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The tank's looking excellent, mate (although the actual German word would be "Sturmgeschütz" ).

The one thing that sticks out to me is the head of the Marine: It does seem a bit too hairy to work for an Iron Warrior, in my opinion: Something colder and more aloof would work better, if you ask me.

Keep up the amazing work!

Sorry for such a gap in the updates, the cable i use to transfer photos to my computer had gone missing!
I've finally gotten around to painting some of my chaos marines, and while i'm not a pro painter, i do think i've done fairly well and i'm quite proud of myself. However i couldn't get a good photo of my chaos marines so they look a little..off.
As with all my models, my chaos marines are extensively converted. I'll show the rest of my chaos marines in the future, likely involving my berzerkers and plague marines!

I've also finally finished the modelling stage of 2 of my helbrutes, I grew to dislike the skull on my alphabrute and so built him some gasmask looking apparatus, to reinforce the western front, siege type look i was going for. One of my other brutes has been done up by adding wooden boards to represent hasty repairs as well as stowage (likely attached by the warpsmiths that maintain the brutes)
Hopefully i'll be able to show my other two brutes finished soon (As i have four currently).

Thanks for any feedback!
I've got some real nice ideas hidden for next update, so stay classy gentlemen

Looking good so far

The first brute's gasmask looks pretty sweet, what did you use to make it? Gives me a bit of a Death Guard vibe

The other hellbrute looks a bit off, not sure if a half-dead Astartes would appreciate being used as a pack-mule; but I guess it could work for the work-horse Legion that is the Iron Warriors

Keep up the good work!

These are looking great! Keep it up.

So many dreadnaughts ...... sorry helbrutes .....no dreadnaughts their not mutated. Would you rarther call them 'brutes or dreads given the choice?

Thanks for the kind words gentlemen! It keeps me motivated to continue working on my chaos
@Ezra Tyrius: Just some leftover fiend piping, a marauder skull pauldron and an offcut from a fiend part (Can't remember which one)
@e.earnshaw: I prefer dreadnought, sounds more intimidating in my opinion

So after quite a bit of a hobbying break ( As i didn't have the motivation to continue modelling after my assignments ) i've finally managed to finish off my first Obliterator squad, and i'm VERY happy with the results, the reason i'd taken so long building them is due to me not knowing how to finish off the backpack/engine of the oblits. However i also managed to clean out my room in my hobby downtime and discovered A LOT of kits it didn't even know i had or completely forgot about. One of them being an industrial powerplant type of kit with hundreds of parts, including barrels, piping and such. I believe i picked the kit up to assist me with daemon engine conversions and it's not hard to see why as i've used piping to create some badass exhausts for the Obliterators. I've also changed the base of the Oblit "Champ" as i didn't like how he was standing on a dismembered marine. It didn't look right. So now i've got some trampled terrain which i think suits the base far better. I Just need to add some sand/gravely stuff to the bases and paint them

I've also picked up a 1/35 Panzer VIII Maus kit which is excruciating to build, and i intend to turn it into a renegade baneblade counts-as, when i finally finish the bloody thing. I just need to pick up some more baneblade bitz off the web such as sponsons and stuff, maybe some more chaos tank accessories too such as hatches and so on . Hopefully next update won't be too long, i've still got plenty of goodies to display!

EDIT: Apparently i uploaded one of the pictures twice, can't figure out how to delete it...So.. oh well ._.

Here are some pics -

Maus baneblade conversion? I am looking forward to this!

And the Oblits are cool but BANEBLADE MAUS!!!! *squealing in glee*

The only thing that would be cooler than that would be a Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte or Landkreuzer P 1500 Monster conversion of some sort...

Stunning work on the oblits. Well worth the wait.

IW getting some well deserved coverage on this site of late!

IMHO I am a Pre-Heresy IW fan... but those look cool... those Oblits are beasts!!

MAUS-BLADE>>>>>> YES!!!! Cant wait to see it,

The progress of the Baneblade Maus has ground to a halt as i'm short of some more baneblade parts unfortunately.
So here is a small Dark admech themed update!

In the meantime, i managed to pick up a pack of ghouls and stormvermin super cheap at my local FLGS because they had a sale on select warhammer boxes...for some reason..
The intention is to make some dark mechanicus allies, with the stormvermin being counted as skitarii rangers (probably two squads of ten with two arc rifles each as well as princeps omnispex) and the ghouls will be converted into servitors for my renegade guardsmen! I think they'll fare quite well as deformed, augmented mutant henchmen for my hereteks.

I also converted an abomination from leftover forgefiend parts and good god i love it. I named it a tech abomination and is still very WIP. One thing i always wanted to do was build plenty of Dark Mech robotic...things..
I'd actually intended to convert something like this for awhile. and what motivated me to continue with it was seeing a very very similar conversion in the blanchitsu section of the Skitarii based warhammer visions that was out up until quite recently!
I'll probably count it as a Daemon Prince

Next update will likely be:
- Renegade Guardsmen/Cultists
-A truckload of chaos marines that i've neglected to show
-Updates on previous projects!

oohhhhh - some awsome conversion wirk going on. loving your oblits......that's how they should look not like though playdoh melting feth that gw came up with. lovely stuff. gonna look boss all painted up

As promised, i have some shots of my renegade guardsmen (which will be used as cultists until i properly kickstart my renegade guard army, as all i have currently is a possessed russ and chimera, amongst some other things). One of my earlier posts teased some plunder from maxmini, which is to say the "Neoreich" heads and FG42 autoguns. I can't recommend them enough - they're of damn good quality and almost no damage to the moulds were found, despite the usual brittleness of resin. The only problem was that the parts took two months to arrive from maxmini :/
The General theme i'm going for with my renegade guardsmen is akin to that of Wolfenstein: The New order. With the whole futuristic german-esque appearance. This ties in with my Sturmgeshutz (hope i spelt that right) vindicator that was posted previously (and i still needa finish the bloody thing!). As my renegade guardsmen army progresses, it will be joined by my dark admech and hopefully i can make some more wonderful conversions that are in line with that of the game such as the angry four legged walking thingo of doom and some uber soldat ogryns!
The general intention is to continue the western front theme as well, so my sergeants will be armed with entrenching tools and trench shotguns to mimic this as well as gas masks evidently!

I've also finally decided to sit down and construct some proper iron warrior marines (Which are still quite WIP!) for my army, as opposed to dodging between various forms of cult troops such as my numerous plague and berzerker marines (which will be shown again soon hopefully). They're pretty much made from the usual chaos marine kit, as it's a great source of parts, berzerkers, because they have the chained armour and bulkier legs that i love (but slaanesh be damned do i hate the arms in that kit), which look great on iron warriors. Moreover, parts from the space marine command squad are present as well as those of the new devastator kit, i found the optic toting heads to be quite valuable when converting weapon specialists as it adds that extra sprinkle of flavour!
How i intend to run my chaos marines are as follows-

10x Marines, meltagun, Autocannon, icon of vengeance
Champ w/ Combi gun
Rhino with Havoc launcher at the least

Aside from that, i've finally gotten off my butt and started painting again! I found i had very little motivation to do anything as of recent events, which is why this blog had stagnated a little... But since i've dove back into painting, i can say i'm really enjoying it, especially considering i've found my recipe for some gritty iron warrior paintwork! Take a look!
i've still got some more things to show soon, but we'll found out about those later!

..And hopefully at some point i'll figure out a way to upload these photos in between the text so it's easier for ya'll!

sweet, subbed.

happy wargaming,

-Mikey

Awesome work - very nice conversions!

Just brutal looking. Excellent.

Awesome project, and brilliant take on the obliterators.

Right lads, so i've (ever so almost, gotta add some trophies and stuff) completed the two squads of csm, I've also picked up some forge world iron warrior parts lately to really seal the theme I've got going I'm still mucking around with ideas on the champions, the idea is to make all my champions look like warsmiths/chaos apocs because i think that'd be really cool, especially with my legion's close ties with dark mechanicus.

Two Rhinos have also been converted up for the two squads, one is done, and the other is pretty close to being done!

Other than that, also converted an objective marker, this one is themed after khorne and directly inspired by insane psychopath's iron warriors over on bolter & chainsword, i highly recommend taking a look at his blog, it's really worth it! I'm in the process of converting more markers as i write this

Aside from that, i've also got some more dark mechanicus to show, i ditched the idea of the handgunner muskets from fantasy as they didn't look....right...nor 40k enough, so i picked up a squad of skitarii and built some vanguard and then used the galvanic rifles leftover on the stormvermin rangers! The intention is to run them in squads of 5 with two Transuranic Arquebuses and an omnispex each.
I'm thinking of running the vanguards with 8 men and 2 plasma calivers/arc rifles in the future.

As always, i'd love to hear what my fellow hobbyists on dakka have to say!
Next update will be tomorrow, stay classy ladies and gentlemen

It seems as if i forgot to post pictures of the renegade skitarii i mentioned in the previous update! Silly me! I've decided to throw in a new picture of my painted sentinel too, with a new camera so that it looks much better than previously posted!
Anyways, here you go fellas!

Those marines are looking good! I'm liking the extra armour on that Rhino too, what's it made from?

Can we get some more pics of that Sentinel, by the way? It's looking pretty badass, but I can't see much on that one pic you included

Thank you very much!
and of course, i'd be happy to post some more pictures of the sentinel, here you go

Hello again chaps!
Got a pair of chaos techpriests (Hereteks) to show you all!
The first was made with a host of parts, such as those of the imperial guard, killa kan, vampire counts corpse cart rider and a skull probe for the head. This particular heretek actually won me a conversion competition at my local GW and i was very very pleased!
The second heretek is a complete WIP and it basically a warhammer empire mage with a skitarii head.

And Ezra Tyrius, i forgot to mention, that the extra armour on the rhinos is just some plastic wood plank things from a WWII APC kit i picked up ages ago. I do not know what the name of the vehicle was unfortunately :(
As always, let me know what you think everyone!

Go Skitarii!

Good day once again fellas
Got another forgefiend on the way, with two hades autocannons and clearly quite WIP in it's current stage, as much as i think the usual dinobot sort of appearance the default forgefiend has going on is pretty awesome, i felt like trying something new and still dino-y and without having to scratchbuild a head completely like for my previous forgefiend (which can be found on page 1). So i settled with the head of a troglodon from the lizardman kit with the same name funnily enough
What i still need to do is add more armour plates to the carapace, as is evident. Pimp up the exhausts more, add a dino tail, probably from the troglodon kit again. Add some cyber-doo-hickeys to the trog head itself to tie it in better as well as put on the other hades autocannon.

So I just saw this blog, and I have to say, this is great.

The StuG is pretty cool (it's on my list of favourite tank-things, second only to the italian semovente) and the trololol head looks great on your forge-thing, better than the normal one I'd say, but doesn't he need 2 more legs? he doesn't look too balanced ATM, looks just as if it was going to fall forward, but I don't really know anything about the kit.

Also love your chaos marines, I happen to love Iron Warriors but I just hate painting silver so mine end up as Hazard Stripe Warriors, with a few spots of silver

Right lads, so other than my huge variety of other modelling projects i've got going on, i'm also working on an iron warrior renegade guardsman costume that is based off my converted cultists/renegades with the stahlhelms and gasmaks
My intention is actually to go as an iron warrior noise marine next year for supanova 2016 in Sydney, Australia (coz oi'm an auzzie m8ey ) , and this renegade costume will be a small project in the meantime for fun, costuming experience and also because i typically go in a group for costuming.
So if i succeed in my noise marine costume then my renegade guardsman will go to whoever goes with me (Because marine costumes need a handler more often than not due to their size and lack of vision and so on)
This will be my second costume made, my first being a deathwish themed payday 2 costume, with the suit, full body armour, painted equipment/weapons and everything - I went with a large group of other heisters to this year's supanova in sydney and i gotta say, i quite liked all the photos we got

The equipment i'll be donning is basically just a considerable quanity of military surplus/costume equipment i've picked up over the years, such as the helmet, gas mask, dog tags and gloves and so on.

What i've got planned is -

- Helmet + Gas Mask with badass paint job!
- Black coat with fur/belted collar
- Cargo pants (preferably black or dark camo-ish)
- Iron warrior Dog Tags (not to be used as ID, but more a symbol of allegiance)
- Armour including chestplate, scrappy pauldrons, kneepads/shingaurds
- 12 Gauge Bandolier
- 12 Gauge trenchgun type thingo which doesn't make any frickin sense because it's break action AND pump action (wut)
- Black rugged combat boots
- Hand Axe (Only for photoshoots at home\, not wandering around town with in costume )

The helmet shall of course be painted soon to match the iron warrior colours, i'm thinking of warning stripes along the side of the gasmask and the brim of the helmet maybe? As well as the obligatory eight pointed star on the forehead of the helmet!
I'm also going to spray and paint a pair of my dogtags and make them look all iron warrior-y with some warning stripes (gotta love them stripes *drools* ) and some decals from the tabletop minis, such as the iron warrior symbols from the vehicle decal sheet!
Aside from that, i've also got some leather gloves that i think could easily suit the part as they look suitably punk-ish

And last but not least, i decided to dodge the typical lasgun of imperial guard costumes and go with a more barbaric and iron warrior ish shotgun that i picked up for $15 at a local K-Mart store. It's a nerf gun in all seriousness. But i couldn't resist it so i bought it!
I picture it being some sort of trench shotgun used in a siege against some loyalist scum!
Being chaos and all, i pictured the fellow using it to not particularly care for the weapon's well-being as well as point blank shoot some loyalist dogs here and there in the cramped trenches iron warriors oh so love, so i applied some blood for the blood god (as in the paint from games workshop) to the weapon, to give it that bloodthirsty feel

I also have a bunch of spent 12 gauge shotgun rounds as well that i'm going to paint up and jam into a bandolier to look extra chaosy and barbaric! ...Also they fit the chamber perfectly O.o

I copied and edited the wall of text from my thread on the Eternal Crusade forum detailing the production of this costume, in case anyone regognised this

As always, let me know what you think of what i've shown today, and i'd be open to any suggestions you may have! And hopefully i can one day figure out how to implement the pictures in between text so that my posts are a bit better, hope to see you again soon!

I love your alphabrute, but I love the other brute with the shoulder pauldron for a head even more!

I've just converted three Astral Claws dreadnoughts myself, but I feel your efforts with helbrutes have outdone me :(

Thank you very much! It means a lot

Right lads, so while the progress on the renegade costume continues (More on that will come tonight ) i've also got a warsmith i converted for fun with a shopping list worth of different parts i had spare. I'm not sure which sqaud i'll assign him to, but i really wanted to take advantage of the 'Corpse holding' hand from the ghoul kit and i quite like the pose. He looks as if he's just torn apart an unfortunate fellow and just whipped the chainsword back out the chest of the victim and eyeing a new assailant.
He'll probably be assigned as a champion to my next havoc squad as the intention for my champions is now to have

- Regular legionary squads (Also known as csms) will be led by a regular type of champion but with radio equipment and stuff and a chainglaive/combi gun
- Havocs will be led by a warsmith with bolter (and backpack mounted chainsaw)
- Chosen champions will be chaos apothaceries with a combi gun

It's been a while since I've checked up on your thread. Man, you've made some good progress! Have to say those rhinos are superb. Just the right blend of over-the-top-spikey-chaos while remaining grounded in a practical military sense. Absolutely perfect for your Iron Warriors!

 JeffyP wrote:
It's been a while since I've checked up on your thread. Man, you've made some good progress! Have to say those rhinos are superb. Just the right blend of over-the-top-spikey-chaos while remaining grounded in a practical military sense. Absolutely perfect for your Iron Warriors!

Cheers buddy! I really like my rhinos and was going for a siege/trench warfare....improvised artillery....look type of thing haha. I've been watching your thread closely too, it's in my favourites tab and i check it every couple of days

Tonight i hope to show the current paintwork on the reneguade guard costume's gasmask and helmet as well as the PVC armour's progress. They're coming along excellently. Still got a LOT of half finished projects to show (such as chosen, daemon princes, abaddon counts as, berzerkers, noise marines, plague marines blah blah) and the intention is to get those projects knocked off the to do list asap as it's looking weird with loads of half built models lying around that i'm planning to bring to my local gaming club next week!
My army (if it was freakin built at least) would be around 7000 points, including the baneblade maus and knight titan i've neglected to update. The former hasn't changed since last update (missing some important parts as said earlier ) and the latter is more or less done but i'm gonna do some tweaking before i show it.

The plan for the next few days is to -

- Sort out my plague marines and berzerkers, because not only do they look lack luster compared to my new conversion ideas, but i'm also just not enjoying how they look so much (which is why i haven't shown them yet) aside from a couple of them. Therefore i'll use my more recent ocean of spare parts to make some of them look more badass here and there!

- Take inventory of cultists. Seriously, i've built SO MANY over the past years as i've never settled on an appearane up until quite recently; the wolfenstein the new order type look to be specific. On a whim, i'd say i've got about 300 ish cultists, and probaly 50 potential zombies? Don't even know where most of them are, between my two houses and my collection is spread between the two

They're built from a whole range of kits such as bret men at arms, lord of the rings orcs, WHFB zombies, imperial guardsmen, i think there is loads of other sorts of cultists in there too, aside from the typical dark vengeance ones... o.o

- In the event that i find all my blimmin' cultists and get my other cult marines actually in a finished and presentable state (Me being a devout iron within iron without type of guy, they have to be the perfect blend of iron warrior and cult!!), i hope to post them in an update before the end of the coming sunday.

- Meow

- Maybe even finish that hell talon which hasnt changed since i started this thread like 6 months ago or something ._.

Oh and havocs...i'm building lots of havocs too...

In the meantime, have a picture of a lizardman dude from the carnosaur kit i'm gonna turn into an abaddon counts as! This was mostly made because i looked at my bitz box and thought...

"Huh, that guy has a really awesome robotic claw... i very much like the pose too.. it's kind of skulltaker esque... I'LL TURN IT INTO AN ABADDON COUNTS AS BECAUSE I CAN! WEEEEEE!!!"

Later, i'll think of a lore justification as to what this thing is. I'm thinking a micro daemon engine of sorts... Like a genetically engineered lizard..man... with some cybernetic enhancements and assigned as a bodyguard to my highest ranking commander (who you will see very.....very...very...soon )
Maybe a xenos mercenary that has become corrupted by chaos over time and enhanced on top of that? Eh. I dunno, gimme some time to think of something! But i'm open to suggestions too!!

Alright so I've managed to get quite a bit done over the weekend! Oh boy do i have some doozies to show!
Okay so i've got my iron warriors chaos knight to show that i started freakin ages ago.. Still got a smidge to do such as the base and cleanup a little bit of leftover plastic when i was mucking around with previous parts glued to it (I change my mind a lot with making models, as you've probably noticed!)

But now i'm happy with it's appearance and so here it is!
It's just a knight paladin with a bunch of chaos stuff glued onto it really. i tried to avoid lots and lots of parts as i wanted this particular knight to be hazard stripey! My next knight will be a warden....or whatever the one with two big ol' guns is named...and will be heavily inspired by JeffyP's chaos knight in his thread "The Wild Crusade", i highly suggest you check it out as he has kitbashed one hell of an imposing knight!
He has extended the height of his knight and added plenty of spikey doodads to give it a look that squanders the forge world knight! I intend to do the same in what will hopefully be the next few weeks! But i'll need to start stockpiling parts now if so!
One thing i'd love to point out about my knight though is that i'm not using a typical knight head nor a games workshop head...i'm actually using a head a gundam kit i picked up for about $15 i think it was and i think it's named was the ZAKU II?

This post isn't over though ladies and gentlemen!
I've also made some 40k themed dog tags, it all started when i made some iron warrior tags for my renegade guard costume (which i'll show tomorrow is i'm running out of time to post this update! )

I wore my iron warrior tag for a week to school and work and it was met with an abundance of compliments, so i'm also making a mechancius tag as i freakin love mechanicus, and a night lord tag as a surprise gift for my mate! I'm also gonna make a black legion, imperial fist and tau tag for some other buddies! I've always had a habit of wearing dog tags out to town and 40k tags were too awesome an idea to pass up

I'll show some more stuff tomorrow, as i said before....i'm running out of time to write this! D:
Let me know what you think!