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Thanks guys. I do enjoy doing the hazard stripes. Not sure what I'll do with regard to them on the 30k-style squad I'm planning as they don't really seem to have any?

Iron Warriors look awesome, Az!

 Azazelx wrote:
Thanks guys. I do enjoy doing the hazard stripes. Not sure what I'll do with regard to them on the 30k-style squad I'm planning as they don't really seem to have any?

They do have them, though I think it's not quite as much of a thing in 30k.

Here's how FW painted theirs

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Iron-Warriors-Task-Force

Thanks, ZS!
That doesn't look bad at all, AoV. Works nicely on the kneepad, and I've already done that on the faceplate, though I probably wouldn't use it on all of them.

They look great mate. Especially that buzz saw arm

Cheers, James!



Today we have the next pair of my “Legacy” Iron Warriors – what these two have in common is the use of Necromunda Pit Slave arms as Close Combat Cybernetics. Much like their fellow reaching for the sky with his chainsaw arm in the very first set of finished close combat Iron Warriors.



Hammer guy is a pretty straightforward build. Being simply CSM parts with a SM left arm with bolt pistol and the nondescript SM breastplate that lacks any form of Aquila. And the Hammer-arm, of course.



I figure that the hydraulic hammer-arm can be used as a CC weapon, or in a pinch as a power weapon or even a Thunder Hammer. I guess I’ll just have to see how 8th pans out. The IV Legion badge is about as subtle as his hammer.



The IW badge is on his left shoulder this time. I’ve added some hazard stripes to his backpack. I just find I need to be a little bit careful with those on models’ backpacks as I don’t want them to look like Bees or Wasps! Surely that’s a different Space Marine Chapter!



His partner in causing chaos also features a lot of standard CSM parts – legs, torso and chainsword-wielding arm, along with one shoulder. The arm is again from the Necromunda Pit Slaves and his cybernetically-enhanced metal head comes from the Iron Hands kit. The backpack is from the 3rd edition SM kit, and finally, the left shoulder is a metal CSM pad from the 2nd-3rd Edition era. Being an Iron-painted skull, it serves as the Chapter Badge in this case.



The rear view really just shows the plastic SM Backpack. If anything, I think it helps to illustrate how well a mix of modern parts has always worked with the CSM kit when building Traitor and Renegade marines. The Long War would create a convoluted and logistics situation between the 5 marks of post-thunder armour that was worn by the combatants during the Heresy, since-corrupted armour, Legion-made Artificer armour and that built by individual Astartes (especially in a chapter like the IW), armour fabricated in captured Forge Worlds and by their Dark Mechanicum allies – not to mention that taken as battlefield trophies/loot. Which makes me think. I should add some Imperial Fists (and successors) trophies in with my IW somewhere.



I like to think of this guy as having just recently had this huge claw installed. So the slightly odd pose represents him taking the time to admire his new limb through his many, many lenses, before using it to wrench the head off some unfortunate foe. The size of it looks like it could wrap itself pretty well around a head, or a Marine’s helmet..

Tidy looking cybernetic marines .

Thank you, AoV!



For the penultimate post in this little series on my "Legacy" Iron Warriors, we have a pair of models rebuilt from what was a single model. Originally, Berserker legs, Iron Hands chest, Iron Warriors Head, along with the flamer, the attached arms and shoulders and the chaos backpack. When getting the model ready to complete, I noticed the somewhat unique Iron Hands chest was almost completely hidden from view by the flamer and the arms wielding it. I felt that was a shame, and broke apart the model, finding another marine's worth of part-bitz to make the previous Iron Warrior into two, one with the flamer as before and one that would show off the IH chest plate.



I think the use of a BaC MKIV helmet adds a lot to this figure. It helps to tie him in much more with the Heresy, and with these Iron Warriors being Veterans of the Long War. It will also help to tie him and by virtue, the rest of his squad in with any subsequent Iron Warriors I build as they will include parts from close to a decade of intermittent Forge World orders, not to mention Calth and Prospero.



The crenellated shoulder pad is a metal Iron Hands one, with the IH badge filed off. The flamer is a metal chaos one, from that era when so many kits were simply plastic + metal add-ons. A shame the basic CSM kit is still the same one. Speaking of the same kit, the legs here are from the Khorne Berserkers.



Left shoulder is a plastic CSM pad, and the skull in it's midst works as a second Chapter Icon, as does the one on his kneepad. It's a relatively simple model, but I really do like it myself. I kept the charging pose, and the addition of the MKIV head (and pack) really works for me personally.



The other half of the original model has been elevated to an Aspiring Champion - unless I use these older, individually converted models as Chosen, in which case he'd be a Chosen Champion. A pair of running Assault Marine legs from the Blood Angels I got from Nerdfest had some glue residue left on the upper thigh which worked for me as subtle battle damage - slightly warped metal. Damaged but serviceable.



Both shoulder pads came from the MKIV Calth marines. The shoulder studs also work as a callback to the original RT marines, so I naturally went with the old-school combo of chapter badge right, studs left. I also added some guitar wire cabling to his power fist arm.



Hopefully the motion of the figure, plus the rigidity of the ammo belt link explains the orientation of the bolt pistol's ammo belt. (Belt-fed pistols? /facepalm). I've also just noticed that brown spot on his left calf greave. Rest assured that he's now safely back on my paint desk to have that touched up.

I'm enjoying this set of minis immensely. I really like the claw-hand guy in the previous post. The clunky,low-tech look reminds me of RT-era models.

Some seriously cool Iron Warriors here buddy! Love the blue eye lenses in particular . Makes them really pop .

Group shot please

The champion in particular looks great, excellent example of what a simple kitbash and some thought out posing can do for a model.

Though looking at the flamer again, especially the first picture, he also has a good pose to him.

More Iron Warriors is always a treat. Hope to see you do other types of units for them in the future!

I still love seeing these IW guys Az! they look so damn good, and every time I see them I want to work on my IF so I've an excuse to fly over and say G'day to you and have a game! :-)

Thanks all!

@Josh I like being able to evoke the feel of RT-era models, though I'm saving those for a specific project that I'll (hopefully) get around to building and painting sometime... being bale to use "modern" plastic parts to do so works for me though!

@AoV - Group shots will be soon. At least of this squad. I'll hold off on the army-in-progress shot until I finish the last three models that date from slightly more recently than the guys I've built here (but are still old)

@Brook thanks - I do like the flamer guy. He's got that look of running in to torch someone rather than the "marine firing" or "marine looking at the enemy" pose they usually have.

@Mymearan - that's the plan. Any suggestions on what to paint next for them? That's something I've been mulling over on lately. I'm painting a different chapter's squad right now, but that's because I've been going through some of my old stuff with a view to finishing long-dormant models.

@nerdfest - thanks mate! It'll probably be awhile before I've got anything sorted enough that could go up against all the Fists you've got painted. I need to get out some of the heavy stuff just to counter your Land Raiders and Contemptors and such!

Maybe all those marines could use a Rhino to ride around in? If not that, what about a Terminator Squad? Would love to see what you would come up with for some badass-looking IW TDA.

I think you should do an Iron Warriors Basilisk from whatever edition it was that allowed them to do that.

I actually have the basilisk section of the army safely purchased, but they're not in the queue yet. I've got two vehicles from when I first started the army out of a dusty vehicle transport bag and so they'll be the two things that get restored and finished next in terms of vehicles. I may have to pack the two of them away again for awhile since vehicles take up so much damned pace on my cramped desk, so I'll need to finish up a whole lot of other crap first.

I've got some Termies for the IW on the way, but it'll be a little while until the base models get here. There's another squad type I've wanted to make since the inception of the army, but again I need space since I want to basically kitbash the crap out of each one of them. I may actually throw these guys on the back burner once I've got the stuff that's started done, and work my way through some of my other started-but-in-limbo power armour models.

Having tons of models (and armies) but no actual list to build to is great in terms of freedom (I have ideas for all sorts of stuff for this army!), but makes things difficult when trying to work out what to do next, since there's no "need" to get X, Y or Z finshed. Hopefully the coming of 8th edition will help to make 40k's rules and lists less of a fething swamp. I'm all for having a million different army lists, it's simply the execution and layers of special rules that make trying to form something up into such a nightmare.

I think you'd be fine against me Lol, one contemptor, a Landraider, 10 marines and a sternguard squad doesn't do much! :-)

The Iron Warriors are looking damn cool.

Top work dude.

EDC

Thanks mate!

I think we better both get onto them in that case, Damo. Though I've gotten distracted again now by an attempt to finish off some of the dozens of marines from other chapters that I've started and then let rot in limbo for years. You know, kinda like these guys had been!



And now the final pair of my “Legacy” Iron Warriors. We have the original Aspiring Champion/unit leader, along with the Champion/Lord kitbashed from the original metal Iron Warriors Warsmith model, who is still actually available from GW.



The leader (at present) of the entire motley crew is this guy. As mentioned, the base model is the Iron Warriors Warsmith. The head was removed and replaced with one from the 2nd edition noise marines. The marine’s entire head and visage has become an Iron Skull, reflecting the chapter icon, with the Xenomorph-esque tongue tying in with the copper cabling found across these models. A Fleshmetal Exoskeleton under the current ruleset.



The left arm comes from an Assault Marine, capped with the metal 2e Iron Warriors Shoulder pad.



The backpack’s trophy spike comes from a 2e-era Chaos Terminator.



The right arm of the Warsmith was completely removed. It was replaced with a slightly-dodgy-by-today’s-standards rebuild, made of a Berserker arm and a glove, hand and Hammer from a Chronopia model. The guitar wire cabling was added to help sell it as a powered weapon – a Thunder Hammer of unique fabrication with a rather wicked looking rear spike. In-hand, the hammer and hazard-striped chestplate draw the eye away from the dodgy join. Thankfully, it doesn’t stand out nearly as much in-hand as it does in these photographs.



The breastplate and bionic legs on the original Aspiring Champion are from the Iron Hands upgrade pack, an excellent source of “official” bionics for any Astartes, and especially so for heavily-augmented Chapters and Legions such as the Iron Warriors. The rest of the model is pretty much stock, excepting the trophy spike that once again comes from a metal Chaos Terminator and the head, which is a Khorne Berserker head with some bionics cut from a SM helmet grafted onto the side. Damn, I missed that lens. I’ll have to paint that in now.



Like I said, the rest of him is pretty much stock. Well, arms, shoulderpads and backpack, anyway.



Since taking these photos, I’ve cleaned up the base edging and fixed the odd lens I’ve missed on these and the others in this series. Along with their “red dot” targeters on their weapons. Not that this helps you.



I took some group shots the other day alongside these. I might hold off posting them and take some new ones today to post tomorrow, now that I’ve touched these guys up. I also re-black-rimmed their bases and darkened the metallics on the bases slightly to help distinguish the metallic models from their metallic flooring, which was another thing I’d missed in my haste to complete them and excitement to photograph them.

Damn you, Enthusiasm!

While I don't like the sculpts for these two, the paint jobs are great. Nice work Azazel

Another nice set. I had to look really closely to see the offending join on the hammer arm. I suspect that it will be invisible on the tabletop.

It's no fault of yours, but the fangs on the berzerker head are more than a little derpy. That's a problem with every vampire-like model, and I don't know a good way around it.

Yeah, the fangs are a bit silly when you look closely or see them in pics this size, but in practice/on the tabletop they can only just be seen - I guess that's why they do them like that, since it's difficult otherwise to distinguish them from pointy teeth

Really nice mate. They have a definite nostalgia to them, and look like they belong in a white dwarf article from its golden age in the late 90's.

Did just find this, and your classic IW are really well done. You've truly succeeded in making these old boys look like new.

Thanks guys. Sadly, most of the current parts available for Chaos power armour are the same ones as the ones I used back in the oughties for these guys, with the exception of the Raptor Kit.

Everything else that's new for use is Loyalist or HH

I’d planned to take new, better group photos of the Iron Warriors for today’s post, but unfortunately I was feeling under the weather yesterday, and am still that way now – so it didn’t happen. With a solid week of work ahead of me, it’ll hopefully happen next weekend!

In the meantime, here’s a model where I already had the photographs ready. This guy is another of my renovated models. Having been painted back some number of years ago, the overall palette I’d used was more than a little too garish and had a few too many colours for my modern, more refined taste. The solution? Repaint parts of the model, tone some of it down, and give it a new base. Ergo! A new lease on life for this previously rather sad model.



The slotta dates this model as sculpted back in 1995. It’s a hella-chunky model, and the huge shoulderpads really give him some heft. I think the rather plain helmet could have been a lot nicer, though. As with much of the old-school stuff in my collection, I purchased this model back in the 1990’s. Part of Kev Adams’ post-GW output, I find it odd that someone like RPE hasn’t re-released it alongside the other Heartbreaker stuff that they have.



Originally I’d painted him as a Black Orc, which means I started him before the current line of plastics or their predecessors that share the current aesthetic in metal. I rebased him onto a 32mm base, which fits the figure much more betterer. I also lightened up his skin from the near-black that it was and repainted many of the “soft parts”, making his leather and cloth accessories much more appropriate. Purple pouch? Yellow wristbands? Ugh! Much nicer this way…

Another very nice orc. I, for one, would have enjoyed seeing him before the repaint.

I may have taken a photo with my old camera, If I can find it, I'll post it up.

Another seriously Oldhammer blast from the past is this guy. Known as “Cyclops” in the old catalogues for rather obvious reasons, this Orc was sculpted by the Perry Twins, and the earliest reference I can find to it is in the Autumn 1985 Citadel Journal. It also turns out that this guy was also the designated model for Fangor Gripe, Chieftain of the vile Rune Orcs in the classic WHFB 2nd Edition Campaign Blood Bath at Orc’s Drift.



I was rooting around in my metal O&G box for some more models to paint after completing the previous batch (which I haven’t fully shown yet, but soon!) and this guy stuck out to me. He’d previously been overlooked as a ratty old figure that never especially appealed, but since Nostalgia is the new black, and more importantly, he’d clearly paint up pretty quickly I fished him out and made him have the colours. I tried to do something interesting with his breastplate and the metals, mixing both a brown and blue tone. but I fear it’s too subtle in these photos, let alone in person. Something to folllow up on down the line, though!



A simple and straightforward paintjob here. It’s not a flashy model, and most of it’s interest comes from its cyclopean nature (and his named spot in the Orc’s Drift Scenario.) If it had two eyes, it wouldn’t even have a whole lot of that nostalgia-based “character” and would be a pretty unassuming and generic orc for the middle or back rank of some unit. Still, it’s another one down, and it’s enough of a curio that it gets it’s own blog entry today. It’d be pretty funny to use him in an AoS game, though – so I’ll have to do that whenever I get around to trying out the game.