Necrons - The Lych Guard have no spine!!

So.  As part of my innexoarable advance completing my assembled Necrons (Read: All of them), next up were the Elite Lych Guard.

Now this is going to be a short post, filled with lots of pics showing the painting process and the ahem, hiccup along the way.

As usual, I gave the guys a liberal spray of Army Painter Skeleton Bone, before drowing them in Agrax Brown ink (GW).  Then came the primary layers:  Mechanicus Grey on weapons and the heads, Mephiston Red on the spot colour sections and iconography.  Finally Some green colour I can't remember on the energy bits.  (So many new names and paints these days!)
 

First I focused on the shields completion.  I figured I would copy them from the one I painted for my Overlord (Count as Septipical Weave), so they would really knit together.  It also gave me a chance to remember how I layered on the final retouching layers of the Skeleton Bone paint.

Note I toyed with some Army Painter Dark Tone Ink this time, with mixed results.  It's more effective, but doesn't always go where you want it.   Tastes better though, so I was happy enough.

Boom!  Finished.  After the inks were dry and the retouching was done, the green was highlighted up and the metal and detail added.

Ahh, but wait!  Upon looking upon my completed work I noticed something amiss!  They were all missing something on their backs!  But what could it be??

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!

So yeah, I had to paint the spines seperately before gluing them directly onto the figure and adding a final coat of Army Painter Clear Varnish.  (No Shine?).
I'm still having the issue of the grey scraping off easily.  I suspect its because of the over durability of the primary sitting underneath, or maybe its the varnish?  Two coats in future?

Anyway, at this point I have only the second Annihilation Barge and Triarch Stalker to finish, then everything I have that is Necrony is painted.  A milestone to be sure.

Thanks for reading,
Rick