Kawauso: Wow. Beautiful work. I wish I could paint as cleanly.
I dig the background. That extra step before posting goes a long way towards making the model more "believable" .
Anyway, as someone who has put together and painted one of these things, I stand by my statement that this is not a complex or difficult kit.
"Lengthy", sure. "Tedious", maybe... but there was never a time when I was stumped as to where a piece went or how something came together. Also, there isn't any of that I-need-to-have-three-hands-just-to-hold-this-thing-together-in-the-four-simultanious-places-that-it's-gluing stuff going on that I've seen before.
Is is a Rhino? No. But isn't that a GOOD thing?
People (myself included) like to rag on GW for some of the stuff they do but, at the end of the day, they make really well thought out kits with some great detail and this one is no exception.
I think the difficulty people are speaking of (or at least I know I am) is just the amount of involvement (read: lengthy, tedious work) required to get this model 'table-ready'. I don't think I've ever had to work on a model that required so much time and effort to get to a playable state before.
Except my Tomb Stalker.
Armies Played (in order of acquisition)
Crons, SW, SM, Tau, 1k Sons, IG, Nids, BA, DE
I'm currently building 7!!!
4 Ghost Arks, 2 Doomsday Arks, 1 magnetized interchangeable ark.
It's definitely a PITA.
I fully built and painted 1 as a run through. Took a long while.
I'm currently working on the remaining 36 rib cages (bronze top, turquoise middle, and boltgun bottom). Then the gauss arays. Then I can fully glue the ribcages together. I feel like at that point I could probably put them on the table until the rest are painted. I'll post pictures of mine after work.
Just think of it as revenge by all the players of other armies for all the years of necron players getting away with only slapping on some boltgun paint and calling it an army.
If this is the way mankind ends up, I'm rooting for the Orks.