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.

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!

I said that King Kor’Nell would not be the next model painted, but I can confirm the extensive assembly process has begun.  In the meantime, I wanted to get cracking on something that would get the juices flowing.

Another thing my Necron army has never had is a C’Tan shard.  I had a built and primed ‘failcast’ Nightbringer that never got painted.  And its chances of getting painted are even slimmer now..because my brother bought me this for my birthday this year:

Assembly was pretty easy – the model was all on one (large) sprue.  Put side by side with my unfinished old one, and its not so much of a glow up as a Blackpool-Illuminations-Up!

As this is such a large model, the airbrush can do quite a bit of work.  Not just priming, but laying down the base colours which fade into each other.  The airbrush was made for this job – below is a sequence of pictures with the paints used:

After airbrushing, it already looks pretty good!  It actually looks better in the picture because the lights are adding highlights that aren’t really there (yet).  So there is plenty of work to do, but it was pleasing how much time the airbrush has saved in terms of base coats.

Next I put a coat of brown on the base just to help with context for the next stage.

I ummed and ahhed about how to paint the scarabs.  The box art has them painted as ‘real’ scarabs encircling the Nightbringer.  I considered this, but also whether it would look cool to have them more ethereal, as though they were being manifested into reality by the energies surrounding the C’Tan.  I went for ethereal.  Simple dry brushes and a wash for now.  I’ll decide whether sharper highlights are needed later on.

I’m running out of space to add sections to this post, so I’ll add a gallery with the scarabs, final basing materials, and highlight paints below.  Then the finished article.

Overlord Kor’Nell is dead, long live King Kor’Nell!

I think the model was released around 2020, but I only got it in around 2024 or 2025 as a Christmas or birthday gift (I forget which).  It’s sat on the pile since.

It’s going to take a month of Sundays to assemble this thing, so it won’t be the first new model I paint for the project, but it’s perfect.  He’s even on a stage between to huge ‘speakers’!

I had always assumed that Overlord Kor’Nell would be represented by the standard Necron Overlord model.  And that model was completed pretty early on.

At some point, I think early 2023, I came across a model in the Warhammer Underworlds range which I thought would make a perfect Necron.  The model is Mir Kainan from Kainan’s Reapers.  I liked how his flesh cape would perfectly match flayed ones.  I decided at the time that he would be Kimtayl The Slayer.  I will change this though, it makes more sense for him to be Beinn the Shepherd as he tends to the flock of Flayed Ones.

So there is 2023 me thinking “Bosh, that’s 2 out of 4 characters done, right?”

However, 2026 me spots the obvious problem.  Let me put them side by side.

What self-respecting Necron Overlord would allow himself to be so inferior in stature compared to his generals?!  What rock star frontman wants to be completely dwarfed by his bass player?!

2026 me is not happy with this situation.  We need a new Kor’Nell. Luckily I have just the thing..

[And this is the point where the looking back stops and the Spring Cleaning begins!]

So the good news is that between 2020 and 2023 I did actually paint a reasonable sized army. Ok, so I didn’t move the Soundgarden theme on very much, but I did get a couple of games of 10th Edition in with them.

These are pictures of my cabinet, taken today.  I’ll cover my old painting steps later on because I am going to try to match or refresh the scheme now I have changed paint ranges!  I’ll do a before and after process comparison.

So, not too shabby in terms of getting an army done – it’s my biggest by quite some distance – but far from realising the initial idea for the project.  Which is why we are here!