'Crons, Lock, Stock and two smoking Gauss Rifles

[Greg]

Hey, I just thaught I'd make a thread for the progress on what will be my first ever army painted entirely by me.
So far, I've finished my Necron Lord (no bonus points for guessing what Warhammer Fantasy model I used) although he does need to be based.
Tell me your veiws.

[Warboss Scolus (Ben)]

personally, with a little conversion work it could look like a decent lord, but at the moment, and i dont mean to sound rude or nasty etc, it just looks like a fantasy model. maybe with a head swap, and a modified weapon with a gauss tube in it somewhere, and a few bits of robotics, it could look very very tasty! overall though a very good idea!

[KINSMAN (Calum)]

In agreement with ben here its a great concept but a little extra work would really make it nice and not just a model swap from 'the other egyptian model range' gw produce. With regards to painting its very neat and clean a whole army like this will look cohesive on the tabletop-and most importantly, painted!

Now pay a brother a little courtesy and comment on my paintjobs, that means you too ben!

[Greg]

Great points, but how exactly do you suppose I convert a metal model? I've always been told it was something that should be saved for the top-of-the-range professionals...

[Warboss Scolus (Ben)]

it just requires a lot of patience and accuracy, failing that lots and lots of green stuff!

[KINSMAN (Calum)]

Theonly people who say that is the top o the range professionals. Despite this (and i say this with the greatest respect) i do believe that perhaps a conversion of that model is a little difficult for yourself, and most people including myself at that rate.

Perhaps stick to plastics conversions and the normal range ntil your skilful enough to tackle something bigger. Or just keep it, its your model, aslongas its wysiwyg noone can complain.

[Greg]

Ah! how could I have been so foolish, you're right Calum!
I can just be stubbourn and no-one can take me up on it! ha ha!
On a more serious note, I've finished basing him and all that... and I reckon that when people see him with the rest of the army, they'll do away with that model-recognition stigma and stop seeing it as what it was originally intended to be and start seeing it as what it is meant to be now.

[Warboss Scolus (Ben)]

doubtful, i will always know! it wouldnt be too hard to do a simple weapon swap! im thinking remove the blade, keeping the handle and attaching some sort of spear head with a necron gauss tube on the other end, it wouldnt be hard...

[Skinnybdinny]

i would of thought for simplisity the best way to make it necrony is to cut a small gap where the cresent shape is on the blade and fit a gauss tube in there or just leave it and give him that awsome weapon where no saves are allowed against such a weapon.

[Greg]

Yeah, he is actually using the Warscythe, so he technically has no Gauss weaponry. Additionally, the way that the model's arms are constructed means that unless I could cut through the metal like a hot knife through butter, I'd have to take off the hands and part of the bracers entirely, and then re-model them... and I can't even make a belt outta green stuff... let alone hands!
Still, thanks for all you've said, it's a great help.

[Warboss Scolus (Ben)]

well actually, a warscythe has a built in gauss blaster.

[Matt]

Alas we did check this because that is what i said but infact only those carried by the pariahs have gauss blasters, the ones in the armory do not.

[Skinnybdinny]

that makes no sense the lord model has a warsythe with a Gauss Tube!!

[Matt]

Maybe its the power cell, if yuo read the rules under the pharahia entry it says "warsythe with biult in gauss blaster" in the armory section it just says warsythe maby look at the q and a see if they cnahnge it.

[Warboss Scolus (Ben)]

as i thought the faq does not mention weather or not the warscythe has a built in blaster or not. it DOES however say that if it looses the staff of light that it looses that shooting attack, so im assuming that the "lordly" warscythe doesnt have a gauss blaster in it...