlight Turquoise is use some Bleached Bone; using Skull White usually makes the highlight more chalky, but the Bleached Bone gives a highlight a nice, natural looking colour. *Edit*

The fun about painting Necrons is that you could paint their skeletons as if they were metal, enamel, ceramic, jade, marble, or even petrified wood (and yes, it can be done). I've only painted a single Warrior with what mine would be like;

Almost a cream coloured marble with little stria's of medium to deep browns veining throughout to give it a distinct 'marble' kind of feel. To add to the illusion, I add some watered-down varnish to the ribs and places where light would hit the model (head, shoulders, hands, ribs, feet, knees). The gun was a deep, murky, metal red that really brought out the colour of the model whole-sale.

I am aout to continue painting my imotekh, it will be something like this (blue orbs and stuff like that). I am just not sure about the colour of the cape, what should I use?

pictures? It is hard to say. the 'Eavy Metal team uses a thaka green wash on boltgun to achieve the look on the packaging.

I just go chainmail with red plating. Course, this was originally when I wanted my crons to serve the Void Dragon...

Or you could just go all red and say they're petitioning to join the blood angels.

Personally I like to consider what sort of materials are being used. Why is it purple or blue or metallic, etc.?

Does it rust or patina or neither? Are the caked with dirt, dust, mud, oil, or clean? Are the plates ceramic or metallic or stone?

What are the why's to the color scheme? Do you get more color or ornamentation the higher your rank, or is it a uniform? Do the Cryptek units have color as well, or are they considered robotic and un-needing of ornamentation?

Here's some examples:
Many of the 'Eavy Metal painters seem fond of ceramic plates:

Not all metals rust red. Some oxidize blue or green. Others patana green. Or maybe that is slime?

Is the coloring a bonding agent over metal? It may wear through then:

Perhaps they use stone facades in their ornamentation?

Personally I have always found that the mini's that give the impression of specific materials instead of just colored metallics have the strongest impact.