in 2020 there was the slick boy scarab in 2005 there was the simple boy scarab
and in 2003 there was the chonk bonk metal boy scarab all three generations of scarab coming
together to create the greatest necron scarab swarm this galaxy has ever seen
hey guys jay here welcome to eons of battle i have a huge necron army it's what i started
the game with my first ever purchase was a box of necron warriors way back in 2013 as my first 40k
anything nowadays most of my army is now painted but one thing that is still missing is the scarabs
oh the scarab swarms what am i gonna do with you
i have so many necron scarab swarms and this really does come from a poor decision by
little child jay because this was my early days of collecting necrons i didn't have a lot of models i
didn't have a lot of money and i wanted the most bang for my buck three necron scarab swarms came
with each box of warriors and i had eight boxes of warriors 80 warriors so that's a lot of scarab
swarms but i wasn't satisfied with just that i thought four scarab forms to a base hmm i don't
know about that if i do three per base i could have a lot more scarabs forms if i do two on a
sum of the bases and just let them kind of fill in the signs i could have so many scarab swarms
but more isn't always better now in my old age i actually feel like having a appropriate
number of very very nice scarabs horn bases would be much preferable to like 40. that is
entirely too many sure it might be fun to bring in like one apocalypse game but i don't like models
filling up my drawers never being played with i want everything to see table time and i think
if i paint just a few very very nice bases that will be much more fun there's something
a little bit magical about the classic old metal pewter necron scarab swarms something about that
old school necron design a little bit before they were space egyptians they were space james cameron
terminators with a little bit of a bug thing going on they're a little bit meaner a little
bit angrier and they're a little bit spikier this thing doesn't look like a particularly
sophisticated looking weapon but it does look particularly dangerous it's multi-jointed limbs
and big grasping talons are still very frightening and one very interesting feature is it had wings
i will miss this little scarab swarm but i totally see why it only lasted a little while they totally
went in a different direction with the necrons and i think it was probably for the best in 2005 we
saw our first plastic necron scarab swarms this is the necron scarab that i grew up knowing and
loving and it is super super cute and absolutely teeny tiny i love this guy for what it is and i
don't know if it was the limit of manufacturing of plastic models or if it was just a failure of
imagination but it is a very very simple design it's not particularly unique it looked alright
especially next to the old metal necron spider which was just a scaled up version of this little
scarab that's when they looked pretty darn good but this thing sitting next to the new
necron spider that looks like a proper arachnid it looks a little dated these guys came four to a 40
millimeter base and they had a hilariously bad flying stand it looked like uh a little half of
a raspberry with a stem sticking up and then this little guy was put on top it did kind of do a cool
thing where it looked like they were flying over the ground but and i don't think i ever used those
i think i always glued them down to the base like they were scuttering across the floor or i took
some wire and i bent it so that they were kind of flying high up in the air that's how i like
my scarab swarms but you know what this was all we had this is all i knew and i thought it looked
great this was the scarab squirm that we had for 15 years but then i think that they have probably
been displaced sometimes you don't know what you really want until you see it and these necron
scarab forms are clearly the absolute best these models made their debut in the indominus box and
they are hella cool they're super detailed they're way more detailed than the old 2005 version
really what these are is if you looked at the 2005 under a microscope so that you could see all the
fun details these would be the fun details even the undersides have a little bit of detail going
on you're never going to see it but they did it i really like these guys they have individual legs
they have a really cool necron energy ball in the middle good old-fashioned necron energy balls
and they one really really cool thing about them is they come in all sorts of different sizes
if you looked at the old spider you would actually see underneath its belly that it had a bunch of
tiny little 2005 scarabs and they were really really small and that was an interesting idea
but they only had those two sizes normal and small these guys come in all sorts of different
sizes none of them are exactly the same and i think that's a really fun idea i can just
imagine a crazy swarm of these things and some of them are so small they go right into your mouth
but some of them are like as big as dogs these are really really cool and they're a
little scarier and a little nastier i really really like the modern 2020 necron scarab
luckily for me i already went ahead and i decorated all of my bases
some of these are in my classic old school necron blue and white color scheme but a
lot of these i decorated for the big old video where i repainted all of my necrons
never got around to actually doing the scarabs forms but the work is already done
now that i have everything organized in front of me i think i'm going to do three squads of
six i think that should be more than enough and i can always come back later if i want to build
some more i have plenty of scarab swarms i'm also going to do everything i can to give them a little
bit of height they're a little bit awkward to pick up when they're really really flat
if i just put a few on top of a base then i have to go in and pick up just the sides of the base
but if they've got a little bit of height i can go in there and really manhandle them
so it's time to break out the glue and start putting some necron scarabs on some bases
to get these guys to stay stuck to the bases they're gonna need a little bit of putty
green stuff i mixed the two halves together until it was a nice shade of orc green this between the
scarabs and the base will create a lot more surface area for the glue to stick to i put
a drop of glue on the scarabs and a drop on the green stuff then i squished it down onto the base
i did this over and over and over until it was completely covered in scarabs want to see a magic
trick boom finished in the blink of an eye i have two bases covered in scarabs and i think i have my
strat down pat i'm gonna blanket each base with the 2005 scarabs because i have the most of them
and because they probably look the worst and then i'm going to selectively apply my indominus
scarabs to the top and the nice thing is that these are kind of in chunks so it'll help to
look like they're flying and then at the very end i will very carefully and selectively apply
my pride and joy the old metal scarabs it's going to take a lot of green stuff and this this is all
i got so this is gonna have to do we'll see this was quite a process to stick down every scarab i
was so happy i decided to only do three squads not a hundred it could have been a lot worse
all 18 scarab swarms are done and it took a lot more scarabs than i thought it would and
there is so much super glue on my fingers it hurts
but they're all on there they're looking pretty good and it's time now for the endometa scarabs
the indominus scarab sat very nicely on top i clipped off the pegs they came with and glued them
down they really add some nice height and helped cell that not only are they scuttling across the
ground but also floating through the air i've been dreading this moment it's time to glue
on the metal scarabs and i feel a twinge of doubt or maybe guilt it's hard when you've been holding
onto bits for so long and they're so important and interesting and they have such a history
is this how i want to use them up and this was a bad habit i've had for a long time i have a lot
of very boring looking space marines i would hold on to all of those pieces waiting for the perfect
project to come along to use them on but it would never come because it's not a logical
thing it's just hoarding and i've learned to push past it this is the perfect project to
use these necron scarabs on because it exists it's here it's in front of me i'm doing it now
and you know what i will enjoy it and i will love it no second thoughts the metal scarabs were fun
to sprinkle here and there i wish i had more they don't fit well with the new ones but once they're
all painted they should blend in nicely and the eagle-eyed among my opponents will get a kick out
of these old pewter beauties boom 18 scarab swarms built i'm done right nope painting the best part
it's time to get a little bit of paint on these models and famous last words but i think this is
going to be a pretty quick and easy paint job i can do 90 of the work with an airbrush and then
just throw on some sort of a wash paints let's see how it goes i primed the models black which
might seem strange for a white necron color scheme but it'll all make sense in the end
in my haste to get them all primed up i blasted them from all directions and that
meant the primer really built up pretty thick and so it's taking a little while to dry but
i'm still on course for a quick paint job the first step to painting my white necrons is an
airbrushing of some p3 iron hull grey this is just a fast and loose spray of a base coat i
left a little black on the bottom to become my shadows these scarab models were a little old
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week and more with that said it's time to scuttle back to the bases after that i did a more targeted
spray of some games workshop van region grey which is a light blue gray color this will help
me transition from the gray to pure whites i just did a quick dot of this on the body of each scarab
and finally pure white i was very careful with this to only highlight the middle of each scarab
i wanted a nice gradient on each little fella ah they look so cool now it really having them
all painted up really blends them all together and even though they all had different paint and
different sizes and different colors and some were metal they all look like proper scarab swarms now
at this point i need to give them a wash but i am so lazy that i do not want to try to get in
every nook and cranny with a brush so i'm going to be using a technique i pioneered with this
necron army i'm going to take some null oil wash throw it in my airbrush and just douse them i love
quick and dirty stuff like this i literally sprayed a big wet coat of game surf shop null
oil and then really quickly took a damp brush and pulled it away from the top of each scarab
this only took a few seconds each if i did this manually with a brush it would have taken forever
you lose a little bit more paint this way but you gain back so much time then for the
eyes i did a little airbrush osl using my finest airbrush with the finest needle size
a little bit of red ink goes through the airbrush like water i almost didn't need to pull back on
the trigger for it to flow out just a quick squirt for each eye unfortunately not everything can be
airbrushed i pulled back out the brushes to highlight the eyes with some red then a small
dot of orange paint and then an even smaller drop of yellow paint then the models were finished but
the bases were not i put a little bit of vallejo dark sand water down to all of the exposed base
so much finicky base coating it's like i glued down a whole bunch of skittles to the bases and
now i gotta paint around them but you know what sometimes there's no better way you just gotta
do it with the dark sand applied i took some red pigment powders and gave each base a rubbing this
will stick down into all the nooks and crannies and give them a nice otherworldly orange glow then
last but not least i broke out the grass tufts i like my necrons to have a lot of interest on the
base so i threw a lot of tufts all around my swarm i used red brown and these tiny little beige tufts
these necron scarabs are just about done and it is time to say it with me now paint the rim of
the base gray that's right i paint my necron base rims gray there's a lot of black on the models
it's one of my accent colors and so i actually like to use a gray so that the rim of the base
does not conflict with the black on the models two thin coats later and these necron scarabs
were completes holy cow that was a lot of very repetitive painting tasks painting those eyes was
an hour of just dotting with a big old paintbrush but it was worth it look at these little fellas i
think quality was the right choice over quantity these guys look like they would make some
excellent harassing units they are so cheap and super fast i can use these to give me some options
in games and to take them away from my opponents these little fellas are fast with a movement
characteristic of 10. i remember bringing these guys in my neck round lists way back in the day
i can see it now if i want to keep those orc knobs away from my necron warriors for at least another
turn or two i can throw these bad boys into the fights they get a good number of attacks at 4
but only hit 50 percent of the time but they have a special rule where their 6's auto wound
not bad that could kill some works and it's a very healthy number of sixes not an incredible damage
dealer but that's not really the point i want to delay my enemy and at four wounds a piece they
have a chance of sticking around then the real fun begins with a stratagem called self-destruct for
one command point on a two-up a scarab swarm can explode for d3 mortal wounds or on a six it's just
a straight three mortal wounds that last little necron skier probably won't do much damage by
himself but if it self destructs rolling a d3 and it's a three it has a really good chance of taking
some orcs down with it the plastic that makes up these necron scarabs has seen a lot of action
back in the good old days of 6th edition and 7th edition i took necron scarabs in probably every
single necron list and you know what they are here sitting in front of me i have the 9th edition brb
the big rule book i have the 9th edition necron codex there is nothing stopping me i gotta get
some games in it's a very special feeling being able to put a period on models this old i've been
staring at these necron scarabs for my entire war gaming career and now they are completely finished
nothing left to do now but get them in a game let me know in the comments if you guys have any
models that you've been hanging on to forever and they're waiting for those final touches
but that's this video i hope you guys enjoyed and now it's time for the real star of the show
this week's eob complete submissions we put out a challenge to our community to send us before and
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without further ado let's look at and get inspired by what the folks have finished this week
in ironhands deathwatch marine by bluevinchees an assault intercessor by benj a primarist blade
guard ancient by tinastus a space marine with rocket launcher by scotbot morgath's blade coven
by it's tabbytime a dapper kingpin by silverclaw a bladeguard veteran by rammy22 a headless horseman
by alex ryder123 some old-school terminators by kinda worry a sailor moon by sparkle squid some
custom necron crypto thralls by civilian waffles a cragnose by quentin choir in orc war momoc by
rekkies a fun little abomination by bastian red l a primaries apothecary by justice bell some
custodian guard by jimil cottle a baby yoda by sakuretsu a gods ghost team by just makestuff
a soldier by strange a blade guard ancient by vestriel a big necron warrior by wolf
string some roman soldiers by sir knight jones a primerous dark angel chaplin by pyrite a nurgle
plague marine by zero and a tau stealth suit by smoking killis congratulations to everyone for a
job well done it's no small feat to get paint on minis and you all should feel really proud
nothing gets the hobby juices flowing like finishing a project and we all thank you
for sharing your work motivating us and the hobby community to paint our plastic thanks for sharing