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Hey everyone!

It's been a while since I posted any of my work to Dakka, I hope this new project makes up for it...

Since my Fremen, I've been floating from army to army trying to find a fit. I did the vampire themed army, but it really couldn't hold my attention.

Eventually I went with Iron Hands and it's been great. For such a cool, convertible army there seem to be very very few actual armies out there.

Well here's my first squad, Q+ C Welcome!

where did you those awesome gears. break an old watch or clock?

they look great

lanman wrote:where did you those awesome gears. break an old watch or clock?

they look great

Via the electronic god known as ebay. They had these sales on watch bits so I jumped on it. I'm probably going to need to restock as I plan on doing 10 more marines, 10 stern guard, 3 dreads, 6 drop pods, a land speeder, a MOTF and a Vulkan Stand in

Man i been looking for an IH army for a long time, and i wasn't disappointed. Keep up the good work mate.

Ultra mortalitas wrote:Man i been looking for an IH army for a long time, and i wasn't disappointed. Keep up the good work mate.

Thanks! I really want there to be a cool Iron Hands army out there on the internet. It took me weeks to find a completed iron hands army, but it was just some of the GW bits on black marines.

They really deserve the full treatment- hopefully I can provide it.

Wonderful conversion work! I've been wanting do this sort of treatment to my Iron Hands for a long time, probably just one 10 man squad to play as LotD, give them a real veteran feel. Great use of gears and bits, keep it going!

thanks for the info on those gears. I'll wait till your done before i start scooping them for my ad mech army. I hated how the price of bits for my army doubled after i posted pics of them online

Heliodore wrote:Wonderful conversion work! I've been wanting do this sort of treatment to my Iron Hands for a long time, probably just one 10 man squad to play as LotD, give them a real veteran feel. Great use of gears and bits, keep it going!

Thanks! I try to get a bit done every night, if possible, though school and work demand most of my time. I just ordered 30 .030" diameter styrene rods (to make better rivets) and $60 bucks worth of more watch bits- over 6 times the original amount. Hopefully I'll have enough to finish the army!

Aaah, Klausmaster. Seeing how much I enjoyed your Fremen army, I will be watching this with intent.

Great work so far; do you have any ideas for them in game terms, or purely aesthestic?

Loving it! Can't wait to see some paint on this! Curious about how you'll make the Iron Fathers

Fantastic stuff!

I'll have to scour eBay for some old watch bits for some AM conversions I've got planned...

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with next!

Tek wrote:Aaah, Klausmaster. Seeing how much I enjoyed your Fremen army, I will be watching this with intent.

Great work so far; do you have any ideas for them in game terms, or purely aesthestic?

Awesome, I'm glad you like it. This army plays as a Salamanders Drop Pod Marine Force. Instead of Vulkan, I'll be creating a clan leader who's mostly cybernetic (possibly just a brain in a case).

Limbo wrote:Loving it! Can't wait to see some paint on this! Curious about how you'll make the Iron Fathers

Ya me too (on both counts). I'm thinking the 'Iron Fathers' (master of the forge and vulkan) will be build on terminator legs to give them some additional stature and will have many many many bionics implants. I also plan on doing more 'loin' bits from guitar wire and tubing. I want both to have expansive servo harnesses, but we'll see.

Alpharius wrote:Fantastic stuff!

I'll have to scour eBay for some old watch bits for some AM conversions I've got planned...

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with next!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=270524113889&Category=75570&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26its%3DI%26otn%3D1#ht_11515wt_1166

do you have a way/ photos of how to do bionics? As Im doing IH just waiting on orders to arrive.

I really like these guys, very well executed. never been a fan of IH but these have won me over. NICE

Miss Dee wrote:do you have a way/ photos of how to do bionics? As Im doing IH just waiting on orders to arrive.

photos, not so much. I can tell you how I do it though.

Well there are a couple types of bionics. Full hydraulics, piping and guitar wire.

Pretty much I just cut the thigh segment out between the hips and the knee pad. Then I drill out a couple wholes on either side (matching number). Cut a couple lengths of guitar wire (E string) and rubber coated electrical wire. Glue them into the opposing segments and you're good. Hydraulics are made from pieces of aluminum tubing, the smallest I could find) and follow the same process as above. To get the hydraulic effect, put the smaller pipe into the larger so that they dock.

Other bionics, like facial ones, are a little more creative. IG binoculars are great for eye pieces, and adding bits in general looks good. Take a look at the models for some details.

Nice, Klaus. These are the hotness. I love the cogs and gears and your cybernetic work is terrific! Your attention to detail is extraordinary!

DUDE that has to be the coolest Iron hands I've seen to date cheers!

Empchild wrote:DUDE that has to be the coolest Iron hands I've seen to date cheers!

Thanks!

Death By Monkeys wrote:Nice, Klaus. These are the hotness. I love the cogs and gears and your cybernetic work is terrific! Your attention to detail is extraordinary!

I'm trying my best to completely put these guys in their role as iron hands- no vanilla marines with a couple bits here.

Klausmasterflex wrote:

Limbo wrote:Loving it! Can't wait to see some paint on this! Curious about how you'll make the Iron Fathers

Ya me too (on both counts). I'm thinking the 'Iron Fathers' (master of the forge and vulkan) will be build on terminator legs to give them some additional stature and will have many many many bionics implants. I also plan on doing more 'loin' bits from guitar wire and tubing. I want both to have expansive servo harnesses, but we'll see.

Was thinking more about the Iron Hands version of the chaplain, but looking forward to MOTF and vulkan too (as long as vulkan has a big ass hammer like Ferrus had ;P)

This army is looking awesome Klaus, hopefully they will hold your interest better than the vampires.

Skohm wrote:This army is looking awesome Klaus, hopefully they will hold your interest better than the vampires.

Oh I think they will. Part of the thing about the vampires were that they were so tactically weak... (no offense grey knight players). Also, they kept freaking breaking.

Limbo wrote:

Klausmasterflex wrote:

Limbo wrote:Loving it! Can't wait to see some paint on this! Curious about how you'll make the Iron Fathers

Ya me too (on both counts). I'm thinking the 'Iron Fathers' (master of the forge and vulkan) will be build on terminator legs to give them some additional stature and will have many many many bionics implants. I also plan on doing more 'loin' bits from guitar wire and tubing. I want both to have expansive servo harnesses, but we'll see.

Was thinking more about the Iron Hands version of the chaplain, but looking forward to MOTF and vulkan too (as long as vulkan has a big ass hammer like Ferrus had ;P)

My army actually doesn't sport any chaplains, yet. My 1850 list doesn't really fit them as I'm deep striking and not rolling up in land raiders. However, there will be some awesome TH/SS termies, no doubt.

I'm planning on giving my MOTF a thunder hammer in addition to his servo harness, so he'll have 4 S8 attacks with no saves (ouchies). Not to mention the TH is master crafted when Vulkan's in the army. I considered the conversion beamer, but I really don't think it's all that great to be honest.

The Vulkan Stand in should be pretty awesome. He's going to have, for starters, a massive glaive (gear shaped, of course) as well as a billion +1 implants. I haven't figured out how I want to do his heavy flamer yet (mounting it on a servo harness is so boring) but I'm considering giving him multiple wire appendages in addition to his normal 4. I really want people to crap their pants when they see him, so he's got to be utterly terrifying... any suggestions?

Also, I'm in dire need of bits. Any donations of metal junk or spare marine bits of ANY kind are more than welcome and will certainly find some home in the conversion mill. PM me if you have anything lying around (bits, wire, tubing, styrene, mechanical gizmos, etc) and would like to aid my conversion efforts.

As a side note, I started working on my 1st dread. Too bad I need to convert a multimelta....

I have 4 sets of lightning claws and 2sets of hammers I can send your way.

here is what I have done so far and I need some resin hands etc .....


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Miss Dee wrote:I have 4 sets of lightning claws and 2sets of hammers I can send your way.

here is what I have done so far and I need some resin hands etc .....


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wow thanks a ton! Those bits should be amazingly helpful.

Pm me your address and I should be able to send them this weekend.

Miss Dee wrote:Pm me your address and I should be able to send them this weekend.

done!


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Here are tonight's updates. I did some basing work on the marines, but mostly I worked on my new dreadnought.

I'm not sure about the cog on the sarcophagus cover - makes it look kinda like he's got a big nose.

Death By Monkeys wrote:I'm not sure about the cog on the sarcophagus cover - makes it look kinda like he's got a big nose.

Hm, I hadn't thought of it that way. Usually there's an iron cross with a skull there- I shaved off the skull and added a gear in it's place. Maybe you'll feel differently once it's painted? I dunno.


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What do you guys think of the 'fingers'?

I think I might clip them down a bit once they dry or bulk them out a little more.

I am loving this army so far. The detail work is incredible.

May have to stea... borrow some of your ideas for my own MOTF

Part of me really likes the fingers and part of me thinks they look very 1985 robotics lab/chopstick-y. So, mixed feelings really.

Thanks guys!

Death By Monkeys wrote:Part of me really likes the fingers and part of me thinks they look very 1985 robotics lab/chopstick-y. So, mixed feelings really.

No worries- I already trimmed them and added some more plasticard to thicken them out (they look much better now). I'll post some more WIP tomorrow!h