Hobby Progress: Wrapping Up Chaos + Necron Beginnings

This last weekend for me I was crazy busy with hobby progress.  Having to pull an all nighter at work with not much to do other than paint and glue miniatures aplenty proved fruitful for me.  I finished my warlord, which can now either double as a Chaos Lord with the Brand or a Sorcerer on a bike.  I am very happy with his overall result, here are a few pictures.

This was my first time attempting to do OSL (Object source lighting) in my painting, using a combination of dry brushing as well as thin layers.  I felt that while his staff could have turned out a bit better, his helmet really showed the effect well. I will be incorporating OSL en-mass when I begin painting my Necron army (more on that to come).

I also finished up my Aegis Defense Line (pictured below). It was my first time using weathering pigments, and am happy with the result that they gave. I plan to use the pigments for muddy weathering on my tank tracks, as well as for some rust/corroded effects on the Necrons.  

The shields were used from an old warriors of chaos kit I had laying around from my fantasy stint a few years back.  Pigments were the flames of war brand, using a layer of European Dust and then Mud.

I also stayed up later Saturday night listening to the 11th company podcast and modeling the beginnings of my Necron force.  Annihilation Barges are really neat models, but due to my unfamiliarity with the kit (I've only ever done Marine-stuff in 40k) it took me a while to get all the little parts fitting in the right places.

Here are a few pics below of the Necrons.  I am using corkboard to create rubble/rocks for the bases. This helps give the warriors (a fairly static model) more dynamic poses. I also liked the effect that it created with the scarabs, skittering over terrain.

D-Lord in the center is missing his wraiths...

The corkboard to the bases gives them a bit more height and will look neat when painted.

Last but not least I modeled one last chaos spawn based on some extra bits I had from the kit in combination with an additional body I ordered off of e-bay. This will put me up to 5 spawn which is the maximum for the unit size, a perfect escort for my biker-lord/sorc.  He is a bit more random than the others (as he was created from spare bits) but hey, its spawn, so what?

Come at me, bro.

Unfortunately I am fresh out of primer, so painting will commence tomorrow evening, but I am looking forward to testing out a few different color schemes on the warriors.

Future Projects:
-Painting Necrons
-Creating a wargaming table
-Possible 2nd Helldrake (it is still staring at me in plastic)
-Modeling Night Scythe + Wraiths (need to order next month)


I have also been musing about running a pair of maulerfiends  They are pricy models, but I do like the way that they look, and believe they would be extremely fun to play in a fast up-in-your-opponents-face style list, supported by other fast attack and HQ choices from it plus the Daemons codex.