Hey there, this will be a place where I post progress on conversions and painting for my ever growing Iron Warriors 13th grand company.
I would appreciate C&C on anything so I can improve my hobby related skills.

As it stands now I have well over 10000 points, half of it painted and i have no intentions on slowing down.
I will work on getting a group shot of the painted portion of the force, but for now here are some pic of my new raptor squad.







This is the first time I've attempted a blog, so if any one can give me advice on the most streamlined way of posting images it would be much appreciated. Posting them through the gallery seems to far more time consuming to upload than say a site like imgur.
In fact any advice or tips about the best way to post things would be appreciated.


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Iron Warriors Lieutenant Dristoro, the leader of my Inquisimunda killteam.
Tried my hand at some weathering using Vallejo pigments, probably could have done with a lighter shade of grey as it seems to blend into the silver of the armour a bit much for my liking.

Finished converting the melta gunner for my new raptor squad continuing the theme set by the other three.
Just need to decide what to equip the champ with. Dual lightning claws or combi-melta and lightning claw.

Also started painting the first raptor from the squad. First time I've tried painting a (nearly) whole Imperial Fist, so any advice on painting yellow would be appreciated.

Iron Warriors like they're supposed to be. Brutal, menacing, killing Banana Marines

Very well done! Looking forward to the group shot.

I like the blood spray following from the neck to the sword.
Nice job. I too await a group shot.

Raptors are coming along, just have to choose weather to equip the champ with a lightning claw and combi-melta or a power weapon and plasma pistol.

Went back and stripped the paint off the dozer of the first vindicator I painted and re-painted it to match the other vindy.
I generally run 3 vindicators in my lists so will be getting another to fit in with the line breaker formation better than my puppets war big momma vindy.
The puppets war one is also getting stripped with plans to turn it into a possessed one with bits from the corpse cart kit.



Here's a pimped out rhino I've been working on for my chosen. Probably the most expensive first blood machine out there, cost around $145nzd to put together. It's a labour of love really.
Kind of feel it need something on the sides to break the silver/gold theme, thinking maybe adding another metallic colour like balthasar gold to the exhausts and other bits.

Just a quick update with a group shot of all my (nearly) finished armour. The land raiders and Shadow sword need a bit of work before they are done.

On the to do list is, another basilisk and medusa, a bombard, a manticore. Two more predators, another vindicator another landraider 3 more rhinos, a storm eagle and and helldrake.




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Not sure if I should be posting back to back post's like this, but I've been busy so here we go.

Finished the first raptor. This was a lot of fun to paint and learnt a fair bit about painting yellows.
Let me know what you think.

Just a quick WIP of the raptors. Feel like I went too dark on the wash, but still have to do highlights and what not so it can still be fixed.







Also Finally got round to finishing my unnamed Warsmith/Counts as Abbadon conversion.

Time to paint.

Awesome work all around - I love the Iron Warriors. Looking forward to seeing the converted warsmith with some paint on.

Warsmith looks awesome

Thanks, really appreciate the feedback.

Heres the Warsmith as he stands today.
Going to try out the new Nihlakh Oxide technical on the demonic face and gargoyle on his hammer.
Should be fun.




Also got the corpse cart bits stripped an onto the dozer blade of my demonically possesed Vindicator.

Don't post things like this on Dakka.


Reds8n

I want to know what he said now...

Really nice work. Love the Raptor poses! I think the Imperial Fists would look nice with lots of weathering to represent a long lasting war, would dull them down a bit so as not to detract from that lovely visceral gore that you have perfectly achieved!

I have never liked Chaos. I think I have changed my mind now, keep up the great work!

Heavy Artillery Carriage WIP.

 ratking wrote:
I want to know what he said now...

As do I ... Anyway really nice stuff here! I absolutely love the pre heresy abbadon-warsmith conversion, plus the blades ploughing through the bodies is just how I view the iron warriors. Cold, mechanical and full'o hate!

Great work on these. I'm loving the conversions. What did you use to make counts-as-Abbadon? I need to get back to my own Iron Warriors at some stage.

Awesome work on the possessed vindicator.

 Azazelx wrote:
Great work on these. I'm loving the conversions. What did you use to make counts-as-Abbadon? I need to get back to my own Iron Warriors at some stage.

If I'm not mistaken he used the forge world per heresy Abbadon as the base

BaconUprising wrote:

 Azazelx wrote:
Great work on these. I'm loving the conversions. What did you use to make counts-as-Abbadon? I need to get back to my own Iron Warriors at some stage.

If I'm not mistaken he used the forge world per heresy Abbadon as the base

Yeah you are quite right indeed.

Been busy today. Decided I need to make a Relic Predator with Plasma Destroyer turret.
Quite pleased with how it's coming along.

Really great looking predator , nice gs work and good choice of bits

I normally don't go for the blood and gore, but man did you do it right. I've bookmarked it for future reference, it's given me great inspiration for those Night Lords I've been puttering around with for years.

The turret looks great. Are you using the comb method for the pipes or is it the Greenstuff industries template?

Thanks for the feedback

 Dez wrote:


The turret looks great. Are you using the comb method for the pipes or is it the Greenstuff industries template?

I have a set of tube tools very similar to the greenstuff industries ones, got them from here - http://masqmini.com/index.php/bees-sculpting/tools-n-stuff/tubetool.html

Heres a quick objective marker I made last night before I went to bed.

Great looking Iron Warriors, really liking the Predator and can't wait to see the progress on the demonic Vindicator as the dozer blade is brutal.

Just a quick update on the warsmith.
Started doing the power field over his hammer, but i'm on the fence about the results.
So what do people think? Acceptable result? Fixable? Or start over?

I wouldn't say start over just make it more prominent. I can't really see it.


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Ps his eyes are super cool!

Loveing the Iron Warrioirs. I'm planning on starting a zone mortalis force of them soon. May have to steal some ideas from you.

Were did you get thows little iron skulls from that you glued onto the tank and the chest of the PA warsmith?

Can't wait to see the posses vindi

BaconUprising wrote:I wouldn't say start over just make it more prominent. I can't really see it.


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Ps his eyes are super cool!

Yeah I think that was the issue, much happier with it now.

The eyes weren't done in that pic, sort of happy with them now, but took a few tries to get it right.

Heres how he looks now, still not done so C&C is appreciated.






This was what I was going for with the hammer.

Lockark wrote:Loveing the Iron Warrioirs. I'm planning on starting a zone mortalis force of them soon. May have to steal some ideas from you.

Were did you get thows little iron skulls from that you glued onto the tank and the chest of the PA warsmith?

Can't wait to see the posses vindi

The skull on Lieutenant Dristoro is hand sculpted.
The one on the Warsmith's chest is a push mold from the old metal Warsmith's chest.
The one on the Predator is a push mold from the forgeworld IW rhino doors.


Made an Iron Warriors top hatch for my rhinos out of plasticard, which I'll cast a bunch of to retro fit all my Rhinos.

Designed so it can be hinged and still open up without jamming.





And lastly added some generic "chaos trim" and symbols (from the hellblade kit) to the Relic Pred to give it more of a traitor vibe without making it look like a porcupine.

Yeah he's perfect now. You can see it really well on the hammer. The lightning on the claw looks super though.

My Imperial fists side is enraged but my Chaos side is cheering with joy. Those are some great looking models, that gun carriage looks brutal.

Continued great stuff here. The Plasma turret kicks all kinds of arse. I really like the way you've converted that main weapon from a Maulerfield(?) That rhino top hatch is absolutely outstanding, and if you ever find a couple of spare casts, I'd be happy to reimburse you for your time, materials and postage.

Did you have a tamplet to work from or did you make that great logo from scratch?
=O

Love it want to see more im in process of building a combo army of Word Bearers and iron warriors would love to see more of the warsmith! keep up the great work bud

Thanks for all the feedback.

Lockark wrote:Did you have a tamplet to work from or did you make that great logo from scratch?
=O

I used the pre-heresy Iron Warriors tansfers from BOLS found here

Azazelx wrote:Continued great stuff here. The Plasma turret kicks all kinds of arse. I really like the way you've converted that main weapon from a Maulerfield(?) That rhino top hatch is absolutely outstanding, and if you ever find a couple of spare casts, I'd be happy to reimburse you for your time, materials and postage.

I'm sure we can come to some sort of deal. Just gotta get the hang of casting first.

On that note heres one of the first decent casts of the rhino doors, had a few bubbles but nothing as bad as my first attempts.
The trim is from the awesome templates that Subtle Discord has done over on B&C found here.



Update on the raptors. Just need to get some space marine transfers and bloody them up to finish them.



Relic Predator WIP. Tried a chipping medium, but am not happy with the results, made the black look crap, epcially on the front.



WIP Dakka Havoc Squad.



Heres some stuff from my existing army.










And last and certainly least are some test models for a new Traitor guard scheme.

Your work just really is so cool! Keep this up, this thread could be big!

Just a quick update adding some pictures from my gallery to this blog. More pictures in my gallery if you are interested.

Some artillery. Accuracy through terror.




And my cataphractii terms.

Some more Havocs and an apothecary.

Looking great. I love the Havoks!

Rabid Ferret wrote:Looking great. I love the Havoks!

Well then here's a WIP of another bitter bolter wielding psychopath.

Some finished havocs.
Having a lot of fun with this squad, and they are no slouches on the battlefield either.
















My next project involves my current raptor champion, who, in game after game feths up big time.
My last game against a friends Flesh Tearers was the last straw, the squad missed their deepstrike meaning only two of the three meltas (one being a combi-melta) were in range.
Then he had the audacity to die in a challenge to a tactical squad sergeant. At least he didn't get a chance turn tail an run like other games.
Any way his failure is unacceptable and as a result of his continued disappointment he shall be entombed in a dreadnought I got given by a friend.
One of the old metal toe breakers, I'm thinking along the lines of a multimelta and a sweet siege hammer, like in the start of Storm Of Iron.

Finally found some Space marine transfers, so the raptors are done.
Still need to decide how to deck out the champ, Combi melta and lighting claw or plasma pistol and power weapon.

Amazing work, inspirational.

Beautiful work. Looking forward to more of your stuff!

As always, thanks for the comments, the more comments you leave the more motivated I get to do more.

Here's the latest two models to clog up my WIP pile, another melta gunner and a Huron counts as.

Amazing work!

The raptors and havocs are personal faves, but counts as abbadon and huron are great too!

Hope to see more of these guys. Gives me some great inspiration for my own iron warriors.

Great kit bashing work, very dynamic, loving the poor imperial guard guy about to be used to clean a windshield.

 Theophony wrote:
Great kit bashing work, very dynamic, loving the poor imperial guard guy about to be used to clean a windshield.

Cheers, the metal gunners been a wip for a while, reckon the imperail guy needs some gore on his back where he's being held.


Look what just arrived on my desk.
Is this normal for the chain weapon arm?
I've never had forge world bits on this type of sprue, only finecast.






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The new home of my shamed raptor champion.
Wanted to try create a dread with a siege hammer like in the start of Storm of Iron, I reckon he looks Iron Warriors as feth.
The main body of the hammer is mostly plasticard with a chaos knights mace as the end.
The arm is a magma cutter from the mauler fiend kit.
Body is the Iron Warriors dread from forge world, the radical reaper auto cannon is forge world also.

Since I had a few people ask how I did the gore on my raptors I took some pictures while doing a small patch on my melta gunner in order to show you how i do it.

Firstly I dab a bit of super glue on the origin of the gore then add a blob of greenstuff on top.
The super glue just keeps it there so the next step is easier.



This is the tool I use. As you can see it's very similar to a dentists pick but anything with a point will do, a tooth pick or sewing needle.



Then you just start tearing bits of green stuff off of the blob. It's fine to actually remove some green stuff here, it should be forming "ribbons" now.



Thats pretty much it, just manipulate the ribbon to dry in the direction you want the gor flying/falling and you're done.
Now just paint it red and slather tamiya clear red over it all.

Love what you have been doing. All the little touches like the shovel or the hammer here or there. Awesome. I think yours might be my favorite Iron warrior army i have seen. Really like the counts as abadon.

 sennacherib wrote:
Love what you have been doing. All the little touches like the shovel or the hammer here or there. Awesome. I think yours might be my favorite Iron warrior army i have seen. Really like the counts as abadon.

Thanks a lot for the feed back. It's a major theme I try to convey with my IW's is that first and foremost they are siege specialists and certainly no strangers to putting steel to stone.

Got The steel colours done and the foundations for golds and chevrons down on my dreadnought.

Hell yes radical stuff man. Dread looks good. He knows iron within better now,than he ever did as ur raptor champ .next battle my flesh tearers DC dread can rip him to pieces in anther epic dread duel!!!!

Rat-corpse666 wrote:
Hell yes radical stuff man. Dread looks good. He knows iron within better now,than he ever did as ur raptor champ .next battle my flesh tearers DC dread can rip him to pieces in anther epic dread duel!!!!

Hes got one more chance to reclaim his glory before his soul is bound to an earthshaker cannon, but if you think he's going toe to toe with your Furioso you are dreaming.
In fact your Furioso's going to have a little surprise next time we clash.

Here's the latest progress on this dread anyway.

Another dread I had that I have stripped back and started fresh on.
Still a WIP, gotta do more chaosifying of the weapons.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/565830-.html

These guys, what parts did you use for them? Also, where do you get all your hammers?

 Kepora wrote:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/565830-.html

These guys, what parts did you use for them? Also, where do you get all your hammers?

They are the Anvil Industries black ops, with head gun, and sholder guard swaps. You get some seriously awesome bits in the set, and the casting quality is some of the best I have seen.

As far as hammers go, Huron's is from the FW cat terms, the havoc's one is from the baneblade kit and the two handed champions one is from a blood angels kit I think. Any others you were wondering about?


Here's a sneak peek at my latest piece of dreadnought madness.



Also Rat-corpse666 sent me this sweet IW patch

So this is the contemptor as he stands at the moment, still plenty to do including filling out the detail on the butcher cannon, adding rivets (scale rivets from titchy trains in the post.), and possibly adding more chaosness to the trim mainly on the shins and shoulders, thoughts? He still needs to be based also and will be tearing an imperial fist limb from limb and throwing half the corpse away with plenty of gore like my raptors.

What do you think? Any improvements you can think of?

Iron Within! I would wage war in Perturabo's name along side you as battle brothers any day.

Your army is so sweet bro, always loved the I.W any yours are some of my favourite so far (and iv seen heaps.) Absolutely love the marine making the guardsman kiss the rail on the back of your bassie and the devastators, contemptor is looking great too and the rivets will help rough up that smooth chest plate nicely. But like I said everything you have posted is mint, keep it up.

I meant the smaller hammers, like what he has.

I know it's just a coincidence, but to me the pic looks like he just threw that other iron warrior away.
"You are not strong enough brother BEGONE!!!!"

Excellent work

I may have missed it, but will there be ammo drums or a hopper for the twin reapers?

Again thanks for the positive replies.

Kepora wrote:

I meant the smaller hammers, like what he has.

The small hammers are from the baneblade kit.

Theophony wrote:
I know it's just a coincidence, but to me the pic looks like he just threw that other iron warrior away.
"You are not strong enough brother BEGONE!!!!"

Excellent work

I may have missed it, but will there be ammo drums or a hopper for the twin reapers?

Heh not intentional but totally makes sense as that armless raptor is the previous champion of my raptors, and he most certainly is not strong enough.

Yeah definitely gonna put some drum mags on the butcher cannon, I was going to use the imperial guard autocannon ones but the just seem kinda whimpy for such a large gun, may have to scratch build something.

Just read Tallarn: Executioner, an now i'm hooked on the idea of a traitor guard tank company so expect to see more armour in the future.

Also had some stuff arrive, masses of rivets, IW mkIII shoulder pads (finally) and other FW goodies.

Started work on my traitor guard armoured company starting with a Chimera.
I want them to looka fair bit different from the loyalist ones so went with a stepped back turret and auto cannon instead of a multi laser.

Also got the converted devil dog of trademe so stripped the paint with simple green, needs some patching as some of hk was done with cardboard and disintegrated when getting stripped.

I've got a mars pattern leman russ coming from forge world and another regualr one from the states.

Tanks are lookin good so far mate. love the melta chained behind the standard bearer too. Its little things like that, that will make this army stand out.

Love your work mate! great to see another iron warrior army!

-skrall

Cheers for the comments.

Just a quick one of the Chimeras side armour, the idea being that its there to absorb the impact & energy from a shaped charge.

Chimera for an armored fists squad is done with converting, man do I like decking out tanks, Can't wait for my russes to get here.

Sweet chimera dude, the extra armour you have added looks great. Big fan of vehicles covered in aerials, stowage and tools.

Your stuff is still top notch!

some wip of the meat of the armoured fist squad.

Just re-watched "Beast of War" to keep my treaded hype going (if you havn't seen it, its one of the best tank movies out there, following a lost soviet tank crew in Afghanistan) also reading Gunheads, which is pretty good for imperial filth.

Started painting up the chimera. Started with flames of war Italian armour as a primer, then washed that with a diluted athonian camoshade, then zandri dust, karak stone and ushabti bone.
Kept the chevrons to tie them in to my iron warriors. Am having a bit of trouble painting the chains though, why did i add so many....

This is one of the first vehicles I've painted that hasn't been plain IW scheme so I'm quite pleased with how its coming along.







Also My leman russes came. one of the benefits of GWs slowed pricing structures in NZ is its cheaper to get a FW leman shipped from forge world then it is to get one in store here, plus I can make another russ from the spare bits if i just get some tracks.
Just wondering what to do with the side of the command vanquisher as I'm not equipping it with sponsons, thinking of crucifying some imperials and hooking them up to a dirge castor/vox system.

Finished some Havocs and a melta gunner and started working on the standard bearer.

Started going to the local gaming club and am toying with entering into a 1750 point tourny with Iron Warriors with death korps allies, should get me pretty motivated to paint.

Lookin good mate, the heavy bolter to auto-cannon conversions are wicked, never thought that would look so good.

Keep it up.

 RobZie wrote:
Lookin good mate, the heavy bolter to auto-cannon conversions are wicked, never thought that would look so good.

Keep it up.

Thanks, though the 1st autocannon in that bunch is the sentinel autocannon. It works really well size wise and required little converting with just a normal bolter holding arm and the heavy bolter arm to secure it.

Finally got round to painting my defense line after grinding out the aquilas with a dremel and covering the grinding marks with plasticard strips.
I got lucky and it so happens that the chevron transfers from the CSM transfer sheets fit perfectly over them speeding things up greatly.
The bigger chevrons are from the Imp guard sheets with a printed IW skull PVA'd over top with another layer of PVA painted over that.

still got to find one more IG transfer and cut out some more skulls, then dry brush some golden griffon on the gold parts and add some sponged on paint chips to the chevrons to finish them.

More awesomeness. Love the ADL, really fits in with your army. Is that banner a freehand job?

 RobZie wrote:
More awesomeness. Love the ADL, really fits in with your army. Is that banner a freehand job?

I cheated wee bit on the banner so its not totally free hand. I'm pretty rubbish at free hand so cut out a printed IW skull and glued it on then painted over that to get the out line right, the numbers are secret weapon brass etch also glued on (so tiny and fiddly).
The details on the skull and Chaos start are free handish with the help of some taymia masking tape to get straight lines.

Heres the finished product of the bearer and standard section of the ADL.

This lascannon legionary killed it last game taking out a devil dog for 1st blood and a chimeria full with a particularly nasty iron hand staken HQ opening them up to be obliterated by artillery fire.
In light of his glory, he get the honor of having a repaint, new head and accessories, as well as some more efficient cabling for his lascannon (the open port on the back of the IW lascannon shoulder guard always bugged me.).

This stuff is Awesome! Can you join my campaign for a 30k Board on Dakka. If you can add [30K] to your Subject Title on the thread, and If I build up enough interest, LEGO may consider building a 30k Mini-Board!

My Iron Hands would love going up against your Iron Warriors !






TIME FOR AN "IRON" OFF!

That finished Banner is awesome rat, doesn't really matter how you got there when the finished product looks so good. Las-cannon dude looks nice and unique, and I'm looking forward to more.

mwnciboo wrote:This stuff is Awesome! Can you join my campaign for a 30k Board on Dakka. If you can add [30K] to your Subject Title on the thread, and If I build up enough interest, LEGO may consider building a 30k Mini-Board!

My Iron Hands would love going up against your Iron Warriors !

Thanks for your interest and good luck with your campaign.
However I may use a lot of heresy era models and bits, but only because the Warsmith of the 13th grand company runs a tight ship, relatively free from warp mutated shenanigans.
This army is a 40k army so i'd feel it would be a bit misleading slapping 30k in the title.
Very nice Iron Hands by the way.

RobZie wrote:That finished Banner is awesome rat, doesn't really matter how you got there when the finished product looks so good. Las-cannon dude looks nice and unique, and I'm looking forward to more.

Cheers for the feed back, pretty happy with how he turned out my self. Getting prepared for this tournament at the moment so expect lots over the next few weeks.

Speaking of here's my list.

+++ Iron Warriors (1749pts) +++
+++ 1750pt Chaos Space Marines: Codex (2012) v48, Imperial Guard Death Korps of Krieg Siege Regiment, Fortifications Roster (Primary Detachment, Allied Detachment, Fortification)) +++

Selections:

Chaos Space Marines: Codex (2012) v48 (Primary Detachment) Selections:

+ HQ + (155pts)

* Chaos Lord (155pts)
(Champion of Chaos, Fearless, Independent Character)
Mark of Tzeentch (15pts), Sigil of corruption (25pts), Veterans of the Long War (5pts)
Bolt Pistol, The Black Mace (45pts)


+ Troops + (635pts)

* Chaos Space Marines (222pts)
8x Chaos Space Marine (104pts), Meltagun (10pts), 8x Take a CCW (16pts), Veteran of the long war (9pts)
* Aspiring Champion
Bolt Pistol, Bolter, Power Weapon (15pts)
* Chaos Rhino (45pts)
Combi-bolter, Dirge caster (5pts), Dozer Blade (5pts), Searchlight, Smoke launchers


* Chaos Space Marines (238pts)
9x Chaos Space Marine (117pts), Meltagun (10pts), Meltagun (10pts), 9x Take a CCW (18pts)
* Aspiring Champion
Bolt Pistol, Bolter, Power Weapon (15pts)
* Chaos Rhino (45pts)
Combi-bolter, Dirge caster (5pts), Dozer Blade (5pts), Searchlight, Smoke launchers


* Chaos Space Marines (175pts)
9x Chaos Space Marine (117pts), Lascannon (20pts), Plasma Gun (15pts)
* Aspiring Champion (23pts)
Bolt Pistol, Bolter, Close Combat Weapon


+ Fast Attack + (170pts)

* Heldrake (170pts)
Baleflamer


+ Heavy Support + (434pts)

* Chaos Vindicator (140pts)
Daemonic Possession (15pts), Dozer Blade (5pts)


* Chaos Vindicator (140pts)
Daemonic Possession (15pts), Dozer Blade (5pts)


* Havocs (154pts)
4x Autocannon (40pts), 7x Havoc (91pts)
* Aspiring Champion
Bolt Pistol, CCW


Imperial Guard Death Korps of Krieg Siege Regiment (Allied Detachment) Selections:

+ HQ + (75pts)

* Death Korps Quartermaster Cadre (75pts)
(Death Korps, Iron Discipline, Vitae Mortis)
* 2x Medicae Servitor (20pts)
* Quartermaster Revenant

+ Elites + (55pts)

* Death Korps Field Artillery Battery (55pts)
* Heavy Quad Launcher (55pts)

+ Troops + (50pts)

* Death Korps Combat Engineer Squad (50pts)


+ Heavy Support + (75pts)

* Death Korps Heavy Artillery Battery (75pts)
Earthshaker Cannon

+ Fortification + (100pts)

* Aegis Defense Line (100pts)
Gun emplacement with quad-gun (50pts)

Your Iron Warriors look great. Excellent converting and painting. What you did with your Raptors looks like a scene out of a Quentin Tarantino movie in the best way possible. I also really like what you did with that Chimera. Mind if I steal your idea a bit?

 Xysis wrote:
Your Iron Warriors look great. Excellent converting and painting. What you did with your Raptors looks like a scene out of a Quentin Tarantino movie in the best way possible. I also really like what you did with that Chimera. Mind if I steal your idea a bit?

Go for it man.

Been flat out getting my army ready for the tourny over easer weekend, really looking forward to it.
Running a different list to that above with 4 squads of marines with different setups, havocs with auto cannons 2 vindys, defense line with quad and the obligatory heldrake.
Got some WIPs of my Huron counts as (running as a lord with black mace), couple of new champs with power swords and the lascannon legionnaire as well as the starts of my display board.

"You're next!"

Looking pretty damn good as usual man. That display board looks interesting, cant wait to see it progress.

 RobZie wrote:
Looking pretty damn good as usual man. That display board looks interesting, cant wait to see it progress.

Sorry no progress pics as I was rushing to get it done so forgot to take some photos. Just got everything finished at 1:30 the morning before the tourny.

Ended up with 3 wins 4 losses and 1 draw, despite my armies preformance I had a blast, my army even got voted best painted so I won some terrain for that.

Your display board is awsome! This army blows me away every time i see it!

Starting on a new Vindicator kit I got for cheap.

I've always thought the idea of having a spare shell dangling off the back behind the rear armour as the stupidest thing ever so I made an internal ammo rack for the demolisher shells on this one out of some plasticard tubing.




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Finnally got round to adding rivets to the contemptor.

I've also been playing round with using the drum mags from the helblades auto cannons.
They are just blue tacked on at the moment but I am pretty happy with how they look, what do people think?



Started making little icons for the rear and side doors of the vindicator. I will probably make a push mold of this when its done to use on other vehicles.



"DRIVE ME CLOSER"

Im not surprised you won best painted with that. Display board ended up mint. The demolisher Shell rack is a freaking sweet idea, never seen anything like that before. The drum feed is looking good too man and really suits those reaper A/C's, he is posed quite dynamically too, which is good.

Probably going to steal the idea to store my paint brushes in barocca tubes, too .

Top notch as usual.

 RobZie wrote:
Im not surprised you won best painted with that. Display board ended up mint. The demolisher Shell rack is a freaking sweet idea, never seen anything like that before. The drum feed is looking good too man and really suits those reaper A/C's, he is posed quite dynamically too, which is good.

Probably going to steal the idea to store my paint brushes in barocca tubes, too .

Top notch as usual.

Just wait till you see why I posed him like that, dismembered Imperial Fists on the horizion and guts galore.

Finsished most of the painting on the vindicator with just some touch ups on the battle dammage and some weathering to go.
The icon on the side is the original with the one on the back being the duplicate from a push mold.

Frackin' awesome

 ratking wrote:

 RobZie wrote:
Im not surprised you won best painted with that. Display board ended up mint. The demolisher Shell rack is a freaking sweet idea, never seen anything like that before. The drum feed is looking good too man and really suits those reaper A/C's, he is posed quite dynamically too, which is good.

Probably going to steal the idea to store my paint brushes in barocca tubes, too .

Top notch as usual.

Just wait till you see why I posed him like that, dismembered Imperial Fists on the horizion and guts galore.

If The gore is done as well as the raptors' victims, it should look sweet. Vindi turned out awesome too, this log deserves far more attention.

I was thinking replace an arm and chain sword with a bionic arm and a buzsaw

Really nice looking stuff here. The models all have a lot of character. My only suggestion is that I think the Imperial Fists on the Raptor bases could use a little more depth to their yellow. They look a tad flat.

WIP of terminators from my Warsmiths personal body guard, the Martensite Guard.

Some dreadnoughts and lightning claw terminators I just finished.

Nice freehand on the dreadnought. Great work all around.

Very nice stuff, as usual!

First update in what seems like ages.
Finally decided to finish my contemptor dread and start painting him to lead a mayhem pack or just run as a very expensive chaos contemptor.
Decided after I had done the lead beltcher base coat and first ironbreaker dry brush to try photo it in each stage of painting.
My process for all my iron warriors iron colours is as follows, Base coat lead belcher, dry brush ironbreaker, wash with thinned nuln oil then do progressivly ligher dry brushes of ironbreaker, runefang and necron compound. The difference is pretty hard to notice in the photos but really takes the finished model to the next level.

Apologies for the cell phone pics, left my camera at work.

If you want to see more of my Iron Warriors leave a comment cause I can't really be bothered updating frequently if it just sinks to the back pages without any views.


Nuln oil



Ironbreaker Drybrush



Runefang Drybrush



Necron Compound



krack grenade denied.

These are all amazing! Such brilliantly detailed basing/exploding bodies. You have one new subscriber Ratking!
Iron within.

 Edreynaline wrote:
These are all amazing! Such brilliantly detailed basing/exploding bodies. You have one new subscriber Ratking!
Iron within.

Thanks, my next project after this are some terminators tearing through some more fists. yay chainfist gore

Got all the main stuff done on the dread, just gotta do the base, battle damage and weathering and the unfortunate imperial fist.

Everything gold or yellow is base coated xv-88, then averland sunset and yriel yellow layers for the yellow.


Gold is done with vellejo brass, and cheverons done with black and masking tape.




Washed with thinned nuln oil



Gold picked out with golden griffon






I've also started making new raptor and terminator squads



An early shot of the terminator champion

C'mon man, no flesh heads; these are Iron Warriors, not dumbass Piss Astartes!

HOLY CRAP! Thats some seriously impressive work there.

And this:

 ratking wrote:
Heavy Artillery Carriage WIP.

This makes an old iron warrior's eyes get misty.

My only question. How are you going to transport these without half your army breaking in transit? It seems painfully fragile.

Kepora wrote:C'mon man, no flesh heads; these are Iron Warriors, not dumbass Piss Astartes!

I know what you mean, but I'm running out of interesting heads that don't have stupid tusks or horns.
Just imagine he took a shot to the face and had to remove it.

Frazzled wrote:HOLY CRAP! Thats some seriously impressive work there.

And this:

 ratking wrote:
Heavy Artillery Carriage WIP.

This makes an old iron warrior's eyes get misty.

My only question. How are you going to transport these without half your army breaking in transit? It seems painfully fragile.

Unfortunately the earth shaker carriage is on hold with most of the rest of my traitor guard now that they are come the apocalypse allies.
Hopefully the rumours of some forgeworld love for chaos mean I can use my massed artillery again.

As for transport, all imperial fist mutilation models are pinned with wire so they are surprisingly durable.
I play most of my games with my flatmate or friends in my garage so transport isn't normally a problem. When i do go down to the local club ( which is conveniently a few blocks away) I do it very carefully.

Clean work there

Then cut off the stupid tusks and horns, replace them with awesome ones!

Got the contemptor done, let me know what you think before I varnish him.

Looks sick dude. You have a way of doing gore that just looks so good and not tacky.

After a bit of break I'm returning to my Iron Warriors with a renewed passion.
I've recently finished 25 militia in their new olive drabish scheme, 5 iron warriors boarding marines (going to use them as plague marines.) and a new warpsmith with burning brand.
I've also gone overboard ordering from forgeworld, with 2 rapier laser destroyer batteries, 15 mkIII marines, IW contemptor to turn into a destroyer of cities dread, many iron warriors upgrade parts and even a warlord titan.

Started setting up a new light box,but have lost my camera so only phone photos for now.

As usual let me know what you think, more feedback motivates to put up morepictures and WIPS.






Operation human shield against 1500pts of nids.

Some traitor earthworks i've been working on.

WarLORD?! I'm pretty sure you mean WarHOUND! XD

Also, I love the Warpsmith - mind telling what parts you used?

 Kepora wrote:
WarLORD?! I'm pretty sure you mean WarHOUND! XD

Also, I love the Warpsmith - mind telling what parts you used?

Oh yeah I sure did, wish it was a warlord though.

As for parts, here goes, the torso, head, legs and arms are from the mkIII iron hands squad, mkIII shoulder pads, axe from dark vengeance, flamer pack from the sternguard kit with chaosy exaust ports added on, flamer is from a techmarine with green stuff tubing, servo arm is from a techpriest and the melta is from the Iron Warriors upgrade pack.

I think thats most of the parts, if there was something I missed let me know.

I'm loving the Earthworks, great idea for IW of course. Where did you get the sandbags? I'm curious because I recently saw a bunch of Tamiya ones at Hobby Lobby.

Hey there....

Lovely looking earthworks! Definitely one for the IW! great start!

Going back also... some lovely models but that heavy artillery piece is glorious! One for the "Stor-Bezashk" to be proud of!

Awesome! Glad you cam back to this project. Truly stunning force, one of the best Iron Warriors forces I've ever seen.

Looking forward to seeing some more updates!

As an iron warrior fan or the past 10 years, you can consider me suitably impressed. Your creative work is truely impressive.

-skrall

Dez wrote:I'm loving the Earthworks, great idea for IW of course. Where did you get the sandbags? I'm curious because I recently saw a bunch of Tamiya ones at Hobby Lobby.

They are the tamiya 1/35 sandbag kit, too about 2 boxes to do this trench.

MagosBiff90 wrote:Hey there....

Lovely looking earthworks! Definitely one for the IW! great start!

Going back also... some lovely models but that heavy artillery piece is glorious! One for the "Stor-Bezashk" to be proud of!

Cheers, I just finished modelling that and added chains holding it down to the decking. I was inspired by the daemonic guns in storm of iron.

clamclaw wrote:Awesome! Glad you cam back to this project. Truly stunning force, one of the best Iron Warriors forces I've ever seen.

Looking forward to seeing some more updates!

Thanks, updates you shall have.

Skrall wrote:As an iron warrior fan or the past 10 years, you can consider me suitably impressed. Your creative work is truely impressive.

-skrall

I appreciate the feed back. I've got far more stuff on my work bench that could be considered sane so there should be a bit of action here in the near future.

Some great stuff in here, love the dread tearing the marine apart, really nicely done

 Calibanite Lion wrote:
Some great stuff in here, love the dread tearing the marine apart, really nicely done

Thanks for the feed back, i've got another contemptor on the way, going to kit it out as a ferrum infernus destroyer of cities.

On the workbench at the moment, finished the trim on my sicarian, progress on the rapiers and crew, ruining limited edition forgeworld models and a chaos lord with black mace for my breacher squad.

Come on man - if your going to do an Iron Warrior mace, it's gotta be a hammer! XD

Wow! Just found your thread, and exalted it so I can follow along! Awesome army coming together, and I really appreciate the great pics and stage-by-stage painting of that Dreadnought. I have just begun painting some Iron Warriors with (for?) my son and I am really a fan of how you keep the basic metal clean, without too much hazard striping, but how you also incorporate that and other (gold) metallic colors.

Your bases are also awesome--I am a big fan of creating bricks to create some geometric lines on bases, and I like the effect of the mini wall you have on that Dreadnought. I haven't done that, but I will definitely try it, thanks to you.

So, fantastic stuff, and I look forward to seeing how the projects continue.

Kepora wrote:Come on man - if your going to do an Iron Warrior mace, it's gotta be a hammer! XD

Ha ha true, I have hammers for most of my champs with mauls and I wanted to use the mace from dark vengeance as it looks pretty demonic.

pantheralegionnaire wrote:Wow! Just found your thread, and exalted it so I can follow along! Awesome army coming together, and I really appreciate the great pics and stage-by-stage painting of that Dreadnought. I have just begun painting some Iron Warriors with (for?) my son and I am really a fan of how you keep the basic metal clean, without too much hazard striping, but how you also incorporate that and other (gold) metallic colors.

Your bases are also awesome--I am a big fan of creating bricks to create some geometric lines on bases, and I like the effect of the mini wall you have on that Dreadnought. I haven't done that, but I will definitely try it, thanks to you.

So, fantastic stuff, and I look forward to seeing how the projects continue.

Cheers, i've actually cut down how I do the base steel colour on infantry models to save time.

Base-leadbeltcher
drybrush- ironbreaker
wash- 50% thinned nuln oil
dry-ironbreaker
dry- necron compound

Way quicker, and I can hardly tell the difference.

That base is actually a secret weapon resin base, so give credit to them not me, i think they also do a line of scaled bricks for bases also.

Very cool. Thanks for the technique on the metal armor--I just picked up some Necron compound and am eager to try it out.

That's funny about the bases--I just cut out bricks from hard polystyrene; it's not that hard. But I will definitely use your base (and the little, crumbled wall) as an idea to emulate; I like how it looks like an urban battlezone. Anyway, I was looking at my (son's) unpainted Iron warriors this morning and getting excited about getting painting this weekend.

Ferrum Infernus, Destroyer of Cities.

Got all my painted models out to start writing a 4000 point list for an ANZAC day game tomorrow.

Wow, that is some IW army. Excellent work! How many vehicles is that?

I am glad ANZAC day is such an important day in the New Zealand and Australian calendar, those people deserve to be remembered.

WOW! That is truly impressive, and it's wonderful to see the entire army out to play. I really like the thematic elements of transports, heavy guns and tanks--it really resonates an Iron Warriors force!

Hope you had a good ANZAC weekend, and blew some enemies to bits in the process.

Latest from the hobby desk.
Playing around with discolouration from heat on the barrels of the big guns, and getting my 1000 point army ready for tempest.

Some more numbers for the arithmetic of war.

Love the warsmith

Put together my Vindicator with laser destroyer, now to go find that degenerate Pask. Peice of advice for anyone putting this kit together, ignore the instructions, they tell you to put the end of the laser destroyer on upside down, then promptly change the orientation of the part in the next picture.
The IW symbols are from the forgeworld doors, which i sanded off the door part with some wet 240 sand paper (keep it wet to avoid nasty resin dust from getting airborne).
I have a game this Thursday against some imperial fists which i'm pretty excited about, it'll be my first time duking it out in this iconic match up.








My fix for an upside down set of barrels.


Place sandpaper on flat bench.

Sand in a circular motion.

Once the dorr is nearly sanded away hit it with a dusting brush to finish it up.

Lets play spot the difference


What have I got myself into..................

Been far too long since updating this.
In no particular order we have:
My New warsmith and counts as abbadon.
Some dark mechanicus renegades and heretics and field artillery.
A pimped out land raider WIP using bits from the Dark Works.
Some pictures from some recent games including 11750 apocalypse madness.

Wow, discovered this blog because of that last update, this is brilliant work man, looking forward to more of IW and to your latest dark mechanicus guys !

Today we have a wacky crab defiler i'm working on, some various characters and of course what iron warriors grand company would be complete without some large bore field artillery.





Made this Terminator sorcerer to go with abaddon in larger games.



And a mark of khorne warpsmith, fluff wise this guy is responsible for most of the walkers in the army specifically any daemon engines of khorne.



Crimson Slaughter "sorcerer" to go with the field artillery. The Idea is that with divination, this guy is somewhat of an ordnance master rather than psychically gifted.



And the big guns. Want these to be unique as possible showing the Grand companies history in collecting and modifying odd ordnance for the last 10000 years.

YEAH BIG GUNS !

This is a very impressive batch indeed, the three last guns will look brilliant together to rain iron on the loyalists (The first one is brilliant too, but with a closer range right ?).

Top of the cake is that Cloverfield defiler, this is a very very cool idea.

It will be interesting to follow the progress on these last additions.

Holy moly! Great blog, really love those ordinance batteries, very thematic.

EDC

If you're going to sand resin then wet sand it. Resin dust is extremely bad for your lungs and you shouldn't be breathing it in.

 BrokenColony wrote:
If you're going to sand resin then wet sand it. Resin dust is extremely bad for your lungs and you shouldn't be breathing it in.

Thats a good point, I should have mentioned I wear a respirator, but wet sanding is also a good suggestion.

Loving those gyroscopic like wheels, nice artillery.

Good to see some new posts from you, mate. I love the combination of the Hell Cannon and other WFB bitz on your big guns--the daemonic look also goes with the theme well.

More than that, I am excited to see how your Warsmith (Counts as Abbaddon/Perturabo) turns out! That is such an awesome model. And now his HH bionic bodyguard models have come out--would you consider giving even more money to Forgeworld...?

Good luck with the Warhound too--that is going to be epic.

A fine, fine set of Iron Warriors. I'm impressed across the board, and very much so with the kitbashed/scratchbuilt heavy ordnance at the end.

Traitors hate......
Vindicator squadrons......
Formations......

Time for reinforcements from Medrenguard.

Good thing I'm going to warhammer world in a few weeks, I'll be able to pick things up for less than 2/3rds of the price at home.

Stay tuned, big guns and a new look Millitia on the way from Victoria minis, and massed tank reinforcements.

IRON WITHIN - IRON WITHOUT.

There is some very nice looking Iron on this blog! Great looking army.

As always thanks for the feedback, now time for a long overdue update.

Several kgs of tanks from forgeworld.



New Vindicator squad.















New trench guard

Holy that's a lot of gear, must have set you back a fair bit! Can't wait to see them all up and rumbling.

Nice vindi squad, love that you can have squad of three of them now.

Also nice trench guard.

Chosen with chemi flamer




No mans land display board for a tourny









and 1850 points of armoured fury to go on it.

Going to fold my Legio Mortis blog into this one as the titans are part of the Iron Warriors grander force.
With that being said heres the Legio Mortis reaver class titan, the " Indominus Bubonica" with a bit of paint on it for an upcoming tourny.

Nice display board, good mud effect.

what a weapon load out .

I guess he runs a bit hot (key putting on sunglasses meme)

Subbed! Can't wait for more!