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Fences look good, Granny grating with popsicle sticks .

You know that it is an unwritten challenge to build bigger armies around here . I was really going to go all Necrons like you, but I really wanted to paint up the characters out of that box . After painting the first one (First marine since the GW Primarisizing everything), I was hooked. Someone really needs to do a chemical analysis of the plastic GW uses to see if their is some sort of contact crack in the mix.

I am hoping that I like painting the primaris. I have a reasonably long history of being somewhat enthusiastic about space Marines but never really finding a way I like to paint them. I'm hoping to teach myself xenithal highlighting and then contrast them, I'm not looking at a lot of vehicles so I should be able to use contrast without getting into its weaknesses of large flat planes.

The necrons look awesome and I'm very excited to mess with them, I'm hoping I can hit on my scheme first to try because it always slows me down making five or six things and liking none of them.

Also, the bases are chipboard, my popsicle sticks were 8 in and really wavy so I just effectively replicated them with the chipboard instead. Kind of a waste of time but I'm trying not to buy any more hobby stuff for a while and those popsicle sticks were fugly.

I'm working on the tin can fuel refinery / Depot thing now.

Use the contrasts on the models, but use regular paint (thinned) for the vehicles. Even if the colors are different you can always find a rationalization for why later.

For the Necrons I really want to stay away from the dark colors that I have seen them painted in. I know they are the "Bad Guys", but I think at some point they thought they were doing the right thing and made themselves look pristine and pretty before they went to sleep. So I will most likely have Shine-crons, possibly with big happy trees.

Chrome! And candy gloss colors!

I seriously considered getting some tomb kings parts for mine and really working the TK in spaa'aaace angle but. I think I'm just gonna try till i get a metal I like and a nice shiny off color like green/orange/blue for the guns and such.

I am really liking the Iron Hands steel.

here is one coat of it on the bare grey plastic (sword)

I'm thinking that with Wraithbone white as the main colors and either the Aethermatic Blue contrast or the Sunlight yellow for the contrast paints for energy. I'm leaning more towards yellow as they like eating stars and such.

Yeah mephrit rocks yellow iirc. I'll be doing a custom dynasty that falls somewhere between the classic silver/black/green nihilak and the newest szarakan copper, whatever strikes me in the moment and I feel like I can put across an army. And I'm okay with green death ray energy nodule thingies but I might try blue and orange and maybe even purple.

Fuel tanks or oil or what have you. Need some kinda spout or receptacle for the lower end of each.

Considering railings but honestly they'd mostly get in the way for game play so idk.

In the grim darkness of the far future, there are no OSHA regs.

What did you do to get those weld lines? Thinking of making some storage tanks myself out of old coffee cans.

Oh yes OSHA, a lesser known branch of the Inquisition.

I'm including the video that I'm using for inspiration, but TLDR draw lines with pencil and cover lines with narrow bead of hot glue.

It's funny, because this is the first time where I could see that stupid 3D pen I got being useful it could have made narrower lines than the glue gun... However it jammed or broke and has since been entombed in a drawer of apathy and shame.

https://youtu.be/y6M4GLP_ooI

I still need some valves or what not to make the tanks look semi-functional, but I went ahead and primed them so I could work on them tomorrow I could always hand paint The gubbins later.

Decided to take the easy way out on the walkways because Penny hazard stripes is a pain in the butt and look they're even pre-weathered.


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Painting hazard stripes, do you think speech to text.

Finished storage tanks.

Think I'll make the new blog soon with this focus on terrain.

Pipes! But do I bother riveting them or just stick to the simpler band?

Rivets all the way!

They won't stay together without rivets.

Sending up the League of Extraordinary Riveters Signal to determine if you are a heretic or not

My laziness is getting outvoted? Oof. Pretty sure you don't need an inquisition to know I'm a heretic

Always Rivet!

I've clearly been outvoted! Put one together and primed it, we'll see how it looks tomorrow.

Pipes!

Riveting work!

Really though, they look good!

I think they'll get the job done.

Three sections done, I think I'm going to work on something else for a while, these are a little tedious.

Such excellent progress, I have been away too long.

Magnets on Necron Warriors is crazy, way more than my dedication level aspires too.

Keen to see the results of your contrast paint endeavors.

Pipe network looks awesome.

Ehh, I've only really started back up recently.

I just don't like the idea of locking myself into one set of weapons and it's really pretty easy. I've got my heart set on making a little display piece that can mount 10-20 of the weapons like an armory rack, but probably circular and scifi.

I'm not sure where I'll use them yet, but I like them in theory and want to apply some of them to save me some time. Given we're in the dead of winter (not that it is a very cold one here), I've ordered some vallejo surface primer and a couple of metal sprays to try out on the necrons. I may try a zenithal base for them, and I may not bother, time will tell.

Thanks, the pipes are going to the local gamestore, I hope they'll like them. It has been kinda nice making the scenery and then not having to find a place to store it

Got three pieces to the point where I could prime them tonight, pretty pleased with that stride in progress. Will update when they are complete.

I like the works, Fences are , storage cylinders , and the pipelines Loving the stuff!

Rivets were definitely the way to go.

What local shop is this for?

Thanks Shaso

I agree Theo. It's a place called Colossus Comics, just opened in Mt Vernon in the last month or so.

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Thanks Shaso

I agree Theo. It's a place called Colossus Comics, just opened in Mt Vernon in the last month or so.

I will be very disappointed if I go there and the employee isn't painted silver and speaking in a bad Russian accent . Also will not use the soap dispenser

Hmm... I'll have to suggest a wardrobe change

Got the codex for Necrons as we've downgraded to tier 1 for now and the shop could conceivably host games now.

Toying with lists. Looking at 25 power/500pt combat patrols. IDK what people will want to play, but patrol is the size with which I'd like to ease into 9th ed. My darling is:

Canoptek Swarm
1 technomancer (bare bones, either canoptek cloak or the control node if i can scrape points)
5 immortals - gauss
3 canoptek spyders with the guns
8 canoptek scarabs
100% custom dynasty with the 6" pre-game move and army-wide objective secured.

This is 6 infantry 8 swarm and 3 small(ish) monsters. It would be suuuuper easy to build and paint everything but the spyders (two of which are conversions) and those would probably be ok.

It is technically 26/25 power, but if you build it in points and drop down to 8 scarabs instead of 9, everything just barely fits under 500pts.
The spyders are really good this edition, strong and killy monsters for rather few points. The scarabs are fast and hard to shift in numbers, and the immortals are the ideal budget backfield objective camper. I like this list because it has a coherent theme (Technomancer and his minions, etc) and it uses models that are interesting and mechanically sound. It is also a nice sub-unit that could be socketed into a larger list. The technomancer really wants 30 more points for an item, either one that lets him revive an entire 6 wound spyder 1/game, or the one that lets him give the scarabs +1 attack or the spyders +1d3 attacks. IDK how effective in 9th it would be, or what my local meta looks like.. but it certainly sounds fun

Skorpion Sting
1 skorpekh lord
20 necron warriors ( could also be 2x10, either gun, would decide when it came time to play)
3 skorpekh destroyers
1 plasmacyte
some kind of dynasty that makes the skorpekh stuff better, possibly novokh, or one of the ones that gets you moving faster so the warriors can get to business too.

20 infantry 3 40mm base dudes, one bigger dude, one little dude. More to paint, but the warriors will probably go quickly. The skorpekh stuff is all really neat. I've heard the lord can be unfun if he has to chase things around but on the smaller patrol board it may be ok. Honestly with 3 destroyers, I don't really want the plasmacyte that bad, so IDK maybe the points could go to a rez orb for the lord (if he can take them, still gotta find everything out).

Royal Approach
overlord
warden
10 warriors
3 skorpekh destroyers
6 scarabs
Haven't thought a dynasty through yet. Hard to go wrong with move+obsec though, especially when you've taken scarabs.

Little less than the above list. Takes a little of everything. Not sure I love the two characters, but they give you so many so maybe you're supposed to take more these days?

Royal Warriors
overlord
20 warriors
3 scorpekh destroyers
3 scarabs
Similar thoughts on dynasty as above, idk yet.

Heavier focus on core and shooting, may be able to take a different dynasty as the obsec code isn't as necessary here. Still has distraction carnifex destroyers, cheeky scarabs (who would still like obsec, just sayin), but more shooty boys for the warlord to buff.

Tech and the Boys
1 technomancer
20 warriors
1 canoptek spyder (bare bones)
6 scarabs
Quite a bit of stuff, warriors don't need obsec from a dynasty but the scarab blob would love it.

No upgrades for spyder, he's just there to keep the scarabs around and maybe counter charge/get stuck in late game. The technomancer keeps the warriors ticking, the warriors shoot everything to death, and the scarabs rush up onto some distant objective and fail to oblige the enemy when politely asked to die (the spyder helps here).


They'd all work, Idk which is best or most fun. The lists without 20 warriors may paint quicker but idk they really shouldn't take tooo long. Both technomancer lists are neat to me, it fills a different role in either but gets work done. The skorpekh one isn't bad, there's a roving murder-posse but still 20 warriors to not die and do work.

I have other stuff like lychguard, praetorians, and so on.. but along with the vehicles they're gonna be the harder conversions/ builds I'm planning so I'm trying to give them more time.

THoughts? I'll start building and painting once I have a goal sorted out.

Finished my first canoptek reanimator --> canoptek spyder, AKA Reanispyder. I maybe got a little carried away...






I feel like I have to do it for the second one too now, and maybe even the regular Spyder from my eradication legion. He needs guns, they'll go on top. I'll get them from tomb blades, something I'll buy myself for some esoteric goal... idk hitting 500 pts painted or something?
I still want to find some gubbins to put on the large flat magnet sides on his lower joints, I picked up a couple of types of beads to try for it. We'll see. Missing a pair of legs, but honestly I think it looks more like a spyder than the actual spyder, or a mantis maybe?


Side project, and part of why I want those tomb blades...

Imagine the meme of that one guy smooshing two things together and then look at the following images:


Mostly the chariot... though Settra may be getting a biotransference upgrade just sayin.



Ordered these bits.

I think the crescent and tail bits can be cobbled together in a convincing way around the chariot which would lose its wheels and horsies. Replacing the horsies would be some magnetized tomb blades pulling him along. Catacomb command barge some of the time, or i can use the tomb blades on their own whenever.
Certainly its not half as crazy as having 3 articulated spyders?