Sautekh Necrons

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Written by

terryb
Published

08 Jul 2026
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Prime black.
Basecoat with Iron Warriors .
Apply Runelord Brass to the regal elements, sigil, etc.
Ratling Grime in the joints and ribs.
Hit the whole model with a wash of Agrax Earthshade thinned 50/50. Try to start in the joints, then drag it out onto the armor plates.
Using Gunmetal , drybrush the armor plating. Using a sponge here helps a lot, as the goal is to get this on the armor plating but not the joints. Keep it fairly light. You want to drybrush it the least over the armor plating that is closest to the joints.
Line the joints with Typhus Corrosion , being careful to not use much. Let it dry then do another couple passes over the deepest spots. Then, take a bit of Ryza Rust and pass it over the areas with the most buildup of corrosion. Also keep this light. Lastly do a glaze of Rust over all the typhus that was painted on.
All over Nuln Oil wash.
Edge highlight the armor with Stormhost Silver , the joints with Leadbelcher , the regal elements with Sycorax Bronze , and the gun/black parts with Eshin Grey
Using Canoptek Alloy , lightly drybrush the high/bright/focused parts of the model.
Paint the weapons and cables with Abaddon Black .
Black Templar in the ribs. Abaddon Black works too.
Glaze Caliban Green over the cables.
Glaze Warpstone Glow over the cables, aiming to create a gradient that is brightest towards the center of the cable and dark towards the ends. You can optionally mix Sotek Green in as well for more layering
For any glowing objects, start by basing in white. Be prepared to water this down pretty heavily and paint several layers over the object.
Cover the white in Warp Lightning .
Drybrush the object with white, and catch the nearest surfaces and edges too.
Do another pass around the white with an even lighter drybrush of Company Grey , blending with the white. You want a gradient of white to grey to nothing.
Coat the object with Tesseract Glow .
On the further away white/offwhite, take most of the tesseract glow off your brush and build the glow up slowly.
Add white as a highlight. Take most of it off your brush and glaze it over. For orbs, it should be a dot. For blades, it should be an edge highlight. For longer objects (i.e the deathmark's weapon), it should be a line.
For objects that are further away that may still reflect some of the glow, just glaze tesseract over it.
Don't go overboard! Most of the time the glow should be subtle and the white shouldn't be drybrushed heavily enough to fully cover the surface. Save the intense glows for large objects like the overlord's blade.