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Man those wolves look great with your paint! nicely differentiated and as a pack suit the games you play!

 JoshInJapan wrote:
Nice work on the wolves. I'm particularly impressed that you bothered to make them all at least a little different--I'm not sure that I would have had the patience for that.
After seeing your stuff, I'm beginning to regret not backing the Conan KS. Is everything this good?

I honestly haven't opened it up yet, aside from the 3 add-on boxes of the Wolves, accessories and the Tiger. It seems like it's going to be, though and gave me no hesitation on backing their new, Ancient Greek Mythology game.

Thanks Damo! They should be nice and versatile across a lot of games.

Nice work on the wolves, or the different fur patterns look great.

EDC

Thanks mate.

Those wolves look awesome and I even like the terminators after the way you painted them.

They look better than the official painted ones in my opinion.

Lovely work on the wolves. I like the variations of colour on the fur

Nice wolves and terminators Killing it numbers wise this year.

The wolf paintjob is really effective, I love 'em, and I too am starting to regret not getting in on the Conan KS

Thanks guys. I don't think I'll be able to come close to January's output again this year, but it was a nice kickstart to get started. I wasn't super interested in the Conan KS until it had clearly hit the "super deal" levels of value, right at the end. I also saw that it clearly had no chance of delivering on time, so it was actually a lower-stress thing to back. The figures have been surprisingly nice. I wish the "Tiger" was more anatomically correct, though - especially after the wolves. You can see the WIP in the photo below.

But yeah, I started on some Tech Thralls last weekend.



Not too much more to finish them, but I'm kind of stuck. I'm very much a "Red" Mechanicus guy, but I'm trying to decide whether to go with a metallic dark red on armour pieces, or the more typical red that we see here in the WIP shot. The choice will pretty much then be uniform right across all of my Cult Mechanicus, Skitarii and Mechanicum stuff from that point on. Any thoughts?

Not seen many folk with the Tech-thralls. They don't seem to be lacking for firepower there. I love how people vouch for the IoM but seem to ignore the fact that they're equally as douchey as the rest of the races lol.

Nice work. Do you have much in the way of Mechanicum/Mechanicus stuff?

Thanks. Any feedback on regular red vs metallic? As for my

AdMech, I've got a whole bunch of Forgeworld stuff from the past few years - including more Tech-Thralls (these guys are the paint guinea pigs) a Triaros and a Krios and a bunch of various Automata. None of the really big stuff yet. 2 or 3 Start Collecting boxes, a few boxes of Kastelans/Kataphrons/Skitarii from before SC was a thing, and I've ordered 2 of the recent battleforces awhile ago - if they actually ship. And a few bits and pieces from the RT-era.

All it needs is to be assembled and then painted.

I think either way works fine (not helpful feedback, I know). Could do both? Have the metallic reds on your more important units and have the matte red on your line infantry?

This is just me, but the red you used pops a bit too much with the darker metals. A darker red may be better, but that's my opinion.

That red could take a hit of Nuln and be just dandy for a Mechanicus red.

Yeah, I want a dark-ish red, though I don't mind it a bit brighter in the top highlights. Not into orange, but probably what you see there as the top-level highlight. The ones in the pic are as far as I got before stopping to scratch my head and consider metallic, so they haven't been shaded yet and are just the base colour covering the washed/drybrushed silver paint underneath.

The shade of metallic I'm considering is pretty much similar to the Forge World look for Thousand Sons.


If I go the Metallic red rather than traditional, the R&F would have the TS style red above, while more important stuff would have more of a glossy/candy finish. If I can pull it off.

This past week I finally finished off another three Iron Warriors. Both rebasing them on the new Sector Imperialis 32mm bases from their old 25mm ones and actually completing their paint - started well over a decade ago. Yes, I paint slow, but they've also spent a goodly time put away in boxes before I decided to revive the project last year.



Two of these models feature arm replacements. The "champion" has a Necromunda Pit Slave chainsaw arm, along with a 90's-era metal Iron Warriors Shoulderpad. The central warrior has a Melta Gun arm that's taken from a manufacturer of not-40k miniatures, again from the 1990s. It came from one of their Not-Orks, later renamed "Org" and changed to a not-at-all-Ork-based organised crime kind of faction after GW sent them one of their nasty lawyer letters. Because GW owns the concept of Orcs in space. Apparently. They had a game which from memory actually had decent rules. If I ever remember their name, I'll edit it in. Anyway, the Melta Gun arm looked great, and it found its way onto one of my Iron Warriors, a squad with a large number of obvious cybernetic implants and limb replacements. Once again, I've added "IV" decals to the models, to represent their still-present pride in being members of the IV Legion.



Again, aside from mechanical parts from Necromunda models and the Org arm, the models are built with a mixture of parts from modern loyalist marines, modern chaos marines, metal 2nd & 3rd edition-era chaos shoulder pads, Iron Warriors metal parts and Iron Hands metal parts. The central model's head and torso come from the '90s metal chaos marine biker conversion parts.



The third Iron Warrior comes with a not-so-subtle message for any who he may encounter. The chainsword's hazard stripes look terrible when blown up to this size, but at their actual size they look completely fine.



I've got another five of this squad on my paint desk at present to complete, along with another four including a Warsmith in the cabinet waiting to be moved out. Following that I have an old Forge World Castraferrum Dreadnought and Vindicator to find and fix up - both purchased many years ago before the FW kit was replaced with the Citadel kit. Then I can move onto newer purchases, newer models and newer plans for my Iron Warriors.

Iron Within! Iron Without!

Excellent stuff! Love the Melta cybernetic.

Another winner- Love 'em. That "Iron within" is stunning

Great stuff, Azazel. You and Jamesy can knock out some quality Iron Legion stuff! I'd love to see your take on Perturabo someday

Thanks guys. Pertuarbo is "on the list", though not near the top of it at this stage. Truth be told, I don't love the model as much as I'd hoped before it was released.

Nice work on the Iron Warriors. I'm still amazed that you aren't tired of painting silver/steel.

Thanks Josh. You're right - there's an awful lot of metallics on my plate right now between the Minotaurs, Iron Warriors, AdMech... and my small Alpha Legion force will also be metallic, and likely both red and blue Thousand Sons. Forge World has to take some of the blame, but those coloured metals just look great to my eye.

Yeah, that shoulder pad knocks it out of the park. The proverbial icing on the iron cake.

Well, keep it up. Between you and timetowaste85's Enforcer pblog, I'm actually getting more interested in colored metallics.

Started this morning wanting to paint (and finish) at least 1 more of the Iron Warriors assault squad. Finished washing their bases, but spent most of my painting time working on 5 Orcs. To get them out of the way so I can work on the IW. Of course.

Some nice looking Iron mate, and the Thousand sons. Looking forward to seeing more.

The more I see the more I want to finish enough Imperial Fists to fly over and game with you :-)

One day, Damo, one day...

I'll need to finish a fair few more Men of Iron first, though.



Remember Sedition Wars and it’s incredibly-successful Kickstarter? Of course you don’t. That’s because you either never heard of it, or the complete abortion of a game and fulfilment means you’ve blocked it from your memory like a terrible life experience, which it very much was. I was one of the ones taken in by a love and respect of Mike McVey going back decades to my youth and being foolish enough to believe the h̶y̶p̶e̶ lies of the campaign put on by Studio McVey and CMON to the tune of quite a few hundred dollars for my multiple pledges. Anyway, this post isn’t to bitch about the pile of money I flushed down the toilet in a mess of warped boards, terrible unplaytested rules and restic models.



It’s about the one bright spot of the entire project (aside from the textured bases, I guess). The Terrain Set. More specifically, for this post, the barricades. I’ve been buying a bit of stuff for FFG’s various Star Wars games in the past 6 months or so, and part of that has naturally involved looking at pictures of stuff.



Not my work, but the work that inspired these getting painted after all this time. While looking at Star Wars stuff, I came across some pics on Agis Neugebauer’s blog. Now, he’s a poster here on Dakka, and I’m somewhat familiar with his work posted on these forums, but I hadn’t seen his Star Wars Imperial Assault stuff before. Lots of great stuff there, including an Oskara conversion that I will totally be ripping off, but Agis’ also has a bunch of the Sedition Wars stuff painted up, and looking pretty bloody sweet. This triggered the “Hey, I’ve got those somewhere!” reaction, and off I went to find the crates, and while doing so, also grabbed out the barricades.



The barricades got finished first. Sprayed a custom green based on Vallejo’s 890 Reflective Green, then oversprayed with Plastic Soldier Company’s German Field Grey (Don’t buy their spray cans – they leak!). I then added the Lambdas, taken from a Warlord Games decal sheet (I would have preferred some white outline tank numbers from the WLG German Turret sheet, but I didn’t have any, and Lambdas are totally a thing in modern military markings and so in my mind help these pieces fit anything from near-future to 40k. I then drybrushed the barricades with Army Painter’s Army Green, and then Vallejo Bonewhite on the extremes. Some foam-weathering with Vallejo Metal Black, Vallejo Plate Mail Metal coloured primer and Vallejo Scorched Brown. Followed up with a spray of Plastic Soldier Company’s Dirt Brown Weathering Spray (they leak, FFS!), wiped down with a damp cloth, and finally a quick go-over with some of the foam-weathering, and they were ready for a heavy spray of gloss polyurethane varnish for protection, and then the good old Testor’s Dullcote to make them look good.



I also wanted to avoid any overtly-distinguishing iconography that would tie them too closely to any particular universe. So this meant no Imperial Aquilas or Imperial Cogs, and the dirty weathered look fits pretty well with just about anything, except maybe an especially-shiny game of Infinity. I can’t see pre-fab barriers getting carefully cleaned before being loaded into a transport between deployments, after all.



I have 12 barricades in total and I think they came up very nicely, but I’m also quite aware that looking at the individual weathering patterns on each of them isn’t exactly enthralling blog content, so here are some more posed shots with a few of my Imperial Guardsmen from the Terror Australis Regiment providing scale. Also, a sneak preview of my next mat review…

Good job! I got a set of the SW game from the KS but none of the terrain, looks like I missed out on the only good bit! Though I have used the bases for my Deadzone models

Still love the iron warriors. Those barricades (and guardsmen!) Look great. Keep it coming