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0:00well the silent king has awoken the neko
0:02boys are coming back up from their tombs
0:04and today
0:05we're using the new necron paints to
0:07paint up the zarakan dynasty
0:14welcome to zolbazold gaming my name is
0:15loch and linton keane and the zarakan
0:17dynasty have awoken the silent king is
0:20on the warpath to reclaim his empire and
0:22today we're looking at an epic colour
0:24scheme that's going to be perfect for
0:25their whole army
0:26using the new necron paints from the
0:28citadel games workshop
0:30range we've got four models on the table
0:32today we've got the scorpec destroyer
0:34lord
0:34some necron warriors and some scarabs as
0:36well so with this painting guide you're
0:38going to be fully armed to paint up your
0:39whole force
0:40as always we're going to start with
0:42assembly and by golly we've finally got
0:44some options the necron warriors not
0:46only have a whole host of different
0:48heads to choose from
0:49they've also got different weapon
0:51loadouts you can choose them to have
0:52gauss reapers or gauss flares we're
0:54going to build a couple of each
0:55and then of course you've got your
0:56scarab swarms as well and the scorpek
0:58destroyer lloyd is on that massive sprue
1:01jam-packed full of necron goodies as
1:03you're assembling your models make sure
1:05you do take care to remove any mould
1:06lines as we'll be using some layered
1:08successive dry brushing which will
1:10really make those stand out
1:12once those models are assembled we're
1:13going to be going old school with our
1:15primer today using citadel's chaos black
1:17it's really important that you do get
1:19great coverage all over the model
1:21because we're going to be dry brushing
1:22straight down onto this layer and we
1:24want to make sure that everything is
1:25black and no plastic will be shown in
1:27the recesses
1:29the first phase of our paint job today
1:31is to use a series of layered dry
1:33brushes to build up the metallic
1:34profiles of all of our metal components
1:36across these models and i'm going to be
1:38applying these phases with some
1:40really cheap makeup brushes they're
1:42really fantastic
1:43soft synthetics which will give us a
1:44great finish and i've got some different
1:46sizes to give us different levels of
1:48control
1:49using my largest dry brush i'm going to
1:51be applying a heavy over brush of rune
1:54lord brass basically
1:55all over the model when we're applying
1:57this layer we want to work from the top
1:59down
1:59and make sure that we're really
2:01accenting the broad flat surfaces that
2:03are at the top of the model
2:04and leave the black underneath in those
2:06recesses
2:07this will give that natural variation of
2:09tone that comes into effect when you've
2:11got a nice top-down light source and it
2:13will give us a really great coverage as
2:15well
2:15and a fantastic foundation to start
2:17building up our metallic profile
2:19once i've covered the majority of the
2:21areas with the broader brush i then
2:23switch up to my smaller makeup brush to
2:25come in
2:25and apply some more targeted toning with
2:27that rune lord brass
2:28to make sure that i've got a really nice
2:31even coverage
2:32across the various flat armor panels
2:34that are very exposed even if they're a
2:36little hard to reach with the big
2:38sticky-outy arms on the scorpek
2:39destroyer lord i also apply this exact
2:41same technique in the same way to the
2:43necron warriors and the scarabs
2:45focusing on getting really even coverage
2:47on exposed plates at the top of the
2:49model and leaving darker areas in the
2:51recesses as they're hit by less pigment
2:53from the dry brush
2:54and less light from our light source
2:57with our brassy foundations down you can
2:59already see just how much life we've
3:00breathed into the model with one
3:02dry brush it's a great way to bring up
3:04detail and it's a fantastic starting
3:06point for our metals next we're going to
3:08bring in
3:08the new citadel layer paint canoptic
3:10alloy we're going to use a smaller brush
3:12a smaller dry brush
3:14straight off the bat here and go in with
3:16a much more targeted approach
3:17working on accenting the highlights of
3:19this brass metallic layer we want to
3:22crisp up all of the edges once again
3:24favoring areas that are at the top of
3:26the model
3:26or are exposed not going to be being hit
3:28by that light source and this just gives
3:30us some really nice definition
3:32to our metallic layers that really
3:33crisps it up and brings it to life
3:38so with those two brassy metallics down
3:40we've got those brass overtones which
3:42are going to be the foundation for the
3:43coloring on our main
3:45armor panels but we're going to bring in
3:46a second metallic element with lead
3:48belcher to create a
3:49silver foundation which we're going to
3:51apply to all of the skeletal components
3:54underneath the inner core of the necrons
3:56we've got our brassy armor plates
3:58over the top and our skeletal metallic
4:00components underneath will have this
4:02silver and that's going to create a
4:03lovely contrast which will make all of
4:05the metallic details
4:06read because they're broken up by these
4:08two tones of metal
4:09we'll just be applying this silver as a
4:11traditional base coat picking out all of
4:13the joints the inner skeletal components
4:15but also
4:16the sort of metallic loin cloth that
4:18dangles between his groin
4:20on the necron warriors it's exactly the
4:21same just scaled down although do note
4:24that in the variety of poses
4:26many have armor plates missing and some
4:28have more armor than others so make sure
4:30you pick the right parts to be silver
4:31and on our scarabs it's just the legs
4:34and the small head
4:35around the sides of the armor plates so
4:37with our metallic base coats down we've
4:39got the
4:40foundation for our two-tone metal scheme
4:42and we'll work those more in
4:44with some different washers but first
4:45we're going to establish the final base
4:47coated
4:48element of the skeletal structure and
4:50that's the big black
4:51carapace that runs up the spine of the
4:53necron we're going to be using
4:55contrast black templar for that which is
4:57a fantastic application
4:58because we've got those silver kind of
5:00highlights crisped up over those
5:02components from our big overall dry
5:04brushing when we apply this black
5:06templar contrast
5:07it darkens it up and does make it quite
5:09black and and restores it to the prime
5:11which makes it a stark contrast
5:13to the other metallic components but it
5:15does just have a natural highlight
5:18on the crisp edges from the dry brush
5:19that went down underneath i'm also going
5:21to apply this black all over
5:23the main carapaced body of the necron
5:25weaponry
5:26and a few select components around the
5:28model
5:31so with all of our base coats down it's
5:32time to bring in our washers to truly
5:34separate these metallic components and
5:36give them some unique flavor
5:38up first we'll use the kryptek armor
5:40shade gloss which is the new necron
5:41shade from citadel
5:43and we're going to apply that all over
5:44our brassy elements and this is really
5:46going to darken them give them that
5:48brownie warmth
5:49and make them truly sing so that's going
5:50on all of the armor plating across the
5:52various carapace
5:54on the arms the legs and the lower torso
5:56but notably we're not going to apply
5:58this to the head
5:59or the broad shoulder plates even though
6:01they were dry brushed with the brassy
6:03profile they'll end up getting the
6:05silver wash which we'll have a look at
6:06in a sec which will bring in a
6:08three-phase metallic component to really
6:10separate those
6:11key elements out from the model on the
6:13necron warriors it's exactly the same
6:16applying on all of the brassy armor on
6:18the legs the lower torso the arms and
6:20leaving the head and the shoulder plates
6:22bare
6:22and on our scarabs we've got that main
6:25armor plate that sits on the top around
6:27the glowing center and that's going to
6:28be all brass leaving those legs for the
6:30silver
6:31with the canoptic armor shade down you
6:33can really see the brass come to life
6:35all of a sudden there is a stark
6:37contrast between our two metallic zones
6:39with the warmth of that brass really
6:41kind of shining through now
6:42and our silver is quite stark but we're
6:45going to bring in
6:45basilicainum grey another contrast paint
6:48which applies beautifully as a wash over
6:50metallics and hit
6:52all of our silver elements so all of the
6:54joints the tabard the loinclothy thing
6:56that hangs down between his legs
6:58and the other components that we have
7:00left unwashed
7:01those large shoulder plates and the head
7:03of the necron so as you can see here
7:05with that wash going down we've created
7:07that three phase the really brassy armor
7:09plates
7:10the traditional silver components for
7:12the underskeleton and then
7:13this darkened brassy wash for the big
7:16shoulder plates and for the head of the
7:18necron and that really helps the eye
7:21separate those components of the model
7:23it helps the eye
7:24read all of those various details with
7:26those two washers down the metallic
7:28components are really starting to look
7:29fantastic they read well to the eye but
7:32they're just a little bit too
7:33contrasty and some of them have lost
7:35some of that crisp highlight so i'm
7:37going to bring my canopic alloy layer
7:39back in
7:40and dry brush it once again just
7:42focusing on some key regions to bring up
7:44a bright little spark of contrast
7:46particularly
7:47around the darkened steel on the face
7:49and the shoulder plates of the necron
7:51because i do want that to be
7:52a focal point it is that different
7:54metallic which naturally makes it
7:56visually distinct but we want to lift
7:58it up with a little bit of highlight
7:59emphasis to help it draw the eye
8:01and we'll also give a subtle kick on a
8:03few of the pointier armor plates
8:05around the model which really helps them
8:07sing
8:08so the metallics are looking fantastic
8:10now we enter the third phase of the
8:11paint scheme where we start to emphasize
8:13all of the details around the model
8:15we're going to start off with the power
8:16cables by bringing in the citadel base
8:19caliban green
8:20and then layering with some warp stone
8:22glow we'll start off with pure caliban
8:24green
8:24and apply that nice and evenly over all
8:26of the various power cables the necron
8:28warriors only have a few of these but
8:30the scorpek destroyer lord has got like
8:32six of them poking in and out of his
8:33armored carapace
8:34and then i'll grab some of that caliban
8:36and a little bit of warp stone glow and
8:38mix those together in about a 50 50
8:40ratio
8:41on my wet palette and then apply a
8:43really subtle highlight
8:44over those power conduits you can even
8:46wet blend this highlight
8:48uh while that caliban base is still wet
8:50so that you get a really smooth
8:52transition the next step is of course
8:54the big one putting in all of the
8:55stunning green
8:56glow effects from that crazy gauss
8:59weaponry and inner greeny fire
9:01that we know of the necron spirit and
9:03what we're gonna do for this process
9:05is a pretty universal approach where
9:07we're going to create a luminance
9:08profile
9:09on those various components that we want
9:11to turn green with
9:12grays and blacks and whites and then
9:15eventually we'll wash those with the new
9:17green technical paint
9:18tesseract glow first up we're going to
9:20focus on just the necrons and the
9:21scarabs and i'm just gonna grab some
9:23pure white using white scar in this case
9:25and just give a careful highlight of
9:27that white
9:28on any regions that i want to turn that
9:30beautiful glowy green
9:32we've got the various glowing orbs on
9:33the weapons themselves the gauss reaper
9:35and the gauss flair
9:36and then on the scarab beetle they've
9:38got that central glowing orb in the
9:40middle of their network
9:41once we've isolated a nice crisp white
9:43on those glowing orbs which is the
9:45source of our glowing green light i'm
9:47just gonna do a really cheap and easy
9:49method for getting some object source
9:51lighting by grabbing one of my beautiful
9:52dry brushing makeup brushes
9:54and the citadel dry paint praxetti white
9:57i'm going to load up that dry brush and
9:59then take most of it out on the palette
10:01and then we're going to do some really
10:03small circular
10:04motions to build up some white
10:06highlights across
10:07all of the regions of weapon and armor
10:10around
10:10those glowing orbs with that dry brush
10:12down we've established our luminance
10:14profile and it's time to bring in
10:16the tesseract glow technical paint give
10:18this a good shake
10:19and then apply it nice and evenly over
10:22the main
10:22glowing regions and then i'm going to
10:24bring in a bit of an old scratched up
10:26dry brush
10:27load a bit of tesseract glow onto it and
10:29then take most of it off onto a piece of
10:31paper towel
10:32or blotting paper and then i'm going to
10:33sort of almost dry brush
10:35over the rest of those white highlights
10:37to create a really
10:38gentle glaze and that's going to give us
10:40some really cheap and easy
10:42object source lighting to make it look
10:44like our orbs are glowing across the
10:45model
10:46now the bigger models in the new necron
10:48range like the scorpek destroyer lord
10:50have a little bit more going on than the
10:52smaller troop units so we can spend a
10:54little bit more time
10:55making their glow effects look awesome
10:57so the first thing i'm going to do is
10:58grab a neutral gray stone wall gray in
11:00this case
11:01and put a layer of that gray down on any
11:03of the glowing components
11:05then once that's fully dry i'll bring in
11:06my white scar and apply that over the
11:09top of the gray
11:10and on these larger orbs and larger
11:12glowing areas that's going to give me a
11:13cleaner application of white to work
11:15from
11:16the other massive element on this
11:18scorpek lord is of course the hyperphase
11:20harvester
11:21and all of these really cool
11:22broad-bladed hyperphase weapons have
11:24that fantastic
11:25unique look so what we're going to do is
11:27the same principle we're going to create
11:29a luminance profile
11:30on this weapon starting from the black
11:32and then we're going to glaze that with
11:34the tesseract glow so i'm going to grab
11:35my dry brush
11:36i'm going to start off by using my
11:39neutral gray
11:40and working in very small circular
11:42motions
11:43i'm gonna like take most of the paint
11:45off and build up some really
11:47soft gentle applications of that gray on
11:50the regions that i eventually want to be
11:52the bright green
11:53then i'll do the same thing bringing in
11:55some white scar and take
11:56most of the paint off and then work on
11:58those areas that are going to be the
12:00brightest
12:00and really accent that that's obviously
12:02quite a messy process so then i'm going
12:04to grab a smaller dry brush and bring in
12:06some abad and black
12:08again take most of the paint off and
12:10then work some black
12:11into those areas that i want to be pure
12:13black and with this kind of control you
12:15can rinse and repeat this step
12:17bring in more black bring in more gray
12:19you can create a really gentle
12:20transition
12:21that's a fantastic way to have a
12:23luminance profile that you can then
12:25apply the tesseract glow over with
12:27obviously you could do this with an
12:28airbrush but i wanted to show you guys a
12:30way that you can do it
12:32with a brush with dry brushing anyone
12:34can do this what you saw there was
12:35literally my first attempt at trying
12:37this technique it's super easy
12:39and you don't need an airbrush to get a
12:40cool look on these blades
12:42just like with our necron warriors and
12:44scarabs now we're just going to grab the
12:45tesseract glow
12:46and apply that over all of our glowing
12:49components and you'll see that they
12:50really just come to life once that green
12:52goes down
12:53on these broader areas it just looks
12:55awesome when you're applying it to the
12:56sword
12:57don't be afraid to let it go all over
12:59the black as well a little bit of tint
13:01in that kind of darker black green looks
13:03really really cool and helps sell the
13:05blend but on these really larger orbs i
13:07actually decided i wanted them a little
13:09darker just because they're so big they
13:11really draw the eye
13:12so i actually brought in a darker green
13:14the old technical paint hex wraith flame
13:17you could use one of the green contrast
13:19paints like the orc flesh one as well i
13:21have to kind of darken those up as well
13:22but i didn't apply that to the blade i
13:24really wanted that to sing
13:26and be the brighter color the final
13:28thing for our green glow is of course
13:29our object source lighting now you guys
13:31will notice we didn't do the white dry
13:33brush on this model that's because for
13:35the scorpec lord there's just so many
13:36bright highlights already from the
13:38metallics so we can just again
13:40get our beat up old dry brush with a
13:42little bit of the tesseract glow on it
13:44and then just apply it all around the
13:45model working it in building up a bit of
13:47a glaze over those highlights to tint
13:49them
13:50with the green glow down our necrons are
13:52really coming to life but we're just
13:53going to add in a little bit of
13:54weathering
13:55to hint at their old age and their
13:57slumber in the tombs for
13:58millennia up first i'm going to grab a
14:00nice brush with a good point and apply
14:02some agrax earthshade in some very
14:04targeted regions
14:05letting it pool and letting it apply uh
14:07in regions that i want a little bit of
14:09weathering or a little bit of stain
14:11and then while that's still wet i'm
14:12going to load up a beet old brush
14:14and bring in some typhus corrosion and
14:16just drop that straight into the agrax
14:18earth shade when you apply typhus neat
14:20it creates some really contrasty hard
14:22lines as it dries
14:24uh but when you blend it with agrax you
14:26get some really nice gentle transitions
14:28which work great for weathering that
14:29aren't so stark and obvious
14:31our final region that we're going to
14:32target with this technique is that huge
14:34claw that he's got on his left hand
14:36and we're going to put a coat of agrax
14:38all over this claw really grime it up
14:41and then drop quite a lot of typhus
14:43corrosion into the flat
14:44surfaces of those really really sharp
14:47claws this is going to be a fantastic
14:49foundation for some texture and some age
14:51and creating a sense of menace in this
14:53horrible weapon once the agrax and
14:55typhus corrosion blend on the claw has
14:57fully dried i'm just going to come back
14:59in
14:59with a big dry brush of lead belcher and
15:01really accent those
15:02sharp details this is a menacing looking
15:05claw with so many
15:06sharp points look at the way each claw
15:08comes to a really aggressive point so i
15:10want to accent all of those hard lines
15:12with a dry brush of this lead belcher
15:14and we've got the beautiful
15:16grimy gross texture in the blade itself
15:18it looks so corroded and terrifying
15:20but it is clearly still very very sharp
15:24while i've got a little bit of lead
15:26belcher on that dry brush i'm just gonna
15:27hit
15:28some of those deep black areas with just
15:30a subtle accent
15:31to bring their highlights up even a
15:33little bit more so they're not as
15:35stark with the rest of the metallic
15:36components but i wanted to accent some
15:38of the black on the smaller necron
15:40troops a little more
15:41so i did the exact same application but
15:43instead did a stone wall grey
15:45just to give them a little highlight so
15:47they weren't so flat in stark contrast
15:49with all of the incredibly layered
15:51detail that we have in the rest of the
15:53model
15:55the necron forces are looking fantastic
15:57the final phase is just a quick coat of
15:59storm vermin fur around the rim
16:01and on the base itself to be a fantastic
16:03grimy foundation for our basing and then
16:06i'm just going to give these models
16:07a nice coat of matte varnish now i think
16:10this is an important step
16:11because it knocks out the gloss from the
16:13kryptek armor shade
16:15and just kind of gives everything a
16:16really nice unifying blend
16:18and makes it look a lot more realistic
16:20and well blended so i really like the
16:22matte varnish in this scheme
16:23then we need to dive into basing and we
16:26are going to be using once again the
16:27grim dark rubble from the geek gaming
16:29scenics range which is an
16:31amazing basing material it's a mix of
16:33aggregates and ballasts and pigments
16:34that just looks incredible
16:36and you can get it from my online stores
16:38orbizorp.com which is linked down in the
16:39description
16:40we'll just apply some fast drying basing
16:42glue to all of those bases get a nice
16:44even coverage
16:46let it dry for about 10 minutes and
16:47start to go tacky and then we just grab
16:49the model
16:50dip it in the basic material and boom
16:52bob is your uncle
16:53and those boys are based and i am loving
16:57these necrons absolutely thrilled with
16:59how they've turned out
17:01how cool do these guys look first off
17:03the bat these sculpts are
17:05so cool i've always sort of liked the
17:07necrons but i've never played them
17:09one of my mates used to play them when i
17:10was younger but these new sculpts have
17:12got me going wild
17:14i love the new look for the gauss
17:15weapons i always did love the plastic
17:17rod kind of classic old-school greeny
17:19look
17:20but uh i don't know these new sculpts
17:21have really taken me by surprise
17:23particularly this scorpec destroyer lord
17:25i did not
17:26expect to be so in love with this model
17:28but as i painted it it's yeah
17:30really like it i'm really really happy
17:32with the finish of the metallics once
17:34that matte varnish came in
17:36it knocked out the kind of glossy
17:37element of the wash that went over the
17:39brassy components and super happy with
17:41how that's finished up i particularly
17:43like
17:43the subtle difference between the brass
17:46and the silver components
17:47particularly on his wicked claw having
17:49the typhus corrosion
17:50bringing in that extra texture and then
17:52elevating that with a dry brush it just
17:54it's really sinister
17:56i think that's how i describe this paint
17:57scheme the only thing i kind of
17:59i guess i'm not the happiest with is
18:01perhaps some of the green glow
18:03on his orbs could have been a little
18:05more subtle i'm really happy with the
18:06weapons
18:07uh but the orbs on his body because i
18:09applied basically a flat white there
18:11it's quite bright so i think blending
18:13that a little bit more might serve you
18:15guys better
18:15putting more gray and kind of using my
18:18dry brush again instead of a layer brush
18:20there
18:20to gently blend in uh that that
18:22beautiful highlight you'll get a better
18:24glow on those greens but overall
18:26super happy with how they look they look
18:27amazing on the grimdark city rubble so
18:30if you guys do want any of that
18:31hit that hit my store up down in the
18:33description but yeah really really happy
18:35with these models
18:36and i cannot wait to get them on the
18:37tabletop how good
18:39are makeup brushes uncle adam over at
18:41tabletop ninjas has been going on about
18:43them for ages
18:44and this is the first time i've kind of
18:45actually bothered to to crack on with
18:47them and use them for those kind of
18:48layered
18:49dry brushing and blending dry brush
18:51highlights and just getting it's such a
18:53really really cool effect so i'm pretty
18:55happy with them i hope this was helpful
18:56to you guys
18:57this is kind of like uh i wouldn't say
18:59it's bad already i'd say it's a bit more
19:01advanced than that you can get a really
19:02nice finish with this scheme
19:03but we could go even more advanced you
19:05could get into edge highlighting
19:07specific panels and
19:08and really kind of going into heavy
19:10detailing and weathering and getting all
19:12that gnarly stuff going so if you'd like
19:14me to do
19:15more work on the zarakan dynasty like a
19:17really elevated tutorial with some more
19:18advanced techniques
19:19definitely let me know down in the
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