#nihilakh

[nightscalestudio]

Merry Christmas to you friends and Happy New Year!

My wife and I decided to make a small congratulation on behalf of our small and modest studio. May your gray everyday life become as bright and colorful as our festive Tyberos. And may all wars finally end.

#nightscalestudio #trazyn #trazyn the infinite #tyberos #carcharodon astra #carcharodons #carcharodons astra #nihilakh #nihilakh dynasty #warhammer #warhammer40k #warhammer40000 #warhammer40k art #warhammer art #art

[sailehaem]

Finished My Nihilakh Cryptek, I'm proud of this boi.

#warhammer 40k #necrons #Nihilakh #cryptek

[wh40kgallery]

Trazyn the Infinite

by Pedro Nuñez

#necrons #nihilakh #necron noble #trazyn #xenos #noble #architecture #pedro nuñez #40k

[howadzpaints]

5 Necron Dynasties 31-Oct-2022

Got a request on Youtube for a video on how to do the Szarekhan dynasty, and I had so much fun I went ahead and did 4 other dynasties while I was at it. Had a ball with these, particularly like how Mephrit and Thokht turned out.

Video tutorial showing the process for these.

#howadzpaints #miniaturepainting #warhammer40k #warhammer40000 #necrons #szarekhandynasty #szarekhan #nihilakhdynasty #nihilakh #mephritdynasty #mephrit #thokhtdynasty #thokht #ogdobekhdynasty #ogdobekh #immortals #necronimmortals

[fmab]

Huntmaster

#warhammer 40k #necrons #huntmaster #deathmark #was gonna draw Lysikor too and post them together BUT i ran out of steam and didnt wanna wait to post him.. #the trophies hes got on his waist are kinda uninspired bc i didnt know what the hell to give him #but i did at least enjoy giving him some nihilakh dynasty colors #i like the funny deathmark scope? eyes? things? that they can have so i gave him a partial one #his effortless swag #dip art

[eleooooooo]

Old Archivist Trazyn — Necrontyr Design

#my art #wh40k #warhammer 40000 #necrons #trazyn the infinite #necrontyr #wh40k art #eagle eyed viewers may notice the gold stained hands from ‘unravel’ 🤤 #full disclosure I’d still hit it and not just for access to the nihilakh treasury

[magistralucis]

Once upon a time my fiancé had a handful of glowcrons

Here's one I painted up to join my Nihilakh army

#warhammer 40k #wh40k #miniature painting #necrons #miniatures #necron #nihilakh dynasty #he bought them during the transitional period from clear rods to the modern-day barrels #so the other necron models he had just... have the current versions #none of his immortals have the clear rods either. the manual he got with the box of that time showed a mixture of glowcrons and new! #i thought it was a fun bit of history 😄 #i like the old and new rods more or less the same so i'll keep them as they are #also i have decided my nihilakh warriors are still Very Gold and Fancy and the higher up the hierarchy it will only get fancier 😆 #the overlord(s) i will run them with are haughtily prideful of their wealth and would want to show off at every opportunity i think

[doomwheelofcheese]

i like how orikan wears nihilakh colors despite having zero association with them. it’s like he’s doing matching outfits with trazyn for their wedding (and divorce) (and wedding) (and divorce) (and wedding) (and

#orikan the diviner #i think the ship name is #orizyn #old man divorce yaoi 👏👏👏 #necrons #warhammer 40k

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

Trazyn finally manages to steal Imotekh's staff, and the Nihilakh dynasty's panicked attempts to find some legal loophole that saves them from being invaded by the Stormlord somehow results in a political marriage between Trazyn and Orikan. Noone is happy about this except for Zandrekh, who insists on being Orikan's best man.

I would read the shit out of this book

#ask #warhammer 40k #warhammer 40000 #Necrons #Trazyn the infinite #Imotekh the Stormlord

[inkary]

Overlord Phasalak of the Nihilakh dynasty, commission for Menno

#my art #necrons #warhammer 40k #robot

[nightscalestudio]

The seventh Necron Immortal of Nihilakh Dynasty.

#nightscalestudio #necrons #necron #immortals #Necron Immortals #nihilakh #nihilakh dynasty #warhammer #warhammer40k #warhammer40000 #miniaturepainting #paintingminiature #painting comission

[ghostinthegallery]

And he's finally done!! Orikan the Diviner, my second character model. Experimented with some stuff on this guy. Some new paints and new techniques. Some things worked well, others less so, but I'm excited to have another finished guy. Who very conveniently fits into my Nihilakh color scheme. How nice, wonder how that happened 🤔

Now I really need to paint up some more warriors 😂

#warhammer 40k #warhammer painting #necrons #orikan the diviner #love this new model #even if it did give me some trouble putting together #sub-assembly challenges

[minisception]

Hi, came across your soulblight minis and love the color scheme. What’s your recipe for the cloth on things like the tabards on cloaks on the vampires/skeletons? Thank you in advance!

If you're talking about the black-to-ghosty/witchflame green transition, like the tabards and standard of my mortek guard:

The sad answer to my black-to-green cloth scheme is 'too many applications of too many colors. The scheme is mostly taken from this old how-to-paint-Nagash gw youtube video from way back in the end times:

The method's evolved over time, and currently looks like:

Black Undercoat

Celestra Grey at the ends where you want it to be green, jagged up at the top around where the transition to black should happen, like in the nagash video. On a wrinkly cloth area, pick out the higher wrinkles over the transition area.

Incubi Darkness over the black area, stripey overlapping the celestra like in the nagash video, maybe leaving black in the recesses or towards the top for larger areas. If you've got a lot of texture, then the incubi should be on the raised edges up in the black and down in the lowered recesses where it meets the celestra grey for the transition.

First divergence from the Nagash video, I drybrush ulthuan grey over the celestra, heavier towards the ends and very lightly over the transition area.

dilute nihilakh oxide to lahmian medium about 1:2 or 1:3 (play around, see what works), plaint it over the celestra grey and up above the transition a bit. Might work better with contrtast medium instead of lahmian since that's more meant for glazing, I keep meaning to try that, but filled a whole pot with the lahmian mixture and haven't run out of that yet.

Second divergence from the nagash video - they use a very thinned town (like 1:4 with lahmian) coelia greenshade wash many layers until the stripey transition between the black and green disappears. I use slightly less dilution (1:2 or 1:3) for slightly fewer layers, but prepare three separate washes with that mis - nuln oil, coelia, and biel-tan. I start with the nuln oil over the incubi area, while it's still wet I apply the coelia over the transition, letting them mix a bit, and while that's still wet the biel tan over the green area. You probably don't have to do this while they're all wet, though, you can proably start with the blacks up high to get the incubi to fade back into black, then do the coelias over the transition, and then the biel tan over the green. You can also just skip the biel tan, coelia alone is a spookier bluish green, but I like that vibrant witch-fire green at the edges. Again, might be better with contrast medium instead of lahmian medium these days.

Once more or less satisfied with the blend, go back to highlight, starting with incubi darkness in the black areas picking out just raised edges and trailing off as you reach the point in the transition where incubi darkness is no longer lighter than anything else. On large flat areas like the standard, I'll create some highlights of my own, wider at the bottom and pulling up into points kind of like little wicks of flame, and concentrate them at the bottom and sides leaving more black towards the top and middle.

Same Highlight but with Kabalite green, starting and ending a bit lower down the model, tough I might also pick out some of the folds or wrinkles at the very top like on the banner if it seems it needs it.

Again but lower with Sybarite Green

Again but lower with Gauss Blaster Green

Again but lower with Ulthuan Grey.

NOTE: these are supposed to be highlights picking out folds and edges and tattered holes and such, try not to cover up the entire blend. ALSO, unlike normal highlighting, while are picking out raised edges, the brigher highlight is lower down. Like fire.

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Variant: nighthaunt upper cowl

no initial blend. Started with incubi, nuln oil wash (separate wash of nuln oil mixed with black paint towards the top, skip straight to the highlight steps 7+, adding a layer or two highly diluted (like 1:4 with lahmian) biel tan over the highlighted areas and a bit up into the black at the end before a second final highight of ultuan grey at the end. This was a lot faster, and in retrospect maybe looks cooler?

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ANYWAY, as you would expect, this takes for gods damned ever, so I don't like to do it a lot. In the past I saved it pretty much exclusively for necromancers and necromancer-adjacent characters. Even vampires got plainer green cloth. Nighthaunts are an exception, all the nighthaunts get a version of this, but a faster one that skips the overall blend, mostly just black with (still too many) green highlights. Vampires get more or less the nighthaunt treatment (black w/ green highlights only) on their armor, but I'm considering changing vampire armor to the same method but purple, now that I'm no longer in my green and green alone phase.

OBR get to be the real exception, with the full process on all of their cloth, but they're special (they get not one but two too-effortful parts, the tabbards and the swords), and also I'm already starting to regret it for how long they're taking and might go to more nighthaunt style of just highlights for the tabards, saving the blend for banners & characters.

#warhammer #warhammer fantasy battle #age of sigmar #the old world #painting method

[stainlesssteellocust]

I don’t know if they ever threw any patches out to keep it playable in Current Edition but if so, it strikes me that you could use that old Renegades and Heretics list to play the Necron vassals of those among the Newcrons that have such things

Wouldn’t be a good idea but it would be a cool modelling project

Humans serving someone like the Nihilakh, who apparently order the populations of conquered worlds to build huge monuments for their glory and shit. And who Trazyn at least reckons will keep humanity around to serve them. Who knows, with all that crazy Dark Imperium shit going on, if a Necron Dynasty started repairing Pylons or building new ones or whatever and curbing all the Chaos bullshit the locals might serve them willingly. Trazyn shows there’s precedent with his pet scribe, who did better under him than under other Imperials.

Wouldn’t be a great society to live in even in the best case, we know the Necrontyr let their lower classes live in mud brick houses even after they’d developed FTL because they didn’t value life, but it’s 40k. It could be worse.

Anyway the R&H list was mostly guard units with some gimmicks (random leadership, mix and match weapons) and a few novel unit types, and you could use it for a wide range of stuff: There were chaos options, but you didn’t need to take them. You could just load up on Apostate Preachers and angry mobs and have them be a religious or even secular uprising, go heavy on wargear options to represent “Xenos heretech” and model some Ogryns as Ork mercenaries to play a human society which is friendly with aliens, take 5 rogue psykers and a refractor field on every character possible to model a psychic uprising, etc. Was a pretty rudimentary list but it was what we had.

So for Necron vassals you’d obviously avoid the psykers. But you could take Chaos Marines with Infiltrate as an Elite choice* and they had almost the same statline as Necron Warriors; use Warrior models as standins and have them infiltrate to represent Necrons phasing in to support their vassals (or more likely, using them as cannon fodder to avoid fighting themselves). You could even justify the lack of Resurrection Protocols by saying they didn’t care enough to self-repair for the sake of their slaves, and just phased out once injured.

Take a few Enforcers (special unit type, execute people to stop units breaking. Bit like some commissar rules I think, never played muc IG on tabletop) and load em up with carapace armour, refractor fields and plasma pistols to be “Necron Overseers”. Give them a glowy green whip, be a nice conversion job. If the plassy overheats it’s because the Dynasty sent the most fucked up and damaged Necrons to corral the inferiors and they’re falling apart, obviously.

Give the guys Egyptian themes to show them aping their overlords. Grab a few old mud brick buildings and spooky black obelisks as terrain pieces. Convert a squad of the elite human infantry, can’t remember their names, to look like they’re trying to cosplay Immortals.

Somehow they’re still nicer to work for than half the Imperium.

Nihilakh Ascendant!

*you could run these as loyalists to make an army of Chapter Serfs, come to think of it

#warhammer #warhammer 40k #warhammer 40000 #necrons

[lordoftempests]

Necron overlord portrait of the Nihilakh Dynasty

#warhammer40k #digital art #painting #necrons #40k fanart #gold #portrait

[kingwithpaintedfingers]

"Samples"

(Author's Note: @relax-and-read-on and I were talking about another Primarch AU and the subject of an old headcanon I share with my IRL best friend about the nature of the Bararan Overlords. This "driblet" (tiny little fic) more or less sums it up and includes some writing I'm proud of.

This scene comes from a larger AU I share with my IRL friend where Magnus the Red was raised by Trazyn the Infinite instead of humans. I'm not ready to turn this into a full fic at the moment, so this is sadly all I've got for now.

Very mild spoilers for The Buried Dagger; the usual Trazyn-y shenanigans.)

Mortarion sat in the middle of the floor, bound in chains of necrodermis.  At the sight of his brother, he struggled against them.  It was a futile gesture—even he could not break through these bonds.  Magnus knelt before him, bringing them level to each other.

"Where are we?  Why did you take us?  Where is Calas?!" Mortarion snarled.

Magnus held up a hand.  "We are on Solemnace.  And I did not take you.  Trazyn the Infinite did."

"Who the hell is he?"  Mortarion tried to kick out with his legs, but they were bound as well as his hands.

Magnus took a deep breath.  "Trazyn the Infinite, Overlord of Solemnace, is the archivist of the Nihilakh Dynasty."  He noticed the way his brother twitched at his father's title.  "He's the…person who raised me."

Mortarion stared at him, a look of shock and disgust on his face.

Magnus shifted.  "Pops—Trazyn—he's a Necron.  An empire of undying metal beings.  The Necrons were flesh and blood, just like we humans are, once.  They were once the Necrontyr.  Then the Star-Gods betrayed them with the curse of biotransference.  They were all put into metal bodies millions of years ago."  Magnus played with the hem of his robe.  "Almost all of them.  One minor dynasty was spared.  They were far away from all the rest, and they had pledged their souls to a different god, one who protected them from biotransference."

Suspicion dawned in Mortarion’s eyes.  He swallowed.  "And these…Necrontyr…the ones who survived biotransference…who…who were they…?"

"A small cult.  The Dewerekh Dynasty.  They settled on a small, savage world and ruled it, undisturbed, for millions of years."

Mortarion shivered.  "What does this have to do with me.  Or with Calas?  Where is he?!"

"In a stasis cell for now."  Magnus took another deep breath.  "Mortarion…the Dewerekh Dynasty…they were the Overlords of Barbarus.  You are the last person in the entire galaxy to be raised by a Necrontyr.  The Necrons barely remember their adult lives before biotransference, let alone their childhoods.  As debased and barbaric as he was by Necrontyr standards, Necare was one of the last members of their species, and the last one to raise a child.  And even better, you have an eidetic memory.  You remember it all!  You hold the key in your mind to uncover priceless insights of a lost culture!"  Magnus was leaning in closer, consumed, in spite of himself, with enthusiasm for their rare find.

Mortarion stared at him in horror, his body pulled away from Magnus.  He licked his lips.  "And Calas…his father was a, a Necrontyr…"

Magnus nodded.  "The last biological child of a Necrontyr.  His blood is diluted with human, and corrupted by your geneseed, but it still might hold the secret to their genetic past."

Mortarion clenched his fists.  "So what will your father do with us?  Experiment on us?  Torture us for information?"

Magnus shook his head.  "No.  You're too valuable to damage.  He'll interview you.  Find out what you know.  Take tissue samples from Typhon.  And when he's done, he'll put you on display."

His brother's fists tightened.  "No.  I will not let it happen."

"That's the thing, brother," Magnus sighed.  He reached into his interdimensional pocket and pulled out two mindshackle scarabs.  "You won't have a choice."

#my fanfiction #mortarion #magnus the red #trazyn the infinite #horus heresy #warhammer 30k #warhammer 40k #necrons #necrontyr