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[Daimyo-Phaeron Lenoch]

Heeeeeey Everybody, with the advent of ETL I've decided to open my own ETL plog.

 

So, some background.

I've been collecting for several years, playing off and on as I've found time/opponents. Space marines were my first army, and my first model was a land raider redeemer. It took me a year to build and paint the bloody thing (chassis assembly, mainly), by which point I had painted at least a few other models.

Soon after, necrons followed, led by a catacomb command barge. Soon after, they expanded, then everything kind of hit a halt for a while, both marines and necrons, but my love of lore-writing certainly did not. Somewhere in here I discovered the Bolter and Chainsword, joined, accidentally...well insulted isn't right, but had a very awkward moment with a mod, attempted the Iron Gauntlet (we're still waiting on that judgement, Olis, if you see this), and then that took me to day.

 

Dark Imperium was purchased when it came out, which prompted a flurry of new lore-scribblings about my chapter and the primaris, painted up, and has mostly sat dormant for lack of games to play.

 

ETL has inspired me to majorly expand my necrons, with a possible out-of-competition marine vow to finish a half-painted unit.

 

I'll try to be documenting everything from here on out. Photos of my collection in detail will follow, for now i will post my 'forum Christmas card' for a majorly out of focus shot.

 

 

Anyway, here's my current WIP progress vow for ETL.

One single character, this is my Deathmark Vizier Rezak the Executioner. I'm rather proud of the conversion work I've been able to do on the model, despite the fact it's mostly been done on his gun XP.

 

 

I won't always think to update this in future, so some prodding from anyone who reads may be helpful.

Cheers, D-P Lenoch.

 

[Captain Semper]

Promising start! Let’s see this army expanding!

[Daimyo-Phaeron Lenoch]

So, I completed my first ever ETL vow last week (yay!) but managed to forget to put it here. So, without, further ado, here is Rezak the Executioner, minor Overlord of the Crownworld of Seranon, of the Naculan Dynasty.

 

Rezak strode forth from the storm, holding his Synaptic Obliterator low by the handle. He flicked his wrist, and the weapon snapped up from its melee form, phased through the snow and his form, and slid comfortably into his shoulder. He relaxed, aimed, and fired a sniper blast that sent a trio of tyranid warriors down like ragdolls. Their Prime looked about, seeking where the blow had come from, and quickly went down as well as Rezak unleashed another shot.

That squad eliminated, he quickly phased through the outcrop to land in front of a horde of hormagaunts. A quick mental command reconfigured the choke of his weapon and he pumped two red scatterpulse shots into the tide of flesh in front of him. The light flashed and threescore fell with nary a sign of their passing, and then they were upon him.

The Obliterator was as adept at melee as it was at several kilometers distant, and in less than .32 millirotations Rezak held it like a quarterstaff, twin blades flashing in the snowy air. Before long, he had backup in the form of six of his Lychguard and two of his subordinates. Together, they made short work of the horde, and Rezak hadn't even needed to trigger his resurrection orb. Excellent.

"Phaeron, we have eliminated the tyranid's left flank on this battle. Warriors are clear to deploy."

"My thanks, Executioner. Begin backline harassment, we shall close this front shortly."

"As the phaeron commands."
 

 

The photos look better on my phone, I swear, for some reason all the quality didn't transfer over when I uploaded the pics.

The snow on the model is intentional, as I quite like the effect it has. The model and the lore are from a tyranid invasion of Seranon, the crownworld. Expect the snow on the rest of my vows from here on out.

 

 

Now, I need all yall's help on something.

 

I codified my necron hierarchal paint schemes a while back in a paper notebook. I proceeded to lose the notebook and before beginning Rezak recodified them as best I could recall in a computer file. I've now found said notebook and need to reconcile the two. They've been spoilered to avoid clutter.

 

Notebook Scheme: 

Spoiler

Phaeron (currently Sarnakh the Sunderer): blue deathmask, black warscythe blade, black resorb, green cape, blue pauldrons, chrome chassis

Heir Apparent (currently Kani the Sentry, Phaeron's Daughter): one gold, one blue shoulderpas, gold deathmask, red blade and resorb, chrome chassis

Overlord: silver pauldrons, silver deathmask, red blade and resorb, chrome chassis

Lord: bronze pauldrons and deathmask, red blade and resorb, chrome chassis

Cryptek: black and while pauldrons, white deathmask, black spine, black staff of light, white chronometron

Units: squads have blue pauldrons, squad leaders ('primes' have red pauldrons)

All: red oculars

 

New scheme:

Spoiler

Chrome silver chassis
-regular squad members have blue shoulder pads
-squad primes have red shoulder pads

all energy weapons and tools use red highlighting

Nobility
-Phaeron: blue and red headress, blue skull, blue pauldrons, green and leadbelcher cloak, red torso
-Major Overlords: Red Headress and Chrome faceplate, Gold pauldrons and cloak (e.g. Kani, Chronozak)
-Minor Overlords: Red headress and chrome faceplate, leadbelcher pauldrons and cloak (e.g. Rezak)
-Lords: Chrome headress and faceplate, bronze pauldrons and cloak (Lady Zetak, other minor nobility)
-Lychguard: Colors in concordance with thier lord, pauldrons on left denote their lord, right pauldron denotes rank within squad (e.g. Kani's lychguard would have red headress, chrome faceplate, golden left paulron, but have a blue right pauldron). No cloaks.

-Cryptek: TBD

Canoptek constructs:
-fenrisian grey carapace over a chrome chassis, red eyes and power
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Now, neither of these are inclusive. They don't include the triarch, nor non-Canoptek vehicles (i.e. a ghost ark). What are your thoughts?

 

Also, I am currently working on stripping stuff for my next vow. I'll post some pics here when that's done, esp. as a couple warriors are getting chassis upgrades to represent their exalted statuses.

Edited by Daimyo-Phaeron Lenoch, 18 June 2018 - 12:40 PM.

[Daimyo-Phaeron Lenoch]

I've finished stripping my second vow down, and have a picture of it, along with the two aforementioned exalted warriors. The vow consists of my Phaeron, his annihilation barge, a trio of scarab swarm bases, and eighteen plus two warriors. The two warriors on 32 mm bases without their rods are not part of the 'sqaud' as it happens, and are just tagging along to make a nice even twenty. They will be joining their brethern in another phalanx; the rest of the warriors are members of the 'Sarnakh's Favored' Phalanx. Lore will follow with the completion of the vow, or August 2nd, depending on which comes first, because I like suspense sometimes .

 

Vow as a whole. 

 

 

This model is Ruleen'okah, bastard son of one of the Phaeron's lychgaurd. After having part of his memory restored, he was given a blade from his father's armory, as well as chassis upgrades to mark his status as minor nobility and Warrior Prime of Sarnakh's Favored.

 

Meet Mekethist, assistant to the Cryptek Nakon. Heavy equipment has been granted to her to better serve the dynasty. 

This model is really top-heavy, I must say. I'm loathe to sacrifice a coin, though, so I am either going to have to find/make something suitable or accept that she's just gonna tip over sometimes.

 

Their phalanx will likely receive some work today, and I'll be sure to post progress pics.

[Daimyo-Phaeron Lenoch]

Progress! My scarabs are almost done, guys. However, I'm curious as to what you guys think of this. I washed these guys with Drakenhof Nightshade, but I'm not sure how it turned out. WHat are you guys thoughts on this?

The scarab base on the far left is one I painted before ETL.