How I paint - Aeronautica Imperialis - Necron Fighters
For this guide I have used a Doom Scythe from Forge World.
Here is the link to my Necron faction review.
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Paints required:
- Chaos Black spray
- Leadbelcher spray
- Leadbelcher
- Basilicanum Grey
- Gryph-charger Grey
- Nuln Oil
- Stormhost Silver
- Abaddon Black
- Lahmian Medium
- Eshin Grey
- Caliban Green
- Warpstone Glow
- Moot Green
- Yriel Yellow
- Army Painter Matt White
- Contrast Medium
- Warp Lightning
- Tesseract Glow
- Ahriman Blue
- Temple Guard Blue
As with all Forge World resin miniatures, wash them with a soapy water before you begin painting.
I began by giving the miniature and undercoat with Chaos Black spray. This was then followed with a light spray using Leadbelcher. This provides a nice silver base to start from but laves some black in the deepest recesses of the miniature, providing some shading.
Once the spray coats were fully dry Leadbelcher was drybrushed onto the miniature and allow you to get the ‘silver’ into the recesses without making the undercoats too thick. The drybrushed silver also helps with the ‘washes’ in the next step.
Optional. The engines were painted with a mix of Abaddon Black and Leadbelcher. I wanted the engines to be a slightly darker looking metal from the main body of the aircraft.
Once the ‘silver’ was fully dry, the miniature was given a wash with a 1:1 mix of Basilicanum Grey and Gryph-charger Grey. This was painted this across the whole miniature and then a damp brush was used to remove the 'wash’ if it pooled on any flat surface. This was then left to dry for a full hour before I returned for the next step. I went for a cup of tea.
Optional. I painted Nuln Oil into the gap around the edges of the wings. This just provides a little definition to the miniature.
With the basecoats and shading done on the miniature, it is now time to brighten the metal of the aircraft. The miniature was given a drybrush of Leadbelcher. This was primarily to re-establish the shine of the metal and to cover up any pooling of the wash that was missed. The metal was then further drybrushed with a 1:2 mix of Stormhost Silver and Leadbelcher. Finally, I focused a light drybrush of Stormhost Silver on the sharpest edges of the miniature.
To add some greater definition to the panels on the wings, I thinned some Abaddon Black with Lahmian Medium and painted this into the recesses. With this final addition, the ‘silver’ of the miniature is complete. Next, it is onto the details of the miniature and a bit of colour.
I began by thinning Abaddon Black with Lahmian Medium. This was painted over the guns on the underside of the aircraft. On the Gauss Cannons, I was careful to leave the tops and bottoms of the barrels of the weapons silver, but a stripe of black was painted down the side. The Lahmian Medium in this mix helps the paint to flow over the surface of the and into the details of the miniature.
Once the black paint was fully dry, the weapons were given a drybrush (taking lots of care to be precise) with Eshin Grey.
The cabling on the Gauss Cannons, the crystal of the Death Ray and the various lenses on the aircraft (and the Night Shroud Death Spheres) were then basecoated with Caliban Green. These were then highlighted with Warpstone Glow.
I continued to highlight the Death Ray crystal and the various lenses (and the Night Shroud Death Spheres). First with a 1:1 mix of Warpstone Glow and Moot Green, then with Moot Green. Finally, I add a very small quantity of Yriel Yellow and Army Painter Matt White to the Moot Green for a final highlight. With each highlight on the crystal, I tried to reduce the area the paint covered, so that the previous step would show through.
Next, I want to add a green glow to the Necron icons on the wings of the miniature. I decided to only do these on the upper surface, on the gaming table nobody is looking at the bottom of the miniature.
I started by mixing Contrast Medium with Army Painter Matt White and a tiny quantity of Moot Green. As Contrast Medium dries it draws together into the recesses, which is perfect for what I was trying to achieve. I used a small detail brush (I used a size 0 Windsor and Newton series 7), to carefully paint the mix into the icons. To help the paint flow into the recesses, I paint clean water onto the icons first. Then, when the paint from the brush touches the water, it is drawn into the icon. If any of the paint went onto the metal, I quickly wiped it off with my finger.
Once the white paint had dried with the recesses, it was time to add the green glow. Again, I used contrast paints to achieve the desired effect. This time I used a 1:1 mix of Warp Lightning and Tesseract Glow. This was then carefully painted into the icons over the top of the white underpaint. Before this mix could dry, I added into the icons, at limited places, small quantities of Warp Lightning to darken the green and reduce the uniformity of the colour.
The final splash of colour I added to the miniature, was to paint the view sphere in the cockpit Ahriman Blue. I then highlighted this Temple Guard Blue, before giving it a second highlight with a mix of Temple Guard Blue and Army Painter Matt White.
This method allowed me to paint six Necron aircraft in just over a day. By painting them all at the same time I produced a nice uniform finish.
In these pictures, I used the Necron Kill team terrain as ground structures, they are a nice scale. My guide to painting them is here.
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