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So... I kinda splurged. Expected arrival date is mid Oct. Total was over 2.5k$

THE IRON HEART
1x Reaver
1x Castig or Knight
1x Imperial Knight
1x Imperial Knight (other model)

THE IRON HAMMER
1x Thunderhawk
1x Storm Eagle
2x Storm Talon

THE IRON ANVIL
1x Fellblade
1x Legion Glave
2x Demios Pred Exe
2x Vini
2x Rapier Razorback
1x LR Achillies
1x LR Redeemer
1x LR Cerberus Tank Des.

THE IRON FIST
30x MKIII IH SM FW
3x Rhino
10x Breacher SM FW
1x Rhino
10x Iron Hands Immortals
10x Jump SM
3x Contemptor
3x Venerable
3x Iron Clad
3x Drop Pods
3x Rapier Battery

THE IRON SOUL
Ferrus Mannus
4x 1-Tech Priest w/4 Sevitors
4x Iron Fathers
4x Librarians
10x Gorgon Terms
5x Cataphracchi Terms

The time its gonna take to put together and paint that is gonna keep you entertained (and with back pains) for months.

If you cant make use of it i'll take some of it off your hands though.

wait till you see the box/pallet that lot will turn up on haha

It's only too far if you decide it's too far.

Though with that much excess maybe you should have gone with the Emperor's Children instead.

 ClockworkZion wrote:


Though with that much excess maybe you should have gone with the Emperor's Children instead.

HERESY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I need more troops. -.- I want to do 50 gorgons but ya know... thats like .....ALL of the ones left in existence.... Dies Irae wrecked my life.....

must say the EC models are amazing looking too

Well, see you in 2015!

That's a hell of a haul! I've found that I have a hard time getting a project done if I get that much at once. Building armies up one unit as a time has always worked better for me. However, with Forgeworld shipping, your method makes sense! So long as you post up this stuff in a P&M blog I think I can look past our differences in armybuilding approaches

Woa... I was thinking of making a thread on this topic yesterday. You have me beat though. My wife was going nuts because I "invested" $1581.73 on Dark Angels, Assorted Chaos and Imperial Guard...Paints and a new airbrush system... and a Warmachine army...

Yea, I feel a little guilty but it. I'm sure I won't need to buy anything for at least a year. Right?

Right?!?

Edit: This was all just this month. OP, if youre single and sucessful, it's not too much. If you're married and making under 100k a year with a mortgage and car payments... then yes it's too much but who cares. The human body can survive off instant noodles for a long time.

Wow. I must saythat all at once will be daunting
But we all know that we have spent that much and more on our addict...err hobby, I know I have. I just hope you do a blog on your progress from start to ... well whenever finish will be lol.
good luck, happy assembling and painting.

Yeah, youve gone too far, you dumped $2.5k on models that are worth half that for a game system that isnt even that good >

youre in way over your head. may as well throw down another 7000 to get it all built and painted properly

No way, Jose.

That's way more assembly and painting than anyone should have lined up.

I look forward to seeing it all done sometime around 12th edition!

kb305 wrote:
youre in way over your head. may as well throw down another 7000 to get it all built and painted properly

Why? I don't understand? You mean pay someone to paint them? That's ridiculous. Thats like buying a video game and then paying some random goon to play it for you.

 jreilly89 wrote:
Well, see you in 2015!

If it were me it would be 2115

 Vigilant wrote:

kb305 wrote:
youre in way over your head. may as well throw down another 7000 to get it all built and painted properly

Why? I don't understand? You mean pay someone to paint them? That's ridiculous. Thats like buying a video game and then paying some random goon to play it for you.

to be fair there is a difference. its more akin to getting the game set up for you. sure their is good things in painting your own work, but there is also times where getting it all nicely painted to a standard you want but cant do for yourself in a reasonable timeframe done by someone else.

Good luck, enjoy your epic haul, slightly jealous :-)

It will be at least two editions before you get it all ready to play.


hope it's all viable by then.

Like others have said, you need to do a blog on this! And possibly consider some bionic arms to help build/paint/lift it all! The Flesh Is Weak, after all!

At least Iron Hands have a pretty simple color scheme. I'd certainly rather assembly line paint them than something like Sons of Horus that involve several mixed colors and a bunch of blending. And that's not even messing with the vehicles.

 Badablack wrote:
At least Iron Hands have a pretty simple color scheme. I'd certainly rather assembly line paint them than something like Sons of Horus that involve several mixed colors and a bunch of blending. And that's not even messing with the vehicles.

It's deceptively simple. Black is an utter pain in the ass to highlight and you can't shade it unless you're instead painting with an intensely dark grey. OP, I really hope you have an easy to work with scheme picked out!

 Brother SRM wrote:

 Badablack wrote:
At least Iron Hands have a pretty simple color scheme. I'd certainly rather assembly line paint them than something like Sons of Horus that involve several mixed colors and a bunch of blending. And that's not even messing with the vehicles.

It's deceptively simple. Black is an utter pain in the ass to highlight and you can't shade it unless you're instead painting with an intensely dark grey. OP, I really hope you have an easy to work with scheme picked out!

I think that's why FW edge highlighted them with silver.

 Vigilant wrote:
Woa... I was thinking of making a thread on this topic yesterday. You have me beat though. My wife was going nuts because I "invested" $1581.73 on Dark Angels, Assorted Chaos and Imperial Guard...Paints and a new airbrush system... and a Warmachine army...

Yea, I feel a little guilty but it. I'm sure I won't need to buy anything for at least a year. Right?

Right?!?

Edit: This was all just this month. OP, if youre single and sucessful, it's not too much. If you're married and making under 100k a year with a mortgage and car payments... then yes it's too much but who cares. The human body can survive off instant noodles for a long time.

This guy..... gets it. Its a bad addiction, monthly binges that should hold us over for a year(s), usually end up casuing more itching. -.- Thus why i flip armies, trying to sell 5k sisters for more IH models. Gotta keep the new junk flowing!

yeah, youve gone too far, you dumped $2.5k on models that are worth half that for a game system that isnt even that good

t's deceptively simple. Black is an utter pain in the ass to highlight and you can't shade it unless you're instead painting with an intensely dark grey. OP, I really hope you have an easy to work with scheme picked out!

Ive picked a realatively simple scheme following the FW IH models. The only part im scared to do is my main man, Ferrus Mannus and his Morlock termies. Those green/ metallic style armour is impossible to replicate. I have every FW painting book but it doesnt cover terminators from several millenia ago -.-

BTW so all yall know, ITs clan Kaargul w/ Ven Dread Bannus at the helm. I need to buy him buyt idk what venerable FW body I shold use

 xSoulgrinderx wrote:

 Vigilant wrote:
Woa... I was thinking of making a thread on this topic yesterday. You have me beat though. My wife was going nuts because I "invested" $1581.73 on Dark Angels, Assorted Chaos and Imperial Guard...Paints and a new airbrush system... and a Warmachine army...

Yea, I feel a little guilty but it. I'm sure I won't need to buy anything for at least a year. Right?

Right?!?

Edit: This was all just this month. OP, if youre single and sucessful, it's not too much. If you're married and making under 100k a year with a mortgage and car payments... then yes it's too much but who cares. The human body can survive off instant noodles for a long time.

This guy..... gets it. Its a bad addiction, monthly binges that should hold us over for a year(s), usually end up casuing more itching. -.- Thus why i flip armies, trying to sell 5k sisters for more IH models. Gotta keep the new junk flowing!

Yes. Warhammer=Crack of the hobby world.

Crackhammer $40,000?

 jreilly89 wrote:
Crackhammer $40,000?

The Emperor Approves

 jreilly89 wrote:
Crackhammer $40,000?

Lol, it really does get addictive. I wonder what vets have spent. Like what is the overall expenditure over the life of the hobby.

I used to collect MTG , Pokemon, and Yugioh cards. Then I got into curio and relic firearms. Then it was carpentry tools...and now Wargame miniatures. Gundams and model cars never got addictive for some reason.

OP: Update with pics on your progress. Dat paint tho... gonna take a while.

Too far? You haven't gone far enough.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Too far? You haven't gone far enough.

That Legion won't build itself?

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