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Given I'm not going out for a while and saw it coming, I decided to try a change of pace from my two flavors of space marines (Vanilla and chaos) and bought up some new army stuff before my state wisely and sanely went on lockdown protocols. (Too bad i'm right next to a state that wants to show the world "We're not California." and refuses to take any precautions to flatten the curve though. BTW these orkicons are fun!)

I hears that necrons are easy to paint and a challenge to wi with, and after watching a few batreps on youtube I agree with both assessments, so guess what I'm painting now? (Hint, I'm using lots of silver.)

So I have what must be one of the biggest pain in the everywhere model gw ever released, the necron doomsday ark.

Seriously, does gw even think about how practical the finished model will be to paint, store, transport and maintain? I'm guessing that's a hard NO as the ark fails on all three accounts. I had to do a new base for it with multiple stand rods for starters. As for the toothpick like guns on the sides if i sneeze in the room with it one breaks off, and if my dear cat even walks into the room 3 just pop right off as soon as he's in. I love that little guy but at times...

So I'm gonna go with a basic paintjob on most of my necron stuff, green tinted and edged black, silver and some gold plus glowing green accents (No airbrushing.)

I want to try using a flat and very wide drybrush to do the long edges on the ark's ribs 'coz i think it'd the best way to keep the edges even. Anyone here got any tips? I can paint warriors up PDQ and like the glow rods accent them for me, but I've never pretended to be an award winning painter. So if anyone has any tips for edging something that has lots and lots and lots of long sharp edges I'm all ears.