Limorekh Remastered – Spring Clean 2026

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.