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

Klausmasterflex wrote: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?

How about mounting the flamer on the glaive? Think it was the emperors honor guard who had glaives like that (there's a really good picture of it here on dakka, but I can't find it at the moment), only with bolters instead of flamers. Also, it'll give you a good reason to give vulkan loots of tubes running all over him ;P

Dread claw looks nice! Inside looks brutal

For my 2nd Dred Im going to remove the Storm bolter and use the Death windpod upgrade, this dred will be from the AoBR set if it arrives.

Klaus, the work you've done so far is absolute brilliance.
The dreadnought looks mega. Now stop slacking...I need MOAR!!

dude that stuff is looking even more pimping. Are you doing this for a specific tourney or just to have a cool army? Also any plans on an iron father down the road?

Limbo wrote:
How about mounting the flamer on the glaive? Think it was the emperors honor guard who had glaives like that (there's a really good picture of it here on dakka, but I can't find it at the moment), only with bolters instead of flamers. Also, it'll give you a good reason to give vulkan loots of tubes running all over him ;P

Dread claw looks nice! Inside looks brutal

Truth! I also like the inside of the dread claw- very gribbly grindy.

Miss Dee wrote:For my 2nd Dred Im going to remove the Storm bolter and use the Death windpod upgrade, this dred will be from the AoBR set if it arrives.

Are you planning on converting your drop pod to accommodate the size of the dreadnought?

Empchild wrote:dude that stuff is looking even more pimping. Are you doing this for a specific tourney or just to have a cool army? Also any plans on an iron father down the road?

Well my list is 1850 (standard for most tournies) but I hadn't planned on any one tournament specifically. I would love to use my Fremen for tournies (they are absolutely brutal) but as they are heavily converted I'm certain many many issues would arise.

For those who don't know: (per Lexicanum)

The Iron Hands also eschew the traditional office of Chaplain in favor of their Iron Fathers, specially trained Techmarines who serve to protect the faith of their brethren; some outsiders view this as well as the Iron Hands' ties to the Adeptus Mechanicus as an unhealthy relationship.

I'm planning on having my MOTF and Vulkan essentially be Iron Fathers, as the label is sort of an umbrella term. I could claim the army has twin linked and master crafted weapons because the Vulkan stand in personally contructed and upkept them all himself, insuring their value on the battlefield.

I dont think the Iron Hands need an excuse to have twinlinked and master weapons, I mean, Ferrus was tied for best smithy among his brothers =)

Limbo wrote:I dont think the Iron Hands need an excuse to have twinlinked and master weapons, I mean, Ferrus was tied for best smithy among his brothers =)

True that.


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Just got my rivet gear in the mail... it's converting time!

I have one that I'm gonna pinch from the Pre-Heresy DA's.

Gonna post the hammers and the claws in the morning.

Think you can pass me some cogs?

Miss Dee wrote:I have one that I'm gonna pinch from the Pre-Heresy DA's.

Gonna post the hammers and the claws in the morning.

Think you can pass me some cogs?

Sure! I can't spare any of the brass GW ones (I only have a few left and need to spread em out over the 3 dreads, 20 marines, 10 sternguard, 5 terminators, 6 drop pods, land speeder... etc).

If you want a couple of the watch cogs I can definitely spare some.

thats fine, so what did you think of Brother Bill?

Miss Dee wrote:thats fine, so what did you think of Brother Bill?

I like him a lot- especially his chaos smoke launchers. Any reason in particular you went with the assault cannon/ ccw options?


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Ok tonight's update.

I did more work on the dreadnought and some green stuff icons.

I finished riveting and 'basic' basing the marines, but no pics of that as I'm way too tired.

Here are some pics of the dread and the green stuff.

Rad, dude.

shoulder pad is sweet!

He was going to be a DA dred from fallen angles, and I saw a friends IH and I went and took off the DA stuff.

Cant wait to see your guys painted.

Fantastic work, this is shaping up to be the best Iron Hands army I have ever seen! And from your previous work I have no doubt this will turn out amazing.

what up with the right dred arm? :O

Hammers and claws in the post

captain.gordino wrote:Rad, dude.

Thanks

trench.one wrote:shoulder pad is sweet!

I don't know if I mentioned it before, but I Needed a way for my stern guard to really stand out. Since every other marine in my army is super cybernetic and converted already, it would be a challenge to differentiate the poor bastards. I figure that if every stern guard has a sight on their bolter, an expanded ammo clip, additional ammo for special ammo, a different color helmet and a shoulder pad sporting Medusa's face (there homeworld is Medusa, after all) then I should be good.

Miss Dee wrote:He was going to be a DA dred from fallen angles, and I saw a friends IH and I went and took off the DA stuff.

Cant wait to see your guys painted.

Very cool- I thought about doing the Fallen once, but then I decided to do my IG instead. I also can't wait to get some paint on these guys, but as I have some chains coming in the mail it might need to wait a little longer.

Thanatos73 wrote:Fantastic work, this is shaping up to be the best Iron Hands army I have ever seen! And from your previous work I have no doubt this will turn out amazing.

Thanks! I hope so.

Rose_Mountainz wrote:what up with the right dred arm? :O

He's so badass he doesn't need another weapon. Actually it's going to be a multimelta arm, but since multimeltas don't come in the normal box set, I had to order some multimelta sponsons to convert with.

Miss Dee wrote:Hammers and claws in the post

Awesome! PM me your address and I'll send some cogs your way.

As a side note, what do you all think would be cooler- lava bases or wasteland? Medusa is described as a wasteland with constant tectonic shifts, forcing the inhabitants to dwell in mobile convoys. Does that sounds more like a volcanic hot spot or dead wasteland to you? Likewise, they say that there are areas where ruins and ancient structures lay on the ground.

Dead waste I think would totally fit the theme.

Empchild wrote:Dead waste I think would totally fit the theme.

Cool- anyone know how to insert a poll?

ummm try editing the origonal post... never done it personally.

Oh noes! It's clockwork chaos!

Jokes aside - solid conversion work, mate. Esp. like the dread. Cogs on the hip + cabling + drill bits on DCCW all look great.

If you're in the mood for volcanic bases, there's always Kaarashi, the volcano where Ferrus landed, so it wouldn't be that strange if the Iron Hands had some sort of fortress there, think i recall something out of the Horus Heresy series where they describe a fortress with a huge smithy and boiling lava, no sure thought.

But I think a wasteland base would fit the most

wastland sounds cool


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Empchild wrote:ummm try editing the origonal post... never done it personally.

Damn.

Kveldulv wrote:Oh noes! It's clockwork chaos!

Jokes aside - solid conversion work, mate. Esp. like the dread. Cogs on the hip + cabling + drill bits on DCCW all look great.

Danke. I can't wait for my other bits to get here so I can finish him...

Limbo wrote:If you're in the mood for volcanic bases, there's always Kaarashi, the volcano where Ferrus landed, so it wouldn't be that strange if the Iron Hands had some sort of fortress there, think i recall something out of the Horus Heresy series where they describe a fortress with a huge smithy and boiling lava, no sure thought.

But I think a wasteland base would fit the most

Cool. Maybe the more elite a unit is the more lava it will have.

Miss Dee wrote:wastland sounds cool


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Nice! Can't wait.

or lava going into a wastland?

Damn Klaus. I just checked your fremen army. Ive read the book and i love that and and your army.

Anyways keep it up. For the stern vets: im thinking you should: Replace their limbs with multiple ones?
An Iron Hand resembling those of their pirmach that they use for making weapons and armor with?
Maybe they use their own custom bolters and armor they smithed for themselves?
And a Cog on the helmets instead of the laurels?
Make the melee weapon for the dreadnought have and triangular point at the end to make it look more deadly and to make it look like a building tool?
I'd like the idea for the lava/wasteland look for the bases, personally id go for a dark, hot like the inside for a volcano/smithy/armory etc.

These are just suggestions. Ive only been into hobby for a few months.

Good luck.

So I realized, as I took inventory of my bits last night, that I am out of the proper pieces to finish my squads.

For example, I have 15 backs packs and 16 sets of legs whereas I require 20 of each to finish.

No worries though- I devised a plan to 'make it work' using lots and lots of prosthetics and whatnot. Last night I finished my first prototype, a marine whose lower half (groin too) had been amputated. I'll post some pics later, if possible.

Also, my medusa shoulder pads sadly do not replicate well via green stuff mold. Instead I think I might go nubby pre heresy pads and improvised plasticard ones.


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Update.

So I did some work on the dread since my multimeltas came in today. Notice how nicely they fit when trimmed a little.

I also made 16 more iron hands shoulder pads- that kind of sucked.

Lastly, I made two stern guard. As you might recall, I was shocked to discover that somehow I had a dearth of marine legs (5 to be exact).

So, using the mounts for CSM havoc launchers, I fashioned myself two sets of legs. I plan on making two more of this type since that would be enough to replace 4 missing legs and a terminator set of legs will make the sergeant (replacing the 5th). I kind of wish I has enough havoc launcher bases to make a full squad of these guys- maybe I'll get some more donations!

Also, the combimeltas are constructed from half the nozzle of a multimelta, some card and a bolter.

Enjoy!

Wow, excellent. The level of extra detail that you are putting into these guys is really impressive.

I love the attention to detail you've put in. It's rare to get so much effort on individual models these days, Kudos!

Not to fond of the sternguard legs =/ makes the marines look like sentinels or something, I imagined the iron hands to be more subltle with thier bionics.

The GS hands look awesome! Exactly what the dread needed, and I like the studded pads too

Very cool stuff. Looking forward to seeing more.

small update:

did some work on my MOTF and finished another stern guard. I also added some bits to the other two, just so they fit the army a little more.

the MOTF is all scratch built.

The legs aren't done yet, they are just the plain termi legs. The torso also will have a crap load more done to it. the head is done, and the plasma cutter is done.






Also, I'm not sure how I'm going to do my commander's head... this guy is so cool looking (IMO)

Absolutely awesome. How do you do rivets, btw??

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Absolutely awesome. How do you do rivets, btw??

Thanks! I do rivets 1 of 2 ways. The first is by cutting a .030" diameter rod into very small pieces with an exacto. These are then glued on with rubber cement (or super glue if on metal) using the end of moist exacto the place it (the water creates hydrogen bonds between the rivet and the knife blade, holding it there).

The second way is the same as the first method, only I punch out a rivet from plasticard using a 1/16" diameter punch. This is then place first, with the smaller rivet glued on top.

Thanks, thats really helpful. You may have just inspired me to do an iron hands and admech combined force. Inspirational!!!

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Thanks, thats really helpful. You may have just inspired me to do an iron hands and admech combined force. Inspirational!!!

glad to be of help!

each one of my guys are going to look loke the Borg (Without the Helm's), let me know when the bits arrive please?

Miss Dee wrote:each one of my guys are going to look loke the Borg (Without the Helm's), let me know when the bits arrive please?

I'm excited to see them if they look like you described! I will let you know as soon as your bits get here, as well.

Well the faces will be like the borg.

Nice stuff

Looks good!

Sorry it's so long between posts- this week has been hectic and finger injuries from converting stopped me from picking up my tools for a bit.

I'll show some of the recent work soon, hopefully tonight.

Also! I ordered an airbrush. Time to put all those fun techniques I learned to use...

quality like yours takes time, we look forward to seeing them when their ready

As promised, a little update:

The army is stunning... really nice work!

fantastic conversions all around, the cogs are really fantastic conversion materials!

The MOF with the power lifter arms is my fav!

F*** that guy is awesome

Yeah, no kidding. You do some exceptionel work! That army should turn out quite nicely

god. Klause you kick when it comes to these things. keep it up.

Where did you get the etched brass cogs from?

Klaus I have SELDOME if more NEVER said this but my jaw literally dropped when I saw that utterly astonishing and amazing iron father...sniff sniff. This are would do ANY gamer proud and my hats off to you for it.

Corey85 wrote:The army is stunning... really nice work!

Thanks!

ShotgunFacelift wrote:fantastic conversions all around, the cogs are really fantastic conversion materials!

The MOF with the power lifter arms is my fav!

I also love the MOTF. Of course now that I've stared at him for hours while working (and have suffered several small injuries at his expense) he's far less cool looking to me. The cogs are really awesome- earlier in the thread I think I posted a link to where I got them.

lanman wrote:F*** that guy is awesome

Glad to hear it! I'm starting work on Varkuul, their Clan Leader, now. He's a stand in for Vulkan He'Stan with lots of mechanical goodness.

Flachzange wrote:Yeah, no kidding. You do some exceptionel work! That army should turn out quite nicely

I hope so! There's a lot more work to be done- luckily the painting should go a little faster with the airbrush I ordered.

Ultra mortalitas wrote:god. Klause you kick when it comes to these things. keep it up.

Will do

oaktree wrote:Where did you get the etched brass cogs from?

The etched brass cogs were donations from the freebootaz over at the 40k Radio forums. Originally they came with the GW basing kits.

Empchild wrote:Klaus I have SELDOME if more NEVER said this but my jaw literally dropped when I saw that utterly astonishing and amazing iron father...sniff sniff. This are would do ANY gamer proud and my hats off to you for it.

I'm very impressed with your work so far, it's beyond anything I could have done or imagined. I'm really looking foward to seeing your army all painted up!

Makes me wanna buy that space marine sprue of 3 and get to work!

Also, I really get the impression that your Marines could move by themselves with these elaborate gears, like something out of a Koo-Koo Clock.

brother_zach wrote:I'm very impressed with your work so far, it's beyond anything I could have done or imagined. I'm really looking foward to seeing your army all painted up!

Makes me wanna buy that space marine sprue of 3 and get to work!

Do it! You never know what kind of conversions you are capable of until you really go for it.

It's the detail and the care you put into your work! simple and fantastic!

Awesome dude. Just awesome.

lanman wrote:F*** that guy is awesome

This man is spot on.
You should do a steam punk warhound. THAT would be awesome.

Outstandingly good work on the MOTF, he looks fantastic!



Do you do commisions?

Disjointed Entity wrote:Outstandingly good work on the MOTF, he looks fantastic!



Do you do commisions?

I've been considering it- I currently work as a freelance artist doing illustrations and concept art, but I might be interested in doing some modeling as well. I guess it depended on the model and the price.

Just the news I wanted to hear

Sweet! PM if you have ideas.

Here's my portfolio site too. It's been a little sticky lately, just a heads up.

http://www.nicholaskay.com/

Gorgeous Motf...incredible stuff!!

Awesome conversions - very nice idea about the watch parts.

Now show us some paint please!

Looking forward to seeing what else you come up with.

Vlad

Vlad-X7 wrote:Awesome conversions - very nice idea about the watch parts.

Now show us some paint please!

Looking forward to seeing what else you come up with.

Vlad

Thanks! I have my new air brush on the way, so hopefully I can start painting soon.

Imperial Monkey wrote:Gorgeous Motf...incredible stuff!!

Thanks! more to come soon.

I may not have any jobs for you for quite a long time! I'm just sbpitballing ideas around at the present time, but if I do get some conversions done, I'll come to you first!

This is amazing work.....Im loving all of the scratchbuilds and stuff.

Sorry for the delay, everyone!

Like I mentioned before, my hands needed a little break as they had suffered some minor infections at the hands of my exacto blade.

On the plus side, I discovered I no longer need a pin vise to drill plastic, just my hands and a drill bit (Iron Hands, after all!)

I received a ton of donations Thursday, so many thanks to Veez from the 40k Radio Forums and our own Miss Dee.

I also got my magnifying headset (I work on a small scale, if you hadn't noticed) as well as three links of jewelry chain (I love this crap).

I ordered myself an airbrush (I think I mentioned that already) so I can't wait to get that sucker and start spraying...

Note: Jewelry chain is not the easiest stuff to use. I recommend making your initial connecting point with gel super glue, then attaching one end of your chain (without trimming it from the main length). Once that sets, figure out your next connecting point, and gel glue that done once you have trimmed the chain. After both points have set, you can manipulate the chain hanging between the two points as you like. Then give it a generous helping of LIQUID super glue and it will harden/affix to whatever surface lies below. Works like a charm.

Ok, some updates. I added chain to the dread and stern guard, but they aren't worth photographing at the moment.

After many debates with myself, I have figured out how the clan leader, Varkull (Vulkan He'Stan) will look. Here's my WIP.










He still needs a lot of work (head, greaves, backpack, shoulders especially) but you get the general idea. He's going to have a doc oc/ fabius bile styled backpack with pincer claws (4) that reach around him. I'm also considering some servo skulls, but we'll see (maybe I'll combine the two).

Kudos to anyone who can name all the bits!

Klaus as usual jaw droppingly WOW just WOW. I can only imagine what you will do with tanks

Empchild wrote:Klaus as usual jaw droppingly WOW just WOW. I can only imagine what you will do with tanks

It might be a very long time before that happens... well except for dreads and drop pods.

My Fremen army relies on landraiders so badly that I kind wanted to keep away from that play style, instead trying an entirely drop pod in force.

Very kick hynie work so far. Its relly getting me reved up to work on my on projects. I do have on small concern though, the spear/flamer on your Vulcan stand in, looks to long/un-weildy to me. I think his is because you have given him a sheild on his other arm, negating the ability to use a two handed weapon. I did have a thought(did I spell that right? I have been drinking tonight) on how to fix this, What if his arm split into two at the elbow then his grip on the spear would be pretty stable. Ohh and since you are not planning on using tanks for this force, I would love to see what you could do with a couple of speeders. I have a pic of a landspeeder with a hard wired gun se4rvitor in my gallery, take a peek if you want. Just my two cents... 8)

I think these are awesome! My favourite is the techni gladiator-esque marine especially because of the shield.Now hurry and give us moar stuff to oggle at!

Nicorex wrote:Very kick hynie work so far. Its relly getting me reved up to work on my on projects. I do have on small concern though, the spear/flamer on your Vulcan stand in, looks to long/un-weildy to me. I think his is because you have given him a sheild on his other arm, negating the ability to use a two handed weapon. I did have a thought(did I spell that right? I have been drinking tonight) on how to fix this, What if his arm split into two at the elbow then his grip on the spear would be pretty stable. Ohh and since you are not planning on using tanks for this force, I would love to see what you could do with a couple of speeders. I have a pic of a landspeeder with a hard wired gun se4rvitor in my gallery, take a peek if you want. Just my two cents... 8)

Lol you should have seen the relic blade before... It used to be gigantic.

I don't think I'll be altering its general shape (it's metal reinforced now) but I think I see what you're saying.

There will be at least 2 speeders in this force, both melta/heavy flamer (twin linked sucker!).

We'll see how they come out when they time comes...

I was thinking along the lines of, if his arm was sticking straight out from his shoulder, it would split at the elbow joint making a Y shape, with the ends of the Y being 2 hands. Well you could always have one of his servo arms holding it too.. I know all about over the top custom jobs, I have made a few WACKY builds in my time, just wish I had pics of them from back in the day.


(man I seriously cant spell tonight!)

Here is a link for low cost drop pods I was looking at last night.

http://santacruzwarhammer.blogspot.com/2007/11/low-buck-drop-pods-that-dont-suck.html


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Love the vulcan!
Spear-Flamer looks really sweet

Can't believe I missed this blog for so long. Awesome work as always Klaus, keep it up, can't wait to see more.

Awesome conversion. Want to see it painted

Flashman wrote:Awesome conversion. Want to see it painted

see! we the unclean masses clamor for paint!

sweet stuff - are you using bass guitar string for your pipes?

Vlad

Nicorex wrote: I was thinking along the lines of, if his arm was sticking straight out from his shoulder, it would split at the elbow joint making a Y shape, with the ends of the Y being 2 hands. Well you could always have one of his servo arms holding it too.. I know all about over the top custom jobs, I have made a few WACKY builds in my time, just wish I had pics of them from back in the day.


(man I seriously cant spell tonight!)

I see- maybe for the next MOTF.

Miss Dee wrote:Here is a link for low cost drop pods I was looking at last night.

http://santacruzwarhammer.blogspot.com/2007/11/low-buck-drop-pods-that-dont-suck.html


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Thanks! I'll check both out.

Limbo wrote:Love the vulcan!
Spear-Flamer looks really sweet

Thanks- I think it turned out nicely too.

Deff Dread red Edition wrote:Can't believe I missed this blog for so long. Awesome work as always Klaus, keep it up, can't wait to see more.

Thanks- I'll try to get some more conversion time in tonight!

Flashman wrote:Awesome conversion. Want to see it painted

Me too

Vlad-X7 wrote:

Flashman wrote:Awesome conversion. Want to see it painted

see! we the unclean masses clamor for paint!

sweet stuff - are you using bass guitar string for your pipes?

Vlad

hell ya. guitar wire is the best.

My god this is awsome i am loving you'r work dude i want to see more and some paint on these.

More more more!

I haven't saw anything you've painted yet however if you can paint one tenth as good as you can convert, this will be an army that anyone would be proud of.

I'll be following this one with keen interest.

Okay, that relic blade is absolutely HOT (no pun intended, what with the flamer extension on there.) That is definite inspiration for some more exotic CCW's for my guys.

Awesome work KMF, puts all my attempts to shame

Hey what exactly did you search on ebay to get those parts? I am interested in getting some for another project myself.

after finally having seen these (blasphemy i know...) i have to say these are awesome and im seriously giving some thought a doing a heavily converted army myself.

Brother Bartius wrote:I haven't saw anything you've painted yet however if you can paint one tenth as good as you can convert, this will be an army that anyone would be proud of.

I'll be following this one with keen interest.

Thanks! I hope the whole 'airbrush' thing works out as it will be my first attempt.

Death By Monkeys wrote:Okay, that relic blade is absolutely HOT (no pun intended, what with the flamer extension on there.) That is definite inspiration for some more exotic CCW's for my guys.

Nice! Glad to inspire.

DeluX wrote:Awesome work KMF, puts all my attempts to shame

Icelord wrote:Hey what exactly did you search on ebay to get those parts? I am interested in getting some for another project myself.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270524113889&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

twistinthunder wrote:after finally having seen these (blasphemy i know...) i have to say these are awesome and im seriously giving some thought a doing a heavily converted army myself.

Do it!

Update:

I painted my test mini (he's not based yet).

I'm almost exclusively using weathering techniques with only minor highlights when necessary (I want it to look realistic).

Check out the first marine.

cool, very cool.

Looks pretty Kick Hynnie to me.Great weathering effect. I have just one observation though(now this just may be from the washout on the pics), this mini seems very dark to me and it looks like a lot of detail is lost due to that darkness. I would suggest mabye doing a few of the bionics in brass, not an overwhelming amount, but like one of the arm rods and one of the leg rods or the cog wheels. just to add a little pop.

After the initial model, many commented that the scheme was overall too dark.

Here are some revisions.

Lock that down because WOW!

Very Awsome! Really makes him stand out, without being garish.

Wow! Great stuff! I love it!

What is the gear-y emblem on your Vulkan's back pack?

Master Melta wrote:What is the gear-y emblem on your Vulkan's back pack?

That's just a sort of cool mechanicus standard. All my sergeants have them too.

I also have repainted the model since, lol.

I've changed the eyes to red and removed the red stripes- now they are white again.

I'll try to get some more painting in tomorrow, or even tonight!

That looks exquisite!

Very impressive

Got the cogs and bits thanks mate.

awsomeness!!!!

your marines deserve a big fat awesome sticker of awesome-sauce. The revised version stands out a lot more, though if you did scouts, the darker version may be quite appropriate for their sneaky style.

superb blog mate.

Wow, the vulkan conversion is amazing...I don't know why but the shield makes me think of "The Golden Compass" by Phillip Pullman Its almost a shame to paint them, they look kinda cool with the grey plastic with gold watch bitz on top!

Great stuff

Hmmm im not sure but theres something missing from the paint job.
Well imo there is but that could be the way i see them in my heads way diffrent.

keep it up i want more

Klausmasterflex wrote:

Master Melta wrote:What is the gear-y emblem on your Vulkan's back pack?

That's just a sort of cool mechanicus standard. All my sergeants have them too.

I also have repainted the model since, lol.

I've changed the eyes to red and removed the red stripes- now they are white again.

I'll try to get some more painting in tomorrow, or even tonight!

I meant quite literally what is it made out of??? One bit, from which kit, many bits, etc...

my mistake!

They are made from chaos champion back standards- I just trimmed off the arrows into gears.


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Ok So I made a lightbox to get some better shots, but I really need to invest in some lamps to brighten it up.

It looks good, but I think maybe the cog should be highlighted in bronze?

Yeh, a bronze cog would look cool!

Looks awesome! How long does it take to paint one marine like that?

Fantastic work, love the dirty weathered look, nice chipping on the paint.

Sweetness

Disjointed Entity wrote:It looks good, but I think maybe the cog should be highlighted in bronze?

Imperial Monkey wrote:Yeh, a bronze cog would look cool!

I'll consider it, maybe I'll try it on the next one.

Limbo wrote:Looks awesome! How long does it take to paint one marine like that?

Tough call, the first was sort of 'experimental' so I didn't keep track. Right now I'm doing 2 more simultaneously- they've taken about 5 hours or so thus far, but aren't even close to completion.

Hits_the_spot wrote:Fantastic work, love the dirty weathered look, nice chipping on the paint.

Thanks- it's a serious labor of love.

Ghost in the Darkness wrote:Sweetness

Truth.

Nice to see your painting is keeping up with your converting skills.

Lovely work.

Can we have some more please?

Congratz, the model look beautiful! nice job! the hours you spent is well worth them all!

Update: I finished two more models, though none are based.

thoes guys are going too put my IH to shame.

They look awsome klaus! Will be a great army to see when it'c completely done I imagine.

Good work!

Did I see guitar strings??!! MAY THE METAL GODS GRACE SHINE UPON THEE!!!

I don't collect space marines, but i am sorely tempted by these models... you don't realise how agonising this is!
It's a real pleasure seeing your work - thank you for sharing it with us!

Vlad

Miss Dee wrote:thoes guys are going too put my IH to shame.

Aw don't feel that way! I'll make sure to share any cool tips I find here for you to use.

Empchild wrote:They look awsome klaus! Will be a great army to see when it'c completely done I imagine.

I imagine too... should it ever happen!

Munch Munch! wrote:Good work!

Danke

Brother Grevious wrote:Did I see guitar strings??!! MAY THE METAL GODS GRACE SHINE UPON THEE!!!

Oh no worries, the Metal Gods and I have a very special relationship.

Vlad-X7 wrote:I don't collect space marines, but i am sorely tempted by these models... you don't realise how agonising this is!
It's a real pleasure seeing your work - thank you for sharing it with us!

Vlad

Thanks! I too was never interested in space marines. It was only after getting my hands on the new codex and reading all the fluff that my imagination went wild. Originally, I was going to start a space wolves army. Then, I realized that I can just use my Fremen for them (as I really don't want to have two cc space marine armies). Next, I was going to go with Ultramarines. Their timelessness and enormous tradition was super appealing to me, especially since I have a degree in Classics and they are entirely Roman inspired. However, I knew they wouldn't sate that special longing I possess for converting. Something told me I would get bored very quickly with the 'nilla marines, so I decided to explore my options. Much like the Fremen, there were few to none shining examples of Iron Hands armies out there, so why not me?

Also, a little fan art I did in honor of my new army.

Woah, wicked artwork!!

Really awesome!!
Not a big fan of the black and white striped cable thought....

Limbo wrote:Really awesome!!
Not a big fan of the black and white striped cable thought....

It didn't come out in the pictures, but the cable and fuel tank for the multimelta are actually yellow.

6 Pages of awesome

That arts one of the best pieces of 40k inspired art I've seen that includes a lot of the GW stuff. The brightness of the lights and the contrasts with the plates just simply look awesome. My jaws dropped when I saw the Vulkan although I preferred the original looking over the shield with the weapon behind him striding forward thing. These are looking exceptionally brilliant and I can't wait to see more

did you digitally paint that?
it looks great. im trying to digitally paint, do you sketch first then scan it ?

gretar wrote:6 Pages of awesome

Thanks!

Llamahead wrote:That arts one of the best pieces of 40k inspired art I've seen that includes a lot of the GW stuff. The brightness of the lights and the contrasts with the plates just simply look awesome. My jaws dropped when I saw the Vulkan although I preferred the original looking over the shield with the weapon behind him striding forward thing. These are looking exceptionally brilliant and I can't wait to see more

Cool thanks. I haven't glued the arms or head in yet, so don't worry- the pose isn't permanent yet.

menziez wrote:did you digitally paint that?
it looks great. im trying to digitally paint, do you sketch first then scan it ?

Glad to hear it! I used to do sketches and scan them in, now I do everything with my stylus digitally.

Your conversions truly are of epic proportion. Good work!

Amazing....
Where on earth are you getting the cork-y stuff for the bases?

You can get cork sheet from modelling stores - i have some from Javis who make it by the roll (36"x24") or you can get it from local DIY shop as cork tiles (varying sizes and thicknesses)

or if you want to make rocks a bit more randomly use corks from wine bottles - break them up with a knife into random shapes.

You can get a huge amount pretty cheaply.

Hope that helps
Vlad

Klaus: O_O..... Now thats how you make AND paint iron hands The only thing i don't like about your Chapter master is the head: you would think he has completly replaced his head and skull (not including his brain) with machinery. Besides that i think its brilliant.

Vlad-X7 wrote:You can get cork sheet from modelling stores - i have some from Javis who make it by the roll (36"x24") or you can get it from local DIY shop as cork tiles (varying sizes and thicknesses)

or if you want to make rocks a bit more randomly use corks from wine bottles - break them up with a knife into random shapes.

You can get a huge amount pretty cheaply.

Hope that helps
Vlad

Yup- I bought mine in sheets from craft stores. Another source, which I recently discovered, is from my local dollar store- they have the crappiest 'bulletin' boards there made of the stuff for just a buck.

Ultra mortalitas wrote:Klaus: O_O..... Now thats how you make AND paint iron hands The only thing i don't like about your Chapter master is the head: you would think he has completly replaced his head and skull (not including his brain) with machinery. Besides that i think its brilliant.

I was considering that very seriously- I haven't quite finished converting him, so we'll see where it goes.



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I also considered making a librarian whose head was just a brain in a case- but I'm not sure on how effective a librarian would actually be with this list (the MOTF is sort of integral, and so is Varkuul)

Im still working on my partners Space Wolves..... and waiting for running legs to arrive in the bits sites as well as 3 twin linked assault cannonsfor my 3 razorbacks and gw aint gonna upgrade the box anytime soon.

Update:

Finished the sergeant and flamer marine (man that sounds weird). Here are some photos.















Questions and Comments welcome.

Klaus, this army is just awesome. The detail crammed into every miniature is overwhelming! They certainly have the appearance of direct translations from art to miniature, which is something that is very very difficult to do, but I think you done so masterfully. That techmarine is my absolute favorite unit you have, and handedly beats any other one I've seen. I'm sure you've made the Machine God proud with such an awesome army, and I'm really looking forward to what you have in store!

some sick conversions...
especially vulkan (although i hate the idea of having a vulkan stand-in leaving this army, its a very dope model...)

the painting is very good as well, but i think it could use a little more contrast...
but over all, really awesome stuff here

Ah, Klaus, you never cease to amaze me! These are looking brilliant! I just love weathered and muddy marines.

I say this in a totaly un-Ironic way... "SMURFTASTIC!" 8)

Wow. Very John Blanche-esque, except with better conversions.

What a way to make Space Marines very unique. Great blog so far. Looking forward to seeing more.

See I would disagree with the John blanche style as klaus's fits and is rather uniformed were as john is well... love it or hate it out their. Anyways amazing stuff klaus, as shudder to think what type vehicle you will produce with these.

your painting is ace keep up the good work.

So I just finished this quarter's classes- should be able to get some updates in soon!

oh, I can't wait!

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Your flesh is weak!!

Wow that was the most amazing/confusing feedback ever! I got the metal painted onto two models today- hopefully more to follow tonight.

Klausmasterflex wrote:Wow that was the most amazing/confusing feedback ever!

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+++ Fragment AE342 -- I was just saying that the assembly and conversion was great. Yet I had concerns that the detail wasn't as obvious as it should be (considering how wonderful the work is). I thought it might be lighting or camera but it could just be too much weathering or just because the base colour is black. Also your Vulkan is fantastic, dreads shortened fingers look better. You have employed some really ingenious ideas. Look forward to more. EDIT: Also I am a huge fan of your art work.. The Iron hand is great, but you also did the lamenter on his bridge and that was my fav piece from the badab book.. Also your confusion is likely because you read it to fast without a computer voice..It all makes sense with a computer voice!+++

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Shaman wrote:

+++ Fragment AE342 -- I was just saying that the assembly and conversion was great. Yet I had concerns that the detail wasn't as obvious as it should be (considering how wonderful the work is). I thought it might be lighting or camera but it could just be too much weathering or just because the base colour is black. Also your Vulkan is fantastic, dreads shortened fingers look better. You have employed some really ingenious ideas. Look forward to more. EDIT: Also I am a huge fan of your art work.. The Iron hand is great, but you also did the lamenter on his bridge and that was my fav piece from the badab book.. Also your confusion is likely because you read it to fast without a computer voice..It all makes sense with a computer voice!+++

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Ha no worries- I made it through the previous comment and got it well enough

I need to fix my lighting setup- it keeps washing out my details and adding a really strong yellow glow (which doesn't help either).

Klaus, you are an inspiration to newer painters and modelers. I hope i can attain a 5th of your level at it. Just amazing man, Great work and keep it up. On a side note, Have you ever competed for a Golden Daemon award yet? If not you should that is just too good not to.

So I just finished three more iron hands. It's pretty late, though, so I'll post the pics tomorrow.

As an aside, would you guys rather see more stuff converted or painted? I always figured converted made more sense (I could at least play the army) but as I still need a metric ton of drops pods, speeders, termies and the like, it might be a while...

If people want more conversions, I'll finish painting this squad and start assembling the second. If not, I'll probably go on to paint the dread, MOTF and Varkuul.

Any thoughts?


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oh ya one more thing:

I've decided to start my own painting/converting business (more of a hobby).

Here's the Under construction site:

http://nicholaskay.com/ironfather/index.html

Personally, I don't care. Everything you are doing is making smile! I'm sure whatever you do, we will all love.

Update: Three more done!









Yes the lighting blows. I'm fiddling with my lightbox now, as well as trying some new techniques with my camera.

From what I can see, this is going great! keep up the great work!

Hello klaus, ok so i saw the auction you got on ebay but which size lot did you buy first and was there a bunch of unuseful crap in the lot? did you but the smallest lot? and how long did that last? should i get a bigger lot?

These look really nice

Munch Munch! wrote:From what I can see, this is going great! keep up the great work!

Thanks!

Icelord wrote:Hello klaus, ok so i saw the auction you got on ebay but which size lot did you buy first and was there a bunch of unuseful crap in the lot? did you but the smallest lot? and how long did that last? should i get a bigger lot?

I gt the smallest set first but it proved to be not enough to finish my army. Also, there are a lot of 'fly wheels' in there which I haven't really found a use for as of yet.

kravus master of Horus wrote:These look really nice