Editing Warhammer 40,000/9th Edition Tactics/Necrons (section)

==Building Your Army==

===Buying===
Since Necrons are the non-SM poster boys of this edition, you can buy into them fairly easily with the starter boxes. Find a friend who plays Space Marines, split an Elite starter set and a Recruit starter set and you'll end up with an Overlord, a Royal Warden, 20 Warriors, 3 Skorpekh Destroyers, a Plasmacyte and 6 Canoptek Scarabs for $75 US (assuming you've split the cost down the middle as well). 

In addition, the Necrons Combat Patrol Box comes with a blister Overlord (the Warscythe + Resurrection Orb one), 10 Immortals/Deathmarks, 3 Tomb Blades, and a Night Scythe/Doom Scythe for a cool $140 bux US. A pretty good deal on those models, considering that just picking up the Overlord blister, Tomb Blades, and Night Scythe on their own would total up to $140.

GW now also sells the Necron models unique to Indomitus that aren't in the starter kits (Skorpekh Lord, Cryptothralls, Plasmancer, and Canoptek Reanimator) as the "Royal Court set" for $110 US, which is a little pricey for what you get, but is the only way to really get these models without resorting to resellers (read: scalpers).

Warhammer 40,000 Imperium magazine is still stocked in many stores and contain groups of models + paint for US$13.95.  Issue 4 has $60 of models + a pot of leadbelcher paint for $13.95, pick it up if you see it for cheap Skorpekhs.

===Converting===
You can convert a box of Necron Warriors into Flayed Ones with little amount of work (the guide for how to do so can be found on google). Flayed Ones are probably the models you should most consider converting because of their high monetary cost.

There's a pretty good and common conversion that turns 1 box of Wraiths into a Tomb Stalker/Sentinel.

Pre-9th edition Scarabs being more or less 1 sided (bottom can be flat) are perfect targets for molding with oyumaru and casting with green stuff. Helps you to make actual swarms.

You can make a relatively nice-looking Gauss Pylon with a globe, the cannon from a Doomsday Ark/Ghost Ark kit, and some plastic spoons.

The Nighthaunt are a great source of bits and alternative models for many of your units. [https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Nighthaunt-Lady-Olynder-2018] would, with minimal changes, make a decent Transcendent C'Tan, while some of the more specialized Nighthaunt Infantry would make well on-theme Maynarhk, Novokh, or Nephrekh units, particularly Flayed Ones (a full squads for $84 before bitz vs $220) or Kit-bashed Immortals and Deathmarks.

Slyvaneth models can be used for C’tan and Necrons. Especially the Drycha Hamadreth model for C’tan and Spite-Revenants for Flayed Ones. 

Wargame Exclusive also sells some nice bodies for Immortals and Deathmarks[https://wargameexclusive.com/shop/necrocyborgs/necrocyborg-deathmarks-conversion-set-5u/].
One Box of Immortals comes with an extra set of arms for the sniper rifles, so it would be possible to build 5 Immortals and 5 Deathmarks from one box for a little less than what Games Workshop would charge for the two units.

For non-GW options, action figures/statues of [[/co/|Dr. Manhattan]] tend to work as good C'Tan.

===Painting===

If you're painting the classic Sautekh look Necrons are most known for, you're going to need an awful lot of Leadbelcher (get a spray), Stormhost Silver and Nuln Oil or basilicanum grey. Unless you opt for one of the more colourful Dynasty schemes, or [[Lovecron|Lovecrons]].
: As an alternative to a Leadbelcher base with Nuln Oil shade, you could also drybrush Leadbelcher over the top of a black undercoat to achieve a similar effect. Both methods have a nice result.
: If you wanna go against the norm, a google search will yield lot of examples about how to find neat styles for your immortal laser zombie robots.
: Simplest technique for basic Necrons is leadbelcher spray, Nuln oil wash or Basilicanum grey contrast, and Necron Compound dry brush.