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Zambro wrote:Great looking CP Nev. The paint scheme is super effective for the time, and looks great en masse!

It’s definitely a compromise on time invested vs. quality, but a solid battle ready army that might be finished before the sun grows cold.

Gitsplitta wrote:The legions of the underverse are looking great Nev! Dont thing I've ever seen a necron player (in recent years) that wasn't rockin' several C'tans. Good on ya!

The goal is silver tide. Retro old school. Eventually I will add the Nightbringer. But will never spam the star gods. One makes a nice centerpiece.

I feel I might need more warriors to get the army feel where I want it, but might get some immortals. That’s a discussion for after I finish what I have, and see what 11th looks like.


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And some paint progress.

Evening Nev,
Quite a lot to catch up on, the Necrons are looking great, the colour scheme works well, and can just imagine them as a horde advancing forward (T2 style).
Liking the paint scheme on the Reivers, artic camo is really cool, no pun intended. Whats your technique, white base and then grey camo in various shades? I’m undecided for my scouts whether to go arctic or woodland?
And finally the new cabinet is looking good, I’m not shocked that you’ve managed to fill it already - the tyranid horde is looking good!

 JordySteve wrote:
Evening Nev,
Quite a lot to catch up on, the Necrons are looking great, the colour scheme works well, and can just imagine them as a horde advancing forward (T2 style).
Liking the paint scheme on the Reivers, artic camo is really cool, no pun intended. Whats your technique, white base and then grey camo in various shades? I’m undecided for my scouts whether to go arctic or woodland?
And finally the new cabinet is looking good, I’m not shocked that you’ve managed to fill it already - the tyranid horde is looking good!

I wrote:
White armor:
Prime white (rustolim rattle can, like eveything I ddo)
Grey Seer base
Apothecary White contrast all over
Nuln oil the soft armor in the joints
For clean white amor, edge highlight with a pute white, like White Scar (I forget the name of the pot I’m on right now, they go clumpy fast) This lets the otherwise shades of grey armor read more like a pure white. Omit for camo
For camo, tiger stripe the hard armor. I use 3 colors. Dark grey (mechanicum), light grey (dawnstone), and a pale blue (elf grey). This is an organic proccess. You want the stripes to branch and overlap, and mostly cover the base armor, and mostly stay the same direction. But not entirely, and there should not be a pattern. While the bulk of the stripes can be done in one pass each there needs to be a touch up step where I got back and redo some colors. Not only does this help fill any blank spots I missed, but ensures that the last color is not always the stripe on top. They should weave over/under each other.
I generally don’t edge highlight the camo armor, but have been known to give the cloaks a little edge to help them pop a bit, and seperate the fabric from the armor worn underneath.

I use the same basic technique for my woodlands camo. Although that’s over a base of goblin green, and use brown/black/grey for the stripes. Nuln oil wash overall. At least that’s the latest iteration. My old scouts used that without the grey and final wash for soft armor, where hard armor was a darker green as a base and used black/brown stippled on instead of tiger stripes.

The volume of minis I have is really mind boggling. If I was feeling real frisky I could try to replicate the old picture from when I was moving out after the divorce.

This is what I could not fit in the initial move. So not even the whole collection. And a lot of that is in boxes now. Honestly, I don’t think I have a table big enough to hold everything. And the pic would just end up looking like scattered pixels of color to get everything in frame.

And that’s just the painted stuff. I think I grabbed pics of my OGRE stuff at one point, lots of that. Don’t know if I’ve ever shot my Silent Death minis. Few dozen of them.

I’ve got a problem.

It’s not that I have too many minis. It’s not enough space to display them...