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So I would consider leaning into dark blues for the shoulder pads, or even just a nightshade wash and then picking out with some transitional gold, pink and white highlights to get a sort of chroming - much like the VMA chrome you've got above (very nice btw).

@inmygravenimage - Aye, I ended up going with a dark blue in the end.

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3/2 - Continued - Started basecoating the Convergence metal areas with Leadbelcher. I'm going to be at this for a while, and am already regretting not painting them in pieces...

4/2 - Applied a second coat of Incubi Darkness to the Royal Warden's gun. Picked out some cables with Caliban Green. Painted some more of the Convergence metal areas with Leadbelcher. Played Arkham Horror LCG in the evening. Added weights to the bases of 5 Necron Warriors.

5/2 - Added weights to the bases of 5 Necron Warriors. Filled the divots on the top of all ten bases with superglue & baking soda. Applied Leviadon Blue to the Warden's shoulders and face. Added bricks to the Necron Warrior bases. Painted some more of the Convergence metal areas with Leadbelcher.

6/2 - Added skulls to the bases of 3 of the Necron Warriors. Picked out domes on Royal Warden's gun (as well as the eyes) with VMA Chrome. Went over the Chrome with Tesseract Glow. Painted the Caliban Green cables with Warpstone Glow. Marked around the Warrior's feet with Cryx Bane Highlight. Painted the remaining two cables Mephiston Red. Declaring the Royal Warden done...


One Royal Warden, finished - 2/3 units from Recruit Edition are completed now

In case the notes above didn't give it away, there's a lot of metal to basecoat on the Convergence - and without an airbrush, it was either paint the rock or the metal by hand. Will get a picture when the metal is all in place as proof.

Necron Warriors will be getting the same basing as everything else, shockingly - changed the paint I was using to mark where the feet go from a metallic to the same basecoat as I'll be using on the basecoat, in case of blu-tack hiding some of it when I undercoat the bases.

#hobbystreak day 23

Can Dysartes keep the streak going?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Cheers,

CB

Excellent, turned out smashing.

@Captain Brown - That's always the tough question, isn't it? Need to figure out what I'm going to build to be next on the paint queue once the other five Warriors are completed. I suspect it should be another 10 Warriors (and 3 Scarabs), but I might throw something in between to break things up a bit.

@inmygravenimage - Thanks graven.

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7/2 - Added ballast to the Necron Warrior bases. Decided to progress as two groups of five, so added sand to five of the Warrior bases. Sealed those bases with watered-down PVA. Undercoated bases and Warriors in different colours (Chaos Black and Leadbelcher, respectively). Basecoated bases with P3 Cryx Bane Highlight.

Everything ready for undercoating


Everything undercoated

8/2 - Applied second coat of Cryx Bane Highlight to bases. Drybrushed bases with P3 Trollblood Highlight. Drybrushed bases with P3 Sickly Skin. Picked out the bricks on the bases with P3 Skorne Red, and the skull with Steel Legion Drab. Went over the skull with P3 Jack Bone. Washed bases with Agrax Earthshade. Tidied up base rims with Abaddon Black - bases done. Drybrushed the Warriors with VMA Chrome, as well as picking out the symbol ont heir chests with Chrome. Shaded joints and weapons with Nuln Oil (following the pattern from the Warden). Hit up the chest symbol with Seraphim Sepia (twice). Painted the shoulder pads with Leviadon Blue.

Painted bases

9/2 - Allied shading to appropriate bits of the Warriors with Black Templar. Guns got their Incubi Darkness pass, twice. Painted cables with Caliban Green, then Warpstone Glow. Picked out the rocks on various Warriors' feet with Abaddon Black.

10/2 - Picked out some cables I'd missed with Nuln Oil Rocks by feet got a basecoat with Cryx Bane Highlight. Painted all the armour panels with Aethermatic Blue. Highlighted the rocks at their feet with Trollblood Highlight. Used VMA Chrome in various spots, ready for Tesseract Glow.

11/2 - Hit all the bits I painted Chrome yesterday with Tesseract Glow. Highlighted foot rocks with P3 Sickly Skin. Glued models into bases. Shaded foot rocks with Agrax Earthshade - 5 Warriors complete

5 Finished Warriors

One thing I hadn't twigged until I was painting these Warriors was how battered some of them are - and that this means there's random detail consideration to make that I hadn't had to on the Warden. Figured all the endoskeleton parts (as opposed to armour plates) would get hit with Black Templar, and we'll see how things go from there.

I did make one error while undercoating this batch - I forgot to mask the bases with blu-tak, meaning that there was paint on surfaces I'd want to use poly cement on. Ended up using poly cement in the peg holes, and superglue on any upper surfaces, to try to get a good solid join.

Next up are the other five Warriors from this batch, to give me my first Troops choice - albeit a minimum-sized one that I might expand later.

Note - I forgot to mention last time that the Royal Warden filled square A1 in the bingo card.

#hobbystreak day 28

Ah absolutely brilliant Dysartes, the shoulders of the Warden look absolutely awesome. Nice work on the scarabs and warriors as well. Top stuff!

@Olthannon - Thanks Olthannon. Surprising how well some of the Contrast paints work over the metal, and the shine from the metal gives you built-in highlights, which is handy

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11/2 - Added sand to the bases of the other five Warriors. Sealed sand on bases with watered-down PVA. Played some virtual Arkham Horror LCG. Undercoated the bases and Warriors.

I remembered the Blu-tack this time!

Ready to make with the paint...

12/2 - Basecoated bases with Cryx Bane Highlight. Drybrushed Warriors with VMA Chrome. Foot rocks got a coat of Abaddon Black. Foot rocks got a coat of Cryx Bane Highlight, and bases got a second one. Foot rocks & bases got drybrushed with Trollblood Highlight. Warrior shoulderpads got their Leviadon Blue coat. Foot rocks & bases got drybrushed with Sickly Skin. Picked out the bricks on the bases with P3 Skorne Red, and the skull with Steel Legion Drab. Went back and hit the chest symbols on the Warriors wwith VMA Chrome. Went over the skull with P3 Jack Bone. Tidied up base rims with Abaddon Black. Washed foot rocks and bases with Agrax Earthshade. Washed chest symbols with Seraphim Sepia (once).

13/2 - Chest symbols received their second coat of Seraphim Sepia. Shaded joints and weapons with Nuln Oil. Used Black Templar on the bodies where appropriate, as well as on the gun casings (twice). Glued weights to bases for the next three units to be built. Incubi Darkness on the guns (twice), Caliban Green on the cables. Aethermatic Blue over the armour, Warpstone Glow on the cables, more Chrome on the spots to get hit with Tesseract Glow. Built a Plasmancer, along with a pair of Cryptothralls. Picked out rib recesses and some damage with Black Templar. Glued the Warriors into their bases. Applied Tesseract Glow as required - Warriors done.

Batch 2 complete!

The whole of the first squad (for now...?)

Pretty happy with how they've turned out, and I have now finished the Necron half of my Recruit Edition starter. 14 models, 12PL, and 250 points, if the French PDF release of the MFM is to be believed.

In terms of the bingo card, finishing those Warriors allows me to check A3 off, so the updated card looks a bit like this:


Next up, as referenced in my notes, are the Plasmancer and Cryptothralls unit from Indomitus - and possibly the Reanimator. Definitely getting the basing sorted for the first three on the 14th, so I can hopefully get them undercoated that day.

Finishing these on the 13th gives me #hobbystreak day 30

Great work keeping the hobby streak going, that’d be impressive on its own, but the Necrons are coming out great too! I went for one Contrast colour on mine, so I’m impressed that you’ve picked out different areas differently. Hope you manage to keep it going!

Nice work Dysartes.

Cheers,

CB

I quite like how the new sculpts look with silver metallics, but the green over top in particular looks very nice. Great job so far.

Love the blend of colours you've used really eyecatching

Those Necrons are coming out nicely

Ah they look excellent, as catbarf said the new sculpts look awesome in your scheme.

@gobert - Thanks, gobert. So far, so good!

@Captain Brown - Thank ye kindly, Cap'n.

@catbarf - Thanks catbarf. I was after a scheme that didn't tie in to an established dynasty, and seem to have achieved that here.

@lordbickerstaff - Thank you very much. Will need to get them out on a table once I've got some more done, and see how they look as a group.

@Guardling - Thank you very much.

@Olthannon - Fortunately everything I've worked on so far has been 9th ed releases. I think I should be good on older kits, but we'll see. I've got some Immortals to get to at some stage, for example.

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14/2 - Glued bricks & skulls to bases for Plasmancer & Cryptothralls. Removed all the parts for the Reanimator from the sprue. Added ballast to the bases. Outlined model footprint with Cryx Bane Highlight. Built the Reanimator, bar adding the top armour plates (so they can be painted off the main model). Added sand to the bases for the Plasmancer and Cryptothralls.

15/2 - Sealed the sand to the Plasmancer & Cryptothrall bases. Undercoated both. Basecoated/re-undercoated Plasmancer base element with Abaddon Black. Basecoated bases and Plasmancer base element with Cryx Bane Highlight (twice). Drybrushed bases with Trollblood Highlight. Drybrushed bases with P3 Sickly Skin. Skorne Red Bricks, Steel legion Drab skulls. Filled the divots in the bases for 20 Warriors with superglue & baking soda. Painted skulls with P3 Jack Bone. Glued weights to the bottom of six 40mm bases for Scarabs. Tidied up base edges for Plasmancer & Cryptobros with Abaddon Black.

The Cryptothralls and Plasmancer before the undercoat step - though I did remember to add blu-tack to mask the bases before that happened!

16/2 - Washed Plasmancer & Cryptothrall bases with Agrax Earthshade - bases done. Shaded assorted joins on the Cryptothralls with Nuln Oil, as well as the inside of the shoulder pads with Black Templar. Shaded the Cryptothralls' "Scythed Limbs" with a 1:1:1 mix of Nuln Oil, Drakenhof Nightshade & Lahmian Medium. Painted the Cryptothrall bodies with Black Templar (aside from the to-be-glowy domes). Painted the outside of the shoulders with Leviadon Blue. Shaded the toes with Nuln Oil (as I forgot the first time), and filled the vents on the outside of the shoulders with Black Templar. Added weights to 10 of the Warrior bases, and sealed them with baking soda.

17/2 - Painted armour panels with Aethermatic Blue on the Cryptothralls. Repainted the eyes and "armpit domes" (for want of a better term) with VMA Chrome. Picked out the under-neck cable with Caliban Green. Highlighted cables with Warpstone Glow. Applied Tesseract Glow to eyes & domes. Went back in to shin detail with Black Templar. Removed blu-tack masks from bases & models. Glued arms to Cryptothralls, glued Cryptothralls to bases - Cryptothralls done.

The Terrible Twosome - can get some more angles if people are interested

Not a bad little couple of dudes to paint up, though I need to paint the Plasmancer (or another Cryptek) to go with them. They also allow me to cross off B2 on the bingo card - four boxes done so far, and things either built or undercoated to fill up a few more.

Thanks to the various big boxes I've picked up, I've got a total of 50 Warriors (and 15 bases of Scarabs) to work through. Trying to figure out what ratio of Reapers to Flayers to do, though I'm thinking a 30/20 split is probably the way to go for now. I'll no doubt end up adding more Warriors down the line anyway.

Status of other Necron bits at present...
- Convergence of Dominion - Still getting the Leadbelcher basecoat on them
- Canoptek Reanimator - Built, awaiting basing
- Plasmancer - Quite shiny at present; next to be worked through, once I've planned out what colour will be going where. Base is painted
- 20 Warriors & 6 Scarabs - Bases mostly prepared to start building (divots filled, weights added). Want to try some alternative bases on a couple of the Scarabs, to break things up a bit... more to follow on that one.

#hobbystreak now sits at day 34

Nice n creepy. The blues with the wash look great against the green.

I love the old murder buckets, such cool minis, they look cool in your scheme. I’d certainly like some other angles to look at

@inmygravenimage - Thanks Graven. I'm really liking the finish I'm getting from Leviadon Blue.

@gobert - They are quite fun little models, even if I had to paint them with the arms removed. Here are some extra angles I shot last night:


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17/2 - Continued - Added weights to the other 10 Warrior bases. Painted the Plasmancer tail, spine and parts of the weapon with Black Templar. Shaded some joints with Nuln Oil.

18/2 - Washed the spikes at the end of the tail and the bottom of the staff weapon with a 1:1:1 mix of Drakenhof Nightshade: Nuln Oil: Lahmian Medium. Desprued and cleaned up six bases of Scarabs. Painted armour sections with Aethermatic Blue, and the core of the spines on his shoulder blades with Incubi Darkness. Top of the spines, shoulder armour and top of skull painted with Leviadon Blue. Used pieces from the Sector Imperialis Large Basing Kit on the bases for two of the Scarab swarms.

19/2 - Mixed up a 2:1 mix of Lahmium Medium and Nuln Oil, and went over the metal cloak of the Plasmancer, to add delineation to the recesses. Assembled 5 Warriors with Gauss Flayers. Made a 1:1 mix of Lahmian Medium & Druchii Violet, then washed the metal cape. Added a second coat of Incubi Darkness to the spines. Painted cable with Caliban Green. Hit spots to get a glow-up tomorrow with VMA Chrome. Applied first coat of Seaphim Sepia to Necron symbols on neck and weapon.

The Plasmancer, before he felt the glow...

20/2 - Applied Tesseract Glow to all appropriate areas. Applied second coat of Seraphim Sepia to the gold areas. Highlighted cable with Warpstone Glow. Painted inside of cape with Black Templar. Glued Plasmancer to his base. Washed base detail (and pipe) with Agrax Earthshade. Shaded the blade with a 1:1 mix of Contrast Medium and Ork Flesh. Added additional shade to the weapon with Dark Angels Green Contrast. Built 5 more Warriors with Gauss Flayers. Highlighted the Plasmancer's weapon with Ogryn Camo - Plasmancer done

Finished Plasmancer


Plasmancer and friends

I'm not massively happy with how the blade came out, but I think it might be recoverable - this is what I get for trying out a guide from the Warhammer YT channel...

On the upside, that's another square crossed off the bingo card - C1, for those following along at home.

I may have taken advantage of Forbidden Planet having some Imperium issues sticking around, so grabbed a Warrior squad and a Cryptek for £8.50 a piece, or 50% or more off the RRP. Looks like we'll be heading for 20 Flayers and 40 Reapers at the moment.

While I have done a little hobby this morning, we'll keep the #hobbystreak counter updated to yesterday, and call it day 37.

You are really making me want to focus on my Indomitus necrons!

The thralls are very cool and I love the different metal colours you have on the go. I think the blade looks pretty cool but if you aren't happy with it you can always change it up.

Could've sworn I commented already. Hmm. Anyway, plasmancer looks plastastic.

The metallic horde continues to grow.

Fine work Dysartes.

Cheers,

CB

@Olthannon - I'm always happy to encourage people to get on with a project, chief I've softened on the blade a little - I think my main issue with it is the mid-tone, and the fact I didn't do the final white highlight. I'd reached the "just call it finished" stage, so we'll see f it improves if I go back to add the white highlight. There are plenty of these energy blades to look at in a modern Necron army, after all.

@inmygravenimage - Thanks graven!

@Captain Brown - Indeed it does. And that little bit more in today's post, too...

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21/2 - Added bricks to the bases for the Necron Warriors. Added a skull to one of them, and IG bits to the bases of three others. Added medium ballast to the bases. Added sand to all ten bases. Sealed sand to based with thinned PVA.

Ranked up, and ready for undercoat

22/2 - Undercoated five of the Warriors (and their bases). Re-undercoated "foot rocks" with Abaddon Black. Basecoated bases (etc) with Cryx Bane Highlight (twice). Drybrushed bases (etc) with Trollblood Highlight. Final drybrush with Sickly Skin. Picked out bricks with Skorne Red. Picked out the skull on that one base with Steel Legion Drab. Went over skull with Jack Bone. Painted bottom of grenade launcher ammo pack with Umbral Umber, and the top with Bootstrap Leather - also acknowledged I should've cut this down a bit before using it as a basing component. Tidied up edges of bases with Abaddon Black. Shaded bases with Agrax Earthshade. Bases done. Drybrushed Warriors with VMA Chrome, went back and picked out chest symbol with Chrome directly.

Finished bases

23/2 - Leviadon Blue on the shoulder pads, first coat of Seraphim Sepia on the chest symbols. Applied Nuln Oil to appropriate areas. Added Black Templar to guns, spines and appropriate other areas. Added second coat of Seraphim Sepia to chest symbols. Picked out cables with Caliban Green. Did second coat of Black Templar on guns. Added bricks to bases for six Scarab swarms. Painted barrel elements with Incubi Darkness. Added ballast to the Scarab bases. Painted the Warrior armour with Aethermatic Blue. Picked out eyes and weapon details with VMA Chrome, to Tesseract Glow tomorrow. Highlighted cables with Warpstone Glow.

24/2 - Applied Tesseract Glow appropriately to the Warriors. Filled rib cage recesses with Black Templar. Added some spot uses of Nuln Oil that I'd missed. Removed Warriors from corks, and blu-tack from bases, before gluing together. Washed foot rocks with Agrax Earthshade - Warriors done.

In line


As a cluster

That's the first half of this unit done - I've just undercoated the other half of the squad, as well as working on the basing for the Scarabs and Reanimator. I'm hoping to get the other half of the squad done before month end, though whether I achieve this may be end up depending on how many Arkham Horror games happen over the weekend.

If I do finish the squad, that'll give me 24PL (or 490 points) painted in a month, as well as giving me a functional Patrol detachment (and only one more squad of Warriors off a Battalion). Not bad for one month of completing things.



#hobbystreak day 41

24/02 - Cont. - Undercoated this next batch of Warriors (and their bases). Painted the foot rocks with Abaddon Black. Added plaster and bricks to the base of the Reanimator. Basecoated bases (and foot rocks) with Cryx Bane Highlight (twice). Drybrushed bases (etc) with Trollblood Highlight. Added sand to the Scarab Swarm bases. Drybrushed bases (etc) with Sickly Skin.

25/02 - Painted the bricks on the bases with Skorne Red, then tidied the edges with Abaddon Black. Picked out details on the base with Caliban Green, Umbral Umber and Bootstrap Leather. Sealed the sand on the Scarab bases with thinned PVA. Added metal details to a couple of base bits with VMA Gungrey. Drybrushed the Warriors with VMA Chrome, as well as picking out the chest symbol. Washed the bases with Agrax Earthshade - bases done. Painted shoulder armour with Leviadon Blue. Gave chest symbol the first coat of Seraphim Sepia. Played some virtual Arkham Horror. Undercoated the Scarab Swarm bases. Built 3 Plasmacytes.

Scarab bases before undercoating


Painted bases for the Warriors - I may have buried the grenades too well

26/02 - Second coat of Seraphim Sepia on chest symbols. Undercoated top side of Scarab Swarms with Leadbelcher. Shaded Warrior guns with Nuln Oil. Undercoated the underside of the Scarab Swarms with Leadbelcher. Painted underside of Scarab Swarms with Black Templar. Basecoated the Scarb Swarm bases with Cryx Bane Highlight.

27/02 - Added second coat of Cryx Bane Highlight to Scarab Swarm bases. Flipped the Swarms back to being right-side-up, and remasked the pegs underneath them. Drybrushed the bases with Trollblood Highlight before going to the supermarket, and with Sickly Skin when I got back. Drybrushed top side of Scarab Swarms with VMA Chrome. Picked out the bricks on the bases with Skorne Red. Tidied up base rims with Abaddon Black. Hit the rear recesses of the Scarabs with Black Templar, along with any gaps between Scarabs. Painted barrel on one base with Averland Sunset, and the crate on another base with Death Korps Drab. Added a second coat of Black Templar to the gaps between Scarabs, and a second coat of each colour on the barrel and crate to even them out. Shaded all the Scarab legs with Nuln Oil. Painted Scarab carapaces with Aethermatic Blue, and the Imperial Eagle on the barrel with VMA GunGrey. Picked out eyes and orbs on the Scarab Swarms with VMA Chrome. Washed the Scarab Swarm bases with Agrax Earthshade - Scarab bases done. Hit the eyes and orbs with Tesseract Glow. Tidied up the poles/pegs under each Scarab Swarm with Abaddon Black. Glued the Swarms into their bases - Scarabs done.



Beauty shots of the second Scarab Swarm

28/02 - Shaded joints on Warriors with Nuln Oil. Basecoated barrel section of guns with Incubi Darkness. Shaded Warrior spines and gun casings with Black Templar. Picked out cables with Caliban Green. Applied a second coat of Black Templar to the weapons. Painted Aethermatic Blue over the armour. Highlighted cables with Warpstone Glow. Used VMA Chrome on the eyes and domes on the weapons. Filled rib cage recesses with Black Templar. Hit the eyes and weapon domes with Tesseract Glow. Removed Warriors from corks and glued to bases. Shaded foot rocks with Agrax Earthshade - Warriors done.

Second half of the second Warrior unit


Group shot of the second Warrior squad

Yes, I got a little distracted by the Scarab Swarms - this is what I get for keeping them all on the box I use for undercoating, which hid the Warriors from view. Finishing a 6 base unit of them did clear square A2 from my bingo card as a bonus, which is nice, and it pushed me beyond the 500-points-in-a-month mark, too. I also get some flexibility when it comes to Scarabs - do I want one unit of 9 bases, three units of 3 bases, a 6 and a 3, etc, etc. And I still have another 9 bases of them to deal with at some point...

Nice of the Ophydian Destroyer build instructions to confuse me by calling for a 32mm base for their Plasmacyte instead of a 28.5mm base (the same as the one from the Skorpekh Destroyers).

Tomorrow should see the basing finished for the Reanimator, and maybe even it undercoated. I should probably build one of the Destroyer squads that I've built the Plasmacytes for (2 Skorpekh, 1 Ophydian) as well, and base the Plasmacytes, too. And there's still the Convergence to finish the Leadbelcher-ing of, at some point.

Here's the bingo card at the end of February:


#hobbystreak day 45

Lovely bases. That's a really impressive push.

Awesome stuff mate, I am also dead keen with the bases. That contrast from the bricks and that is such a neat little touch but makes such a difference.

I’m impressed that you’re keeping the hobby streak going, well done! You’re certainly being rewarded with cool looking minis and plenty of bingo squares already. Keep it up!

@inmygravenimage - Thanks graven! The bases are a little time-consuming to build, but I do think they add to the army as a whole. Plus, it means they'll match any of my other 40k forces I've been working on.

@Olthannon - Cheers, chief. I do think that without the splashes of colour from the bricks, or skulls, or debris, these bases would be a touch dull. Just got to balance it a bit better when using pieces from other kits - that grenade launcher ammo pouch should've been cut down a bit - or at an angle, at least.

@gobert - Thanks gobert. Have managed to keep going so far, but I may have an enforced break mid-March, as I have a funeral to attend, and I'm not sure about taking stuff with me.

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01/03 - Added weights to underside of bases for Ophydian Destroyers, and sealed with baking soda. Added bricks to Plasmacyte bases. Added medium ballast to bases for Plasmacytes and Reanimator. Added sand to said bases. Sealed sand to the bases. Built 2 Ophydian Destroyers in halves.

02/03 - Removed Reanimator and Plasmacytes from bases, sticking the latter to corks. Masked bases with blu-tack. Finished assembling the three Ophydian Destroyers. Undercoated bases, Reanimator and Plasmacytes with Chaos Black and Leadbelcher respectively. Ordered a metal Sergeant Telion off eBay.

03/03 - Drybrushed Reanimator and Plasmacytes with VMA Chrome. Attempted to get army shots of the stuff I painted in Feb, to varying degrees of success. Shaded underside of Reanimator shoulder armour with Black Templar. Painted shoulder armour on Reanimator and Plasmacytes with Leviadon Blue. Shaded vents in these armour panels with Black Templar (twice on the Reanimator). Basecoated the symbol recesses on the Reanimator shoulder armour with VMA Chrome. Picked out base elements attached to the sculpts with Abaddon Black. Added first layer of Seraphim Sepia to the recesses on the Reanimator shoulder armour.

Everyone likes shoulder pads...

04/03 - Added second layer of Seraphim Sepia to the recesses on the Reanimator shoulder armour. Shoulder armour moved out of the way as done. Basecoat of Cryx Bane Highlight applied to bases and base elements attached to models (twice). Drybrushed the same areas with Trollblood Highlight, and then Sickly Skin. Picked out bricks on bases with Skorne Red. Tidied up base rims with Abaddon Black. Washed bases with Agrax Earthshade - bases done. Played some virtual Arkham Horror LCG.

More finished bases...

05/03 - Shaded stone base elements on the Four Amigos with Agrax Earthshade. Picked out metal base elements with Black Templar. Shaded segmented sections on the Plasmacytes with Black Templar. Shaded the balls at some Plasmacyte joints with Nuln Oil. Painted the Plasmacyte faceplates with Leviadon Blue. Plasmacyte armour was painted with Aethermatic Blue. Painted Plasmacyte cables with Caliban Green. Picked out glowy areas with VMA Chrome. Highlighted cables with Warpstone Glow. Painted glowy bits with Tesseract Glow. Washed claws with a 1:1:1 mix of Nuln Oil, Drakenhof Nightshade & Lahmian Medium. Glued Plasmacytes to their bases. Plasmacytes done

ALL the Plasmacytes!

06/03 - Lifted 5 WIP Space Marine Scouts with Shotguns off the WIP tray. Still not 100% on which Chapter they'll be, but some areas (such as skin and fatigues) can be hammered out while I'm deciding. Basecoated their fatigues with Rakarth Flesh. Painted the Reanimator faceplate with Leviadon Blue. Shaded ridged cables and joints on the Reanimator with Nuln Oil. Picked out the skulls on the feet elements with Steel Legion Drab. Black Templar'd recesses in the legs and various cable connectors. Went over the skulls with Jack Bone. Applied a second coat of Rakarth Flesh to the Scout fatigues. Washed the skulls with Agrax Earthshade. Undertook the great Black Templar-ing around the top of the Reanimator. Basecoated Scout faces with P3 Midlund Flesh. Applied much Aethermatic Blue across the Reanimator. Painted Reanimator cables with Caliban Green.

Baden-Powell would be proud.


Reanimator progress

07/03 - Glued weights to underside of bases for a unit of Skorpekh Destroyers, as well as sealing the weights and filling the divot in the middle with superglue & baking soda. Picked out the two mini-Scarabs on the basing elements of the Reanimator with Aethermatic Blue. Washed the two little claws and the lowest leg segments with a 1:1:1 mix of Nuln Oil, Drakenhof Nightshade & Lahmian Medium. Took a WIP shot, and realised there were a couple of sprue attachment points on one leg that needed cleaning up, so did so. Basecoated those two spots with Abaddon Black. Went over those black bits with Leadbelcher, as well as giving a light drybrush to the girder near the feet. Painted the to-be-glowy bits with VMA Chrome. Hit the bits of repaint with either Aethermatic Blue or the Lahmian/Nuln/Nightshade mix, as well as using the latter to deepen dings on the lower legs. Went over the bits around the feet that seem to be part of a Kastelan with Gal Vorbak Red (twice). Highlighted the cables with Warpstone Glow. Went over the glowy bits with Tesseract Glow. Shaded the Kastelan bits with Agrax Earthshade. Removed all blu-tack masking. Added "shoulder" armour panels back on to the Reanimator, glued Reanimator to base - Reanimator done.

This thing was awkward to photograph, but it's done, which is a relief

Observation - I think the build instructions for the Ophydians have a couple of the steps in the wrong order. It's a lot easier to get the head and first spine section in place without the arms & shoulder pads being in the way than it is to do it after you've attached those, which is what the instructions direct you to do. Went by the book for the first one, then changed up the order for the other two.

Observation #2 - I find it interesting that the Plasmacytes with the Ophydian and Skorpekh Destroyers are painted with different breakdowns of which elements of the Plasmacytes are which colours. I think I prefer the Ophydian version to the Skorpekh version, so that's the version I worked with when laying out the colours on the three Plasmacytes.

OK, doing all three Plasmacytes at once might be overkill, thanks to the "Rule of Three", but it gets them out of the way. Given they're not CHARACTER models, and not technically a unit, I'm going to use one of them to fill out C3 (Any Model) on the bingo card, and hold the other two in reserve - if I end up starting a second (or third) card, these Plasmacytes can fill out C3 on there, too. Unless anyone objects to that, of course?

I also grabbed a couple of group shots of the models I finished in February - not going to say they're the best, but it was worth a try...



Going to get an Overlord and a unit of Skorpekhs built today, and look at basing the Ophydians, I think.

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Ooh, thorough. Love the way the reanimator is going.

Army is looking great Dysartes.

Cheers,

CB

That Necron army is coming along speedily! I think you pulled off the blade on the Plasmancer very well! Even if it's not too smooth, the colors are in the right place and most importantly the contrast is there. I also really like your Scarab bases.

@inmygravenimage - Well, the Reanimator is in the cabinet now.

@Captain Brown - Thanks, Cap'n.

@mcmattila - Welcome in, and thanks for the kind words. The Scarabs are simple to paint up, so the bases give some opportunity to add some variety.

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I've put the day-by-day progress in spoiler tags, in case it gets to be too much. It helps remind me of what I've done, and gives some proof of what I've done for my #hobbystreak count. Pictures will be after the spoiler.



Bases and the Overlord, after undercoats


Necron Overlord


Ophydian Destroyers

Observation #1 - Whoever designed the Skorpekh instructions was a sadist. Parts F4 & F5 can't phase through one another. I ended up removing the face from the arm, and attaching the two parts individually, which seemed to work. Fortunately, the other two Skorpekhs were comparatively sane to build.

Observation #2 - After handling them while painting, I have the fear when it comes to potentially transporting the Ophydians anywhere...

OK, that's two more units down - and the Skorpekhs are looking at me from a table, waiting for me to take them further than their undercoat. Squares C5 and D2 have been crossed off the bingo card, meaning that halfway through March I've completed 11/25 squares, which I don't think is bad going. No rows or columns just yet, though.

Assuming I've tracked everything correctly, and excluding the two Plasmacytes I can't field with anything yet, I'm up to 765 points and 37 PL, which also isn't too shabby considering this falls under the heading of #newyearnewarmy

Painting will not have to go on a pause for the rest of the week, though, as I'm away until Sunday for a funeral. I don't want to drop my hobby streak, though, so I'm going to take a couple of bits with me to build while I'm away - another ten Warriors, at the very least.

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