Szarekhan Necrons

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Szarekhan Necrons

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    31 Jul 2026
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  1. Basecoat with Warplock Bronze .
  2. Apply Runelord Brass to the body, limbs, and head.
  3. Use a makeup sponge to highlight the runelord with Brass Scorpion . Apply it very lightly over the
  4. Recess shade with Reikland Fleshshade . This doesn't have to be clean or even. After the brass scorpion and this shade are applied, there should still be some pure runelord brass showing.
  5. After that dries, do an all over wash with Reikland Fleshshade thinned 1:2 with medium. This can be thinned even more if desired.
  6. Do another recess shade with Agrax Earthshade after that dries, more conservatively than the first recess shade. Pretty much keep this on the undersides only.
  7. Apply Ratling Grime thinned 50/50 to the joints.
  8. For certain parts like the spine tips or the skorpekh destroyer claws, do a drybrush of Leadbelcher on the sharp/front end, then get the lowest points with some agrax before highlighting with Stormhost Silver .
  9. Basecoat Iron Warriors over the iron bits like the back shoulderplate and the weapons.
  10. Makeup sponge drybrush highlight Leadbelcher . If it's too dark, you can mix it with Stormhost Silver or use Ironbreaker .
  11. Wash this with Nuln Oil .
  12. Recess shade with Agrax Earthshade .
  13. Edge highlight Stormhost Silver .
  14. Go back and edge highlight the brass armor parts with Canoptek Alloy . Alternatively you can use Stormhost Silver mixed with a touch of Brass Scorpion
  15. Coat the weapons, blades, cables, and sigil with black.
  16. Base any glowing objects with white. Apply multiple thin, watery coats. Your main concern is getting it in the recesses.
  17. Do a thin layer over this white with Warpstone Glow after it dries.
  18. For the blades specifically, start with black and then layer Caliban Green and Warpstone Glow on various sections of the blade. I prefer to start with black, then paint the sharp blade sections with Warpstone Glow , and then one or two of the remaining black sections with Caliban Green . You can blend/glaze as well to create gradients between the sections.
  19. Drybrush white over this. Do a heavy drybrush over the object itself and any close edges and then just a light feathering of white on the surrounding area. This can also be done with an airbrush (as well as the following steps for the glow).
  20. Coat the object with Tesseract Glow . Do a full coat on the object itself, but just a glaze on the drybrushed surrounding white. For the largest glowing objects like the blades, you can do a glaze over some of the corners and edges of objects that are close to it.
  21. Do a very light drybrush of Flash Gitz Yellow on the center part of the object, or the blade edge.
  22. Do a light dot/edge highlight with white.
  23. The cables should get a thin glaze of Caliban Green that stops just short of the ends of the cables.
  24. After this dries, do another thin glaze with Warpstone Glow , this time stopping short of the end of the caliban green part.
  25. Add a final highlight with Tesseract Glow
  26. Highlight the sigil with Warpstone Glow .
Citadel Painting System 16
Base 5
  • Caliban Green
  • Iron Warriors
  • Leadbelcher
  • Runelord Brass
  • Warplock Bronze
Shade 3
  • Agrax Earthshade
  • Nuln Oil
  • Reikland Fleshshade
Layer 6
  • Brass Scorpion
  • Canoptek Alloy
  • Flash Gitz Yellow
  • Ironbreaker
  • Stormhost Silver
  • Warpstone Glow
Technical 1
  • Tesseract Glow
Contrast 1
  • Ratling Grime
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