Necron + base

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    21 Jul 2025
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Model

  1. prime the model with Chaos Black
  2. Paint the metal areas with Gun Metal
  3. Wash the dark metal (like the joints, spine and fingers) with a 1:2 ratio of Black Templar and Contrast Medium
  4. Wash ALL the metal with a 1:1 ratio of Nuln Oil and Lahmian Medium . This will leave a satin finish over the darker metals we just washed with blacktemplar and creates nice defenition on the lighter metals like the armour and the shoulders.

Weapons (and other black details)

  1. Basecoat the weapon with Matt Black

Blackstone details

  1. Basecoat with Scarab Green

Desert base

  1. Add texture (sand or a paste)
  2. Basecoat the ground with a very thinned down Dusty Skull
  3. Heavy drybrush with Skeleton Bone
  4. Basecoat the stones with Onyx Skin
  5. Drybrush the stones with Mocca Skin
  6. Drybrush the ground with Pale Sand
  7. Wash the base ground with Sepia Tone
  8. Drybrush (light) the whole base with Pale Sand
  9. Paint the rim of the base with Matt Black
  10. Varnish the whole mini with Munitorum Varnish
  11. Add pigment powder, desert sand
  12. Add grass tufts

Jasper

Jaxopher

Citadel Painting System 6
Shade 1
  • Nuln Oil
Technical 2
  • Contrast Medium
  • Lahmian Medium
Spray 2
  • Chaos Black
  • Munitorum Varnish
Contrast 1
  • Black Templar
The Army Painter Warpaints Fanatic 9
Acrylic 7
  • Dusty Skull
  • Matt Black
  • Mocca Skin
  • Onyx Skin
  • Pale Sand
  • Scarab Green
  • Skeleton Bone
Metallic 1
  • Gun Metal
Wash 1
  • Sepia Tone
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