#necrons aesthetic

[chiyuki-hiro]

Bought my first set of metal dice (got this set because they gave me Necrons vibes) but they didn't come in their own box/tin like I'd hoped. So, I went to do some antique shopping with a couple of friends today & found a nice box to store them in. 💚

[i-clash-with-everything]

Pariah Nexus did two things for my Necron love.

1: It gave me some really nicely necron stuff to stare at over and over

2: it gave me more Illuminor Szeras content to rotate in my brain (he's one of my fave Necrons I love this spooky scientist robot so much)

I do wish they'd brought back actual Pariahs though :( I miss those funky bois

[eyes-within-us]

Finally finished my eBay army of Necrons and painted my first model, a Night Scythe! I was hanging out with my Dad today and decided to learn to paint from him. I was going for a “A Royal Transport fit for a Dignified Necron” look with some midnight purple and glimmering gold… But I went a bit overboard with the wash and similarly went overboard with the highlights and wound up with “A Busted-Up Beauty fit for Aeldari Manslaughter”. I wish it was cleaner, but my dad was really proud of my first paint job, and that’s all that really matters at the end of the day.

Happy Father’s Day!

[kawaii-night666]

Misha Necron

[tlaquetzqui]

I might have posted this before but it remains one of the best game trailers I ever saw—at least relative to the game it goes with. (Yes some Halo 3 trailers are better but that was one of the best games ever made. Mechanicus sucked.)

[supercomputer-lizard]

Best wh40k faction

You read the title, just answer. This is the third poll I’ve made today, it’s almost 12 am. I started doing my tumblr stuff between 9 and 8 am, I don’t remember By best, it can mean either power-wise, use-wise, bang for your buck-wise, aesthetic-wise or hell, even morality-wise

By source I am mean I searched up every 40k faction and copied the names here

Edit: the Necrons are currently wiping the floor with everyone else

Edit 2: I like how everyone one at this point knows the Imperium is not the best

Edit 3: a few people have voted for the Imperium

[arvadthecursed]

whats your favorite 40k faction :3c

I am still a Baby when it comes to learning 40k lore but I really like the Sisters of Battle!! I think they're my favorite atm. Beautiful ladies with giant guns... Screaming and yelling and going to battle... I just think they're neat !

But I also like the Necrons, they seem really cool and I like their aesthetic and design and I'm eager to learn more about them!

[athena-gunpla]

HGBD:R 1/144 P-Bandai Planets System PFF-X7 "Core Gundam" [Real Type Colour] + Planets System Armour Unit PFF-X7/M4 "Marsfour Gundam" (Dive Into Dimension Clear)

This is the second of three core-system gunpla I've bought over the past few months. I was looking for a Marsfour to go along with my Earthree, and found this one pretty nicely discounted instead. While I don't usually go for clear kits, especially when the white is this sort of milky translucent clear instead of true clear, the cool sparkles within the plastic sold it for me.

The kit contains both a recolor of the Core Gundam, in the "Real Type Colour", resembling Tomino's initial RX-78-2 palette, as well as the base parts for the Marsfour. Disappointingly, despite being a P-Bandai version of the kit, the weapons were not included.

Just as with the Earthree's core gundam, this little unit is nicely articulated. It comes with a small beam spray gun and the core gundam's half-shield.

The shield nicely shows off the new weathering technique I've been trying out. This combines a heavy drybrushing of dark. gunmetal, a top pass of light silver (Citadel Necron compound works really nicely for this), and some Tamiya gunmetal pigment powder to catch the high edges (Weathering Kit C). I think I really managed to bring out the edges and portray a distressed look, as well as enhance the contrast and bring out a lot of the smaller details.

Again, like the previous kit, there are two small beam saber effects for the core gundam, this time in a really nice super clear trans-yellow.

The yellow effects work nicely with the gold foil stickers for the eyes and auxiliary sensors.

Like the Earthree Gundam, the Marsfour parts build into a support plane. A lot of the parts are nearly identical to the Earthree, with similar forearms, skirt, and leg design, but with an overall spikier design aesthetic.

Forming the full Gundam works just as I outlined in my Earthree review, and the final form looks just as impressive.

Unfortunately unlike the Earthree there's no shield upgrade or gun extension, and the backpack lacks the cool wings from the Earthree as well. Instead, the gimmick of the Marsfour armour is the two flip-out claw/shields attached to the forearms. Thankfully the core-sized beam spray gun still looks ok on the full Marsfour. Again, like Earthree, there are a pair of longer beam effects to use alongside the bigger armoured-up gundam.

As both kits utilize the "Core" system, you can mix and match pieces from Earthree and Marsfour together. I really like this concept, as it lets you customize a final form with your favorite colours and gimmicks. If cash wasn't a concern I'd definitely try and collect as many of the other kits as possible to mix and match.

The Marsfour/Earthree combo still looks really nice, however.

Overall I had fun with this kit. Cleanup is a little more difficult with a clear kit, as is panel lining. It turned out a lot messier than I would've liked, and it was hard to see where all the grooves were. I probably won't bother with any future clear kits. It was also difficult to hide or sand away the nub marks.

Overall, while I'm upset at how these kits are priced, and sold independent of their weapon upgrades, I still really enjoy the concept. I have one more core-system kit to show off for now, which should show up in the next couple of months. I really think it's worth trying at least one of this type of kit, if you enjoy HGs.

Interested to hear other modeler's experiences with clear kits.

[paint-pot-pete]

The third and final Deathmark in my Kill Team 😁 I adore these little robot skeletons; the giant cyclopean aesthetic really suits them IMO - much more nightmarish than a “standard” type skull 🤣

While it’s fun to try my hand at other 40k armies, whenever I paint a Necron, I’m reminded why they’re my gang 😁 just gorgeous and fun to paint!

[rickmakessomeart]

Necron Inti Dynasty. Who are they? What little I know about the Inca makes me think they are astrophysicists and terraforming specialists.

It is true! The Inti Dynasty is traditionally a secessionist dynasty that relied a lot on star-based weaponry and place a LOT of focus on traditionalism and aesthetics, even for necrons. They formed as part of a schism against the Triarch for not adherent to the older true ways, atleast in their eyes. Despite their traditionalism in terms of government, they place a large priority on technology, specifically for astrophysical engineering and weaponry, a lot of star-based machinery is their scene. For this reason, other dynasties will reach out to them for technological prowess but be hesitant since they’re SOOO annoying about it..

[memecucker]

It’s kinda funny how the Great Necron retcon is an example of major 40k lore change that went in the opposite direction in that went back to the original 80s idea of “Warhammer Fantasy but In Space” since they’re very clearly Tomb Lords inspired now whereas previously they were more like Terminators with a small aesthetic nod towards Egyptesque architecture and names

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

I don't her the argument that the leagues of votann have no relevance to the setting when a) neither do the tau really, b) a faction doesn't have to be center stage in every event to be cool and c) they were just fucking released of course they're not gonna be mentioned much in material until mores written with them in mind

I actually like their lack of "relevance" in a way, it would feel kind of jarring if they were actually involved in every big event up til now and nobody mentioned it, I prefer little things like "oh yeah they sold the tau the blueprints to their ion weapons" to big world shaking stuff. Isolationists just appearing from an area nobody else has much interest in and a very good reason to stay isolated feels natural to me

I think that “relevance” is a poor term to throw around in a setting that is permitted minimal actual narrative progression so as to capitalise on real world sales as much as possible.

Every faction is as relevant as the other, because every faction exists to be pitted against the other and itself in varied ways. The T’au are relevant because they offer a different lens through which to do that, and a different aesthetic and style to do it with. Same with Votann, Tyranids, Necrons, Eldar, etc. different guys, different methods, different miniatures. Relevance is totally based around whatever the latest money-making story beat is.

The one exception to all of this are the loyalist space marines, who arbitrarily hold the top spot for being “relevant” due to their aggressive use as GW’s mascots. Everything else automatically takes second place to them and how they are being oriented in the setting.

For this reason, I actually prefer it when every other faction isn’t in the narrative vicinity of the Space Marines and whatever path GW has them carving through the metanarrative. It means they get to do their own thing and (ideally) be interesting, rather than showing up just to get half a miniature line and a subsequent curb stomping from the marines so that business can resume as planned.

[konradkatzen]

Favorite warhammer character, weapon, and vehicle?

Hi Leaf! Thanks for the ask I've been new enough to tumblr I literally just figured out how to check my inbox 🤦‍♀️

Favorite warhammer character has to be Nemesor Zahndrekh. His madness and delusions about everyone still being necrontyr are tragic, but he really does have a heart of gold as far as necrons go, going so far as to hold himself accountable for honorable conduct on the battlefield and the humane treatment of prisoners, even if Varguard Obyron ends up tying up the loose ends later.

Favorite weapon has to be the device the Maynarkh Dynasty used to destroy Llandu'gor the Flayer God. They basically just ripped a whole in space and time to unwrite Mr. Flayer C'tan from existence. If I remember correctly that bit of lore also includes Xun'bakyr, Mother of Oblivion, who is a kickass necron Phaerakh. Unfortunately Llandy boy got the last laugh with the flayer curse and the Silent King also told them to pack up the doomsday weapon because overusing it could destroy the whole universe. A more practical answer for favorite weapon would have to be the gauss flayer. Atomizing things and sucking them up into a vacuum cleaner device is a silly yet terrifyingly effective way to hurt things. My time playing tabletop in 8th and especially 9th taught me that few things hold up well to 20 necron warriors rapid firing lightning, especially if you use stratagems and abilities to buff them

Favorite vehicle has to be the admech onager dunecrawler. A walking forcefielded gun platform that can be kitted for anti-air and anti-armor. A close second would have to be predator tanks. The newer primaris hovertanks are neat but they sometimes feel a little too high-tech compared to the usual imperium gothic aesthetic. I really wish necrons had more of a MBT vehicle in their roster aside from the tesseract ark which is a goofy looking forge world model. The triarch stalkers are also kind of cool, and I love the lore that the doom scythe's engine produces a resonating warble in the atmosphere that drives organic beings to nausea and hallucination; truly a portent of doom.

[theaceofskulls]

I'm aware the Onepagerules' lore and setting is half complete random spitballing and another half having to come up with legally distinct ways of having offbrand versions of the various warhammer settings, but goddamn did sitting down and reading the lore hit differently.

Like there's still space frogs, old robots, elves split into High, Dark, and Clown, and supersoldiers and battle nuns but like...

Look the tyranids equivalent was literally completely misunderstood because they just Looked Like That and bred lifeforms for specific purposes and once people could communicate with them it instantly settled down.

Only for the completely alien structure of their society to immediately run into issues where simply coexisting was causing problems when they realized they had a caste system simply by living alongside other species.

The space dwarves are responsible for bringing the humans into the setting by blowing a hole in the star system and yanking two of the most extreme factions into their section of space.

The necrons and the eldar look similar because it's the Quarians and Geth from Mass Effect.

Everything with the demons where it works almost like how it does in 40k, but they're fragments of gods cut off from the source and desperately trying to reconnect with their greater selves and are attempting to corrupt real space in order to either make that happen or at least grow as they once did.

It's less "off brand" and more this odd fork that takes all the same shapes but all the details are completely different.

Hell, Space Marines look like this because their lore starts them out as a mixture of Deus Ex, Bioshock, near-future cyberpunk styles that are are starting to swerve into Dune as their Founder has slowly lost it. And their Horus Heresy ends like Transformers with a battle in space shooting them to an unknown galaxy.

(BTW, the 4 eye slits probably aren't just aesthetic design of the helmet)

All of this for a game and model line that most people start checking out because they get mad at the current ruleset of a GW game, only for them to get mad that the company isn't directly stealing designs.

[zydrateacademy]

Review - Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector

What an amazing experience this game is.

I've had it wishlisted probably since it showed up but there it fell under my radar since its release. It may or may not have caught some sales in that time but again it went unnoticed and what an absolute crime that is. Released in 2021, it recently just came out with the T'au army which put the rest of the game and its various army packs on sale to an agreeable level, and putting it back on my radar.

Many Warhammer games usually nail the aesthetic, themes, diction, and storylines but very few capture the actual feel of playing on tabletop. There was Dawn of War which depicted swaths of armies cutting across the landscape but it was all in real time, the only methodology there was making sure your travelling teams had all the right counters to vehicles and infantry and after that you basically just let it go.

What we have here is a unique XCOM-like that may very well be the closest many of us will get to playing the actual tabletop game. We have a campaign (just one; following a Blood Raven chapter of the space marines) and two extra modes. Demonic Invasion is a wave based king of the hill type thing where you hold off for as long as you can as every round will continually spit the chaos god's minions at you. There's Planetary Supremacy, which is a sort of Catan/Risk style hex board that players of Dark Crusade or Soulstorm may be familiar with. It's the mode most of my hours have been played on. My only wish is that it could go for just a bit longer, maybe a bigger map, more enemies fighting each other, better node control.

In extension, there's also custom campaigns players can build as well as skirmishes for you to play against AI or other players. As of this writing there is no Co-op and that's quite a shame.

So there's a lot to do here. Some of the more mixed reviews, especially targetting the new armies, are complaining that there's not a super special story campaign for each and every single one of them. That is frankly not so much a problem for me, as I immediately gravitated towards the hex board game mode and just enjoyed having my hands on the Necron for the first time in many years. Now in HD with reflections! My dead bois are beautiful!

There's plenty to learn as well. Even on the easiest difficulties, the AI can route you. My Necron have units called Warriors, basically the equivalent to shotgunners. They also have the slowest movement of my army so it's difficult to get them into position and keep my general army momentum going. Sometimes they fall behind and I lack the much needed damage against enemy swarm units, and I've lost some good troops because I didn't have enough people shooting back. It's how I nearly lost against the Tyranids one game despite outnumbering them by 500 army points. Tactics very much matter here.

There's also a photo mode which is a bit fickle. The camera is locked at certain height over the floor tile so it's difficult to get sweeping, heroic visions of your armies from foot-level. You're more or less stuck staring at them from head-on. It's fun to play around with, though.

So while there is a campaign (just the one), this game could be treated more like a sandbox than anything else. I'm told from the game's discord they plan on releasing free units over the coming months. This is good, because that's one of my chief complaints about the game. There's a significant lack of versatile units to play with. Each faction gets around a dozen to fifteen to allocate with your army point cap (another staple of Tabletop that most games don't quite capture), with Khorne getting the shortest end of the stick (and the cheapest DLC) whom only have eight units to choose from. There's a significant lack of Kroot and vehicles here, and foot troops seem to be a choice between three different things. There's a lot more than that on tabletop.

Not that I expect this to be the tabletop simulator but it cuts real damn close. Closer than most games in this franchise. A must have if you like turn-based XCOM-likes.

[sharenadraculea]

Naruto-Characters as Warhammer 40k-factions

After doing something like this with atla-characters, I thought it was fun to do this with Naruto-characters. Again, this is gonna be very silly. Also all 40k factions, not just astartes-legions

Itachi: Night Lords. Renegade that uses copious amounts of terror tactics and there would be a lot more dead if someone else did the job (which doesn‘t justify what they did). Also fan favorites with black eyes, black hair and pale skin. Tough upon further thinking, Harlequin might also work? Very strong, insanly fast, kind of fragile and the terror tactics are more mind fuckery than skining people. Kisame: Carcharodons. Guys with a sharktheme and a lust for blood and I like them a lot. Samehada is allready nearly a chainsword! Sasori: The Mechanicum greatly appreciates your effort in replacing your flesh with machine-bits. Also human-puppets are pretty close to servitors Hidan: Gruesome murder for the sake of gruesome murder and personal entertainment? Sounds like the Drukhari are gonna love him. He even prolongs his life with the suffering of others! Or Slaanesh. Slaanesh would also work just not aesthetically. Kakuzu: Rogue Trader. Near infinite personal freedom and a ton of money? Yeah, he would be up for that (also they are allowed to keep Drukhari around) Konan: I‘m gonna say Sisters of Battle or Sisters of Silence, I can‘t quite remember if she sees Nagato more as a god or just a powerfull guy.

Tobirama: Inquisition. Just look at the guy who invented necromancy to use undead as a never ending tide of bombs and tell me that he wouldn‘t enjoy a little exterminatus from time to time and having waaay too much power over people. Hashirama: I‘m gonna say Exodite Eldar just for the nature-theme. Maybe also avatar of Isha? They are usually nice and have healing stuff, but you still don‘t wanna piss them of Madara: Chaos champion or demon prince, maybe he get‘s a upgrade at some point. Either Khorne or Chaos undivided, because while he does a lot of war and murders a lot of people, he also does some other stuff.

Tsunade, Shizune and Sakura: Space Marine Apothecary. Tanky battle medic. Gaara: Blood Angels. Starts out bloodcrazy and only wanting to fight but he get‘s better and ends up beeing a pretty nice guy. Also both are from deserts. Sasuke: Raven Guard maybe? He‘s suitably emo looking and Raven Guard and Night Lords really dislike each other. Orochimaru: Magos Biologis or Drukhari Homuculi coven. Doing weird, definetly unethical human experimentation as one does. Kabuto: Necrons or maybe something Nurgely? Just a guy commanding legions of the undead. Thousand Sons might also work, a sorcerer controlling empty hulls of what once were people.

Hyuuga-clan: Navigator House, eyerelated superpowers they are super secretive about, a lot of power but isolated from wider society and definetly too much inbreeding Jinchuuriki: Maybe Titans Princeps? Humans capable of controlling giant Battle-things but if they aren‘t carefull, that things mind can take over.

These are just the ones I came up with, if you have more or disagre with one of my classifications, feel free to add your opinion!