CLXXXII. Kill Team: Necrons

Everyone is talking about Kill Team these days. Been a while since my last delve into 40K (I don't think I've done anything since Tor Megiddo). For a while I've been thinking about messing with Necrons, so now's the opportunity. They're space undead, I like their fluff. But I'm not too fond of the models. Especially the more recent ones. My brother still had some minis from the time he wanted to build a Necron army, so I raided that for parts. I also have some really cool Mechanicus bits, like all the techy parts left over from the Techpriest and two Belisarius Cawls that were/will be made into fantasy minis.

Going for a more organic look on my metal men. Retrofuturistic looking weaponry. I'm using Beksinski and Giger art for inspiration. Necrons should be unsettling and alien.

A simple Necron Warrior. The first model I built for this. I replaced the head with a human skull, the weapon with a slightly modified Skitarii rifle. Love Skitarii weapon designs, so my gauss flayers and other Necron weaponry will look a bit different... 

Made him not too hunched forward. The squatting poses really annoy me on these models. They're supposed to be cold, soulless, fearless robots, relentlessly marching forward. They're represented much better in artwork. But anyway, despite that, I kept the legs as they were because I want the Warriors to be shorter than the Deathmarks and Immortals, and I intend to build most of them from Warrior parts. Did a few edits with putty, most notably on the torso and the back of the skull. Added texture with dremel, putty and liquid green stuff. When I started painting I had no idea where I was going. I painted until I settled on this.

Deathmark. I barely have anything but Warrior bits, so I'll be using those as base for most of the warband. Deathmarks are snipers, so I gave him the longer Skitarii rifle. Added a scope to communicate better that it's a sniper type of weapon. Straightened his legs, which made him appear taller than a Warrior. 

Used the Green Stuff World tentacle maker for the first time for the head tubes. I love it! The official Deathmarks have cyclops heads, so I went with weird faces on mine too. Covered eye sockets and drilled a hole in his forehead to represent that one eye.

There are only four unit types available in a Necron Kill Team, and they have virtually no equipment options to choose from. That actually makes it easier for me: I don't have to build extra models for various options, plus it's less confusing. A Warrior will always be armed with a gauss flayer, and a Deathmark with a synaptic disintegrator. Everyone just needs to be able to tell a Warrior apart from a Deathmark. I'm not sure what I'll do next, but my goal for the project is to end up with 3 Immortals, 2 Deathmarks, 4 Warriors and 3-4 Flayed.