3,000 points

Apocalypse here we come! With the nightbringer painted (plus a monolith I’ve very kindly been offered, but which is not quite finished yet), I‘ve come to:

HQ

The Nightbringer – 360 points

Necron Lord with Warscythe and veil of darkness – 170 points

Destroyer Lord with Warscythe and resurrection orb – 180 points

Troops

40 Warriors with disruption fields – 800 points

Elites

14 Immortals with disruption fields – 420 points

11 Flayed Ones with disruption fields – 231 points

Fast Attack

16 Scarab Swarms with disruption fields – 192 points

7 Destroyers – 350 points

Heavy Support

4 Heavy Destroyers – 260 points

5 Tomb Spyders – 275 points

1 Monolith – 235 points

Total: 3,473 points

Nightbringer

Finished the Nightbringer at last. I’ve lost count of the number of evenings I’ve been in bed, waiting to fall asleep, trying to figure out how I would paint it (the alternative being thinking about what the next stage of my long-running D&D campaign will be like). All black with grey highlights did not work; a black cloth with white flesh wasn’t appealing either. I’ve ended up with the following:body base-coated with Bleached Bone, with a couple of layers of Gryphonne Sepia washes. Then a quick highlight with Bleached Bone again, and one final, light Sepia wash.cloth undercoated Chaos Black, with first a drybrush of Adeptus Battlegrey, then a drybrush of Scab Red.The base I’d done months back, using my usual scheme - gravel undercoated Chaos Black with a drybrush of Fortress Grey followed by a lighter drybrush of Bleached Bone, and scarabs undercoated Chaos Black, drybrushed Dwarf Bronze, and finally washed Thraka Green. The eyes were done with Scorpion Green.Oh, and the scythe’s blade is not glued on – I’ve used magnets. I could not get the thing to hold on properly with glue, plus being able to remove it makes the mini much easier to store.Now if only I’d properly washed the model before the undercoat, maybe the paint would not flake as much. Hoping the coat of varnish will limit this a bit…

Flayed Ones

Gosh these took a while to complete. But with them done, I now only need to paint my Nightbringer to get to 3,000 points and be able to participate in the Apoca-Fez game at the end of July.As per them immortals, they came from eBay. I bought twelve of them around Christmas time last year, in several batches. Some claws were missing, so I’ve ended up with only eleven of the little critters. I’ll look into making some additional claws (either casting or building from green stuff or plasticard, not sure yet) at a later time.After the usual “Age of Bronze” treatment, I painted the fleshy parts with a basecoat of Tallarn Flesh, followed by little marks of Rotting Flesh. To add an overall feeling of decomposition, I added patches of various washes - Thraka Green for moldy bits, Ogryn Flesh for dried blood, and some Baal Red for fresher blood. I painted over the chest symbols with Burnished Gold as per usual, however left the eyes as-is – they’re very receded and I was unsuccessful at spotting them with Scorpion Green.The claws were painted sepately at first (Chaos Black undercoat, then a coat of Boltgun Metal). I glued them on once the bodies were fully painted, touched them up with Boltgun Metal, then washed with Badab Black. I them added Mithril Sliver to the bottom of the blades, and a bit of Baal Red wash on the tips. I finally varnished the lot with Vallejo’s matt varnish (Model Color range).

Immortals

I’d done these a while back, but did not take pictures at the time. I got all of them on eBay, cleaned and dis-assembled them, and then gave them my regular “Age of Bronze” Necron treatment: Chaos Black undercoat, then a dry brush of Dwarf Bronze, followed by a wash of Thraka Green. The eyes were done with Scorpion Green, the chest symbols with Burnished Gold. The bases are black, with a dry brush of Fortress Grey followed by a dry brush of Bleached Bone. I painted the bodies and weapons separately, and glued them together last.

 

Planetstrike preview

Went to the FLGS yesterday to play a game of Planetstrike. There must have been about 15 of us around the table, playing either defender or attacker. The game was brutal on both sides, quite chaotic, and very good fun – even though the two units I deep-striked got flattened very quickly indeed (beware the defender’s missile launchers - large blast template, Str 9 and AP 3 make mince-metal out of freshly deep-striked immortals…). But hey, we (the attackers) won the day regardless, with two of the three objectives (bastions) utterly destroyed and then successfully contested.

10 points

So what with my cold and all I haven’t made much painting progress. Still, I’ve managed to add 10 points to the old army list, by adding a warscythe option to my destroyer lord. Right below is the lord as it was, with a staff of light glued in place:

And now with its shiny new warscythe:

Both arms have been magnetized, so I can easily swap them. I did have to pull the staff of light off the miniature and redo the attachment, but that’s all part of the fun.

The magnets I got from http://www.powermagnetstore.com, they’re the D2 x 1mm Disc - Grade N45. I superglued them in place, added a bit of green stuff, and painted and varnished over.

New destroyers

2 more destroyers, on my way to 3,000 points for July’s Apoca-Fez. Got these two used from eBay, cleaned them up in brake liquid and repainted. I suppose I could have spent a bit more time filing away the leftover bits of sprue, I cleaned up most but not all. It’s interesting how little attention people pay to the assembly and cleaning of their models before painting them (basing myself upon all the stuff I’ve got from eBay here).