Rusty Necrons for begginers?

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**Inky**

Ok, I love the whole aesthetic of rust, ancient egypt and orange, so rusty necrons seem like a good choice.
However my hands are incredibly shaky (i mainly got into this hobby to try and improve it) so fine detail painting is hard for me.
With all that said, will any of you fine fellows give me tips how to paint my crons a deeeeep rust colour?
I'm thinking a basecoat of black, followed by some red/black mixture and then....
Yeah.
Help please!

To clarify, I'm looking for a way to make them look like this

**Vivster**

http://taleofpainters.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/tutorial-how-to-paint-necrons-garfy-way.html

Perfect - just what you want

**UnCool Villain**

I am currently painting some worn necrons and here are a couple I found helpful.

http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-paint-necrons.html

http://www.denofimagination.com.pl/2013/09/rusty-elits.html

**Badablack**

1. Prime your necrons black.

2. Basecoat your necrons in some dark metallic like boltgun.

3. Slather your necrons in this stuff http://www.thewarstore.com/product56392.html mixed with a little water.

4. Throw a thin black wash in the crevices.

5. Give it a matte spray.

6. Paint the eyes and glue all the clear green plastic tubes in.

7. Repeat steps 1-6 until army is finished.

**Ifurita**

I primed mine brown, drybrushed with bolt gun metal, and then applied a wash of Blazing Orange/Vermin brown in spots. once that dried, I drybrushed over the top of the washed spots with some more bolt gun metal.

**bubber**

I would use Halford's red oxide primer as primer & base coat.
Then get some light or mid rust from MIG, mix with a little white spirit then wash the model.
Once dry varnish with purity seal to set the pigments in place.
Finally do a light drybrush of boltgun metal (or whatever it's called now).
Here's what I achieved with multiple layers or pigments over the red oxide primer (the only 'paint' used was the metallic):

**Matt1785**

- Spray Models Black

- Paint entire model in Dark Flesh (if old) / Doombull Brown (If new)

-Drybrush on some Vermin Brown (If old) / Skrag Brown (If new)

- Drybrush stipple Blazing Orange (If old) / Troll Slayer Orange (If new)

This should make the model look very weathered and rusted. After this, dry brush on to your liking Boltgun Metal (If old) / Leadbelcher (If new).

I have used this technique ever since the tutorial in the last Ogre Army Book where they still did painting techniques for free, instead of making you pay for them.

**Inky**

UnCool Villain wrote:
I am currently painting some worn necrons and here are a couple I found helpful.

http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-paint-necrons.html

http://www.denofimagination.com.pl/2013/09/rusty-elits.html

Those denofimagination ones are EXACTLY what i'm looking for.

**Matt1785**

That looks like a heavy application of Dark Flesh, and then highlights of blood red dry-brushed on, with a splash of metallic paint. Then lots of lighting affects.

**Robbo97**

Get them to commission it

**UnCool Villain**

Here is a wip pic of them which can possibly help get the colors used.

http://www.denofimagination.com.pl/2013/09/chocolate-crons.html