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Does anyone have any help for a Necron paint scheme? I want a scheme that is both simple (No highlighting and some layering) and good looking for the default Necron look that is easy for an amateur painter, that can also apply to the vehicles and not just the troops.
What about fully metallic but with shoulderpads and heads in a different color? Like light grey or white, or red. If you go with leadbelcher on the body and khorne red (or mephiston red) and give them a full body wash of nuln oil you should be fine.
Id say classic metallic necrons are probably the easiest and fastest you can do.
Prime black
Bolt gun metal
Wash black
Dry brush bolt gun metal.
the hard part is the energy bits which ether you do with the clear plastic or the new ghost paints by painting the rods and eyes white then painting over it with the green tint.
Most of the paint schemes are pretty bold so should be quite easy, as Desubot said, the easiest is just the classic boltgun metal look, but if you want to go down other routes, just leave areas like the chest plate primed black and then go over it with another metallic shuch as Antique Bronze, Rich Blue, Radiant Red etc.
There's plenty of simple schemes that can be made to look striking with large areas done.
Classic metal Necrons color scheme will probably be the easiest (and quickest) to pull off.
Prime Black.
Basecoat Leadbelcher with GW's spray can
Drybrush Runefang or some other brighter silver
Basecoat weapons with a medium/dark grey
Wash the whole model with Nuln Oil + Lahmian Medium mix
Paint cabling/vents a color of your choice
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
- Spray them with platemail metal primer from Army painter.
- Wash with Nuln oil all over
- Drybrush chainmail (can't remember the new name) over the large surfaces like thighs, arms and head
- (optional) paint shoulder pads a different colour, whatever you like.
- Use a sepia or brown wash on joints to provide some further contrast
- paint gun fully black. Don't worry about highlighting it at all
- Use most of your time making the gun/weapon details pop. Use layering and glazing techniques on the gun pipes and staff blades.
- Paint any glyphs or other details gold
- Paint cloaks of HQ units a different colour that you like. I used a metallic purple from warcolours. Wash and highlight to desired effect.
Prime Black
Moot Green inside the ribs
Leadbelcher all over
Dab Nuln Oil in the joints and use liberally on the guns
Necron Compound dry brush on legs, thighs, chest, back, and head.
At this point, they're nice and bright and shiny, with the green in between the ribs really popping, while their guns are a darker metal.
Then for my my shoulders I paint purple, but whatever you want your main thematic colour to be. More elite units will get more purple, or more other colours; I use red to mark my Cryptek and Canoptek critters, give a nice white forehead-stripe to my Immortals, and give Gold to my Lords, Overlords and Lychguard.
Then finish off with a dab of moot green on the eye. After that, I personally use a dab of moot green on the end of the guns, and then moot green and chaos black on their gut-piping, but that's just my personal taste.
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