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About to start painting some Necrons and was wondering how you guys would think this would look: I'm wanting to spray em with Tamiya Gun Metal, which is a dark grey with silver flake, then do the shoulders/armor bits with Tamiya Mica red (darker red with metal flake). Then, do a bright green emanating from inside their rib cages to match the Gauss flayers, as well as the eyes. Think that would turn out ok, without looking too damn Christmas-y? My other question is, how would I pull this off with vehicles? Main parts would be the gunmetal, the pieces like the "shell" on the middle on a Doom Scythe or the "wings" off the backbone of a CCB would be red. But could I get away with the glow lines and edges being bright green?

If the red is really dark and metallic and the green really bright and non metallic I don't see it being to Christmas like, I would say paint up a test model to see if you like the scheme.

yeah painting up a test model is always a good way to start before painting whole batches and finding out you dont like it...

tamiya are acrylic paints right?

Test model is probably your best bet!

Yep, test model is always a great idea!
If you go towards a blue green it will look great and not resemble evil Christmas elves.

Thanks all. Yeah, it seems with the bright green I should be fine. A couple test models are in the works.

DijnsK wrote:
yeah painting up a test model is always a good way to start before painting whole batches and finding out you dont like it...

tamiya are acrylic paints right?

Tamiya's bottle paints are acrylic, but their sprays are lacquers.

How about a darker green - sort of Brunswick or British Racing Green (not sure what the equivalent GW, Vallejo or Tamiya paint would be), and a more stark blood red colour. I'm thinking more along the lines of gun-metal skeleton, the dark greeny-black shoulder plates and a kind of blood red border line on the shoulders. On a vehicle you could still go with your main gunmetal body, but have a dark green/black carapace, and red bordering. I think those two colours would still lend themselves to having bright lime green emanating from eyes, Gauss guns and rib-cage - even just as a glow. Of course gold could still be added in as ornamentation.

Dark Angels use red and green without looking Christmassy!