Saturday, November 12, 2011

Scarab Swarms And Army Shot Update





I love these little scarab models, so this morning I painted ~30 of them! I wanted them to really stand out on the battlefield, so I painted the to the shame standard as my troops. This means for the green carapace I used Moss, Pale lichen, and then a white/lichen mix to shade them. I then used bolt gun metal on the metal parts, badab wash, followed by silver highlight. The little tail sections I hit with dev mud to bring out the details.

I had planned to use a very dark brown basing, much like what I see over on the Vanus Temple , since I have long admired his work, but I think I am going to stick with the basing I created for my Blood Angels. The bases are already littered with ruined imperial bits, and given the BA and Necrons have fought together before, it would bring a little cohesion to my armies. I'll also be able to reuse my display board should I decide to game with these Necrons.

Now, I have to eat a little crow today. While putting together two more Ghost Arks, I noticed that the rib sections go together in a specific order. I have no idea how I missed this with the first Ark, but I did. The arks went together really easily, and the plastic glue worked just fine. Lesson learned.

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7 comments:

  1. Rasmus OlesenNovember 12, 2011 at 10:22 AM

    Man i didnt like your color choice that much in the start mate but i have to say its coming out great!

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  2. skipNovember 12, 2011 at 3:51 PM

    Nice! Whats that color?

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  3. John StieningNovember 12, 2011 at 5:56 PM

    Reaper Master Series Highlands Moss and Pale Lichen as the highlight.

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  4. DuendENovember 13, 2011 at 7:43 AM

    i Love that minis !

    I got a blog too follow me:

    http://malditoduendeminiatures.blogspot.com/

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  5. CK aka KronosNovember 13, 2011 at 9:54 AM

    This looks really awesome so far! I can't wait to see future updates and the finished army.
    And thank you for the color walkthrough in your posts, that's also really cool! :)

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  6. Snake88November 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM

    Great work. Its really impressive how quickly these have been painted and to such a high standard.

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  7. The Inner GeekNovember 15, 2011 at 8:46 AM

    It's all cool and I like it. But, what grabbed me was the mention of using the same display board. This is genius! If a display board is non race specific enough, you can use the same board for multiple armies. That kinda blew my mind this morning. At first I thought, what if you have too many 'slots' to set the minis in (if you drill out places to inset your minis), then I realized you could just make blank bases to be place holders. That would be awesome. Now I just need to finish two armies and a display board to try it out!

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