Necrons on the move

I've been making some headway on the Necrons. I decided to go with the bone color, after base coating and weathering and highlighting them all metallic. Oh dear what a chore. Oh well.

Mock ups of new arms

Here are some guys I threw together with various bits I had laying around. I just wanted to give some idea of the scale and how they looked.

New bits

A friend and I had some arms sculpted by Morbak. I wanted some improvised weapons for my renegades. There are 6 arms total, 3 left and 3 right.







I've got some figures mocked up with the arms I need to get pics of and then get them painted. If you are interested in buy some let me know. I plan to put them on ebay after I get some additional ones cast up. My thoughts on price are $1.20 a pair or 10 pair for $10.

Yet Another Necron Test model

Which necron looks best/least bad? The one with blue below, the metal one, the beige/bone one or something else all together?

Papa Nurgle has come to town

A box arrived the other day with a very cool figure in it.
The Maxmini Greater Plaguebringer model. This thing is BIG. I think I will be using it as Scabiathraxus, thats how big it is.



I can't wait to get this painted up, its going to be a blast.
Here's a link to it at the store, its got a nice painted picture and includes a normal sized figure to show you scale.
Plaguebringer

Necrons, conversions and test models

I've been trying to figure out how to paint my Necrons. Initially I decided on a blue/silver theme and painted up a test model.





But I've since decided to go a different way. The blue and silver/metal seem to close together to me, the sort of blend together. So I think I am going to go with green like the regular ones. I know, why boring old green, well, because it seems to look best. I like the way the green and silver contrast. I thought about yellow/orange but they seem too hot to me for the necrons. I've also decided to go with a rusty theme rather than the pristine necrons that I was originally going with.






I also spent some time this evening kit bashing some crypits and a lord. They are made from various bits from the immortal box and the lychguard box.

Lord with warscyth





Cryptic, harbinger of the storm with voltic staff







Cryptic, harbinger of destruction with solar pulse. The sphere is meant to be some sort of solar pulse item.





And inbetween letting stuff dry and what not I took a crack at the dark eldar. This is my test model. I'm pretty happy with the basic color and armor so I will probably go with this scheme.

Astronomi-con report.

Played in Astronomi-con this past weekend in Dallas. Had a great time. Great armies, great terrain and terrific missions. My little grots did very well for themselves racking up 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss. Much better than I would have guessed. But what’s even better is I won best army! That's very cool as I put a lot of work into this army.

Game one was against Kenny and his bugs. The game was very fun and my warboss and cyborks were able to hold off a hoard of genesteelers, a hive tyrant and some gaunts; I'm not sure how they did it other than pure luck. The grot fighta was blasted out of the sky taking 18 wounds from the 3 shooty carnifex. win

Game two was against Will and his Salamanders. This was a pretty close game for both of us up until the end. Highlight was my grot tanks blasting a tactical squad and getting 37 wounds! Somehow against the odds the sarg, flamer and missile launcher survived unscathed! win

Game three was against Mr. Busy (can’t remember first name, sorry). He was using a nice dark eldar army and a great game. The game was on a city fight board with lots of terrain and difficult terrain. Despite having to make loads of dangerous terrain checks he suffered very little for it. The orks and grots were jammed up on the small roads. The grot mega tank was destroyed blocking the majority of one road but the little grot tanks managed to squeeze by and blast into the Duke and his squad routing them from the table. Win

Game four was against David Caldwell and his grey knights on the x-faxtor table. This table made everything difficult and reduced range to 12" anything over 12" needed 6 to hit. In addition there was a Vindicar assassin in a tall central tower. At the beginning of each game turn we rolled off and the winner got to control him that turn. I was able to take out a psycannon and thunder hammer with his help. The lack of range really hurt the grey knights and didn't affect me quit as much since I needed 4s and 5s to hit anyway. It was a close game with my warboss being insta-killed and my nobs squad being whittled down from mass fire. Game ended in a draw.

Game 5 was against Brian Ellis and his Slaanesh Chaos Marine army. This table was really tough; the entire center of the board was dangerous terrain. Only safe spots were 6" on the edge. With my unit of walkers and tanks I was fearful of driving in there because being immobilized would get them killed. Despite repeated shots and the two deflers I was unable to do anything other than immobilize one which I'm sure Brian would done anyway since his entire army was immobilized by the end of the game. :) They pie plates kept falling, the BW was destroyed and the warboss and nobs pinned and then shot to pieces. The warboss died to dangerous terrain trying to charge one of the two daemon princes. Very tough game and I got my butt kicked well. loss

Game six was against Ernest and his khorne army. The mission was fun, we had to clear buildings by enter a troops choice on foot into the building. Once it’s cleared it’s yours unless an enemy enters it, then its there’s. The berzerkers took a beating due to me popping the rhinos early and them having to walk across the board under heavy fire. Massed fire at the termies whittled them down and my dread finished off one unit and the lords unit was eventually shot to pieces. Very fun game but also very brutal, much like game five only in reverse.

Over all it was a great event and a blast was had by all.

So here is an army pic minus the grot fighta because I forgot it.



Best of all I was awarded the Best Army for my orks/grots. It very cool to get such an awesome trophy, I'm very excited about it! I can't wait for next year.

Updated cover sheet

I didn't like the big grey skull so I tried to find something else. Didn't find anything I really liked but this one is hopefully slightly better at least.

Here's my army list for Astronomi-con

Here's the wee little Waaagh stuffed in a box and ready to go.

Astronomi-con or bust, or maybe both...

Time for a big update. I complete my Astronomi-con army and thought I would post it all at once. Its 1500 points.

HQ - Big Mek Git Stompa




HQ - Warboss - Git Stompa's Runt Bot




Elite - Kaptain Gob Smasha's Bashun gitz


Kaptain Gob Smasha




Da Gitz












Troops - Nobs Squad - Cybork Slasha Nobs Squad
Waaagh banner carrier




Dok




Nobz








This bloke is not actually in the list but I painted him up anyhow




Battlewagon




Troop - Deff Dread - Big Stompy






Fast - Grot Mega Tank - Snaggle Toof's Blasta Wagon




Fast - Deff Kopta - Da Red Baron






Heavy - Killer Kans - Da Smashas








Heavy - Killer Kans - Da Crushas








Heavy - Big Trakk - Da finga of Mork