For this week's post I'll start with a group of 3D printed 'Space Skeletons' that are obviously stand-ins for GW Necrons. For some added spice I'm claiming bonus points for Dante's Heresy - as one of the Necrons has had a Space Marine's 'Crainial Cognitive Unit' (Head!) grafted onto the otherwise robotic body - an Imperial Heresy if there ever was!
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| The completed unit of 18 x Necrons |
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| Close-up on one seide of the unit |
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| And the other side! |
In reality the sculpted head had broken off and I decided to use the Heritic Space Marine head to replace it!
All figures were undercoated in grey, and then painted with GW Lead Belcher, the grey being a good base for the gunmetal metalic. I then used Bronze to add detail to each figure, on upper arm and knee pads, plus the banding on teh shoulder pads.
Mithril Silver was used to add a highlight strip on the outside of each shoulder pad.
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| Deatil of the figures here - there are two types of weapon supplied with the group |
I painted the weapons with GW Ratling Grime, a 'noce' grubby, oily brownish black, once dried I painted the Plasma coils white - using Windsor & Newton White Ink - my new favourite medium for such work. I find this white ink incredible smooth, high in pigment and easy to apply.
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| More of the guys with the triple barrelled plasma weapon |
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| A final shot of the heavier weaponed robo-guys. |
Once the ink was dry, I used GW Frostheart Contrast paint to give the plasma coils the almost fluresent blue look. A similar process was used to do the Nercon helmets, giving a green glow where the eyes & mouth might be expected to be seen.
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Necron guys with Plasma rifles, note the bayonet-like device on each
and the green glow on their helmets |
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| Another group of Rilfle Bots |
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The final two figures, one of each weapon type, with the Heretic on the right!
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| Obviously the heretic Marine Necron is the simplest of all conversions - ironically I found the proper Necron head in the packaging when I came to throw this out - but decided the Heretic Marine was a good story! |
Bases were painted using craft shop flesh acrylic paint mixed with wood glue, to give the bases an alien feel, before sprinkling with fine sand and adding some tufts.
Next up are some more Arthurians, these foot are Victrix Armoured Infantry who will be making up a unit of Close Order Heavy Infantry, once I source another frame of figures from eBay.
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| Another six Arthurians off the production line, these are all Victrix figures using black & white shield patterns - I must try and source / produce some additional colour combination! |
The same process to paint these little guys was used as in my other recent submissions - so I won't repeat here. These figures are really nicely animated - more so than the Gripping Beast and Wargames Atlantic figures - in my opinion! Shield transfers are from
Little Big Men Studios.
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The unit commander has been given a gold scale armour to help him stand out
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Same figures with the rear rank brought to the front to show them off!
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Lastly we have a classic Elf Mage, mounted on his Elven Steed, I purchased this figure off eBay after completing the two classic elves in my first post of this challenge. I was keen to get the Mage to have long white robes but with blue ‘add ons’ to get the colour scheme to tie into the figures I’d just completed.
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| The Mage in all his glory! |
The figure came undercoated white but needed a couple of repairs and a general tidy up, once repairs were done I gave the whole figure a coat of GW Adminstratum Grey, before a dry brush of white.
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The Elven Stead was deliberately painted as a 'Grey'
but with a golden tail and mane to differenciate him from a regular horse used by humans. |
I wanted to make sure that the Mage's mount was clearly not a regular horse, a somewhat unrealistic colour scheme was therefore used, with the Steed's mane & tail reflecting the hair colour of the Elves that will form my new Elven Army as I build it.
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| The scale armour was given a padded leather base - to make it look more 'realistic'. |
Gems were picked out in red, which were gradually highlighted to orgage to give them a realistic effect, runes on teh Mage's sword were also treated in a similar manner.
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| Another view of the Mage |
With such an old model there are some limitations, the bridle appears as a solid block and the base of the Stead's armoured barding is somewhat crudely shown. All you can do is embrace this - so I painted the underbarding as padded leather and the results of the work on the bridle can be seen below.
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Final View, showing electrostaic grass on fine sand base,
that I use as standard for most of my models.
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That's it for this week. I have a group of Arthurian Horse nearing completion and I'm looking to set-up to do a regiment of High Elf Spearmen for next week!
SQUIRREL Necrons +1 Point
POINTS
18 x 28mm Necrons @5 Pts ea 90 Points
Heresy Bonus 20 Points
6 x 28mm Arthurian Foot @5 Pts ea 30 Points
1 x 28mm mounted Elf Mage 10 Points
TOTAL 150 Points
A fine selection of figures, Mike! I like your necrons. Thanks for sharing your recipe, I think it works very well. The Arthurians are great too, I actually think the black and white shield patterns suit them. The mage is the piece de résistance of this post for me, however. The blue and white colour scheme is great, and the horse looks excellent. A very bright and lively figure! Well done, another 150 points on the board for you.
Martijn
