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Forum FeedNow, this isn’t necessarily the best or the fast way. But it’s fairly quick and yields nice results. This was rushed a little so feel free to take more time if you want. My setup is pretty simple. A tile (or in this case, plate), some water, some tissue and some paints.
I’m using standard GW brushes and the following paints:
Blood Red, Scab Red, Bleached Bone, Codex Grey, Skull White, Chaos Black. I’m also using Gryphonne Sepia wash.
Brushes & Paint
Necron with white basecoat
Step 1, White and Black
After a white undercoat, water down some Black and paint the whole base. Also paint the whole gun. Don’t worry about going over the rest of the model, we can cover it up with white after.
Step 1 White & Black
Step 2, Washes
Get your Gryphonne Sepia and wash the whole model with the brush straight from the pot. If you get some on the gun, it doesn’t matter. Make sure it flows into the cracks in the armour on the chest and neck. Wait for this to dry. Go make some tea.
Step 2 with wash
Back? Now do it again, except this time try to focus only on the joints, spine, pelvis, chest symbol and neck. If you get some on the armour plates, don’t worry. Wait for this to dry completely.
2nd wash
Step 3, Armour Plates
Slightly thin some Bleached Bone and cover all the armour plates, including the back of hands and hips. I left the fingers brown. I decided to do the front of the head (the face) only, giving it a skull mask look.
If you were careful with the 2nd Wash, you should only need one coat – two at most.
Painting the armor plates
Get the Skull White and mix a tiny amount of Bleached Bone. Paint this on the extreme edges of armour sparingly with thin lines. I did the collarbones, edges of the head and brow, edges of the shoulder plates and the top of the hips.
Front
Rear
Step 4, Gun
I wanted to keep the paint job simple, so highlights were minimal. Use Codex Grey to highlight the sharp top edges of the main areas, shaft and head of the gun.
Painted the tube feed Scab Red. Wait for it to dry then paint over it with Blood Red.
The gun
Step 5, Finishing Touches
At this point I drybrushed the base twice. Once with Codex Grey, then with a very light drybrush of Skull White. Tidy up the base edge with black. The few pieces of slate rock or ruin were done the same. By using a dark and relatively simple base, it emphasises the colours of the model.
I used Water Effects here, but any Gloss would work. Pain the tube feed of the gun a few times then let dry to make it shine.
Almost finished
I then cut a section of rod out slightly longer than the green rods. Compare it to the gap in the gun and then file down the ends to get them smooth. Add a small bit of PVA on the ends and carefully slot it into the gun. Polycement (plastic glue) would work but PVA dries completely clear.
Job Done
Job done! Hope that was clear and possibly helpful for anyone
I really like the color scheme…now I want to put my Orks to the side and build some Necrons!
BTW, what type of red rod did you use?! Where’d you get it?!
Again…great job!
The coloured plastic rods can be bought from a company called Plastruct. There are lots of sizes and colours, mine are Flourescent Red (FARR-3H). The size you want is 2.4mm (3/32″), which is the same width as the GW Gauss Rods.
I bought mine from this shop on eBay, they’re quite cheap.
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/MyAtomic-Hobbies
Could you paint the long tube red as you did the feeder?
I guess you could if you really wanted to?
G’day mate
I wanted to do the red rods but could never find any and now you’ve shown
e the light! I bought ome straight away from the link you provided but
ow I need a favor. What size are the LARGE MONOLITH rods? Id really
like to have the army match ( I can make the red main gun crystal)
CHeers!
Fungus
you can buy blue red and yellow rods that fit the warriors and monoliths from
http://store.miniwargaming.com/category/miniature-conversions/
Hi, the size you want for the Monolith-sized rods is 1/8″ (3.2mm). Good luck!
Awesome they are ordered and coming now ill remove the crappy green ones and make a post when the army is finished with some awesome pics
! THANKS AGAIN!!!!
great colour scheme raven, i plan to do this for my entire army.
Hey Fungus in regards to doing the main monolith crystal red, how are you going about doing that?, after planning my army and buying red rods i realised this was the only part i couldn’t change are you just going to paint the prism red? or have you found a red replacement kit?
You could get blue rods too i suppose… use enchanted blue or a similar colour for the eyes and maybe a lighting effect on the chest insignia
by lighting effect I mean make it look like its glowing blue
Raven, VERY nice tutorial mate! I’m a painting noob and I was amazed at the effect the wash added to your model just after 1-2 coats of it! I’m a Space Marine collector but some of your tips can easily be used on any model.
Wonderful work.
I have purple rods that I am using to redo my necrons. I like the technique you used to paint yt out on mineour necrons and the feeding tubes. I am going to try it out on mine.
I was looking for a good paintwork for my necrons as I have had a big problem finding a good one. This one was very good and at the same time very easy! Thanks.
where do you find purple ones? i have looked on the plastruct site, and they only have red blue yellow and green… any help?
I heard tell that you can use those coloured platic drink stirrers. I saw someone’s army with beutiful blue rods and that is what they said they used. I’ll have to check it out. Good toot.
In the Necron Codex where it shows a bunch of color schemes, on the bottom of the right page is a dark blue color scheme. I think that scheme with some blue rods would look great. I am working on that now. Will post pics when i get some done.
Basically i’ve start to collect necrons
um im getting 2 battleforces 1 monolith and a lord
i already have a nightbringer that i have painted qite well – i could put some pics up if you want
these necrons look really cool raven
i was thinking looking in the necron codex
when you loook at the paint schemes
in metallics 2nd to last one
that paint job for weapon then maybe the same body or on the right page in ancient the 3rd to last – it looks quite easy as i dont want a hard paintjob for 56 necrons 14 scarab swarms a necron lord , 6 destroyers and one monolith!
um can anyone else tempt me with other paintjobs that are relitivly easy to paint?
thank – pete
Well done, great tutorial.
The ceramic look is really appealing and an army of ceramic necrons would look great, Kudos.
wear did u get the red rods ??
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[...] color scheme. I think I’d do something more ceramic-looking. Fortunately, I found this Necron painting guide that shows a simple way to do just that. Let’s face it; this just looks cool: Non-metallic [...]
how long did this take u to do
Lovely job love it and easy to follow.
kind of a request but do you know how to paint the gun so it look rusted? like the one on the bottom right of the ancients in the codex. It’d be brilliant if you did a guide how.
Thanks.
could u do one on the necron nightbringer, with the same painting scheme on the box it comes in plz
u do rust with the the ink, the mud one
i am getting 24 necron warriors, 3 destroyers and monolith and nightbringer and 3 scarab swarm bases, and im trying to decide what colour scheme i should go for, can anyone make suggestions? im thinking of goin 4 the hotrod red type in the codex (last section bottom row).
by the wat raven great tutorial, im usin that technique on my other 40k armies.
do white heads and white shoulder pads that looks really good, and everthing else grey
im doing that one too!
Could you paint the long tube red as you did the feeder?
on the monolith how could i make the portal?
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How long are the rods