What the heck, while I’m on this little roll, here’s one
other Necron unit you can make on the cheap.
Although, to be fair up front, like the Deathmarks, this one’s more
“inexpensive” than flat-out cheap.
Lots of folks love that Transcendent C’Tan, but it is scary
expensive. You’re either paying for the
whole Tesseract Vault (about $140) or you’re buying it online as bits (around
$60 most places I’ve seen it). Neither
of these is a great option if you’re short on cash.
However...
All along, the Necron fluff has talked about how several of
the C’Tan disguise themselves as other creatures. Even with the slight retcon that the ones we
meet are all “shards” of the total entity, it’s not hard to believe they could
take on any form. So any oversized model
could work as a C’Tan with the right paintjob.
For example...
The Dark Elf Cauldron of Blood has a great statue of Khaine. You can pick it up for under twenty bucks on
line, even less if you get lucky with an eBay auction. It makes a wonderful Avatar if you’re an
Eldar player, or just scenery. But it could also be used for other purposes...
Here’s the complete statue.
I could cut off the topknot, some of the horns/ vanes on the
head. I could also shave off some of the
spur-type horns growing along the arms and legs. This would leave me with a pretty basic
humanoid form with an elongated head.
I could also grab the control panel icon from the Necron Catacomb command barge. You may already have one of these in your bits
if you built an annihilation barge. It
fits very well right on the chest with no work at all.
With a tiny bit of filing and shaving, it would be a perfect fit.
If you can afford to pay a little more, dig around online or
in your bits bins for detail pieces from the Wood Elves
line. There are tufts of weeds, blades
of grass, and all sorts of small branches and such. But if they’re painted electric blue or neon
green, these would look a lot like the little energy wisps that are radiating
off GW's Transcendent C’Tan model. This would also
work with really simple green stuff tentacles.
And just like that... you've got a Transcendent Star Dragon, for under twenty dollars.
For the record, I tried to Photoshop an "artists representation" of what this would look like but it was really, really awful. My Photoshop skills are a few rungs below my general painting skills. But the idea works. Trust me.
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