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Finally finished my Necron Lord. I took the Overlord model from the Annihilation barge trimmed the crown off and now I don't have to spend the money on Lord models. Personally I like the look of this one better for my Lord.

You should leave the model on the table a take a picture from there, instead of holding it up. Hands aren't usually welcome in pictures like these. Also, you may want to rotate your pictures so that it'll be easier for people to admire your painting as it should be, and not with their heads turned.

Having said that, the painting looks fine, if a little thick. So many colours serves to distract the viewer(me) from focusing on the model, so you might want to remedy that!

Interesting that the preview images are sideways but the actual images are not.

You should take a look through this article for some photography tips. Most people new to the HHHobby have a hard time with photographing their miniatures, and this article was very helpful to me.

Finally, the removal of the headress came out very well.

Thanks for the article Ouze. When I get a chance I'll redo the pictures and redo them.

I was a little worried about how it'd look. There was a slight mishap and I had to green stuff it. Also a little worried on how the scythe turned out.

Just wondering but how did the basing turn out? I'm asking because this is the first army I've taken the time to really paint up. My marines were just primmed and based.

The base is interesting without being overkill or too plain.

As a new painter you've got a lot to learn but we've all been there. My biggest suggestion would be to look at a color wheel.

The models colors are all over the place. Which is pretty typical of new painters. Not counting black, white, and metallics. You have 5 colors on the model.

You want 3. 4 can be done but will never catch the eye like 3, and even 2 or 1 (with lots of shades) can also look good. But the eye loves 3 colors. That is why "tabletop" quality is based on a minimum of 3 colors.

So I would suggest looking at a color wheel. Hit youtube for the 1,000's of painting tutorials. Not just Necron ones I've found useful tricks watching a warmachine paiting tutorial and then applying it to space marines, etc.

No matter what though don't get discouraged you can only get better as long as you keep trying, and remember PAINTED MODELS ARE LUCKIER!

Well I'm priming with chaos black. I then build up a nice coat of cerimite white followed by a light drybrush of bleached bone. then I was that with seraphim sepia. The joints are hit with leadbelcher washed with nuln oil and a light wash of seraphim sepia. For the blue I'm using caldor sky. I wanted my Lord to have more color to him than my warriors would. Maybe I did go a little overboard.