Limorekh Remastered – Spring Clean 2026

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.