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Well, I won't be actually getting the units I need until mid July, but I'm impatient and enjoy laying ground work for projects. Though it seems Necrons aren't getting so great a rap, I'm gonna be building an army of em. What I want to do is build an entire army devoted to the C'tan, The Void Dragon. What does this mean? Well, for starters, I'd like to say this will never be entered in any tournaments where I don't have a good enough rep with the hosts to get away with this army. None of my Warriors will have gauss flayers. I know, crazy right? Well, I was reading about the Void Dragon and apparently his followers used lightning to fight, not the horrible gauss weaponry. So, I'm gonna build an army of lighting throwers.

Let me walk you through my idea with an example Necron. I'll try and draw something later, but I'm not the greatest artist. Anyway, imagine if you will.... I'm going to build a normal Necron Warrior, but remove the gauss flayer and turn his left hand so it's palm down. Then, I'm going to mold a bit of cloth hanging between his legs (cause I like the tabard look) with a bullet hole or two, and then mold a hooded cloak over his head and clasped at his neck. It will be thrown over his left shoulder, exposing it, and blowing in a wind from it's left. It will cover it's right half of the body, barely exposing his right hand. A hole will be cut in the cloak over the right shoulder, and from each shoulder armor a device will be erected. It's a sort of electrical pylon, formed from a box like thing connecting it to the shoulder and then half the plastic gauss tube sticking straight up, surrounded by three ever shrinking disks and a sphere at the top. Then, using either green stuff or painted wire, I'll make lighting arc between the two pylons! From the left hand the same sort of lightning will strike downward, charring the now blackened grass on the base. Now, to use up the wasted guass flayer. I will cut it in two places. Once near the end of the handle, right before the energy tube, and once at the base of the gauss tube, right after the energy tube. Chopping off the part right above the bladed part at the end and attaching the rest to the remnants of the handle will give be a brutal looking CC weapon for the right hand. The last piece with the energy tube will be explained later.

Now, since I am currently planning on at least 3 groups of 14 warriors each, each group will have a different variable. Note that not all warriors will look exactly like the above in their general appearance, for that was just an example, but they all look similar.

The first group will be the Shock Gatherers. I will break a kebab stick and paint it metalic. Then, adding a ball of greenstuff to the top I'll glue it on his back, hiding it under his cloak as it protrudes from a gap between the cloth and the neck. Using small toothpicks and some green stuff I'll add a little joke to each of them. Near the top I will glue on the two toothpicks in a cross formation, then mold the greenstuff in the gaps to create a kite. At the end of the kite will be a wire instead of a rope which will then twist down the length of the lightning pole. It will jump off near the base of the skull, winding down the lightning arm and attaching to the last piece of the gauss flayer that was left out earlier. I'm hoping to drill a large hole through it and cut it in half, then I'll glue it back together like a gauntlet around the warrior's arm. This device gives him a slightly more powerful attack, I'll see exactly how much once I'm more fluent with the rules and the base stats.

The second group will be the Sky Shockers, corny eh? These guys will have the left over gun bits from both its own gauss flayers and the third group's. These will be glue on either shoulder blade of the warriors so that the two tubes are sticking outward and the part that was cut from the firing end is facing down. Then, instead of having the CC weapon the handle will be fitted in the right hand, but the pole will not be. Instead of cutting off the firing bit, the sharp blade will be cut off and the length of the pole will be cut down to size. The pole will then be fitted to the skull of the Necron so that the firing end is in the air. The lightning from the pylons will instead strike the pole, and a tube from the firing nozzle will snake down from where the gauss tube was supposed to be. This tube will connect to a back pack that's been molded to the back of the warrior. The back pack will have two smaller tubes running from the top of it over to the top of the two gun parts on each shoulder blade. A group of wires will run from the gun handle in his right hand to the center of the back pack, signifying that it's the controls to the new jet pack! As such he'll be placed in a flying stance, and before I forget, the sharp blade and the remaining pole from when it was cut down will be reconnected and most likely connected to his left wrist, protruding out over his hand with the edge pointing down.

I'm still currently working on the third group. It'll have something to do with thunder I think... maybe giant robots... anyways, this project will not begin until, like I said, mid July, but I've been losing sleep on it so I thought I'd write it all out. Please comment and maybe send some ideas for the thunder guys.

Woo! Update! Third squad of Necron Warriors shall be... *drum roll*

The Soul Strikes! These Warriors will be much different than the other Warriors as these will be majorly focused on CC. Imagine if you will... A normal Necron Warrior, a black hood over his head with a similarly colored cloak draped over his back and fastened on each side to his elbows. A pure white mask hides his face and a black skirt covers his legs completely. The gauss flayer is completely gone. Instead, a green stuff scythe stretches between his two hands. Wires shoot from every part of his body to wrap around the scythe, giving off sparks. Note that the Soul Strikes will still have the pylons on their shoulders. Also note that the handle and hook-like weapon are gone, for later use.

Now that I'm done with all the Warrior groups, on to my HQ, the Necron Lord with Ressurection Orb. With this guy, I'm looking to get a little more technologically advanced than the rest, since the Void Dragon was the C'tan of technology. What better way to become more advanced, than to steal from a now ruined but past great comic book! My Necron Lord shall have six mechanical arms sprouting from his back, thus, Doc Oc! Each of theses arms will possess a new gauss gun partially made from green stuff, partially from the left over bits from the Soul Strikes. These guns will not have the plastic gauss tube, and will in its place have lightning crackling where it would have been. I am planning on cutting the Staff of Light into three pieces and adding thiner green stuff links between them, as if the staff suddenly expanded to reveal hidden, crescent shaped blasters. Like the Soul Strikes, wires will sprout from everywhere on the Lord's body and connect with the staff just behind the two new links, causing the entire staff to spark. On the staff the gauss tube will be removed and replaced by, surprise surprise, more lightning! He will have a hood, but it won't be up due to his spin thing, and I will most likely add my own cloak just for the effect. I don't like the torso to legs ratio, so most likely he will have a black skirt like the Soul Strikes due. The pylons will continue in this model as well.


Well, that's a good days work. My warrior and lord ideas all straight and ready to go. Tomorrow I'll get in Destroyers and Immortals. Peace!

Another idea update. Hopefully I'll get some models before the previously believed date.

First up to bat, the Necron Destroyer. For lack of a better name, these shall be known as Cumulonimbights. This shall be a some what more difficult conversion, due to the metal factor. The gauss tubes from his weapon will be removed and cut to create pylons on his shoulders and sprouting horizontally from the six holes upon his sides. Lightning from these will strike each other and the ground. Cloth will be molded just behind these holes and end openly when the holes do. The cloth will be connected at the front. The weapon will remain unchanged but for lightning in the place of the gauss. Two strips of cloth will hang from either shoulder for the cloak, due to the spine. I dislike the empty left hand so I will put within its grasp one of the Soul Strikes scythes, shortened greatly to make a more appropriate one-handed sickle weapon with an oversized blade. I don't like the empty back, so I'll create 2 rows of 3 shock gatherers, again shortened and without kites.

Next, my Immortals. These will be my Strike Reavers, please don't confuse them with Reavers from Firefly. These bad boys will be the true long range elites of my army, staying back and laying down heavy gunfire unlike any other. First, his gun. Unfortunately, it has to go. First we cut off the handle the left hand is holding. Then cut just before the gauss and just after the energy tube connects. After removing the gauss tubes and replacing them with lightning, reattach it backwards to the handle in the Reaver's left hand. Backwards so that when his arm is at his side the gun points outwards. Pylons will continue to be on the shoulders of the Strike Reavers. They will also have hoods and the two strip cloaks like the Cumulonimbights, but longer. Multiple parts of these Reavers will be slightly mummified in an attempt to make these soldiers more shrouded than the rest of the other soldiers. Now, in the right hand of the Strike Reaver will be the handle and bet before the gauss tubes of the gun. These creat a second, three barrelled gun with lightning sparking from it. The second tube will most likely be saved for other projects. I will most likely have these guys hover slightly.


That's all I have today, next I'll figure out what the heck to do with scarabs, and I don't even have a start of an idea for them. Comments?

Woo, psyche out, I'm gonna finish it up today. I went for my bike ride, as I do every night, to get my thoughts on the projects I'm planning, and I figured out my plan for Pariahs and the Scarab Swarms... but now I realize I don't have the names. Well, we'll make it up as we go, aye?

Pariahs, in my humble opinion, are the coolest looking Necrons on the market. They shall be my Apocalights, and no, they're not going to be Apocalypse only units. I am going to leave the gauss in the weapon this time! Surprise, surprise! It will be painted black though, so it won't really be gauss anymore, it'll just be part of the staff. I am going to either cut off or file down the blade by the gauss until it is flat and small enough for my guy to grab it. Then, I am going to take two of the left over gauss guns from the Soul Strikes and extra warriors I'll need to buy. These will be cut apart like the rest into the respective three pieces. A center piece will be placed on either side of the end opposite the gauss tube, slightly down opposite the axe side with the bit that had held the gauss tube facing away from the guy. Then, assuming that the staff is not connected to the guy at the moment. Using some sturdy extra tubing I'll have to buy, I'll make a small extention from about the center of the gauss tube then mold a large, flat crescent shape at the end. Then, I will position the guy to sit atop the staff with his feet on the crescent thing as a foot rest. The Apocalight will grab the flattened blade part above the gauss tube for steering with his right hand. Using two pole pieces from the Warriors' gauss flayers with both the blade and blaster end cut off, I'll make to extensions straight out horizontally from the hand grip, just in front of the hand. Taking the blaster ends and turning them to face forward. These will become lightning blasters. Thus, the Apocalight's jet bike.

But we're not done. The Apocalights will not have raised hoods, but they will have them down over their lengthy cloak. Being the marvels of technology they are, they will not be incredibly shrouded. The left hand will be raised and a think, linked tube will come from it. It may wrap around his arm, or coil upward slightly. At the end will be an extra Warrior head with the mouth ajar. From it, wires will erupt outward, striking out in every direction, sparking slightly. An extra gauss tube will be used for pylons on his shoulders, as with the rest. And there we have the Pariahs, or Apocalights.

SCARAB SWARMS! Huzzah! Can you guess what the name will be? Lightning Bugs jumps to mind. These will remain mostly unchanged. Using more unused gauss tubes cut into 4 equal pieces, each Lightning Bug will have one mini pylon on them. Wires will shoot down from their under side, striking the side. Lightning will strike between the four different pylons. Lightning Bugs, done and done.

Well, I think that'll be all I write out till I actually get my models. Comments please k thx?

Certainly sounds like an interesting idea and I'm sure you'll see a lot more comments as and when you start putting pictures up, so get started on some sample troops The one thing that makes all the difference with lightening is to use source lighting from the electrical bolts to make it clear that they are electrical and not simply white/blue strings. This is the most common way that electrical based paintjobs fail to have the impact that they could have.

Very cool sounding. Can't wait till those models come in so we can see the void-cron!