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Hi,
I've just started this new army called the Iron Guard! I've also got a defiler for next years golden demon (never going to win ) Here's the list and a WIP picture...

HQ:

Lord Tirus of the Iron Guard:
Terminator armour
Storm bolter
Blade of iron (made up weapon for Tirus)
or can be used as a power sword

Elite:

Dreadnought ironfist: (ironclad)
hammer
meltagun
2 hunter killer missiles
hurricane bolters


Troop:

Tactical squad: (10 man)
missile
Sergeant with power fist and plasma pistol

Combat squad: (tank hunter)
Sergeant ???weapons

Fast:

Assault squad: (5 man)
Sergeant:
plasma pistol

Heavy:
NONE
(An Ironclad dreadnought isn't heavy???)

Transport:

Razorback/rhino: (has removable top)
Hunter killer missile
When razorback, it has TWIN LINKED ASSAULT CANNON!!!
storm bolter

Points= under 1000pts
When it's finished, it should be about 2000pts

Looks nice.

Tac squad cannot have a missile and another heavy.

Interested to see how you do the chapter master

The Combat Squad can't have a Meltagun either, only squads of 10 get anything other than bolters. What'll the scheme be?

SoG

Yeah, I know, I was just showing you what the list was going to be like

The theme's going to be this:

Main-silver
Secondary-blue

I'm still new to 40000, so this is my new army. And my camera isn't working, so no pictures sorry
This is also my first dakkadakka forum too...

SonofGuilliman wrote:The Combat Squad can't have a Meltagun either, only squads of 10 get anything other than bolters. What'll the scheme be?

SoG

Yes they can. They may not however take a heavy weapon, as that is restricted to squads of 10. You can always take special weapons.

OT: Looks nice, a test figure or something would be nice

Here's an idea of the colours



I've also changed the first picture.

D.P.

Hi,
Because of my camera, I'm not going to put any posts on this for a couple of weeks. Should I delete this forum, but when i have pictures, start a new one, or should I keep this one and just write about what I'm doing, then put pictures on later???

Last option.

Ok,


current army:

SM battleforce-all assembled, WIP paint
Assault on black reach-all assembled, WIP Ork tribe colors and terminators
Ironclad Dreadnought- assembled, no paint yet
chapter master-assembled
tirus-changed colors in the middle of painting
devastators - assembled

I'm also working on a gaming board....
I'll put some pictures of it on when the cameras ready

D.P.

Got lots of projects to finish, because I'm entering Golden demon 2010 in at least 2 category's and the art (drawing) competition at GD
comments???

Well guy we can't say much if we have no pics
About the scheme, are you sure about the Silver? I find Silver on Marines not that goodlooking, especially not the Mithrli Silver or stuff version, if you do it nmm it'd be another thing but maybe think about dark grey instead of silver? It's much easier to highlight and therefore may look much better, but I don't know anything about your painting skills so just do whatever you like!

I'm new to 40,000, but have painted other miniatures for about 3 years, so I could do NMM. But doing it on an army would take AGES, and I probably would give up halfway through! I also get what you mean about the silver, so I've changed the colors to blue and white. It's exactly the same as crimson fists, but changing the red for white. Thanks for the comment though, even though there's no pictures!

i think the silver can look really good on marines
as long as you make them nice and filthy
lots of ink, dirt, weathering, rust, scuffing, damage, decals ... the works

they will look awesome if you put the effort in
people always rag on the metallic paints but thats because most people just wash it once and leave it

think about it, even a rookie space marine is about 100 years old or so
his armor would not be all shinny with a fresh coat of chain mail silver

I don't dislike metallics at all, I just don't like them that much on marines, just personal taste though. Of course metalls can look really good too!

yeah, ever since it came out, I've been using devlan mud. The forge world weathering powders look good too, but the silver didn't look right for a whole army I could always make sergeants, captains and vehicles silver...

Yup, but I think, colors have more intention, than silver, it looks just more impressive and better I feel...

I've tried some other colors, and green and white works well! Using gloss varnish on areas like the inside of shoulder pads makes non metallic colors look great. even ones that aren't NMM silver or gold.