JaM_TW Posted May 20, 2022 Share Posted May 20, 2022 (edited) This will be my painting log for the upcoming Royal Awakening event. I am planning to paint the last "bits" of the necrons I have and, later on, merge them into my old army. I'll make a gallery and will add photo's. At least, that's the plan. :-) So this is a sort of placeholder text... Ambitious but rubbish, perhaps. :-D Cheers! JaM And oh yeah. WD 217. Edited May 29, 2022 by JaM_naf#6121 MithrilForge and Kenzaburo 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/374303-jams-painting-log-for-the-deciever/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaM_TW Posted May 28, 2022 Author Share Posted May 28, 2022 (edited) I have more (see gallery) but this will be my first vow: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/gallery/image/315356-img-20220525-103137039/ 1 royal warden and 10 necron warriors with those nifty assault guns. Edited May 28, 2022 by JaM_naf#6121 MithrilForge 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/374303-jams-painting-log-for-the-deciever/#findComment-5833475 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaM_TW Posted May 29, 2022 Author Share Posted May 29, 2022 Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/374303-jams-painting-log-for-the-deciever/#findComment-5833552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaM_TW Posted May 29, 2022 Author Share Posted May 29, 2022 Yay! Picture! It took me a while to figure out how to post that here. Hey, it's been ages. Time flows different when you get older trust me. I've glued more stuff together but my first vow should be small. Just to see if I can get the painting juices flowing again. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/374303-jams-painting-log-for-the-deciever/#findComment-5833557 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaM_TW Posted May 29, 2022 Author Share Posted May 29, 2022 Oh, and if anyone can advise me on some decent necron books (Black Library), yes please! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/374303-jams-painting-log-for-the-deciever/#findComment-5833561 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Ikka Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 (edited) Best you are going to get are the Twice-Dead King books and the Infinite and the Divine novel- which to be fair are both pretty entertaining in their own ways. Edited May 29, 2022 by Lord_Ikka Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/374303-jams-painting-log-for-the-deciever/#findComment-5833568 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daimyo-Phaeron Lenoch Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 (edited) Ikka is correct, TIAD and 2DK are probably your best bets--however, finding paper copies of either of those is nigh-on impossible. I will say if you want the Necrons featuring as 'oh we're all gonna dieeee' I recommend the Commissar Cain series also. They're presented as well and truly unstoppable in Caves of Ice and feature to a lesser extent in Cain's Last Stand. They're like that quote from Terminator: "[They] can't be bargained with. [They] can’t be reasoned with. [They don't] feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And [they] absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead." (Cain, of course, also makes for some excellent humor in general, I recommend Mitchell's books if you can find them at your local library.) Edited May 30, 2022 by Daimyo-Phaeron Lenoch Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/374303-jams-painting-log-for-the-deciever/#findComment-5834257 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaM_TW Posted May 30, 2022 Author Share Posted May 30, 2022 Thanks! :-) I've red the Caine series, good stuff. I've found a paper copy of the infinite and divine, the other serie should come out in paperback..? I believe. Somewhere in August I think. I hope :-D Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/374303-jams-painting-log-for-the-deciever/#findComment-5834300 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MithrilForge Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 I believe one of the sisters of battle novels had some necrons in the story plot... along with the Ad Mech guys Hammer and Anvil i think it was called ?!?.. Mithril Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/374303-jams-painting-log-for-the-deciever/#findComment-5834384 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaM_TW Posted May 31, 2022 Author Share Posted May 31, 2022 (edited) What, someting about sanctuary 101 or something? I still should have that WD somewhere... Nah, if Dan Abnett or ADB writes something I am interested (ok, Sandy Mitchell as well) but most other writers * shrug* not so much. I dont feel the need to read/buy ALL those novels. Horus Heresy was fun but after what... 12? novels I quit. Needed the space on the shelves. Had all the Gaunt's Ghosts as well. Still a bit sad about Bragg . But the books had to go. Anyway: MY C'Tan isnt a shard but the real deal. Maybe I should start writing their backstory... Edited May 31, 2022 by JaM_naf#6121 Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/374303-jams-painting-log-for-the-deciever/#findComment-5834410 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenzaburo Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 Well, in theory there's more BL stuff - you got "Nightbringer" by Graham McNeill, the first entry in the long running Ultramarines 4th company series. It features, uh, well, the Nightbringer. But tbh, I wouldn't recommend it if you are after meaningfull Necron lore. And there's "Fall of Damnos" from the old Space Marine Battles series by Nick Kyme. It depicts the battle for Damnos, where the Ultramarines 2nd struggled and lost against the Necrons awakening on that planet. But since I never managed to get through that book, I really can't recommend it full-heartedly. Maybe the Imperial Armour volume featuring the Necrons might be more interesting - it's one of the last volumes FW published. But that might be hard to get a hold of in print. It might be on the WH+ app though, at least the lore part. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/374303-jams-painting-log-for-the-deciever/#findComment-5834437 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaM_TW Posted May 31, 2022 Author Share Posted May 31, 2022 Red the "Nightbringer" novel. Most interesting character in that book is the sergeant too big to fit in a normal spacemarine suit, IIRC. He wore something akin to a terminator? It's been years since I red THAT. (looks it up) ... Yup, 20 years ago, looks like. Looks like I am good for "literature" for now Thanks all for the heads up on the current books. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/374303-jams-painting-log-for-the-deciever/#findComment-5834450 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaM_TW Posted June 28, 2022 Author Share Posted June 28, 2022 (edited) about 3 minutes per model, undercoated with contrast. Yes, on the bare plastic. about... 40 seconds? of drybrushing leadbelcher. Next stop: paint the guns on a contrastpaint, colour the cables lightblue, add some highlights. And then decide what to finally put on the base, apart from the rubble that's already there. Edited June 28, 2022 by JaM_naf#6121 Tyriks 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/374303-jams-painting-log-for-the-deciever/#findComment-5838188 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaM_TW Posted June 30, 2022 Author Share Posted June 30, 2022 Painted the guns with either wyldwood or another dark brown contrast paint. Did some work on the HQs 'cape'. Tonight hopefully will finish them when I do cables and eyes and some details. And the base... Have to figure out what to do with that. Pictures are not that great,hope to make some better ones today. MithrilForge and Daimyo-Phaeron Lenoch 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/374303-jams-painting-log-for-the-deciever/#findComment-5839209 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaM_TW Posted July 4, 2022 Author Share Posted July 4, 2022 Army so far: MithrilForge 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/374303-jams-painting-log-for-the-deciever/#findComment-5841197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MithrilForge Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 Blue & Silver -Thokt army ?... I'm painting that same character right now too (Royal warden isn't it?) ... i love that cape on the side, gives you a chance to make it stand out as a character! So you just painted Contrast right over the Plastic model without undercoat ?... . how did that go?... Are you going to use a sealer on them at the end of your painting??. Good luck with the rest of your Vow ! Mithril Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/374303-jams-painting-log-for-the-deciever/#findComment-5841643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaM_TW Posted July 5, 2022 Author Share Posted July 5, 2022 Nah, I did like the Thokt scheme when I saw it at first in some codex but I hate to pin myself to a certain "legion". It's more based on "the expanse", on the proto-molecule idea. I needed something different than the rest of my silver army but not too different. So it looks sort of coherent. I do have fluff/background in my head for this army but I need time and drive to put it on ehm... screen. Painting contrast over bare plastic works quite well. I took blue, I wonder if a darker green or red will work as well but I cant see why not. I am not planning on using a sealer. Plastic doesnt "chip" that bad like metal does/did. I dont seal my plastic bloodbowl teams and they (the player models) hit the ground far more often so I think I'm good. I am all for fast painting but still looking decent on this army. It wont win prices but that's not it's purpose. It seems I have 9 skorpekh destroyers... maybe that's a bit of overkill. I have 2 skorpekh lords, 1 is made. I might convert the other to something else, maybe a skeleton like c'tan? And I do have 30 warriors, all with reapers. I have enough warriors with flayers (60? I think. almost all metal) already. So sometime soon I have to come up with an armylist. I know there are changes in the codex and normally I'd bother, but not this time.* I just want to get them off their sprues and on their base with some colour. Thanks for the reply! Cheers, Jan *) I hope. I've had too many times that I fleshed out a whole amrylist, got the models, build and converted them and then let them collect dust. I like converting but really dislike painting it seems. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/374303-jams-painting-log-for-the-deciever/#findComment-5841763 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MithrilForge Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 Oh ok, I only mentioned the sealer because it's mentioned a lot that contrast paint does tend to rub off easily on models if they're not sealed over ... The expanse theme is cool, that was a great series...now i can picture Flayed ones as off shoots of that proto molecule that had all the peoples body parts floating all together ... eek... Mithril Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/374303-jams-painting-log-for-the-deciever/#findComment-5842180 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaM_TW Posted July 12, 2022 Author Share Posted July 12, 2022 Bases made for the warriors, plasmacyte and Deciever. Sprayed with generic (glossy,it seems) black. Models in parts (warriors) and assembled. Models painted/undercoated with Talassar Blue. MithrilForge 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/374303-jams-painting-log-for-the-deciever/#findComment-5845145 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyriks Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 Liking the blue so far! Very cool scheme, interesting without being too 'out there.' Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/374303-jams-painting-log-for-the-deciever/#findComment-5845203 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaM_TW Posted July 19, 2022 Author Share Posted July 19, 2022 (edited) Managed to do some more. Drybrush boltgun metal ehm... Leadbelcher. Next step will be the painting of the guns and scenery. After that going through the models to amke sure the blue pops. Will probably do the blades then, too. And the cables on the Skorpekh Lord. And some metal on the Skorpekhs. Final step will be the squirrel and other thins on the bases. That'll be fun First colour will be choclate brown (VMC), followed with a drybrush of US Tan Earth (VMC). Colours on the squirrel is TBD, but brownish. And hopefully a blue glowing eye... In th pipeline are 6 more skorpekhs and The Deciever Himself. But that will have to wait after a short holiday. I hope to have these finished before the end of August. Will be hard if the weather stays as hot as it is ATM. No fun painting when the paint dries on the brush edit: photo once again too bright. Ah well. You get the gist. Edited July 19, 2022 by JaM_naf#6121 MithrilForge, Spyros and Daimyo-Phaeron Lenoch 3 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/374303-jams-painting-log-for-the-deciever/#findComment-5847546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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