Chippin'

5/10 Necron warriors from the first squad are now complete. I expect to complete the rest of the squad and one remaining scarab swarm before next week's Thursday. Monolith should be arriving then, and will be hopefully/finally my next project, possibly alongside with a foot slogging Necron Lord.

I did some chipping on the warriors, but I didn't bother adding any metallic scratches - maybe I still will. Now I'll settle for random ceramic armor chipping. While the looks of the chipping are unnatural, I feel they add nice contrast to the models.

Moar Daemegs

Here's the progress of Damaged crisis suit. It's not yet even nearly finished, and will be set aside for a good while now, since I already can clearly see how the damage will look like - so that I can get back to my Necrons. Probably my Necron army will have same type of battle damage applied to them, but later. First I have to finish my seriously delayed warrior squad.

I'm especially happy with the "holes", but the metal ain't half bad either. However, blacklining the metal scratches gives a bit "comical" finish,but then again, the colors are so light, that the scratches wouldn't stand out otherwise. I have to think how to make them look better..

Unfinished parts;
- Both hands
- Jetpack highlight refixing
- Both weapons, and the multi-tracker
- Base (duh?)

WIP Damage

I was testing some battle damage on a Tau crisis suit yesterday. The reason why I'm posting this to a Necron blog is that I might try to add similar looking battle damage to all my Necrons. Maybe.

The paint job this far was quick one evening's job (basecoated, plus right leg armor done partly), so I actually expect to finish him today. Tau is fun and fast to paint, once you get into the rythym, but the army overall doesn't interest me a whole lot. Anyway, here's the WIP;

Better pics?

Some work in progress things, oldies but goldies, and a damaged Töpö.

Sloooooow..

Here be my update. I was painting my Deamonhunter army mostly last week so here's not much stuff. Excuses, excuses.. well nevertheless, I'm not in a hurry with my warrior and scarab squads since my next Necron unit to be painted will arrive at the end of the month. Perhaps I buy something small in between, like a Necron Lord etc, but let's see.

Sorry for the bad photos again. I really need to obtain better camera and spend some time placing the light sources.



Family portrait;

Sad News

Good news; I bought a Monolith. Bad news; the bloody pack was having 2 front walls and 2 rear walls instead of side, front and rear. So in other words, I can't assemble my Monolith yet. I will return it to the shop hopefully today, and will ask for a refund - the owner is a nice guy so shouldn't be a problem.. hopefully.

Anyways, this means that I have to paint Necron Warrior squad 1 first, so I need even more time than with the Mono. Expect update at the end of next week. Ordering a new, and hopefully complete, Monolith will take some time. Furthermore, I will renew my Grey Knight color scheme when GKPAs are concerned. Blending Fortress Grey just takes too much time, and I want to try GW's boring "shiny" GK theme, with a twist. So albeit this is a Necron blog, I might be posting some pics of my GKPAs later as well if the Warrior squad is not finished in time.

Laters.

Necron Heavy Destroyer 1

Heavy Destroyer
-Plastic body, head, arms
-White metal heavy gauss cannon, external spine

Here be my first unit, a single Heavy Destroyer. With just 1 wound, he stands proud and t..actually he 'floats' or flies or something like that, but still proud. I'm not 100% happy with the highlighting and the base yet, so I might come back to them later, but overall, I think this miniature reaches definitely a sufficient quality for gaming purposes.

I will add another unit of Heavy Destroyers later, but that will be 2 models strong instead of just puny 1.
The paint job was fast as intended, and great fun actually. There were not too many terrible mold lines to be found from the plastic parts (the whole body), but as you can see from the upper picture, the heavy weapon was miscast and contained some molding errors. A huge maybe, but I'll fix them after I've completed a plenty of more Necrons.. and add another huge maybe. I really like painting Citadel White Metal, but their metal molds are so old, that miscasts happen constantly. I'm quite glad that most of the Necrons are plastic, because the miniature quality is better, and they are easier to fix.

Also, I didn't bother to use green stuff to fix the small gaps in some plastic parts, but that is fine for me. I'm really not that good with the green stuff, nor I have the energy to use it for a normal gaming model - maybe in Monolith I will fix something major, but that'll be it. I aim for simplicity and speed here.

So - Tomorrow begins Hari Raya and for me it means I will start preparing and priming my Monolith, which still patiently waits me in the shelf of the shop, but I will probably obtain him today. Don't hold your breath for update, since like said, I might require a bit more time with him than 'usual' (usual being 1 week).

PS. Sorry for the crappy photos. I need to improve myself seriously in picture taking.

EDIT:

BONUS

As my blog is still a bit empty, I decided to add few pics of my other army - Grey Knights. Cheers!