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Hi guys,

Round two of my Nihilakh dynasty Necrons. I was waiting on stuff from an art store before I could finish the models, and it finally arrived today. Needless to say I am stoked with the final outcome. There was a lot of experimenting, but I have nailed the process I will use for the majority of my models in the future, saving some fancy stuff for the larger pieces.

After taking the photos I realise how sloppy and messy they look. I was getting tired and impatient after a solid 6 hours painting. I had had enough, but thought they looked fine until I looked at the photos
I might go back and touch them up, but they are only to tabletop standard and I have a couple thousand more points worth of the steel legion to get through first! I am hoping once I get through everything I have assembled I can be more fastidious as I will paint them before assembling and will only be working with a few models at a time, rather then the 17 bases I was here.

Thanks in advance and any and all criticism is welcome.

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Scarabs:

Looking good, but thin your paints!!! Check out wet palettes if you want to keep up your speed without losing detail to thick paint.

I was trying to thin them down a lot more this time, I made a conscious effort, however I got a thinning medium with all the other fancy stuff after the majority of the models were done, I used it for the blues. The blue base coats went down a lot thinner compared to the rest of the models. From here on in it should be better as I realise I had to thin it down a lot more. I just checked out wet pallets, I think that will be the go in the future for the greens. Thanks for the advice!

Really like your colour scheme!

I almost did the Nihilakh color scheme. Looking at these makes me wish I had Fantastic job, I do think you should have thinned the paint a bit and maybe added a little more shading, but otherwise great job.

Thanks guys! Canoptek wraiths next up. Can't wait to see how they come out, got a cool idea in mind