Necron Flyer Wing Finished!

Cue dramatic flying music... theme song from "Top Gun"... RIP Tony Scott...

The 5 flyers are finished.  Here are my 3 Night Scythes and 2 Doom Scythes.  To help identify the Doom Scythes (outside the big prism gun) I painted their main fuselage blue. 

I snapped some pictures of them on the sanded (but not painted) display board I'll be transporting to NOVA.  As you can see, I alternated which panels were turquoise in which were metallics to add some variety.

They have been doing great, I just need to keep practicing which flight vectors to go to get maximum carnage.  I'll be running 4 instead of 5 on this weekend's 1,750 tournament.  I would love to get rid of the aegis defense lines and the communications relay, but I don't want to take any chances.  It's really good to have them all in at once to overwhelm the opponent.  I hope I can get at least one game against another full flyer list to practice between now and NOVA.

Necron Night Scythe Painted

The first of the flying circus is finished!  What a cool model, and I'm especially pleased that the portal and death ray are interchangeable without magnets to allow for switching.  This is the first of 6 I'll be painting up.  To add some variety, future ones will have alternate areas turquoise.

I did have some issues with the decals.  The thin gold ones that were supplied in the box didn't seem to work right from a fit standpoint and broke apart a bunch.  I will probably go back to the decals supplied with the other vehicles. 

I'm hoping to get my first test game with the foot necrons tomorrow, and on Sunday I have a three game tournament so I'll finally get some games in.  I can't believe how fast this army has come together.

All that is left to paint is a couple of barges.  Pictures on the royal court and HQ's will go up tomorrow.

Scarab Cookies

The necron project for NOVA is flying through record completion... I may have the army (first version) finished by this weekend.  Not bad, getting over 2,000 points done in a few weeks.  I painted up all of the scarab bases; a combination of resin scarab parts and "normal" scarabs up top.  I think they look more like swarms emerging from the desert rather then a few (pictured) floating above the sands.

While painting them I kept thinking the scarabs looked like raisins or chocolate chips since I paint the sand first and had the scarabs based black.  Last night I got about half way through the last of my infantry, I'm currently in the process of painting:

2 Overlords
1 Lord
10 Crypteks
5 Immortals

I also couldn't resist starting to paint the new Necron Night Scythe.  Here's where I'm at with that.  I should have that finished along with this infantry tonight.  That will leave me with just an annihilation barge and command barge and I'm finished!

With the rumors of 6th edition toting cumulative glances destroying things, I really like the idea of crypteks wielding the assault 4 haywire gun.  A pair of them from dual courts attached to a 5 man warrior squad in a Night Scythe could be deadly to vehicles.  We'll see if that's the case.  If it is my Necron Flying Circus could be nasty.

Necron Night Scythe Assembly

Even though I'm painting my foot necrons for the weekend tournament, I couldn't help but assemble the new Necron Night Scythe / Doom Scythe.  The kit went together very easy compared to the trials of the ghost ark and annihilation barge.  I kept a few pieces off of the kit for ease of painting the driver and weapons, I would highly suggest the same.  As always, do a dry fit to make sure the pieces work before priming.  I left the top fuselage, front "nose" piece (holds the two parts together), and the portal & death ray.

As you can see below, the portal and death ray fit perfectly without having to use any glue or magnets.  This is really nice and will allow for quick swapping between the two, or weapon destroyed on the death ray. 

I really want to get some paint on this but I need to focus on the rest of the army.  Last night I finished up 24 scarab bases, and almost finished 9 warriors.  Pictures to follow!