Warriors and Scarabs Done!

Here a few pics of my recently converted Warriors and a few scarabs. This took some time, I was mostly busy with work.

Not much to say, most of these have their legs converted in some way, but I already talked about that.

Thanks for looking!

More Necron Warriors

I assembled another batch of 20 Warriors. All but two have their legs repositioned, and I added green stuff necks to all of them. This let me assemble them in a more upright position.

I'm particularly proud of the running one. The brass rod replaces one of his shin rods and goes all the way through his thigh. The image is not taken from a good angle, but all the other pics I made were really blurry and unusable. Oh well.

On to the pics, and thanks for looking!

Necron Warrior Painting Done!

Completed unit of 20

The first step in painting Warriors was to decide how to paint each surface. I knew I wanted a dark core, blue plating, and burning reds as highlight.

This was my initial decision. Blue shoulder plates were straightforward to paint blue, but had I stopped there, the model would have been all gray looking from front. I didn't want this, the unit would have looked like a gray mass with no detail. So, I made arm and leg plates blue to compensate.

Eventually I also painted the spine (between the shoulder plates) blue as well.

As for the weapon, however, I wanted to do something special. Some lighting-y freehand of sorts. After looking online, I found a tutorial on how to accomplish this. Basically, you just draw some zig-zag lines over a gradient, brighter than the background but within the same palette, and make all intersections between these lines extra bright.

The result was more than satisfactory:

Afterwards (not visible in that picture) I would add some OSR to make the weapon shapes pop and that's all there is to it. It's surprisingly easy (with a good brush) and the result is very consistent.

So here are some pictures of the completed unit!

Warrior Assembly and Conversion

What better way to get started and test the overall theme of the army? There's nothing better than a horde of minions to make an army look substantial. I bought 20 as part of a larger kit.

Assembly was originally straightforward:

Legs come as a single piece, all with a very similar pose, which I did not like one bit. Their legs are spread apart, and neck and lower spine naturally pose them in a hunched position, making them pose like mischievous goblins instead of murdering machines.

Unfortunately, I realized this a bit too late, after assembling more than half of them. I just didn't think it through beforehand and went online to see if people shared my opinion.. Then I discovered these, and I felt bad and jealous and bad and jealous. It was a bit too late to go back; I used plastic cement to glue components together and there were fused into, effectively, one piece of plastic.

At this point, I had 8 Warriors left unassembled. I cut their legs apart and converted them into various poses with a more upright postures. I also cut apart one Warrior that I assembled before and altered the posture, but it was too troublesome and I stopped there. After all, I will wind up getting more Warriors sooner or later, as part of some kit of something. I will make newcomers interesting and simply not use goblins-posture models from that point on. Or include them but put them in the back of units.

I glued green plastic rods onto the models before painting because I was going to paint them anyway. Normally you're supposed to glue them on last and keep them translucent and green. With that, they were ready for painting.