Teleporting Necrons

At a time when I should be painting, or at the very least priming, the obsession continues to degrade my focus. Thus, new conversions have appeared on my work table. Presenting: the wonderful, mind-bending, teleporting Necrons!

These guys are the first of a small troop of Necrons meant to travel in the Night Scythe. In many games I deploy a unit of 14 Warriors and a Lord (usually with Res Orb and Warscythe), and I thought it would be cool to have a dedicated unit. So it was that I designed and built these guys, meant to look as if half (or more, depending on the model)-materialized, ready to fire. on unsuspecting foes.

The Warriors are just cut up here and there, with added Liquid Green Stuff and the digitized bits from the Tesseract Vault kit.

The Necron Lord is customized from a couple left over bits from my Overlord model (which was used to create Kutlakh), including the crown and Res Orb hand. The legs are Warrior legs cut for better positioning, and a small spine piece from an Ark pilot.

And that's it for now! I have more bits en rout to create 8 more of these Warriors and then I'll update you when I paint them. I'll probably paint these up before getting back to the grind of my Infinite Phalanx, or the myriad of other vehicles and models I have waiting.

Thanks for checking out more of my army!

Canoptek Conversion - The Kraken

And here it is, my favorite conversion, the Canoptek Kraken:

Nothing like a solid oven backdrop, right?

 I'm hoping to add as much detail to document this conversion as possible. This is going to be a long one, folks. I hope you enjoy it!

Let's take it from the top. Here was my shoddy sketch of how I wanted it to look:

I didn't go to art school, I'm sorry...

Actually, not too far off! I started with the idea, outlined the pieces I needed, and got right to work. Here, my work begins.

The head is obviously a Doom/Night Scythe hull, and the Doomsday Cannon of course came from the Doomsday Ark kit. The supporting tentacles are coils from the Tesseract Vault, as are the tentacles that will hold the Gauss Flayers. The piece that attaches the Cannon to the Scythe head is also from the Canoptek creature holding the C'tan, and the soon-to-be eyes are from the throne. The guns are chopped off of normal Necron Warriors. You will also see some parts from the Command Barge panel, and the small engines from Tomb Blades, neither of which made it into the final design.

Once I had laid out all the pieces, it was time to get to it!

I started out by carefully taking apart the gauss flayers, removing the barrel, the hand, and the small tube. I dry fit the tip and the green rod just to check out the final product. I was pleased.

A few clips later, and we had this to view:

So far so good! Next up - cutting down the Doom Scythe to size.

Had to use a hand saw for this one. Good fun, those hand saws...

One of my favorite progress shots ever!

Next, on to the support tentacles!

After cutting off the excess from the coils, and with the help of a friendly can of peanuts, I glued on the support tentacles where those pesky Tesla Destructors would go. I later added some additional coil links to fill in the gap.

I tactlessly globbed on some Green Stuff to make the job a bit easier. This was my first time converting, and my first time using Green Stuff, so I would definitely have done this differently now. But hey, you live and learn, right?

And the Cannon is attached. The tentacles were short to follow. And the finishing touches involved a chopped up Dispersion Shield and the eyes.

I'd like to do another one soon, and have definitely learned from the experience. I would love any input or recommendations you folks might have on how to improve the design! It's a little unstable, but overall not bad. The tentacles are frail as anything, but they're just so cool I couldn't give them up.

Thanks for checking it out! As always, let me know what you think.

Custom Canoptek Creatures - An Overview

Hello there folks! Welcome to an overview of my custom Canoptek army:

Custom Canoptek Conversions - Incomplete

I am not going to go into detail about each of them here - this is only the overview! But I wanted to get up some of the pictures so you can see what is coming. I will be creating a separate post for each of these monsters so I can go into more detail.

Canoptek Dragonfly - Counts as Command Barge

 When I first started collecting the Necrons, I really loved the look and feel of the Canoptek creatures. I perused the internet looking at all the cool conversions, especially the simple Triarch Stalker conversions, and thought to myself, "Why not remove all the pilots from the vehicles and create creatures for each of them?" So that's what I did.

Not all of them are complete, like the Dragonfly above. But I'm getting there! My first post will probably be the most detailed post I'll ever do, and that is to showcase the Canoptek Kraken (or Canoptek Obliterator, Ican't decide which). Here's a peak at the finished product:

Canoptek Kraken