Necron NMM - Part IV

For battlefield repairs, Necrons use strips of gauss.

 Went ahead and finished the Necron model, which was fairly simple to do once the "copper" was finished. There isn't too much colour variation throughout the rest of the model, so relatively few paints were used.

For the inner skeleton structure, the blade of the weapon, and charging coils / heat sinks / whatever on the weapon:

• Incubi Darkness across the more prominent areas.
• Thunderhawk Blue highlighted over that.
• Fenrisian Grey as final edge highlights.

Baharroth Blue was used on the chest piece symbol, mostly because I didn't actually want it to stand out too much. Green would have made for good contrast, but would also have taken focus away from the face. As it is, the gun is doing that perhaps a little too much.

The weapon I had the idea to not paint as a uniform glow, but instead brighter towards one end to indicate power charging up and getting ready for firing. I could have made it a little more exaggerated, but essentially can't be bothered to do more on it now.

• Administratum Grey over all the glow areas.
• Ulthuan Grey over about two thirds of the glow area.
• White Scar over about one third of the glow area.
• Waywatcher Green (old glaze) across the whole glow area.
• Hexwraith Flame across about one third of the glow area, or any areas I wanted to nearly fluro in colour.

Standard approach for the rest of the weapon, with Eshin Grey and Dawnstone to highlight around the edges.

Ribbed cabling was Administratum Grey covered with Black Templar Contrast, then using brighter greys from the palette just to highlight some more. I could have pushed the contrast more for NMM there as well, but just didn't think it would have really added much to the model.

The base is the same as for most of everything else: Zandri Dust, Agrax Earthshade, Armageddon Dust drybrushed on top, and Terminatus Stone as a final drybrush step. I was a bit concerned it wouldn't work, but the lighter base complements the darker models tones well enough.

Happy enough with the final result, even if the NMM could have been improved on. At least I learned quite a lot, and the copper tones I think worked out very nicely. Still, I wouldn't want to paint an entire army this way.

-- silly painter.