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Beautiful, love that orange 'flower' type weapon with the open petals.

Absolutely love the colours and weathering on the Necrons. The board is coming along too - looks fantastic

Yea, those Crons are incredible.

Your Necrons are great!

Wow thanks a bunch guys!

Hopefully I can power through these... despite a few tricks, they are pretty quick to get through... brush work is pretty minimal so far...

The diff weapon glows could be an issue, but the army will still be overwhelmingly green in the end, the Orange of the heat ray will be one of the few exceptions other than the tesla blue and gauss green. I am hoping it all comes together coherently in the end...

Any suggestions on the board guys? I am a bit iffy on it... need good plans to either brighten it back up to a nice, orangie, ochre and menoth base type sand, or, alternately to grey up the board a lot more in patches...

Maybe drybrush a 2:1 brown and orange mix on the board? That might work. My experience with these things is pretty limited.

My only critique would be the glowing orange on that cool gun. If its supposed to be glowing from heat, you actually reverse the highlights, so the lows are the brightest and the highs are darker Heres a few examples to show what Im talking about




I think if you swap the colors on that gun it will look WAY better.

That's a good point KC - looks like I will have to break out some yellow lol -

It was only fresh in my head because Im going to paint the thrusters on my scratchbuilt DAKKAjet the same way

Those images are solid reference too, link me when you get that Dakkajet going!

Awesome work on the OSL, Tom...

I cannot seem to get it right with my airbrush...

But you're doing great, as usual !!

What is the problem you are having Yggsy?

See for yourself...

I can see the fiery frustration with that...

Superb. I was just searching for a great painter to hopefully inspire me. Thanks major tom.

Major Tom! Major brilliance! Major awesome heat ray glow! Major jaw droppingly good stuff! I majorly love the bone Necrons! and your airbrush glow is majorly good!

I think his work is Generally brilliant.

OK guys, we are generally getting off topic here

hey tom, noticed i didnt subscribe to this thread yet, an error that is now rectified!

Incredible work as usual!

So, turns out batch painting airbrush and careful planning makes things not too painful... 65 warriors, 24 scarab bases and 7 flight bases done in 20-22 hours over the course of 4 nights... not bad!

Ran out of grass tufts... but other than that, all good on these -

*Immortals were done before, although I think I am going to push the OSL on them even further like I did with the Gauss rods -























Thanks for looking as always!

That's pretty spectacular Tom. Can I say with all sincerity that "I hate you". ??

couple of questions...
Where did the scribed rods for the gauss guns and the little green crystals come from?

I like your approach to the OSL on the rods... I'm fretting over doing the OSL on a couple of plasma cannons and was wondering if you might give a pointer or two. I'm not looking for a tutorial... just one or two hints that might reduce my anxiety level.

Thx - Gits

Thanks Gits... I think lol -

Green Crystals are called Anarchy Crystals, highly recommend, very nice, just pull em out and stick em straight on, lots in a bag -

OSL is pretty simple as long as you remember one thing... the glow from the light source should only be a tiny fraction as bright as the source itself.... the better you pull this off, the more convincing it looks... I am pretty impressed with these, they genuinely look like they are glowing irl... I had actually stopped at scorpion green and thought it was good enough, and it didn't look bad, but then I said fek it push yourself, and went with a near white mix and it really changed everything. Look at the Immortals tesla to see what pushing the source that bright can do, the tesla immortals I thought looked good before, but looking now they look downright dull next to the warriors...

The pics are much bigger, click on em to go to my gallery to have a look at where I put the glows to get a better idea -


Forgot to put up the pretty much finished ROB board -













And some awesome tealight wrecked vehicle markers, they are done now but only had the pre-grey and black coats... these are super easy to make and look fantastic, I will put up some picks of the finished ones soon -

Great advice Tom, thank you. I see what you mean... now I'm looking forward to giving it a shot on my own models.

Beautiful job on that board... be a real pleasure to play on that one!

Feel free to ask if you have any questions... just keep your ab at 15 or so psi and go gently... don't thin your paints much either, and be ready to clean the needle with tissue often...

After this I will be 'upgrading' the other crons I bought to my scheme and with new osl etc...

Then the slog begins in earnest as I batch everything else 1 color at a time across a very large remaining army...

Fething hell Tom. Those are just......jesus....

Gorgeous.....

Lol thanks vits!

@Gits, forgot, the rods are ghost ark gauss blasters, cut up with the front part and blade from the ghost ark glued to the back end of the normal gauss blaster.... the rod, and everything after the hand is ghost ark.

I heard you can do it with immortal gauss rods too, but when I looked they were a touch too short, making it easier imo to go with the ghost ark ones.

Btw, DO NOT order the shapeways ones... in fact don't order anything from shapeways at all... the rough and powdery that at this scale it is useless -

 MajorTom11 wrote:
Lol thanks vits!

@Gits, forgot, the rods are ghost ark gauss blasters, cut up with the front part and blade from the ghost ark glued to the back end of the normal gauss blaster.... the rod, and everything after the hand is ghost ark.

I heard you can do it with immortal gauss rods too, but when I looked they were a touch too short, making it easier imo to go with the ghost ark ones.

Btw, DO NOT order the shapeways ones... in fact don't order anything from shapeways at all... the rough and powdery that at this scale it is useless -

Very cool effect! I assume you're using your ghost ark as a doom ark (or whatever the heck they call that version?), otherwise you'd be missing some guns on it.

Ebay is your friend bud... I needed 50+ new style rods... one box wouldn't cut it! And on top of it... the ghost and doomsday ark both use the bits, they are never spare

Nice work sir!

That realm of Battle Board is a real treat from GW and you've done it great justice.

I still have mine packed from the move, but at about 50% completion. Can't wait to get back to it.