Necron Warrior Conversion Tutorial: Ditch the Green Rods!

Old School here with a quick, easy and effective tutorial for improving your Necron Warriors. For a long time, many Necrons (and non-Necron) players have complained about the green, plastic rods used for Gauss weapons. I particularly don't like them, but at the same time, I wouldn't pay extra money to replace them, so instead, I used what was on hand ...



 Let me start by saying this is not a new idea, in fact, I first saw the rods replaced this way on Eye of Error. One of the benefits of the blog community is that we can share and experiment with each other's ideas and after seeing it there, I wanted to see if I could pull it off, so I tried building my crons with rods taken from the Necron Immortal Gauss weapons. I thought this would be difficult, but it is actually pretty easy and considering that I prefer my Immortals with Tesla, I have plenty of extra Gauss weapons laying around. With that being said, this tutorial is a "For Dummies" guide of the original idea from EoE.

First you want to take a sharp hobby knife and cut out each rod. This is easier than it looks since each rod is held in individually with small pieces of plastic.

When you have taken one out it should look like this.Now trim off the extra mold lines and flash. Leave the little nipple at the end of the rod. Also, preserve as much of the fatter end of the rod as possible to avoid large gaps once the weapon is fully constructed.

Here is a sharp diagram bowwowed straight from Lucky No.5 over at Eye of Error from the post I linked above that better illustrates where to cut:

Now let's take a look at the Warrior's Gauss weapon:

Build yourself a Warrior Gauss weapon completely as shown in the photo above. Once that is built and the glue is set, run a bead of glue along the rail where the rod will go and also in the little hole where the nipple will go. Then (ensuring that our cool necron symbols are facing out from the sides of the weapon) set the rod down and give it that last adjustment before the glue sets up.

Congratulations, you have converted your first Gauss weapon. Now let me also say that I would recommend this to people primarily who are starting a Necron army as it may be a pain for people who already have or just simply prefer their green rods in place. I will also say that I have seen a ton of people who just painted over the original rod and that looks great to (google it and prepare to be amazed). This tutorial is simply one more way to skin a cat.

Thanks again to Lucky No.5 for clearing the way with this idea and for the borrowed diagram. If you haven't checked out his blog before, make sure you stop by Eye of Error, you will not be dissapointed.

Comments and feedback are always welcome. As I continue to build the army, I will seek out simple, effective and sometimes cheap ways to make the most of your bits and your Necrons.