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Greetings Dakka Dakka,

Long time lurker, first time poster. I am a Necron fan and have a fair bit of them. I am going to be documenting my process, because it is motivating to get more stuff done.

A bit of info: I like 40K in this order ainting/modelling > Playing > Lore. I have been painting for a long time and used to play TKs. Got quite annoyed when GW just deleted my army, but got into Necrons 2 years ago. They are awesome (space TK? ).

I have some 'stupid' personal rules:
1: I only play with fully finished minis (I do not mind facing massive proxy/grey hoards though).
2: What you see is what you get, except for weapon loadouts. I like to see a version of each mini with a different gun for coolness factor.
3: I keep an accurate list on how many points of Necrons I have and how much I have painted. My own rule is: Do not get more then half of my total points unpainted. I am pretty close to this, so I better get to it!

I am working on my Illuminor Szeras, because I want to field him at the start of june. At the moment he is in this state:



He is nearing finished. I need to work on his 'smoothy' as I call it and the dude he is drawing it from mostly.

I just finished a third plasmacyte yesterday to be able to adhere to my rule of 50% painted:



The one on the right is the new one, for a glorious 3 total!

I also recently got a Sentry Pylon with deathray and a Tomb Sentinel from forge world. Unfortunately Forge World resin is really bad. I have a lot of resin from companies like Creature Caster, Zealot miniatures, etc. This is the worst resin I've seen. Huge blocks, lots of flash... this will take a bit to clean up. I managed to cut of all the large blocks and am at this stage:



Unfortunately a part got broken. I do not think it was the shipping, because the broken off parts were not in the bag. It is two small supports, I can probably green stuff or plasticard it though. Not going to hassle with FW's replacement process.



To finish off my introductory post here is a Spyder I finished last week:





So much detail on his belly that you can barely see, shame.

Very nice blue glows.

Thanks!

I have finished Illuminor Szeras!







I am really pleased how he turned out. He was the first model I got and started, but I never got to finishing him.

Since I have my first 2K match at the start of June I have started painting the last unit I want to field. 3 more Skorpekh Destroyers. I change their pose earlier, here they are in an early WIP.



Finally I worked more on the Forge World resin Sentry Pylon.



I will also be cracking open some terrain work after I finish the destroyers this week. Since we are playing on my table I want it to look good. He will be bringing a 2K Death Guard army, also fully painted.

Liking a lot the blues on those necrons, keep it up!

Aight! Update time.

I've done a few things since. For one I painted up 3 Skorpekh Destroyers, for a total of 6:


Here they are reposed and getting started.

And the final result:






Now I also progressed on the Sentry Pylon:


I put it together fully.


And started painting (no where near finished).

I am also getting a proper base for it, cause those little spider legs are not the best for balance.

In the meantime I am also working on terrain for my table at home. I am playing versus Death Guard (2K pts) this weekend and I want to put down something cool. Not quite there yet, but here is a WIP:


So next up more terrain work, sentry pylon and I might also work on finishing some characters later on.