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Don't think needed. And I like factory fresh necrons, myself.

Ahh, that "time" issue. Fair enough, nothing wrong with clean. Look forward to seeing more.

I'm glad you bumped this blog. I read through it all a while back and absolutely loved it, Really awesome stuff all the way through. The crons are looking beautiful too, keep up the solid work!

Finished up the First NS.. 2 More to go . Luckly the theme is now set and I am almost 1/2 way thru the other 2.
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Now to translate this theme to the inf. Figures and the 3 barges.

Looking good Solar. The blend on the orange control....thing... Looks awesome and serves as a real nice focal point. Think you made good call on the spaces between the wing panels. Are you going for any highlights?

Thanks Graven, DrH, CL and San. Thanks for the comments!

No.. it's done at a decent table top quality. I don't want to do more highlighting or outlining for fear of making it look to busy. I don't have the hand control to do it well without risking making it worse.

There is a different color coming of the wing, out of the main fusulage. The wing goes from black to dk. grey; that is not translating well in the photo. I now believe when it come to thansition blending on vechicles you have to go further in color than you think to get the effect to look right.

Besides I have only 36 more days to finish! So moving on to the other 2.

Yeah, I found while practising the transition for my WS, that for a large area the extremes of the transition need to be really different to show up. Otherwise the effect is too subtle, especially for photos. It's not as much of a problem on smaller models because the gradient of the transition is larger over a short distance.

But it looks good.
and 36 days! Good luck, keep at it.

Hey Solar, nice to see you back !!

I like your new Necrons scheme, but for one thing : the golden circles just don't add up, to me... I think it would look better off it they were just black, like the rest....

Apart from that, good luck on the others !!

 Yggdrasil wrote:
Hey Solar, nice to see you back !!

I like your new Necrons scheme, but for one thing : the golden circles just don't add up, to me... I think it would look better off it they were just black, like the rest....

Thanks for the feed back. One of the hardest things for me is theme. I'm usually a go at it rather than Painting plan kinda guy. So much easier to paint Marines since most of the themes are already set, I cringe when I think about doing my Nid army...

I quite like it. Its simple, but very effective.
II like how you tied the gold circles on top to the weapons and metal details, and it does help to break up the flat surfaces of black.

Excellent job on the recessed green panel lines, too. They look really sharp!

Thanks brother...Actually it Val. bronze. I didn't expect it to come out so gold , but it does give it a more " royal" look.

I'm liking the balance. Originally all the white area were to be the bronze/gold. But after priming white it's look grew on me. I'm glad I didn't as it would look too metalic then.

The recesses were the easiest part, thou the most time consuming. I watered down the Scorpion green and let the paint flow into the cracks.; then wipe off the overflow. Since it was mostly water it barely left a mark on the upper surface.

I had to do this 5-6 times to get the color saturation I wanted to, but I just moved to the other planes while drying. Even when applying in the middle gravity pulled it into the recess.

Very cool nice fabby xxxxxxxxxxxxx

 Miss Dee wrote:
Very cool nice fabby xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks Darlin

From above they look fantastic the flyers

I think they're coming along very nicely SL. Interesting treatment and non-standard too. Looking forward to seeing more!

Thanks. Welcome back Gits.

Though I feel the design is good I didn't push it very far. Based on some comments I'm now considering re-painting.
Thinking going from a black wing tip fading to the white fuslage.
hummm.

Kinda held off making any progress this weekend in order to finish Briancj's terrain comp. Check out his blog to take a look at my entry. ( won't re-post here. Go and give your opinions on all the great entries)

More updates this week on the 2 remaining flyers.

A link would help.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/2340/310187.page#5960819

There ya go Gits!

Thanks Ramos!

I hope.my ols works.on my apothe night sorry fer the hijack xx

More progress on NS 2 & 3. Hope to get these finished this weekend and start on the really hard stuff. The Barges.

Damn you paint fast mate!

Nice!

i have some Necron legs if you want them

 San76 wrote:
Damn you paint fast mate!

Actually everything for this army was painted at the same time. Meaning all the priming, basecoating are all done. it's my 30 day assembly line project. Now its detailing all the different parts ( mostly before assembly) that takes up the hours.

And really if I painted my guys to your standard I'd probably go insane or take up MtG .. ( wait same thing!)

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Nice!

Talk about hard to impress....sigh!

 Miss Dee wrote:
i have some Necron legs if you want them

And here I thought you would have fleshy legs .. who knew! Thanks darlin Dee.. no I'm good. I have way more warriors than I plan to field! This is not my main army just part of the game collection.

When I saw the initial pics o the necron flyers in just black and gold I thought "yuck", but the white and green with it have totally changed he look loving where this is going keep it p SL.

Thanks Theo.. I almost went with blue instead of the green. Originally was going to be orange but then I added the white to the theme and thought it would look to strange. I stayed with green cause I wouldn't have to buy new rods.( thou I might paint the ones I have now to match the rest of the weapons.Hummmmmm! )

I've decided to paint the pilot control orb a different color so to be able to identify which units are transported in which fliers. Orange , Red(ish), Blue.

Think it looks better without the "disks" painted in gold, but kept black...

Yeah, I know, already told that... But now those pics just PROVE what was just a hunch

 Yggdrasil wrote:
Think it looks better without the "disks" painted in gold, but kept black...

Yeah, I know, already told that... But now those pics just PROVE what was just a hunch

Yggs... I appreciate all the comments… Theme is difficult for me. Sometimes a simple change makes of breaks a piece no matter how well executed or intended. So keep questioning. That just goes to prove your critically thinking. Believe me when I say I need it!
I either go too far or not enough… You guys are good for picking out and pointing out flaws, opportunities, as well as stuff well done. I have little to no ego! Mucho Appreciated my friend!

I'm no Graven....(thou with enough surgeries, massive amounts of testosterone, a million fanatical followers a direct link to the spirit world and cake? - Hummm)