Necron
Ancient Necron Legion

I kind of like the Necrons. I think the GW people made a good transposition of the undead army concept from the fantasy game. But for a technology beyond time and space, the Necrons’ stuff sure looks awfully busy. There are cables and gribblets everywhere – in fact, they remind me of some of the Adeptus Mechanicus devices. (I know, there’s a rumored connection between the two. Still.)

Seems to me that they should be more streamlined, more “monolithic” in appearance. For example, I made a sketch of a destroyer that consists of little more than a square platform covered in technoglyphs, with a Necron on top. Maybe that can work.

But I have two armies to make before that. The sketches will have to wait a bit.

LEGO® Necrons

(November 25, 2006) I may not have the time to build models or draw sketches, but the neat thing about LEGO® bricks is that you can fiddle with them while waiting for something else to finish. I was comtemplating my small stash of parts and wondering what the heck I could do with the robot pilot figures, when I had a flash -- these look about the right size for tabletop gaming. Before you knew it, I had made one of every troop type for the Necrons!

LEGO Warrior Warrior GW Warrior

The basic troop type, the Necron Warrior. Easy to do -- just grab a robot minifig and give it a gun.

LEGO Immortal Immortal GW Immortal

The heavier troop type, the Immortal, is also easy to do. I added a shoulder piece to suggest heavy armor and made the twin-barreled gun.

LEGO Scarabs Scarabs GW Scarabs

The Scarabs were trickier. There was just no way to make them properly and keep them at the right size, so in the end I decided to just make a suggestion of the proper shape. I didn't have any clear green round 1-stud for the eye, so I had to settle for red.

LEGO Pariah Pariah GW Pariah

The Pariah was easy, though my first try lacked a blade for its combat staff. The head would be better in white, but I only have gray pieces.

LEGO Flayed One Flayed One GW Flayed One

Not the best looking of the bunch, but what can I say -- human and robot minifigs are just not made the same way, and merging them is a pain.

LEGO Wraith Wraith GW Wraith

I'm happy with that one, though I would have been even happier to find a nicer flight stand for it. There's probably at least one clear part in the LEGO® collection that is suitable, but I don't have it.

LEGO Destroyer Destroyer GW Destroyer

The one that started it all. I own the WH40K version, and they are about the same size and shape. I used round pieces for the thrusters because square pieces, though closer to the original, didn't look as good.

LEGO Tomb Spider Tomb Spider GW Spider

The Tomb Spider is based on the same chassis as the Destroyer. Not perfect, but close enough to the metal model.

LEGO Tomb Spider Tomb Spider w/Heavy Gauss

A simple transplantation of bits from the Destroyer and voila, you get the Tomb Spider with the heavy gauss gun.

LEGO Necron Lord Necron Lord GW Lord

I'm quite happy with this one. The cape was originally supposed to be made out of paper, but then I realized that I could make it in LEGO® as well.

Sorry, no Monolith. Though it would be easy to build out of LEGO® pieces, I just don't have enough of them to have a proper-sized go at it (especially if I want the colors to match).

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