by Vaaish » Wed Feb 24, 2010 12:18 am
For this, I just modeled it in Blender. It's pretty simple, one blender unit equals 1mm with the stl exporter. This model is around 2.2cm square. The cost varies depending on where you do it, but this was done from a company called printapart and cost around $50 USD shipped.
None of the elements are sculpted by hand on this.
Zac: I'll be doing a full Necron army, the monolith in the picture was made and cast by a guy on the Tactical Command forums, and there are some very nicely sculpted necron pylons, tomb spiders, and a nightbringer available. THe actual infantry can be made from the excellent Exodus Wars Edenite skeletons and things like destroyers are easily converted from 40k scarab swarms.
Outside of that there are couple of things that don't exist like an atabatior, warbarque, deceiver, tomb complex that I'll be playing with scratch building.
This is actually being cast in 7 pieces. Each of the corner pylons, the sets of vanes on either side and the central body are the pieces I had printed.
-Vaaish