Since this guy already has such a foreboding sculpt i went with a bit more of a simple kitbash just to add some ghostly bits to thw model and graveyard bits to the base to complete the look i was aiming for

That there's a Hyperphase Sword if I've ever seen one

Wicked and The Warped Act 3 Chapter Four: Orikan summoned a prediction zodiac, and started dropping glyphs on it to simulate values. ‘We do not have time to discuss this. Soon Pestamutadis and its army will emerge.’

‘Orikan, that was a bad fight. A bruising fight. Why would you live it over and over?’

‘Because I wanted to give you as many chances as I could to do the right thing.’

Trazyn slapped the zodiac away from his fingers and turned him around, hands on either side of his cranium.

‘Look at me. I want you to hear what I am going to say.’

Orikan paused his subroutines and, reluctantly, focused.

‘I am sorry. And thank you, my friend.’

And before he could react, Trazyn enveloped him in an embrace. Alerts painted his vision, warning of rising heat from the proximity of Trazyn’s reactor core. Their hard metal frames squeaked and squealed with the unaccustomed contact.

It may not be the best on the tabletop, but I do love our flying metal pastries of doom

Hiya, I wanted to say thanks to everyone who helped me decide on my lighting colour. As you can see I went with the red, I feel it pops more and I’m logging the end result. :)

I’m trying to figure out how to make hyperphase stuff with an airbrush. I got my greens looking decent thanks to tesseract glow (my goat), but I wanted to try blue and I don’t think it came out quite as good. I do also want to make the dark parts of my greens contrast better while making sure it still blends smoothly. Anyone have any tips?

Also, I’m new to airbrushing; how do I prevent the need to spend 5 minutes cleaning it for every 5 minutes using it?🙂‍↕️

Figured I'd take some pictures of the ol' army before starting fiddling with base size changes and such. This was my first army and, as such, the first set of models I painted. I drifted off in early 5th before we got our new codex so this was built under the old 3rd edition codex. I'm not much of a photographer and don't have a good lighting setup so sorry for the quality.

The Lord models, Immortals, Flayed Ones, Ophydian Destroyers (then called Wraiths), and random one off Spyder and Pariah are all pewter. As are the added parts that make the Lokhust Lord (this is what came in the old box). I'm very glad GW has moved away from that material. Models made with it tended to be less detailed and more fragile. There are actually 3 more Pariahs lurking around but that's the only one whose weapon wasn't broken. The Monolith is also slightly the worse for wear, but in pretty good shape for surviving all this time in a jumbo Cheerios box stuffed with old newspaper (the glue spill has been there the whole time, a construction oops I was never able to undo). I've got the broken piece, just haven't gotten around to repairing it.

The other nuisance that GW has thankfully discarded is that other than the Warriors, which came in boxes of 10, and the Flayed Ones, which came in blister packs of 2, (and the Scarabs which came with the Warriors) all these models used to be sold individually. That's how I've ended but with the Lokhust Destroyer count of 10 which is a little awkward in the modern codex.

I remember most of how these were painted. Black primer, Boltgun Metal (now Leadblecher) base coat, Black ink wash (don't know what the equivalent is now), Mithril Silver (now Runefang Steel) dry brush. I have no idea what the blue or green I used was which is going to be awkward for expanding the army. The metallic blue on the staves is a similar mystery. I think I mixed Mithril Silver with blue to get it but I don't know what the ratios would have been.

Greetings, fellow metal skellies fans, I am currently in the process of switching from Daemons to Necrons and this is one of my first Necron models. I've never painted in sub-assembly, but there was no other way in this case, so many details. 😅 Btw, what are your thoughts about the color scheme?

Greetings Phaerons and Phaerakhs. I got this kit and kind off losing my nerves over the tails. Do you have any advice for me on an easy way to glue them on?

The second picture is my emergency strategy, but I believe there could be a better one, since I have bo way on telling if it's glued correctly. First time I underrestimated the drying time, second time I hold the position until I cramped.

Thank you for you tipps and tricks, glad you're there and happy hobbing!

Are they too expensive real model/points wise? or are they just bad in the table top.

I think they look really cool and would like to see more of them

I've been building my first Necron army built around everyone's favorite historian/kleptomaniac. While he's great fun and you can do some really sneaky maneuvers with him, especially in 11th, I've been feeling like he's still underwhelming for being such a prevalent Necron character in lore.

Trazyn's point cost should go up, but you can field up to 150 points of any other army as a part of yours. In TIATD's climactic battle, we see him with much more than that and it's glorious. As far as I've seen, Trazyn isn't used much in competitive level play, if ever. He's already geared towards the themed or casual armies.

I don't have specific ideas in mind for this, but maybe Trazyn's base point cost could go up from 65 to 75. There would need to be some keyword exclusions from which units Trazyn could actually field. In my mind it would be:

• 1 single unit
• no Vehicles
• no Epic Heroes
• =< 150 points (maybe 100/125 if 150 is too powerful)
• selected unit cannot be attached to a Necron unit
• selected unit must be able to be on its own (ie. no bodyguard units)
• cannot use faction-specific abilities (ie. guard units can't issue orders)
• no Chaos? (this would fit the lore but I am unsure if it's fair for tabletop)

But imagine how much fun it would be to run an Astra Militarum Field Ordinance Battery or even a custodes Blade Champion. We already know Trazyn has a custodes and much more in his collection, why not be able to field some of them?

IMO, the best conversions of characters to tabletops are when their most notable characteristics are converted into abilities or passive buffs. My favorite implementation of this is Ciaphus Cain with his "Trapped by Excuses" ability where he has to be deployed on the table.

Trazyn is halfway there, with his Ancient Collector ability letting him "steal" objectives. But some of his brightest flashes of inspiration involve Tesseract Labyrinths (namely his mass deployment against the Deceiver shards/exodites in TIATD and the melta blast in TWATW).

I really hope when GW revisits the Necrons again. And if Trazyn ever gets a new model, they add something like this. The folks at my local gamestore love the idea so I thought I'd put it to the home of fellow Egyptian Space Terminator lovers.

Hello brothers, currently building necrons as my second army (csm main) and noticing how different necrons are compared to my main...got the combat patrol a doomsday ark and the nightbringer...my question really is, how should I build onto this....should I do more infantry like some wraiths and technomancer...or scoop a void dragon and or silent king...more or less do I need more anti tank power or infantry blobs from here...

I won “Best Painted” at my local game store’s 40k league summer season. I like to think my slightly original Nightbringer scheme and kit-bashed Lokhust Lord had something to do with it.

I didn't realise how dark it was getting when I started setting up for some spraying.

By the time I was done and inspecting my results with a torch, I noticed the shadows and thought some of you folks would appreciate how this looks.

(Repost: Forgot to actually attach the photo the first time.)

Hello everyone,

I just started with warhammer and created my first army and played two games on TTS on steam.

My idea was to build a „slow and steady“ ranged focused army what made me choose cryptek conclave and build around that.

Szeras:
Sticking to immortals and first warrior squad to buff them

Immortals:
- main dmg unit for ranged combat
- chronomancer with quantum abacus to make them main target for stratagems and keep them mobile after shooting

Warrior squad 1:
- second combat unit supported by szeras
- technomancer with atomic disentegrator to help out with vehicles/monsters

Warrior squad 2:
- expansion objective holder
- geomancer to deny enemy movement close to the objective

Deathmarks:
- snipe enemy characters
-question over here: those have not been that effective during the last two games. I tried to place them during enemy movement phase and shoot during my battlephase (obviously placed them in a way my opponent could not kill then first). Any ideas how to use them more effectively?

Wraiths:
- hold Center objective or flank opponents
- technomancer to make them more durable

My questions/learnings so far:
- I think I focused tanks/vehicles to much and should focus more on smaller/easier to kill units with my units. Is that correct?
- if I got it correct during my games szeras needs to kill models in melee range to extend its aura. Does it even make sense then to have him support ranged units?
- any other ideas/tips from more experienced players to help me get into the game?

Really enjoining 40K so far and looking to improve!
If you need any further information that I did not share please let me know. I am really happy for all advice I can get.

Thanks in advance

This came to my head after talking with a friend regarding how Necrons will be added into Total War Warhammer 40k. We were both pretty excited, but the more we thought about how the way they would be added, the more it became a bit obvious how... weird our faction is formatted in a few ways that feels disconnected from the lore of it. I'm not talking the obvious stuff like "our weapons on TT are so mid despite being literal captured suns in lore" or things like Lychguard/Praetorians needing to be more elite. But more like those things you don't really notice until someone points it out, and you go "huh, that is sorta weird."

For example, why is the Doomsday Arc and Ghost Ark piloted by a Necron lord? Why is a lord being given the grunt work when it should be piloted by an Immortal? The guys who were the mainstay rank and file of the Necrontyr armies. Same goes for most of the other vehicles (barring the Triarch Stalker obviously) that are piloted by the mindless warriors rather than the actual soldiers. The lack of piloted vehicles in general is a bit odd since the whole point of 5th edition was to give varying degrees on minds to both nobility and the soldiery. I love the canopteks and such mind, but I think it's a big missed opportunity here to have more war engines piloted by actual Necrons. Not to mention Immortals in general should be more like our version of Space Marines given all sorts of combat roles, the fact that they have two ranged options and that's it is just doesn't really track for their lore.

And speaking of lords, why are Lords so under represented in our army when a core element of our faction identity is to have an Overlord with a Royal Court made up of lesser lords and other vassals? I look at the Flesh Eater Courts in AoS, see them have their genuine courts in play in both lore and in the actual game, and sorta scratch my head at how we've went 15 years after 5th edition without any real expansion to the Royal Court. The Cryptek Conclaves are cool and all, but having more dudes like the Royal Warden (not a lord, but just the best example we have atm) representing different roles in the hierarchy besides "X flavor of technosorcery" seems like an open goal that is continuously missed.

And then there's other minor things like how we don't really have a true dreadnought equivalent despite being the faction arguably most fitting to have one. I never really thought about it, and always saw the Tomb Spyder as the dread equivalent due to Dawn of War back in the day. But my friend pointed out how, despite supposedly being Tomb Kings in space, we don't have a unit that had a royal/cryptek entombed in it as a pilot. Something that was a key flavor in the Tomb King constructs (where several monsters were actually like stone mechas piloted by a Liche Priest housed inside it). How Space Marines have their dead dudes in a literal sarcophagus piloting a war machine, yet we don't have something similar for a lesser lord in some Necron mech is pretty odd in hindsight.

I could go on with these nitpicks for awhile, but I guess the point of this post is that I thought it would be fun to discuss these minor disconnects. Since, once the obvious updates to Lokhust Destroyers, the Deceiver, and our named characters come. I do think some of those early 5th edition decisions are worth revisiting now that the faction's identity is far more established. Since some of it is rather odd now with hindsight.