Little JJDs Necrons

[JJD]

My girls are interested at painting some miniatures with me and I have the Indomitus Necrons gathering dust. What better than a nice dry brush scheme for a 12 and 9 year old to start on. 
 

A basic leadbeltcher, nulin oil start then a dry brush of iron breaker and the runfang. 
 

All was going well and the 9 year old was getting into it. Then she decided she wanted the glow to be pink. 
 

Time for a few trial runs 

[JJD]

I’m want to keep this as simple as possible. 
 

The black gun is slap chop using grim black speed paint. 

 

The pink is 50/50 layers of princess pink speed paint over smaller layers of white 

 

 

I don’t know if the pink is a bit to pale to work as a glow 

 

I’m open to suggestions 

Edited November 18, 2025 by JJD

[JJD]

Also in the 5 years since I last painted my eye sight has gone. I needed a magnifying glass to see the eyes and coils I didn’t used to 

[Firedrake Cordova]

The Necron came out really well.  

 

I think I might be inclined to make the gun a bit darker...? Maybe that's just me being used to the Studio's black guns, though.

[JJD]

17 minutes ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

The Necron came out really well.  

 

I think I might be inclined to make the gun a bit darker...? Maybe that's just me being used to the Studio's black guns, though.

Thanks. I think its the lighting. With the exception of the barrel the gun is very black. You can barely see the highlights from the dry brush. 

 

That said it could be my eye sight as it does look more gray enlarged on the laptop screen 

 

I was going to go with a more magenta dark pink but the 9 year old wanted to do princess pink and shes very happy with it, so i think we are going with it. It was intended to be her project I just got into how simple it was to pint after my edge highlighted blended Dark angels. 

 

 

[Firedrake Cordova]

36 minutes ago, JJD said:

I was going to go with a more magenta dark pink but the 9 year old wanted to do princess pink

I suppose you could put a glaze of Fluo Magenta if you want it to have a little more "oomph" whilst retaining the same "feel"?

[JJD]

An update to little JJDs princess pink Necrons

 

 

They might need another glaze of pink or maybe a darker shade as suggested 

 

I’m really impressed how neat she has been 

 

 

Edited December 14, 2025 by JJD

[Firedrake Cordova]

They do look good  

 

Any ideas how they're going to be based? A desert theme might look good?

[JJD]

I was thinking desert too.

 

I'm think Martian earth might clash with the pink and any kind of grey would be too similar to the dark metal 

 

[JJD]

First squad of warriors ready for battle. 
 

 

I went with a simple cork base. We might have been a bit heavy with the wash. The girls loved crafting the bases. 

[JJD]

And yes I did forget to remove the mould line on the bases. My eye sight isn’t what I used to be. 

Edited December 29, 2025 by JJD

[Firedrake Cordova]

I think the scheme works well

 

If I'm being critical, the eyes could do with being a little brighter to add definition?

[JJD]

2 hours ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

I think the scheme works well

 

If I'm being critical, the eyes could do with being a little brighter to add definition?

I was planning to do another glaze, but they look good tabletop and I didn't want to risk it at the time as I was struggling with the very small detail.

 

I also wanted it to be as much the girls work as possible

 

that said I might do it down the line as I got some magnifying glasses which really help. It like getting my old eyesight back for painting 

 

 

 

 

[Firedrake Cordova]

I fully understand that feeling on the magnifier (I need it for painting, and it's really helped when cleaning up the mould lines, too) ...

Edited December 30, 2025 by Firedrake Cordova

[GSCUprising]

On 11/18/2025 at 6:50 PM, JJD said:

My girls are interested at painting some miniatures with me and I have the Indomitus Necrons gathering dust. What better than a nice dry brush scheme for a 12 and 9 year old to start on. 
 

A basic leadbeltcher, nulin oil start then a dry brush of iron breaker and the runfang. 
 

All was going well and the 9 year old was getting into it. Then she decided she wanted the glow to be pink. 
 

Time for a few trial runs 

 

When you mentioned the pink glow for the Necrons, I wasn't too sure, but now I've seen the finished job, I'm sold.

[JJD]

The pink was not my choice I was going to make my like easy with the blue or green I've done before on my Dark Angels.

 

That said if little JJD got it fully her way the whole model would be pink.

 

 

[GSCUprising]

3 minutes ago, JJD said:

The pink was not my choice I was going to make my like easy with the blue or green I've done before on my Dark Angels.

 

That said if little JJD got it fully her way the whole model would be pink.

 

 

 

Well, little JJD's obvious got a good eye for things!

[JJD]

I have been building the rest of the Indomitus Necrons and it was generally an enjoyable experience. Obviously I haven’t built any models in years and these were quite different to the old marines I remembers so I left the larger models until last when I was getting the hang of it. 

 

With that experience in mind I just wanted to share that the Canoptek Reanimator is a big spindly  whose stupid T-Rex arms fell off without me touching them and were a Colossal pain in my butt to glue back on. 

Edited January 5 by Firedrake Cordova

[Boc]

20 hours ago, JJD said:

With that experience in mind I just wanted to share that the Canoptek Reanimator is a big spindly  whose stupid T-Rex arms fell off without me touching them and were a Colossal pain in my butt to glue back on

You should make a Tyrannocyte. It's a joyous experience that makes you wish baby seals would club YOU.

Edited January 5 by Firedrake Cordova

[phandaal]

On 12/29/2025 at 10:49 AM, JJD said:

First squad of warriors ready for battle. 
 

 

I went with a simple cork base. We might have been a bit heavy with the wash. The girls loved crafting the bases. 

 

These look great! The non-standard glow color is a cool choice by the munchkin.