Necron Terrain, Pyramid Temple complete with Sphinx’

Greetings fellow wargamers!

Every once in a while I get in a terrain kinda mood, and I usually bang out a half dozen or so terrain pieces in a week or thereabouts.  Among terrain I always look for iconic bits of scenery to duplicate . . . . ruins, stonehenge, monolith, the works.  I love how ancient temples are always surrounded by stone guardians and I thought 'Man, how about some giant Necron Sphinx to guard an ancient set of Necron ruins?  The task of building a Necron Sphinx wasn't simple, and I'm positive the results won't be for everyone, but for my 2 cents, it was a project worth exploring and this is how I went about it.


The basic temple is nothing fancy.  Arcane ruins on hardboard with some wedding pillars, sliced and diced and filled with a simple spackle filler to create a smooth surface on top. The same spackle was used to create a rough sandy pattern to a few spots on the base to create the look of wind blown sandy features.

The sphinx' however, were more tricky.  For those, I need a metallic lion sort of critter.  Voltron came to mind, so I searched ebay and got lucky and found a few old metal Voltron lions for next to nothing. 

For the heads, I wanted something skeletal but not just some T-1000 heds.  If you look close these heads are from a few Skeletor action figures that I think were from the reimaged MOTU toy figure line a few years back.  Not sure even where I got them, but I had them lying around so, off with their heads!!!

I tacked on a few Necron bits and used some plastic hoses from a Star Wars Bacta Tank (the BIG version for the 4 1/2' figure, proving those old toys CAN be put to good use, and YES, all you collectors out there, I smashed the crap out of that tank!) and used some more Necron bits to create a new tail tip.  Then I used a little glue and applied it to a chariot style base and presto! 
The basic temple was painted with a few quick layers of yellow from army painter (their spray can format), and then some highlights with an off white (linen white maybe?) using an air brush. 
The sphinx' themselves were painted with layer of metallic paint from Home Depot and them a few patina style green washes to good effect. 
Finally, the Ark is from an Indianna Jones Raiders of the Lost ark toy.  Simple, but effective.  Slamp on a little gold paint and presto!  Doneskees. 


Hit or miss, love or hate, it certainly makes you do a double take on the table.  This terrain piece is currently for sale on ebay. 

My name is Caleb and I am a conversion artist for hire.  Contact me at calebfilm@yahoo.com if you are interested in setting up a custom commission.  And until next time, remember . . .

PUT YOUR MINIS WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS!!!

Caleb, WMG

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