So it’s finally done, well it’s as done as it’s going to get.
This bugger took weeks, for numerous reasons; it’s big, I’ve never painted anything like it before & GW varnish is evil. The painting wasn’t too bad – lots of dry-brushing, then re-blacking the center of each ‘plate’ with black & some quick blending. Then it started to go wrong, I applied the GW Necron transfers to some parts to snazz it up, bad idea. Either I’ve got a duff set of transfers or they are all shite but I couldn’t get them to stick and the ones that did stick looked shiny and obviously like transfers. “Oh well the GW spray matt varnish will fix that”, um no – it nearly fucking ruined it. The varnish came out slightly opaque and misty (so whole the thing looks permanently dusty) and all the transfers bubbled up from the surface and went opaque. I think was was due to the humidity whilst using the varnish (see posts on usenet). Anyhow it looked fucking shite. So I scraped all the transfers off – and put it on a shelf until I could face it again. So in a attempt to finish it off I’ve painted my own runes and symbols where the transfers were. Actually these have gone a long way to redeem the thing, they disguise the rectangular patches in the varnish left by the sodding transfers, and they might not be as detailed as the GW runes etc. but I rather happy with them. Phew, this thing better be worth it on the battlefield…
