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Hi all

I have just started collecting an Iron Warrior army and am a bit hesitant about the iconic hazard stripes as I don't want to mess it up.

Can any fellow IW fans give me some tips about making them look good?

I would like to go back and add some stripes to my first couple of squads and HQ before I varnish them.

Thanks!

Paint the portion of armor you want to stripe black. Then make lines of lyanden dark sun (don't know the new colour). Fill the yellow stripes. Clean anything you don't like and shape the straight yellow with black. Then highlight black with a line of grey. Codex grey is good. Highlight yellow with a mix of yellow / white 50/50. Then redo the highlight with 30 yellow 70 white. You are done!

Do you use an airbrush? It's pretty easy with one. When I did mine, I made a little reusable sticky stencil. I sprayed yellow, put the stencil on, sprayed black... went to next model, repeat. Nice clean stripes, quick and easy.

These are the test batch I did of iron warriors. Was going to do the armour darker, but I'm happy with the hazard stripes. I used minitaire yellow and black, but any ranges colours will be fine. It would be best to part assemble your minis... I didn't first time around, made it a lot harder.

Painting black over yellow is much easier than the other way round. But it depends mostly on what color you already have on the areas you want your stripes to be. If it is light enough paint it yellow and than add the stripes in black later. This way it is much easier to get a smooth yellow coverage. If you have to add different layers of yellow you have less edges in your color to ruin. The black should go over the yellow in only one or two layers so much easier and less risk of painting over.

And to get the stripes even i marked them before with a pencil. You have to be carefull though to not go over the lines. Alternatively you could try small masking tape. Never used it myself but i think it would work and help to not paint to much over.

Well, I've got a little bit to say on hazard stripes:



I've got some Iron Warriors in the gallery too, I just went with one of my warjacks as the example.

Anyway, there are a few things that I think can help out.

First off- hazard stripes are a great place for weathering. A little battle damage will cover up any mistakes that you make. Blood Splatter can do the same job.

When you're highlighting, go up with both the black and yellow. If there'a hard edge, I usually make the hard edge highlight color the same for both the yellow and black (it helps homogenize the piece).

Otherwise, the pitfall I've seen people do is to make the stripes to thin. They need to be fairly broad- and based on the size and shape of the area they're on. So take a look at that when you're composing a mini, and remember that different areas don't need to all look the same.