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How to paint Lychguard

Reference photos, colour schemes with the exact paints for every area, and finished models from other painters — everything you need to start Lychguard for your Necrons force.

Role InfantryPoints 80Faction NecronsSystem Warhammer 40,000

Lychguard

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What Lychguard looks like

Lychguard reference photo

Colour schemes

Necrons — Lychguard

Intermediate · 4 areas

Royal bodyguard: the same living metal, but the dispersion shields are large flat panels that carry the model.

Necrodermis

  1. Basecoat the whole model Basecoat — Leadbelcher over black, or straight from a Leadbelcher spray — Necrons are the fastest army in the game to base.
  2. Shade hard All-over shade — Nuln Oil over everything. Living metal wants to look tarnished, not polished.
  3. Drybrush the ribs and skull Drybrush — Necron Compound across the spine, ribs and cranium, then Runefang Steel on the sharpest edges only.

Dispersion shield

  1. Basecoat the shield field Basecoat — Stegadon Scale Green as the dark ground for the energy field.
  2. Blend towards the centre Layer — Sotek Green, then Temple Guard Blue, each covering less than the last so the edges stay deep.
  3. Glaze the field Glaze — Tesseract Glow over the whole panel unifies the transition and adds the glow.

Warscythe

  1. Haft and blade Layer — Abaddon Black haft, Leadbelcher blade, Nuln Oil over both.
  2. Sharpen the cutting edge Edge highlight — A Runefang Steel line down the blade edge only — a scythe reads by its edge.

Tomb world base

  1. Crack the surface Texture — Martian Ironearth applied thickly cracks as it dries — thin patches will not crack at all.
  2. Drybrush the plates Drybrush — Ryza Rust across the raised earth to warm it, then Terminatus-dry ochre if you have it.
  3. Rim the base Detail

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