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With Orks I felt the compulsive need to Kustomize each of the models. Necrons are mearly a matter of assembling as is. It's made a huge difference.

Necrons are also hands down the easiest 40k army to paint. You can have a functional paintjob with a metallic base coat and black wash.Paint the guns black and dot the eyes with some green and you can call it a day. It gets the job done, and you can always come back and add more detail later.

I've already gotten the Destroyer Lord rebased, and I scratch built an appropriate sized base for the spyder. I currently have 5 Spyders without bases, so I'm toying with molding and casting bases veres scratch building them over and over.

Scarab Bases with crystals



A bunch of pictures of my Necrons with an Ice World Paintjob I did a few years back. I don't hate it and my gaming group likes it, but it was too labor intensive for too little a reward. I will not be using that scheme in the fute, and I'm probably going to strip and repaint some of it.











An idea I had for numbering Necron objective markers



and a bunch of terrain I desperately need to repaint.

Clever numbers. I like the idea.

That's a hilarious picture of your terrain. I thought it was a weird red and yellow tower.

 mars2024 wrote:
Clever numbers. I like the idea.

I was pleased with it. Now I'm going to add layers to them to make the Necron Numbers recessed into the pylons.

That's a hilarious picture of your terrain. I thought it was a weird red and yellow tower.

It's definitely funny how that lined up.

The red one has leds that flash different colors in the base that light up the tubes running through it. I can't really get it to show up on camera.

Heh all I could see were the McD's colored pieces, didn't even see all of the terrain around them till I looked for the third time

I blame the paint job on Brother Captain Ronald McDonald, of the Golden Arches Space Marine Chapter, and Chaplain Grimace.

I got these Vintage Canoptek Spyders and stripped the paint


and some nice Scarabs to go with them




Broke one of the arms while stripping the paint, so decided to custom it up a bit





Needed Large Flying bases for them, and I don't like how large flying bases look, so I scratch built one, and made a mold of it


Spyder with repaired/custom arms next to a factory job


So I had 4 of them just floating/crawling around, and they looked boring to me. I had an idea how to make them look more interesting


I remodelled them so they are reared up. Makes them look much more imposing. Also added some scarabs to each base.



Gallery with larger verisions of all these pictures HERE

Yeah those look pretty cool like that, nice wrok!

Thanks !

Don't have time to take, edit, and upload pics at the moment, but I have a dozen new Scarab Bases based and painted, and I made the numbering on my monolith objective markers a texture, and not jsut marker. Will try to get new pics uploaded tonight.

I'm on vacation starting Sunday, here is what I hope to accomplish in order of importance

Build Second Gaming Table
Document Building Process this time.
Build 3 Necron Scythes
Paint 3 Necron Scythes
Make Mold that will let me make 5 Scarab bases at a time
Build and paint 30 Scarab Bases
Build 2 additional Canopteck Spyders

Sob uncotrollably if the New Necron Codex comes out for Halloween, like it's rumored, and find that Scarabs have been nerfed.

Count on the scarab thing =/

Sounds ambitious looking forward to your progress.

Made the supply run and got everything needed to build the tables. We were able to build the bottom third of the table last night.

Shopping List

Took these progress pics Sunday night

Underneath the bottom Tier


Top Side of Bottom Tier


How the Legs are attached


Quick picture of the first table looking sloppy at the moment.


Last night we built and secured the middle tier, as well as built the top gaming surface. Still need to build the support frame that elevates the playing surface. Plan to get that done Wednesday night.

Haven't touched the scythes yet, but I did get a supply drop. Built a Catacomb Command Barge and a Nemssor Zandreck in the last 12 hours.

I didn't fall off the map, just having problems with getting enough sleep, leading to me being mopey all day, and having issues with time management.

Completely built the second gaming table, which came out better than the first.

Focused so much on Necrons that I started getting burnt out working on them.

Started impoving random bits of terrain, adding base coats of paint, and modelling detail, all without acutally finishing any of them.

Bult more ruins. I took a bunch of pictures of the new ruins I built, and I'll post them along with in game shots I plan to take this weekend.

Imminent Tryanid and Blood Angel releases have kept me distracted over the last week, and have tempted me to work on those armies as well.

In a momentary lapse in judgement I bought 9 Space Marine Centurions. It was 9 for the price of 3, so it was a good deal, but I really haven't touched my marines in at least 2 editions of 40K. Some time soon I'm going to copy GrimDork and post a Space Marines pile o shame.

Oooh I look forward to that

I think it's Mopey Season for a lot of us lol, get yourself right in the head and come back and dazzle us with your excellent game boards

Glad to hear that you haven't fallen off the map.
I'm sorry that the blues have hit you as well. As soon as it starts getting dark earlier I start getting all blah. I actually started a plog to hopefully help me focus on painting minis and keep my mind busy in a more positive way. Maybe it will help!

Goofed and created a new gallery instead of just adding them to the original gallery Full sized versions of these images can seen here the orininal ruins gallery can be seen here

Those are pretty fancy. I like the decorative piece on the first set of ruins.

It was the lid off of an air freshener my wife was throwing out. Reminded me of a stained glass window so I intercepted it.

They were inexpensive to make and very functional on the game table. The taller ones are enough to give a Knight Titan cover

I figured it was something like that knowing your other work, but I couldn't place it

Some of you guys just 'have it', when I make cardboard buildings they just don't work well

It was fun whipping up a tables worth of terrain out of two sheets of dollar store foam core and scrap cardboard. The best part was the look on a few of my gamer buddies faces when they realised the amount of ruins in the terrain collection doubled in a week.

They'll all look better with paint, but I still have some floor tiles and window details I want to add first.

The begginings of a Necron Landing Pad

Very cool! Is that foam core board?

Sweet. Gotta love landing pads. And necrons... I guess?

Shouldn't it technically be called a bakery though, y'know, with the shape of the aircraft and all?

EyeamRai wrote:Very cool! Is that foam core board?

Yes. After ages of only using the good stuff, I've found the cheap dollar store kind is easier to cut and engrave.

GrimDork wrote:Sweet. Gotta love landing pads. And necrons... I guess?

Trying to build a table full of Necron Terrain choices. Things like objective markers, bunkers, landing pads, etc.. have rules and uses beyond just blocking line of sight, so I'm trying to incorporate as many of them as possible. I have a concept for a Necron Bunker, that will use the wall of Martyrs Bunker rules, I'm still working on as well.

GrimDork wrote:Shouldn't it technically be called a bakery though, y'know, with the shape of the aircraft and all?

If I make one that is shaped like an easy bake over, that flying crossiants fly out of, I'll totaly name it that

Unrelated, I now have 9 Canoptek Spyders assembled, and ran 6 of them last night. I have been gimping myself for at least the past month because I wasn't familiar with the SMASH USR. Half way though a game last night, it was pointed out to me that their attacks should be AP2. Previously, I was letting everyone take their armor saves against them when they should have only been getting invulnerable saves. They went from Shuffling Scarab Factories to killing machines.

Gotta love discoveries like that

Grim, Grim, Grim, Grim... you mentioned something about using your Bones figures for KoW in the KoW2 thread and it got me thinking. I backed Bones 1&2 while playing D&D and Pathfinder, but when 1 arrived I was playing zombicide and starwars. When they finally arrived I took them out of the packages and pretty much put them on a shelf and forgot about them. Another few months later I bought a Bones 1 collection off of one of my gaming buddies because he wasn't doing anything with his either. You mentioned using them for KoW and I just popped over to the KS page to look at all the pretty pictures. There are soo many cool undead models in the Bones line that would fit right in to a KoW Undead army, and the best part is I already have two of each.

So yes, inbetween our normally random assortment of Ork, Necrons, Terrain, and Imperial Knights I'll probably be converting Bones, Warhammer Fantasy, Heroquest, and actual KoW models to my KoW Undead legion.

Unrelated, I cast up detailed 12 new bases for scarab swarms, 3 new bases for Canoptek Spyders, an Oversized Dalek, and a Tardis

Sweet! Looking forward to more necrony goodness and some who-stuff.

Sorry about that =/ I had the idea a while back, take all of the humanoids I'm getting with Bones2 and amass them into a unified horde differentiating by size rather than race. Goblins/kobolds/smaller or same as humans- grunts, orcs/gnolls/bigger stuff toughs, ogres/trolls/40mm based stuff brutes, then solo monsters making their own counts as units of what have you, probably orcs or the like. And there are a lot of sweet undead to add too, especially in one of the upgrades for Bones2 there's a trio of barrow wights that are perfect for the Wight Kings unit (of 3 models )

KoW is pretty counts as friendly. That's a pretty good idea for the humanoids.

I like the KoW Orc forces, but I don't really want to spend the money to buy fantasy orcs, although the Wargames factory Orcs have tempted me since they can be had 25 models for $17.

I do have a ton of fantasy humanoids. That mixed horde idea sounds really promising.

If you can quell the animosity between the various tribes/gangs/factions it makes sense too. Smaller more agile creatures like goblins and kobolds scouting for orcs and ogres and giants and such. A well-behaved mixed unit would likely have more versatility on the field. Plus for the painter and modeler it's way more fun to paint up a bunch of different models and then just glue them to the regiment base, instead of 20 orcs At least for this hobbyist!

The main thing I'm trying to work out is how to get them to temporarily settle onto the multibases while retaining the ability to remove them for use in games of D&D or skirmish wargames. Bluetack probably won't work with the way I wanna do my trays (basically plaster painted up, it's probably liable to chip away with the blue tak eventually). Hotglue is fine for permanent regiments but I haven't come up with a good temporary method. Magnets but they won't wanna sit in the relatively fragile plaster either. Once I figure it out I'm gonna have a blast painting through Bones though