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This is a thread dealing with the Iron Warriors and the Obliterator Cult. I am drawing heavily on the fluff surrounding the obliterator techno virus. Using this basic idea I will model a variety of mechanical and biomechanical apparatus to represent wargear and units from Codex CSM. No, I will not use BA or SW codex. I am hoping to write some fluff for these guys eventually, but thats on down the road. Plus I don't want it to "suck" like folks think most home brewed stuff does.

The tentative direction I am heading is that a portion of the IW joined up with members of the Obliterator Cult, resulting in a fully weaponized form of the oblit technovirus. The theme of acquiring archeotech also figures heavily in this thread as represented by non SM or CSM parts integrated into the models.

I also want my army to be visually distinctive from both heretic and loyalist armies, so I am sticking to the following rules.

1. Putting spikes on a model, does not a good chaos conversion make.
2. Trim horns and spikes where possible in order to make the models "sleek".
3. No god specific iconography.
4. Minimal chaos iconography.

These models should be regonizable as chaos simply by eyeballing them, not because of "subtle" GW detail work. To whit I am using quite a few loyalist parts.

Nice, seeing how crazy your conversions are in your other thread this should be a treat. I'll share my favorite IW model that GW actually sells!

at limbo, you cant get any steampunkier with that i guess...cool model

I find it hard to work him in to lists thought, it's hard to count his claw as anything but a power fist =/

ach, if i ever would get my hands on that model i would probably use him for my steampunk IG army as mechanic...

A little mood music for the legion.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UePtoxDhJSw (WARNING: LINK CONTAINS RAP AND RAPPERS)



And here....we.....go...

allways the best aprt to play with the bit box before starting something new^^

WOOT! A bit box! Always good for conversions and the like.
I hate to say it but my ex made something that looks decent from my current bits, but...I need to take a part off of it and move it just a little so its not shooing up into the air. I'll get pics later and post it in a diff thread.
Can't wait to see what crazy things you come up with for the Iron Warriors Agro!

You may have ruined hazard stripes for me with that video Agro -.- (not a fan of rap/hiphop). Just remember that Iron Warriors generally doesn't use daemons. You have to work in much of the obliterator virus thought

OH! Speaking of Hazard Stripes, I should probably show my version of it with my Las Pred(not completely painted)
Anyone think I should add it to this thread?

Limbo wrote:You may have ruined hazard stripes for me with that video Agro -.- (not a fan of rap/hiphop).

:p Sorry bro, I live in the bay area so y'know how it goes. Heavy metal and bounce rap.


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zadelistol wrote:OH! Speaking of Hazard Stripes, I should probably show my version of it with my Las Pred(not completely painted)
Anyone think I should add it to this thread?

YES!!!!

I am excited to see more of this.

Lol since you sound so enthused!
Without further a due: WIP pics of my full Las Pred.
Hazard stripes on the cannons.

Making good time on the IW Raptors! Gotta wait for GS and slow cure cement to set. Mostly bitz from the box....a few left overs from my Warsmith WIP. Using 'nid bitz to represent infection and mutation by the Oblit technorganic virus. I know there's gonna be some folks sippin on the haterade because of it, but I care not a whit. A little imagination can go a long way with something this flexible. Hoping that the army will end up with Giger kind of vibe, but we'll see.

I must say...nid gargoyal wings look better then possessed jump pack wings IMO

zadelistol wrote:I must say...nid gargoyal wings look better then possessed jump pack wings IMO

We'll see....really depends on my ability to get half assed GS work done on the join. I'll say one thing though, getting 10 pairs of wings for 30 bucks is pretty nice. Plus assorted marine sized arms already posed in a double handed gun grip. Heads are perfect size for terminators too, although not really that chaosy looking.


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Parts at the top are for an aspiring champion. May be able to get away without bulking up the scrawny 'nid arms due to the use of pre-cast GS sockets instead of plastic shoulder joints. Nid arms are perfectly sized to fit in the hole, plus they have a ball/socket join for the two handed weapon pose. Should be A LOT easier to position than standard CSM arms. Basically I made an upgrade kit so that when the torso's get here in the mail I'll be able to slap them together and primer in about 10 minutes.

Nid wings looks great! I'm thinking Night Lords instead of Iron Warriors thought =/

Limbo wrote:Nid wings looks great! I'm thinking Night Lords instead of Iron Warriors thought =/

Paint brings alot together. On a side note, I managed to rescue 3 magnetized terminators, 6 arms, and 12 CSM that were too "tame" for my previous fascination with crazy mutants. Stripping them overnight and repriming tomorrow. Most of them have much much more subtle lines than normal CSM and are not covered in spikes.

the idea with the bolter nid termagant weaponsarm is a great one! with so much of that stuff i should try that out...

Nice Work

According to the fluff I've been able to get my hands on, Obliterators were first seen in battle alongside Iron Warrior contingents. I've also found enough references to "the Obliterator techno-organic virus" that I feel it is appropriate as a basis for showing severely infected/mutated IW forces. I also think that it will be quite simple to use this one flexible idea to represent literally any "fights as" rule from the CSM dex. Eventually I'd like to have automaton's/dripping blobs of guns n' flesh that fight as Thousand Sons. Close combat is mentioned as a specialty for Iron Warriors, so anything with a REALLY evil blade can fight as a zerker....you get the point. Also happen to think that the Tzeentch DP and Sorceror powers are easily "fights as" artillery weapons and the invuln save is accounted for by excessively thick armor. I know that there will be some purists hatin on this, but as usual.....I don't give a feth!

For the basic colors I am thinking a grey primer with Boltgun metal washed in Badab black for the armor, and Reaper Olive Green building to Rotting Flesh with a 1:1 wash of Devlan Brown/Thraka Green for the organic areas. Work in some Hazard stripes in random places....keep the shoulderpads matte black.

I will keep the posting of "WIP" shots to an absolute minimum in the future. I'd like to encourage everyone to post artwork that you feel fits the vibe.

Here is some stuff that shows the direction I'd like to take things. The artistic genre is generally called "biomechanical" (VERY popular tatoo style) and yes, Giger is a favorite of mine.

Did somebody say Iron Warriors? Here's my boys:

here's a few of the lads from 3rd company

Brother Heinrich wrote:here's a few of the lads from 3rd company

Old models of oblit or converts?

zadelistol wrote:

Brother Heinrich wrote:here's a few of the lads from 3rd company

Old models of oblit or converts?

conversions, built off the plastic chaos terminators

Brother Heinrich wrote:

zadelistol wrote:

Brother Heinrich wrote:here's a few of the lads from 3rd company

Old models of oblit or converts?

conversions, built off the plastic chaos terminators

Nice, I felt a little dumb after asking that and taking a closer look and realizing what they where><
Still a VERY nice convert IMO

zadelistol wrote:

Brother Heinrich wrote:

zadelistol wrote:

Brother Heinrich wrote:here's a few of the lads from 3rd company

Old models of oblit or converts?

conversions, built off the plastic chaos terminators

Nice, I felt a little dumb after asking that and taking a closer look and realizing what they where><
Still a VERY nice convert IMO

Thank you my friend, I should be back stateside within the next few days and I'll be re-starting my Iron Warriors blog in earnest so stay tuned for more goodness.

So these Iron Warriors are, what? Demon-mutated CSM's? (never looked into the Chaos armies, sorry!)

Billinator wrote:So these Iron Warriors are, what? Demon-mutated CSM's? (never looked into the Chaos armies, sorry!)

No only Obliterator cults, The Iron Warriors as a whole actually look down on mutation and usually hack off any offending tentacles/limbs and replace them with cybernetics. The Obliterator Cults are rumored to have once been techmarines in the traitor legions that were infected with a form of techno-virus that allowed them to absorb technology into their bodies and also gave them an addiction to collecting more, thus they live only to acquire new technology and usually are enticed to join warbands by the promise of new archao-tech.

Billinator wrote:So these Iron Warriors are, what? Demon-mutated CSM's? (never looked into the Chaos armies, sorry!)

IW are a seige/CC specialist Legion. Primarch was Perturabo who got elevated to DP after the Heresy. Its been aluded to in fluff that the IW may be the source of the Oblit techno-virus. My IW forces will use the Oblit virus to represent a wide range of wargear and powers based on a bio-mechanical theme. The color pallate will be similar to what is seen in Giger art and also in the Borg ala first contact. Hazard stripes are a must!



Those Oblit conversions are very sexy dude. Thanks for postin em.