Necrons *pic heavy*

[devilgaunt]

Hey everyone I'd like to share some of my Necrons with you all.


The base doesn't quite look like that in person. Any ideas what I should paint the trim of the base?

Maybe someone can give some tips on how I can paint the Green parts of the Gun to make it look better?





Any tips with painting will be greatly appricated.

[Scizor]

the green on the monolith looks great!

[Hive Fleet Green Locust]

I love that Necrons are so easy to get to look great. I used to play them (and am getting them again ) and the first time around I did the basic metal theme with a black base. This time around I wanted to personalize alittle more, so I am using a metallic green (that I bought for accents on my Eldar) for the bases, destroyer/scarab bodies & shoulder blades of non-warrior models. Everything else will be the basic metal.

As for your Necron bases, black around the rim looks fine and a grey drybrushed sand always works for 'Crons. For the green on your gun, I have found that for both the grid part and Necron eyes, painting them white first, then giving them a wash of watered down green really makes them look likt they are glowing. The wash should be about 1:2 paint to water, but a 1:1 might be enough, it depends on the paint you use. Make sure to "bleed" the wash just outside the area you are washing so that it looks like the glow is reflecting of the model.

[devilgaunt]

Thanks guys.

I will have to try that on the green parts. I like the idea of it looking like its glowing. I've seen it before but just didn't know how to do it.

[Mordheimer]

Looks nice... specially the Monolith!

[Virtual Falcon]

I like it....
A friend had been given some necrons by one of his friends, and they were just painted silver, and I assumed that most Necrons were painted like it, but they seriously look really good.
Keep it up!

[Sledgehammer]

I do like how you did the Monolith.

The paintjob on the Necrons is also clean from what I can see, but, the keep getting boring due to their Nature, so you should really work on their bases to make them stand out imho. Do something interesting there. Both, lava or a hightech environment work great if done properly.

[Mordheimer]

You want different Necrons? How about mine?


Here are a bunch of clickable thumbnails.



















































I never liked the 'standard' green rods for MY Necrons.

[devilgaunt]

Nooo, I've been Hijacked!!

On a serious note your Necrons are cool with the red rods. I've seen another color scheme of Necrons that was done in white with the red rods and it looked awesome.

Thanks for all the positive feedback on my Necrons, very encouraging!

[Mordheimer]

Hijacked? Are you serious? I though you were sharing Necrons pics.... I will delete the post if you want me to... I guess you should change the post topic to 'devilgaunt's Necrons *pic heavy*'... this way there is no confusion. Sorry...

[devilgaunt]

I was kidding. Didn't you read my whole post? It's ok you can keep your pictures up, sorry to have made you mad.

[Sledgehammer]

Also nice scheme Mordheimer.

I did a couple Necs just to practise the OSL effects. So I painted OSL around the glowrods and did lava bases with an osl effect from underneath. Only downside of this approach was that it took me about twice as long to paint the bases than it did to paint the actual models ;-)

(They can be seen in this thread: thetyranidhive.proboards28.com/index.cgi?board=painting&action=display&thread=1192274380 )

Another Idea for bases that I'd like is as I stated some kind of hightech environment, like a hangar deck or something with spotlights on the flor.

[devilgaunt]

I need more practice before I can attempt something like those lava bases you have.

[Virtual Falcon]

I like the necrons with the red rods.....they look like Kraken.

[Mordheimer]

Those Necrons were my 1st attempt to paint... They look good on the table, but at close inspection you see my inexperienced hand all over them! Hehehehe... I think the red rods make a great diversion to cover for my sloppy painting.

Seeing your OSL (Object Source Lighting) in your Necrons, I wish I knew about it back then.