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# Million Minis: Canoptek Circle Macrocytes
- URL: https://www.adventurousdadanddaughters.com/million-minis-canoptek-circle-macrocytes/
- Published: 2026-02-10T19:48:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-15T19:55:24.000Z
- Description: Heading to the Tomb World to try out some batch painting.
- Author: Dad
- Tags: Million Minatures Challenge, mini painting, work in progress, Kill Team

I’m saving working on my Seraphon spearhead for painting time with my daughter. But, if I’m going to [hit 100 minis painted by May](https://www.adventurousdadanddaughters.com/joining-the-million-miniatures-challenge/), I’ll need to paint at other times, too. And for that, I’m heading to the 41st Millennium, and Kill Team. I was seduced into the game by the [Tomb World boxed set](https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/r3fnsbz1/killzone-tomb-world-dare-you-enter-the-necrons-domain/?ref=adventurousdadanddaughters.com), which reminded me just enough of the beloved Space Hulk of my youth to make me splash some cash on it. The fact that my [friendly local game store](https://www.kdgames.co.uk/?ref=adventurousdadanddaughters.com) had a copy helped. 

I warmed up on the standard necrons and scarabs, and then moved on to the Tomb Crawlers:

![](https://www.adventurousdadanddaughters.com/content/images/2026/02/IMG_6166-1.jpeg)

![](https://www.adventurousdadanddaughters.com/content/images/2026/02/IMG_6168.jpeg)

Tomb Crawler work in progress.

With those done, there’s just the Macrocyte Warriors between and the Geomancer. Happily, they look like a good bet for an experiment in batch painting. Here they are primed and ready to go:

![](https://www.adventurousdadanddaughters.com/content/images/2026/02/IMG_6594.jpeg)

Macrocyte in white

It turns out that these are a more comfortable size to work with for my aging eyes than those fiddly wee necrons, and I found myself making good progress quickly:

![](https://www.adventurousdadanddaughters.com/content/images/2026/02/IMG_6596.jpeg)

![](https://www.adventurousdadanddaughters.com/content/images/2026/02/IMG_6597.jpeg)

I'm pretty happy with how these are coming along. I’m leading the side cover stop last, because I want to experiment with coloured washes over metallics to make the roles of each macrocyte clear. But, once done, I should have got all five done in a few hours. This is exactly the pace I need to start hitting…

## Tesseract Glow-up

![](https://www.adventurousdadanddaughters.com/content/images/2026/02/IMG_6598.jpeg)

Oh, as an aside. Citadel’s Tessaract Glow is so much easier to work with if you drop a couple of steel balls in the battle to make it easier to mix up. I went for [the Army Painter ones](https://amzn.to/3ZIprdM?ref=adventurousdadanddaughters.com), and they’ve been fine.