Subject:  
Necron Warriors
Kit Used: Games Workshop 28mm

Review & figures by:
Ted & Chris
Kalinowski
Pictures: R. Forys







[Figure by Ted Kalinowski]


THE MYSTERY OF THE NECRONS:  The Necrons, an alien race ancient beyond imagining, are awakening from their sixty million year dormancy to plague the living once more. Thousands of immortal, soulless warriors have risen from dusty stasis-tombs, intent on preying on the teeming species of the galaxy.


[Figure by Ted's son, Chris Kalinowski]


Their miraculous technology was far in advance of any contemporary equivalent long before the Eldar, reckoned the oldest among races, had even come into existence. Although the Imperium of Mankind has only recently acknowledged the Necrons' reappearance, their monstrous gods feasted upon colossal stars before the planets themselves were born.


[Who cuts your hair, Dude?]



The Kit:  The quality of the instructions and the figure itself gets an excellent rating, and the level of difficulty is simple, yielding an overall excellent effect. The accuracy is also dead-on, as far as Ted can remember from his last encounter with a Necron!



[The kit's clear green plastic gun barrel rod was replaced with a clear red fluorescent acrylic rod.]


A sight was added to the gun using "Evergreen" plastic tubing and a "Plastruct" clear red fluorescent fiber-optic strand was inserted to achieve a glow of a laser sight. I also replaced the kit's clear green plastic gun barrel rod with a "Plastruct" clear red fluorescent acrylic rod. I had to turn down one end on a lathe to slide back into the gun barrel. The cool thing about the fluorescent acrylic rod, is the sides of the rod transmit light along to the end to give it a bright glow, so the brighter the light source brighter the glow.


[Note how the barrel and sight seem to glow!]


I wanted a unique paint job and had heard about "Alclad" II Prismatic paint available from Michigan Discount Models, so I ordered a bottle of each color. The color I decided upon was Maple - Copper Red to Green. I airbrushed a primer coat of "Testors" gloss black (per instructions) and then the prismatic paint. Well, the results were fantastic (see the photo's). To finish the figure, a wash of chestnut ink from "Games Workshop" was applied in all the joints to define the features.



[The base was scratch built from plastic stock.]


The base was scratch built using "Evergreen" plain white and clear sheet plastic, and "Plastruct" checkered plate and structural beams.


References:  Imagination