"The Necron Army." Topic

Good work here by Mr. Drathmere.

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Hope you enjoy!.

Amicalement
Armand

I always considered them, when painted to a metallic finish, that they were the closest thing to the Terminator. I'm led to believe that in the GW World they are incredibly hard to destroy. Nevertheless, interesting looking figures.

Thanks.

I prefer mine, but that is what is fun about 40K, you can create your own paint scheme for your army. None of it is right or wrong, especially without any "official uniform guides" on the alien races. Here is a link to mine.

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Good input, Jovian1. Nice work and report.

Like your Necrons very much Jovian1 !.

Amicalement
Armand

Mr. Drathmere has done an excellent job on his Necrons – nothing to detract from them – they are very nicely done and the paint effects are very good.

Great looking armies.

But the third picture makes me rather sad. I love the minis, the background etc… but it seems that army composition is always strange visually for me.

I always like lots of infantry with a few vehicles… or all vehicles army.

I'm curious to see your Necrons in real life Jovian.

Nice to see Necrons painted with a more synthetic look, instead of the usual paint-with-metal-wash-with-black style. I don't play 40k but I've always wanted to do a squad or two of the Necron troops.

"I'm led to believe that in the GW World they are incredibly hard to destroy. Nevertheless, interesting looking figures."

Actually…this is pretty accurate. On a unit to unit basis, they actually had (Still have? I've not read the new necron codex yet.) the hardest basic infantry. Even tougher than marines stat-wise. Can't recall what their guns were rated though.

Stats-wise they've taken a little bit of a hit, so they aren't overall harder to kill than a marine, but marines should be the toughest individually anyhow.

Fluff-wise, they are incredibly difficult to permanently destroy- it's just that the auto-repair function isn't always possible within the time-frame of a game and so isn't represented in the rules- only quick fixes will get back up to rejoin the battle. If auto repair isn't possible, the components will almost always teleport back to the tomb or whathaveyou, to await reassembly.

Leigh

PS- nice figures by the way! Although I see that the top picture's Trazyn the Infinite is suffering from the same bendy staff that mine does!

@BrotherSevej:

The photo of my army doesn't reflect what I actually field. I was just setting up some representative samples of my army for pictures. My army consists of mainly warriors (usually 60 of them in three full on squads), and under the new rules they have a member of the Royal Court in attendance. I rarely run many vehicles in the army (at least I didn't when they were the tournament force traveling from event to event). They were fun to field because of all of the head-bobbing to see the color changes on the figures.

The Monolith is more of a show piece as it was given to me as a derelict. It was broken, missing pieces, and I got it from someone who got it from a kid who no longer wanted it. So, it was a hand-me-down broken kit with missing pieces. I cobbled together bits to get it back into shape, spent several hours correcting the assembly (sanding, putty work, modification of bits to the "it will have to do" stage, and ordering parts to replace those which were missing). My Monolith has fiber optic cables which run from inside the Monolith through the grooves on the outside and project light from the LED light source inside the vehicle. The crystal on top came from a chandalier replacement crystal on-line order (they came in sets of two – so I could put together one more to match it!). The rest of the "bling" is the Swarovski crystals to add some metallic sparkle on the barrels of the corner weapon posts.

The base of the Monolith is a $.99 USD flashlight with 6 LED lights at the tip. It uses 3 AAA batteries to operate and is fairly bright, even in gaming conditions to give the crystal and the light tubes and portal a nice glow. The flashlight is affixed to a CD ROM (Thank you AOL for all of the terrain disks). The center hole is covered by the flash light with the on-off button under the hole to turn the flashlight on and off. It is one of the cheap rubber push-button types. The Monolith has the center circle on the bottom removed and the Flashlight projects inside the Monolith and a round circle of plasticard is affixed to the Flashlight were the lens/head attaches to the handle and supports the Monolith. The base is then covered in Scarabs and some of the bits from the C'tan models of Necrons coming out of the ground. All in all it looks pretty good and for a freebie, it looks great. I think I spent more on parts and labor than the original kit cost to purchase!

I really like the photos of the original post because it shows Necrons in a completely new color scheme and shows how you can make them your own simply by chosing a cohesive paint scheme which binds the army together and shows that they are not simply silver metal men out for a stroll to kill mankind, but some form of ancient intelligence which has some appreciation of the asthetics of beauty. The shading and brushwork are nicely done and consistent throughout the entire force.