Necrons awaken!

[BowlingShirtJerk]

Beautiful walker! I honestly can't get enough of your blue... it works so damn well with the rusty metal. Imotekh is looking good as well, I particular like the cloak... I'm sure highlighting each little bit must have took ages but it makes the model feel very distinctive. Glad to see you're still churning out models!

[Meraklis]

Thank you very much! I am glad you like them!

I also got my monolith painted - finally - !!!

I should be able to photograph it tonight.

[Meraklis]

Monolith!






As you can see the model is full of small imperfections but honestly this model gave me such a hard time that I have completely given up on the idea of spending any more time on it.

The reason is quite simple. The guy who sold me this model did a very poor job in assembling it and used enormous amounts of super glue to put it together. This meant that I had to file the extra glue from the sides of the monolith and also use as much green stuff as I could in order to close the big gaps on the model...

Despite my hardest efforts the model still required a lot of filling and sanding but I got so tired that I simply started painting it. I wouldnt say it looks bad but its not up to my usual levels of painting so I guess one day I will get back to it and repair the small imperfections.

Any way, I hope you like it!

Next up is a group of 3 wraiths!

[Meraklis]

Imhotep complete ; I should really use a green glaze on the staff to bring the highlights together!



different angle



back view



1st wraith

[Spider-pope]

The Wraith Cryptek conversion is inspired, if i ever start a Necron army i'll be shamefully stealing the idea.

[Meraklis]

no worries! I will be glad if you "borrow" my idea

on a side note here my latest work

[Meraklis]

time for an update!

since the last time I posted here I was able to repaint one of my annihilation barges and also paint another one.
On top of that I managed to complete my first three wraiths and my first 2 lychguards...

I hope you like them!

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[Meraklis]

Wraiths

[BowlingShirtJerk]

Everything is looking great as usual! I'd love to see an army pic...

[Rsmith2233]

your army looks great! how did you paint the orbs on the side of the wraiths?

[Meraklis]

Everything is looking great as usual! I'd love to see an army pic...

Thank you! Hopefully some time soon I will get some time to put everything on a table and take some pictures!

your army looks great! how did you paint the orbs on the side of the wraiths?

cheers! The orbs are very easy. I started with Dark Angels Green , then a layer of Snot Green (covering 80% of the orb), then scorpion Green (60%) and a final highlight of scorpion green mixed with bleached bone in the centre of the orb. To smooth out the many layers I simply covered the whole orb with the new green glaze.

[DemonDth2]

2 questions:
1) Do you plan on painting a ghost ark or doomsday ark? I think that it would look fantastic if it turns out similar to the stalker or wraiths.
2) How do you paint your blue/turquise? It looks really nice.

Your army looks fantastic, keep up the good work.

[Meraklis]

thank you for your kind words!

1- I actually have a ghost ark almost complete. I need to paint the gauss flayers and the model will be done. However my motivation level is really low at the momment...

2- My turquoise is very simple actually:
- paint hawk turquoise
- drybrush with a mix of hawk turquoise + bleached bone
- drybrush with bleached bone
- wash with watered down graveyard earth
- wash with watered down scorched earth only in the crevesses.

Thats it! its actually much faster than it sounds!

[Dezmord]

A good looking army you have so far! Truth be told, your take on the Nihilak-scheme looks way better than the one featured in WD