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

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What the Necrons range looks like

Shows the Necrons range rather than Necron Warriors in particular — the same picture stands for 2 units of this army.

Colour schemes

Necrons — Necron Warriors

Beginner · 3 areas

The fastest full unit in 40,000 to get to a table-ready standard: one spray, one wash, one drybrush, then the gauss glow that sells the whole army.

Necrodermis

Leadbelcher Citadel
Nuln Oil Citadel
Necron Compound Citadel
Runefang Steel Citadel

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

Gauss flayer

Basecoat the energy channel Basecoat — The barrel channel and the flayer coil, not the whole weapon.
Build the glow outward Layer — Warpstone Glow, then Moot Green kept to the centre of the channel so the edges stay dark.
Hot core and glaze Glaze — A thin line of Gauss Blaster Green down the middle, then a Tesseract Glow glaze over the whole channel.

Tomb world base

Martian Ironearth Citadel
Ryza Rust Citadel
Abaddon Black Citadel

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

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12 paints across every scheme and tutorial above. Tick what you need to build a list, or follow a paint through to find it in another brand.

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