Limorekh Remastered – Spring Clean 2026

To complete the line-up, we need a drummer.  Kamron the Noisebringer to be precise.

As noted in the previous post, I have chosen the Catacomb Command Barge for the base kit.  It’s round, like a drum kit, and has some captive ‘DJs’.

With the base kit sorted, I wanted to think about some personalisations to make the character come alive.  My first idea was to replace the flying stand with a more scenic base.  As luck would have it, having mounted Kimtayl the Slayer (the Nekrosor Ammentar model) on the Convergence of Dominion, I had the scenic base part leftover and it was almost exactly the same size as the flying base that came with the Barge.

Next, I wanted to give the Necron Lord that rides atop the barge a bit of a glow up, commensurate with the other ‘band members’.

I raided the stash and came across this model:

Using this model has a couple of benefits.  Firstly, it is a good bit bigger than the standard Lord in the kit.  Secondly, he holds his weapon in his left hand.  This means I might be able to kitbash the original Lord’s right-handed weapon onto this one so that Kamron has a staff in each hand.  Two sticks.  Like a drummer!

Tomorrow is June 1st, that means Spring is only 21 days away from making way for Summer.

3 band members down, 1 to go. “Head Down” is the perfect Soundgarden song title for the last push.

For motivation, a reminder of the drummer-less band so far:

And let’s not forget the…groupie? manager? roadie? that I painted to get the 2026 ball rolling.

For the final band member, the “drummer” Kamron the Noisebringer, I have selected the base model.  I’ve yet to decide how to tweak it to personalise it, but the Necron Lord on an elevated platform, round like a drum kit, with two ‘DJ’s’ seems like a good start.

It’s time to paint King Kor’Nell!  The Silent King model is definitely the “frontman” of the Necron faction, and so is ideal in and of itself.  But how can I customise this just a bit to be uniquely King Kor’Nell?

Enter the Soundgarden song “Jesus Christ Pose”. Here is Chris Cornell’s inspiration for the song, as described by Lyric Genius:

The lead single off Badmotorfinger is a mocking portrait of musicians using crucified poses:

“You just see it a lot with really beautiful people, or famous people, exploiting that symbol as to imply that they’re either a deity or persecuted somehow by their public. So it’s pretty much a song that is nonreligious but expressing being irritated by seeing that. It’s not that I would ever be offended by what someone would do with that symbol.”

—Chris Cornell

Some searching of imagery, both Soundgarden and religious, offer some modelling ideas:

It seems to me that mocking the image of the deity of a race about to be subjugated by the Necrons is EXACTLY what a Necron king would do.  So I set about making some adjustments to the posing of the Silent King model to achieve a representation of this:

Time to get the airbrush on the case, starting with priming (which took a while!).  Pics below show the steps with the paints used.

Once the airbrushing was done, I went in with the brush to paint the details.  The method is as I have described before – the Triarchal Phaerons (the little attendant dudes) were painted exactly the same as the rest of my Necrons using the method shown for Kimtayl the Slayer.  The glow was also done in the same way as the towers in that model.

King Kor’Nell himself was just highlighted a bit with silver, some purple wash to give an undertone, and that was largely it.

I painted the other two towers (“Starseles”) in the same way, and with that, Kimtayl the Slayer and his wall of amplification is complete!

It’s time to paint Kimtayl himself, so in this post I will document the steps as this is pretty standard for all my Necrons.  I’ll have to grubby him up a bit more at the end because he’s a grim nasty destroyer lord, but all of the initial steps will be the same as my usual process.

The only challenge here is that since I painted my last Necron (Nightbringer aside which didn’t have any of these steps) I have completely changed my paint brand.  My eclectic collection went in a box and I now have a wall of Army Painter Fanatic.  That said, there are quite a few steps involving oil paints, and these won’t change, so I am hoping it will be a decent match by the time I’m finished – I’ll let you know later!!

First step – make Kimtayl a nice bright silver using an overbrush (using drybrushes) with Mithril. Previously I used Vallejo Steel but they seem very similar.

Next step is a spray from below with a purple colour  – I like how this gives some movement to the silver colour which grabs the eye.  With my previous method, I mixed a magenta ink with Payne’s Gray ink, but I wanted to simplify this for my newcrons so I just sprayed the Purple Tone from my Army Painter paint wall, and lo and behold it was basically the same effect.  Better actually, the colour build up was smoother and less risk of overdoing things. In my old process I had to reapply the silver to blend it in, but here there was no need.  It gives the subtle effect I wanted in one pass. Perfect!

Next is the first oil paints step.  It’s a subtle one, but it helps to create the ‘living metal’ effect I am after and takes it away from a straight painted silver.  For this I use a Payne’s Gray oil paint, made into a wash with white spirit (mineral spirits), slapped all over then blotted off with a few makeup applicators.  This creates some subtle shading but also adds a sheen to the silver surfaces which adds to the “not a paint” effect.

Time for the carapace, and we are back to the oil paints. I’ll combine a few steps here to save space, but I’ll add all the photos so you can see the stages.

Before oils, I based the carapace with Scarab Green from the Fanatic range.  Previously I used Incubi Darkness from GW.  Scarab Green is pretty close but I wasn’t worried given the oils will mask any difference.

Oils are the same as before.  A black, green and white, using green and white to make a lighter green.  I put small dots of the oils on and then dab them with a dry synthetic brush to blend them out.  Starting with black, then pure green, then the light green.  I go back and forth a tiny bit to get the effect I want, but it doesn’t take long.  Blending oils is a very easy and satisfying process!

Onto the glow effects and some grimdark smatterings.  I painted the yellow light sources onto the tower, and the green glow onto Kimtayl himself.  This is where the translation to Fanatic paints will be interesting.  In the photos below I show the closest equivalence I could come up with.  Ok so, yes I could have used the GW paints, but I am burning my bridges here!

I also added some blood effects because this is one nasty dude.

It’s time to focus on Kimtayl the Slayer, inspired by Soundgarden’s guitarist, Kim Thayil.

For his model, I have chosen Nekrosor Ammentar from the Necron range.  This is another relatively new model, again bought for me for my birthday.  Firstly, it’s a good sized model so it will be nice and imposing alongside his bandmates. Secondly, I think there is some synergy from a character perspective.

Kim Thayil is often described as the dark beating heart of Soundgarden, the one who kept the sound dark, discordant and, well, Soundgardeny. Nekrosor Ammentar is about as dark as it gets, even by Necron standards.  He is thought to be the first of the Destroyers, the origins of the curse, and will infect any Necron that comes anywhere near him.  He has dark plans to re-assemble the C’Tan Shards of the Nightbringer to restore the god to its full power.  Something the Necrons are incredibly fearful of.

So as Kim Thayil creates crowds of loyal followers, moshing to his riffs, so Nekrosor Ammentar increases his crowd of destroyers through his dark presence.

To work.  As I was beginning to assemble the model, and looking through the instructions, I wondered how to make it even more imposing.  The kit has him climbing over some low ruins.  All well and good but not really tying him to the ‘band’ theme…

It’s important to stress here, that whilst I am heavily theming this army on a “band” I do not want it to be too gimmicky.  This is not Hello Kitty space marines.  I want someone who has no idea what the inspiration is to say “wow, that’s a cool Necron Army”.  It can’t be silly.  It can’t be cheap.  The theme can’t be too forced.

That being said… I had a crazy idea.  Remember the previous section where I assembled the Convergence of Dominion?  Well that was still sitting on my desk as I was about to assemble the Nekrosor… I couldn’t, could I?

One quality of life improvement I have made recently is making basing easier on myself.  In the original project I was making my own basing mix and, well, making a mess in the process.  I have now switched to a one-product process.  Base smarter not harder!  Comparison below between the then and the now.

Bit of bank holiday airbrushing to get this party started.

In the Spring Clean spirit, I was perusing the pile of shhhh…ahem…opportunity and I came across this:

Now if that doesn’t look like a galactic scale set of speakers, I don’t know what does.  Move over Marshall, your stack isn’t up to Necron standards!