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What y'all think? My first thought was medusa robot snake hair.. Not what customer had in mind tho so went more serious
Thinking I need to make chin pointier?
Thanks.










Also; the predator may have gotten invoked somehow.

Whatever wig you chose for Arnold Schwarzenegger, he doesn't look female to me

I would rather start with miniatures like these:

Why would a female necron suddenly have hair and breasts?
Might be a coincidence, but she's female, and has a rod between her legs?

If you have to use the GW model, you have to demasculine-ize it. You have an obviously giant male robot model with long hair.

Start with a Necron Warrior model, it is thinner. You can shave off the redic cheek bones, fix the posture, add accessories... this is hard.

Use a 3rd party model as suggested. Or start with a great model like Lilith or Dark Elf Sorceress.

Using base model at customers request. I think it's still awfully masculine like y'all are saying.

Will have to do something. Thanks


-skyler


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Also,
My idea was to giver her coil hair from guitar string, customer preferred more realistic look. Wanted me to try and make it seductive?

The robo boobs and hair make no sense to me either maybe trickin mahreens?

Could try and put half a human face on her/patches of skin elsewhere like flayed one?

Necrons, being robots now, are sexless. The bodies are all basically the same, as they were made in batches.
If I was doing a female cron, I would simply paint up a regular model, and then hand it over and say "done".


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I know this was not helpful at all, but trying to sex-up a robot seems ridiculous to me.

If you are doing it, maybe check if the customer would like the flayed one type? Maybe she is a bit nuts, and wants to be female like she was before the change to robot, and has been sticking female body parts to the robot body?

This is the only it would make sense to me at all, and could make for both an interesting back-story and a cool model.

 nolzur wrote:

I know this was not helpful at all, but trying to sex-up a robot seems ridiculous to me.

This.
Its a robot. I understand its a commission. But the guy who wanted this is realy weird

The best way I could think of to make a female Necron Overlord would be in accessories and not hair/boobs. To clarify I'd look at female egyptian head dresses, jewellery, perhaps model it on a specific egyptian god as the overlord who's memory seeped through generations, species and millenia to inspire the myths.

Then apply those in subtle hints to an overlord, they do afterall retain hints of their original personality.

 nolzur wrote:
Necrons, being robots now, are sexless. The bodies are all basically the same, as they were made in batches.
If I was doing a female cron, I would simply paint up a regular model, and then hand it over and say "done".


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I know this was not helpful at all, but trying to sex-up a robot seems ridiculous to me.

If you are doing it, maybe check if the customer would like the flayed one type? Maybe she is a bit nuts, and wants to be female like she was before the change to robot, and has been sticking female body parts to the robot body?

This is the only it would make sense to me at all, and could make for both an interesting back-story and a cool model.

i think i will ask him about the flayed one idea.

the idea seemed difficult to achieve using the model in question. I cheated and used some legs that looked a bit more dainty though


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& yea the idea isn't my own but ya know, monies.

This, in my opinion, should be the real base model for a female Necron Overlord. With a few conversions, perhaps changing the skull with more defined edges with green (or brown!) stuff, it could look extremely well done. As it is, it looks like a robot in drag, no offence - if that is what the customer wants though, then fair enough, I still remember the Orc cheerleader models .


Back on topic, as you can see, this particular model IS a skeleton (or a robot, bit of brown stuff on the exposed skull and a metallic colour-scheme and you're well away). The rest is bandages, a beaten armour plate hanging from her shoulder-dress gives the impression of breasts despite the fact they rotted away a thousand years ago, and a cracked mask with headdress that hides her skull. *insert terrible "In de Nile" pun here*

I like this particular model the best. I personally figured maybe it was supposed to be like a lahmian vampire style of necron or something, In any case.

thanks for that link.

maybe he'll want to base it off something like that instead.

You're very welcome, I'd be interested to see the final result if you do go that way. It sounds like it'd be very cool to do .

Best of luck!

I couldn't resist playing around a bit in Photoshop for this one. (Whoops, left a bit of the other photo's top right hand edge there. Err.. ignore that!)

Simple... buy the Necron Overlord, paint it up, done.

From my knowledge Necrons are gender-less, just souls in a robot, it seems a bit strange that he wants a sexed-up robot. The thing that would make most sense is if the robot has a shape-shifting skin to look like the enemy to deceive them. If that is the case, you could do a Necron who looks part female and part machine similar to the Terminator who was out to kill John Connor in Terminator 3.




Here are some good base miniatures from Corvus Belli, the creators of Infinity...






Not sure how the sizes of these miniatures compare to GW miniatures though.

Infinity is a fair amount smaller I believe.

I'm still puzzled at the concept of a robotic killing machine sporting imitations of mammary glands, what would that robot be trying to achieve?

Well, you could say that when she was alive she was famed for her beauty and adored by millions. Now she's dead and basically a collection of bones, she's still got that vanity complex and so she goes to some lengths to pretend that she's still as attractive as she used to be - even though nobody is ruled by aesthetics anymore... Some of the Necrons are pretty cuckoo.

As far as I'm aware, the new Necrons used to be people and the higher up the food chain they are (with Overlords near or at the top), the more of their original personality they retained. So irrationality is still a valid reason for doing something like this.

It's sort of sad in a way, a kind of desperate nostalgia of long-gone days.

Why not use this this model as a basis? Add a necron head, weapons and the cloak to it and your probably done.
http://privateerpress.com/iron-kingdoms/miniatures/tomb-maiden


Human looking hair on necrons looks very strange. If there is no real reason behind it (like a specific joke or something) i'd either go with no hair or a more cable like. Or alternatively go with a bit of aegyptian theme.
Looking at the race of the Arisen from the MMO game Allods Online might create some nice ideas. They basicly are aegyptian mechanised undeads. But i liked their headstyle.
One example:

 MetalOxide wrote:
Here are some good base miniatures from Corvus Belli, the creators of Infinity...

You forgot these:

But I agree that the Privateer Press model is also a good choice.

 MetalOxide wrote:

I'm still puzzled at the concept of a robotic killing machine sporting imitations of mammary glands, what would that robot be trying to achieve?

In the words of Austin Powers "Machine Gun jubblies? Yeah baby!"

On a serious note though, I cast my vote to the Vampire Counts Tomb Banshee, I think that could be converted into a nice female Overlord, bit of work to close the mouth, cut and swap on the arms, and rib up the chest plate.

I would get that female tomb king and cut off her head/bewbs as a form of 'deathmask' which would be all metallic. Then use a generic warrior plastic kit to pose into a more feminine stance or a regal stance like the tomb queen.

You would have to assume a Necron who made a robotic shell unique for her to use would need to be modified.

originally I had the hair made of guitar strings, but it was very comical looking, I then made the human type hair at customer request and braided the guitar strings in, but ultimately ripped them out because they looked off next to the sculpted hair.


Unfortunately due to monies, think will have to take this existing model into a different direction for him (as in, not a female). As currently I don't think he wishes to purchase another model to start from.

Hes coming up with how he wants it changed currently.

Thank you all for your help in the matter. Next time I'll start with a more appropriate model. the anni barge lord is just, not.


My personal opinion is the model I'm currently workin on could rather easily have some human stitched flesh on areas/have breasts cut down and robed over. Maybe add skin around base of hair so it appears the lord is wearing a scalp of a human? add flayed one type weapons to hand holding pipe? (thinking knife fingers or whatever)

need to bulk out the legs as well to make it more masculine/not so top heavy as well I think.


-skyler

Rather than trying to make a skeletal body look feminine, why not use the regalia and clothing of the Overlord to look feminine?

The model already has a long cape of 'scales'. Add a skirt of scales in a similar style (and, given that one foot is forward, you could even have a slit skirt with one leg forward, ala Angelina Jolie). Add an ornamental breastplate (not sculpted boob plate, but something to continue the scales forward from the cloak) and a headdress/collar and I think you would be done.

The basic necron head, being so long in the chin, looks very masculine, but ultimately, it's a skull outline. However, you could shave it down, or just use a technological looking collar/ruff/headpiece to draw the focus away from it.