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Lol. Okay fair enough. unless you defend and play planet strike then you have enough heavy support slots. Any progress oh i did some work on the Word Bearers will post pics up today so you can check them out if you want.

How many heavy support slots!
loving te vindicators youve got there, and those havocs are pretty cool too. subscribed

Really like the combi-plasma conversion. The Dark Apostle looks really nice, not a great fan of the Chosen champion but i like the way you changed it. Where did you get his head from as i know he holds it normally?

Young Logan

That's exactly where I got it from! I shaved down his hand and cut out the back, then cut the face off the champion. After going through so many single-piece metal Guardsmen with my Valhallans, doing an extensive conversion was really cathartic.

Just finished up seven more marines:




Closeup of this silly skull:


I also touched up the basing for my entire army, which entailed painting the base rims Rhinox Hide (Scorched Brown) and gluing some grass down:

Some detail:

Another 13 Marines, primed and ready for paint!

Those 13 Marines are done, with some extra OSL for fun on the plasma gunners!









And with the 7 Marines from December, making for one big 20-man mob:

How do you do your paint scheme?, I've been trying to paint my iron warriors with out them seeming too metalic, you seem to have a good balance.

It's pretty simple! I do a black basecoat, Boltgun Metal over everything followed by Nuln Oil wash over everything. I then drybrush Boltgun Metal over the model again, followed by a Runefang Steel highlight. The gold is Shining Gold with an Agrax Earthshade wash and Auric Armor Gold highlights, with a tiny bit of Runefang Steel at the very tip if it's a point. The caution stripes are Averland Sunset with Flash Gitz Yellow highlights.

I know it's kind of a hodgepodge of new and old paints, but I know there's equivalent paints for all of the old ones in there.

Still looking great i'd never thought about incopertaing the chosen into squads as leaders, good idea. You planning on adding any flyers/demons/demon engines? Some would fit the Iron Warriors look

Young Logan

I'm not a huge fan of the Heldrake, but I've got two Hellbrutes lying around, and I do like the look of the Forge and Mauler fiends. Just a shame they're competing for space with my Vindicators!

awesome looking army, particularly loving the dark apostle (much cooler than GW's effort even if he isn't a word bearer!) and the havocs.

These are looking really, really awesome!! Keep going mate (I'd subscribe if I knew how xD)

Thank you! It's been a little while since I've painted more of these guys since I've been so busy playing them! I am planning on adding a Land Raider, Forgefiend, and more Cultists to the army though. I've got heaps of DV Cultists lying around, and Iron Warriors Land Raider doors for that eventuality.

As for subscribing, there's a little button at the bottom left of the page!

Looking good as always.

Really liking the subtle OSL on the Plasma, looks very convincing.

 Brother SRM wrote:
Thank you! It's been a little while since I've painted more of these guys since I've been so busy playing them! I am planning on adding a Land Raider, Forgefiend, and more Cultists to the army though. I've got heaps of DV Cultists lying around, and Iron Warriors Land Raider doors for that eventuality.

As for subscribing, there's a little button at the bottom left of the page!

Subscribed ;3

Sup thread, long time no see!

Looking through the (relatively) new Chaos codex, one unit really caught my eye: Plague Marines. They're tough as hell, and I want to use them in my army. However, Iron Warriors aren't really fans of mutation, Chaos powers, magic, and so on. To remedy this, I was able to procure a ton of Iron Hands bits and put together a cyborg counts-as Plague Marine squad, with a Techmarine as the champion:


Their extensive bionics will explain their higher toughness, tolerance for pain, and lower initiative. They might look a little loyalist now, but in time they'll be as defiled and sinister as anything else in my army!

nice tos ee this back in action been working on my own iron warriors myself. and yes i do have the mandatory three vindis at 1,500 points lol

glad to have you back
bama

The whole squad's got some good progress on em, this is generally the level they're at now:


I chose purple since it would contrast nicely with the yellow and gold that will be on the models; I feel like it'll keep looking a little odd until I've got one or both of those colors in.

It took a solid week of painting, but I finished my Techno-Plague Marines! I really hope you guys like caution stripes, because you're about to get a faceload.

Love em and fantastic use of Iron Hands parts. for transport have you thought oh using watch parts ?? as well as on the marines?

That purple is a fantastic contrasting color. Along with the green plasma glow you have really set your iron warriors apart from all the others out there. I'll have to steal that idea for my servo skull army

Digging this! Subscribed.

How did you do the pink/purple on their legs?

 Miss Dee wrote:
Love em and fantastic use of Iron Hands parts. for transport have you thought oh using watch parts ?? as well as on the marines?

Thank you! I haven't thought of using watch parts really, since I'm not a fan of the aesthetic of "gears in random places that don't really do anything" that you see in a lot of steampunk stuff. I think a teched-up Rhino would be pretty cool though, if I ever feel like building/painting yet another Rhino though

 Theophony wrote:
That purple is a fantastic contrasting color. Along with the green plasma glow you have really set your iron warriors apart from all the others out there. I'll have to steal that idea for my servo skull army

Thank you! While caution stripes are all well and good, I like excuses to put more color in an army, and purple isn't something you see very often.

gretar wrote:
Digging this! Subscribed.

How did you do the pink/purple on their legs?

It's super easy! I paint the bionics pretty much the same as everything else - Leadbelcher, Nuln Oil, Leadbelcher drybrushed on, then a drybrush of Runefang Steel before a Leviathan Purple wash. I thought about doing another Runefang Steel drybrush after the fact, but I wanted the purple to really show up.

Dude, this is seriously one of my favorite examples of IW, you have imo got the perfect balance for them being chaos and still solid and clean-ish as in, not as deformed or tentacly as other bands :-) the colour choices for the spot colours is spot on! (see what i did there) all in all, great looking force!

Thank you! That's the aesthetic I was aiming for. I was actually a little worried that they'd end up looking too much like loyalist Marines, but my fears were for nothing it seems.

I prefer them being bad loyalists, as they never sold out to the man (Horus). Instead they just wanted to take on the emperor and his lackies. Mine were going to have been a splinter group that gave up on the dream and decided to make their way as mercenaries.

pretty slick man, looks good love your take on plague marines...are you going to be doing cult troops count as for the rest of the army?

I need to get some transports for my guys

 Theophony wrote:
I prefer them being bad loyalists, as they never sold out to the man (Horus). Instead they just wanted to take on the emperor and his lackies. Mine were going to have been a splinter group that gave up on the dream and decided to make their way as mercenaries.

Well, they're definitely not loyalists, but Iron Warriors are basically serving Chaos because they share the same hated enemy, not because they want the gifts of the gods or what have you.

 alabamaheretic wrote:
pretty slick man, looks good love your take on plague marines...are you going to be doing cult troops count as for the rest of the army?

Thank you! I have plans for Noise Marines using some Forgeworld Heresy or Iron armor dudes, using Volkite weapons as counts-as sonic weapons, and the Apothecary as the banner bearer for FnP. Just waiting for Forgeworld to make Iron Warriors shoulderpads for Horus Heresy.

I did Khorne Berserkers as well, but they're pretty straightforward, since Iron Warriors do use Khorne Berserkers: