Blog Canas' armies

The first unit of necrons from the forgebane box. They were surprisingly easy to paint.


Also, a hill, cuz I need terrain

 

Nice looking necrons!

 

And more necrons, the lichguard this time.

 

A techpriest ensigneer, and a larger piece of terrain with water coming out of a damaged portal realmgate thing The terrain is considerably less shiny, but my phone's camera apparently catches all the light.

 

And the cryptec and his wraiths for my lil necron force. I like his staff thing.

 

Picking up the highlights with my camera is quite difficult without just zooming in so much you start seeing individual brushstrokes and more importantly every single mistake I made. The highlights are more pronounced in reality. But I'l try a yellow glaze if I ever make another batch of necrons. Used a green one this time but that might have been too close to the armour plates green to really pop out.


Same for their tailplates. The nuln oil is enough for the most part, but my camera just doesn't really pick it up. Though I like how the lines on the recesses in the armour plates make the armour pop out more so I'l try that as well.

 

Continuing with the nighthaunt again now that the 40K stuff is done.

 

These aren't too bad, the bit of plastic they lean on is quite thick. But you should look at the spirit torment, he just connects with 1 thin sliver of plastic to the base.

 

I made some more terrain, this time something that is a bit taller in the form of some rock formation.

 

Some banshee's, they look a bit better than the other nighthaunt I think. Though I still have no clue how to paint the newer models.

 

The reason it's so much is cuz the base is the technical nighthaunt blue paint. I've not quite figured out how you're supposed to paint with that one yet and it ends up either barely noticeable or one layer immeadiatly turns the entire thing blue (or green if I use the other one).

And I can't really figure out how to paint the various ghosts. I painted some spectral hosts earlier where I basicly just some shade at it which worked well due to how many ridges there are on those models making for some natural highlights and stuff even with the models basicly only being 1 or two colours. However, the newer nighthaunt models don't have as many ridges. In fact they're mostly just flat monochrome Surfaces, with very few other objects (trinkets, helmets etc.) to highlight or contrast the larger monochrome Surfaces of their cloaks. So so far those newer models mostly end up looking like 1 big blue (or purple, or black, or white) blob. The banshees are some of the better ones simply cuz they come on a fancier base so there's some stuff below em for contrast, plus they have at least some ridges and such in their cloaks and skirts and whatnot.