• I need to paint this like the rest of my Necron army which is red and grey. Looking at the monolith in the WD it is mostly black with a little highlighting and some gun metal on the guns. So I will be painting mine the same way with very little grey.
• Since i have only used red coloured rod for my normal troops all the crystal plastic needs to be red as well. This creates a problem since the Monlith has the cool swirly door and exhaust and the large crystal and they are green. So i have to mold them and cast them in red crystal.
• I need to buy a bunch of LEDS and wire up the tank so that the various points of light work. I also need to add an external battery source that does not take up too much room.

 

STAGE ONE: CUTTING, CHOPPING AND DRILLING

The first part is to clean up the model and drill some of the first holes for the wiring. The model is reasonably easy to clean (in fact one of the pieces is so big it does not even come on a sprue) and that did not take too long. I am not positve exactly where all the holes will be needed but three of them were obvious. I started with a small drill bit as they are easier to control and then widened the hole with a size bigger. it is not the right size yet but that is not a problem as i don't have the LEDS yet :).

This is the back plate of the Monolith, i drilled a hole where on the other side the exhaust crystal goes. The plan is to have an LED shine through the back of the crsytal and make the engine light up.

This is the base plate. I drilled a hole in the middle where the pillar goes. The wires will go through this hole to the battery pack (whatever that ends up being).

This is the top plate and also connects to the central pillar. An LED will go through this hole and shine into the base of the main crystal.