Living Metal
- Basecoat the model with Gunmetal Grey.
- With an airbrush, spray an all over zenethal highlight of Duraluminum downwards at a 45 degree angle.
- Spray White Aluminum almost straight downward, from the top of the model. Be selective only catching the very top, face and shoulders.
- Now we do an oil wash on all of the Necron and the weapon coil. I poured out the amount odourless Artists' White Spirits I felt I needed for the wash and added paint to it, until I was happy with the consistency. I used 3 parts Ivory Black, with 1.5 parts Burnt Sienna and 1 part Cobalt Violet Hue, all from the Winton range of oil paints.
- After giving the oil paint at least an hour to dry, wipe paint from the exposed areas and avoid recesses. I like to use makeup sponges or those little sponges on stick for applying makeup. If you want to remove the paint extra thoroughly in an area, add a very small amount of white odourless Artists' White Spirits to the sponge.
- Selectively highlight exposed edges and places where the light would hit with Silver RLM01 Metallic.
Black Armour
- Basecoat with Black.
- Chunky highlights of Incubi Darkness.
- Fine edge highlights of Sons of Horus Green.
- Selective highlights of 1:1 Sons of Horus Green and Sybarite Green.
- Add some White to the previous mix, and add specular highlights.
White Armour
- Basecoat with a 1:1 mix of Grey Seer and White.
- Glaze/shade with Grey Seer. Be quite generous with the area you shade.
- Add additional shading with Dawnstone. Make this stage more selective.
- In areas where you want a clear division, shade with very thin lines of Skavenblight Dinge.
- Add edge highlights with White.
Light Green Energy
- Basecoat with White.
- Wash with Tesseract Glow.
- Shade with thin Warpstone Glow.
- Shade the deepest areas with Caliban Green.
- Towards the centre, mix your Tesseract Glow with some White and lighten a small area, leaving space to get brighter.
- Finish with a small amount of White in the very centre.
Gold Details
- Basecoat with 1:1 Retributor Armour and Balthasar Gold.
- Shade with Gore-grunta Fur. I like to work it on my wet palette then selectively shade recesses, rather than wash the whole thing.
- Add deep shading to recesses with a thin mix of Doombull Brown and Abaddon Black.
- Add some Silver to what remains of your base mix, then highlight.
- Finally, highlight more selectively with pure Silver.
- While I had the Gore-grunta Fur out, I also washed the ridged tubing with it at this stage.
Green tubing
- Basecoat with Caliban Green.
- Glaze everything but the recessed parts with Warpstone Glow, pulling your rush towards where you are planning to build your highlights.b
- Apply highlights with 1:1 Warpstone Glow and Moot Green.
- Selectively highlight with Moot Green.
- Mix some Ice Yellow into your Moot Green and add very small highlights where needed.