Limorekh Remastered – Spring Clean 2026

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.