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This is a very impressive army so far

My only critique would be on your OSL. The light that is reflecting on say, the chest armor for example, would be darker then the light source, even if just by a little. So Id suggest anywhere, where light is reflecting, you should put some blue wash over it to dull the color some. Itll give your OSL a more natural look to it.

Also, LOVE the demon engines, specially the one with the demon host floating up through the top, that is just badassidy

Wow. Impressive. I will be following this one.

With 16 days until the tournie, it's time i best get a move on. I've gs'd the first squad, and begun painting. I've also build two new hero marines and an autocannon.






And as a bonus here are some commission Pre-heresy Emperors children i'm working on.



-skrall

Looking really good, not sure i really like the bright cables etc but it doesn't like bad. Looking forward to seeing more from you

Young Logan

Now, i've got until thursday to finish this army, and it's second half only arrived on friday. Fortunatly, it's all built now and i'm a good chunk into the green stuff section of the modelling, meaning the final push is relatively close.
The only real problem will be getting the right level of detail on my librarian, but i'll worry on that later.


First up, army shot;


then the librarian with force axe and combi-bolter


I've decided to opt for more warmth in the pre-heresy side of my forces, so here is the first plasma gun test model;



And finally three of the five objective markers are built, and one's finished.



As always, feedback is welcomed.

-skrall

just over 24 hours to finish my army... here's where i'm up to;



some group shots of the three characters (1 lib, 3 sgt types)



I think it's time i brew a good cup of twinnings and settle in for a long painting session.

-skrall

Update time; as its stands.



the havocs and dreadclaw are done, here's a close up of two of them.



it doesn't show the hazard stripes on all the missiles, and hard to make out but its there! well... it's a bit table top rush quality, but i'm up against a deadline and since i'll have spare time afterwards re-doing some details isn't the end of the world.

next update in about six hours when i hope to finish everyone by the librarian.

-skrall

After 14 1/2 hours of straight painting, 250ml of mead, 1 can of beer and a headache to split the earths crust i'm nearly at the endzone. My goal is in site, here is where i am up to as of 11pm. My army, a few photo's of the table top quality painting. I won't lie, not my best work, and i'm going to be re-doing them after the tournie, but i needed it done effectivly and quickly so i hope you forgive me.








3 of the objectives were built for this, one for an ork force, the last is a random mini to make a 5th as i'm fresh out of care. All that's left is the librarian...


C&C welcomed,

-skrall

Here is how i've felt trying to upload this post for half an hour because of bad internet connection and a suddenly temperamental computer

Update time, i've finish the army in its current vision. Conclusion; postage delays are killers. Orange doesn't make for a good power weapon colour (and will be turned blue next weeks). iron warriors are awesome.






C&C welcomed,

-skrall

Now for something never before seen on one of my blogs,

thats right.... a Gif! I've just finished my first space wolf model, a landspeeder with all the toys on magnets, first a gif;


(if it doesn't load click here

and some static photo's





Would anyone be interested in a tutorial on the scheme (not the gif)?

-skrall

Oh skrall, how I envy you! I only have 5 Mk III's at the moment, so wish I had more. Whereas you, you! have an army of the little blighters! Lucky lucky you

I wish I had your painting skills to cudos on the Iron Warriors mate, they look bloody fantastic.

Love the conversions you've done on your seargents to, nice work!

I was thinking of doing Iron Warriors as my Night Lords allies myself but the only problem is the names clash hahah yeh a very silly and daft problem but I'm using greek names for my Night Lords as I see major variation in the Night Lords ranks in reference to names, and the Iron Warriors have greek names so oi vay.

 crimsonfist832 wrote:


I was thinking of doing Iron Warriors as my Night Lords allies myself but the only problem is the names clash hahah yeh a very silly and daft problem but I'm using greek names for my Night Lords as I see major variation in the Night Lords ranks in reference to names, and the Iron Warriors have greek names so oi vay.

Do what i do, i walk my iron warriors through a borderline of Greek naming. Basically by way of justifying the lore of names and design i choose is instead of a solid greek culture it instead runs through the 'regions' viewed through greek eyes. For example, Albion (the old greek for britain). I keep a celtic/tribal underlay to my design and evolved through medieval perspectives with greek influence (i.e the classics). Huron/my runepriest librarian model is the best example of this, the upper command structure retains a touch of the greek influence/overtone, the lower ranks have a more basic gaelic/late medieval england feel to them.

I find the problem with trying to make the Iron Warriors Greek is simple; they aren't. The culture of the iron warriors (grand companies and siege masters) don't fit with any portions of greek culture i'm aware of (though my greek history is fairly limp i'll admit). I much prefer the notion of them having a more northern european feel about them, it just feels natural to me. Oddly enough though, the medieval style which would suit greek culture is the Imperial fists.... guess it explains why the iron warriors are the polar opposite.

anyways, if you want to run an allied company might i suggest Gaelic names? for example Arailt (or any masculin name from here) would make a good name for an iron warrior without running into the pre-existing greek names your using. If it helps, your welcome to use the 122nd (or any company after the 50th IMO) to justify using not greek names for them. There are some pretty viscous fluff gamers who've got the impression the Iron Warriors should be greek, the ultramarines roman and the raven wing native american when in ract they could be anything.

-skrall





except ultramarines. They are defiantly roman.

 Skrall wrote:

 crimsonfist832 wrote:


I was thinking of doing Iron Warriors as my Night Lords allies myself but the only problem is the names clash hahah yeh a very silly and daft problem but I'm using greek names for my Night Lords as I see major variation in the Night Lords ranks in reference to names, and the Iron Warriors have greek names so oi vay.

Do what i do, i walk my iron warriors through a borderline of Greek naming. Basically by way of justifying the lore of names and design i choose is instead of a solid greek culture it instead runs through the 'regions' viewed through greek eyes. For example, Albion (the old greek for britain). I keep a celtic/tribal underlay to my design and evolved through medieval perspectives with greek influence (i.e the classics). Huron/my runepriest librarian model is the best example of this, the upper command structure retains a touch of the greek influence/overtone, the lower ranks have a more basic gaelic/late medieval england feel to them.

I find the problem with trying to make the Iron Warriors Greek is simple; they aren't. The culture of the iron warriors (grand companies and siege masters) don't fit with any portions of greek culture i'm aware of (though my greek history is fairly limp i'll admit). I much prefer the notion of them having a more northern european feel about them, it just feels natural to me. Oddly enough though, the medieval style which would suit greek culture is the Imperial fists.... guess it explains why the iron warriors are the polar opposite.

anyways, if you want to run an allied company might i suggest Gaelic names? for example Arailt (or any masculin name from here) would make a good name for an iron warrior without running into the pre-existing greek names your using. If it helps, your welcome to use the 122nd (or any company after the 50th IMO) to justify using not greek names for them. There are some pretty viscous fluff gamers who've got the impression the Iron Warriors should be greek, the ultramarines roman and the raven wing native american when in ract they could be anything.

-skrall





except ultramarines. They are defiantly roman.

Hmmm, okay okay. You know I never really looked of it nor looked at them like that. I always assumed and thought they were very Greek e.g. their homeworld is Olympia (Olympus) and they were ruled over by 12 tyrants (the gods). I like that Gaelic name very much, it's fitting without sounding too out there and away from the general Iron Warrior concept. I think I may now scour the internet for Scottish Gaelic names and such, thanks a lot for that handy tip skrall!

As you can see my sig is ready to burst with prospective or started HH armies, and now I may add my most beloved Iron Warriors to said list..... YAY

 crimsonfist832 wrote:


Hmmm, okay okay. You know I never really looked of it nor looked at them like that. I always assumed and thought they were very Greek e.g. their homeworld is Olympia (Olympus) and they were ruled over by 12 tyrants (the gods). I like that Gaelic name very much, it's fitting without sounding too out there and away from the general Iron Warrior concept. I think I may now scour the internet for Scottish Gaelic names and such, thanks a lot for that handy tip skrall!

As you can see my sig is ready to burst with prospective or started HH armies, and now I may add my most beloved Iron Warriors to said list..... YAY

Oh i know the notion, but i like to view it in a way that fits my tastes. I don't like most of the Mediterranean cultural influences (roman greek ect), but the idea of a ruling class having a completely removed culture from it's lower ranks fits. It's kind of like when english aristocracy was french/of french cultural influances but the peasants were still saxon/gaelic/celtic types. With the evolution of isolated worlds being what they are, the extremis of this giving rise to perhaps 12 sub-cultures ruled over by greek overlord (perhaps even after the aspects of the greek gods). For example perturabo would have been (my guess) in the state that follows under Athena's or Zeus' guiding star. However the 122nd would've come from Hephaestus' or possibly even Artemis' given states. I'd probably wager i'd develop it along the lines of heph's since he's a forgegod (which would fit with the medieval celtic development i choose).

-skrall

 Skrall wrote:

 crimsonfist832 wrote:


Hmmm, okay okay. You know I never really looked of it nor looked at them like that. I always assumed and thought they were very Greek e.g. their homeworld is Olympia (Olympus) and they were ruled over by 12 tyrants (the gods). I like that Gaelic name very much, it's fitting without sounding too out there and away from the general Iron Warrior concept. I think I may now scour the internet for Scottish Gaelic names and such, thanks a lot for that handy tip skrall!

As you can see my sig is ready to burst with prospective or started HH armies, and now I may add my most beloved Iron Warriors to said list..... YAY

Oh i know the notion, but i like to view it in a way that fits my tastes. I don't like most of the Mediterranean cultural influences (roman greek ect), but the idea of a ruling class having a completely removed culture from it's lower ranks fits. It's kind of like when english aristocracy was french/of french cultural influances but the peasants were still saxon/gaelic/celtic types. With the evolution of isolated worlds being what they are, the extremis of this giving rise to perhaps 12 sub-cultures ruled over by greek overlord (perhaps even after the aspects of the greek gods). For example perturabo would have been (my guess) in the state that follows under Athena's or Zeus' guiding star. However the 122nd would've come from Hephaestus' or possibly even Artemis' given states. I'd probably wager i'd develop it along the lines of heph's since he's a forgegod (which would fit with the medieval celtic development i choose).

-skrall

Yeh I see what you mean. I must disagree with you there however, I absolutely love the Mediterranean cultures, so much so they actually inspired me to carry History onto my Leaving Cert. (Irish GCSE's/SAT's if you know what I mean) and I'll even carry it on to third-level education. The Greeks were amazing which is one of the small titbits that draws me towards the Iron Warriors, but everybody has his or her own interpretations of everything so to each his/her own. If anything mine would probably come from the realm and culture of Ares, the god of War. I imagine my Iron Warriors as being utterly void of any feelings, mechanical superhuman soldiers designed to do nought but slay in the name of Olympia, Perturabo and the Emperor. I could imagine the events on Olympia, their rising, their taking to the stars, then the purging of Olympia taking a heavy toll on the Eleventh Company to such an extent that they are just killers, killers and nothing less nor more.

Now for an update, and first off we've got some cultural lore/theory work going on.

[i]The Twelve Tyrants

It has long been that Olympia has been ruled over by the twelve tyrants, and remained so until the Emperors arrival during the great crusade. The system of the tyrants never changed, only the size of the domains they ruled and their relative power status' with one another. The largest of the 5 landmasses hosted five of these tyrants (including the region of Lochos), the smallest, and arguably wealthiest, landmass belong to the Tyrant of Iarrnaig. Iarrnaig's regions represented the pagan god Hefanes (possible derrivative of the old terran god Hephaestus), for the region was often harsh to live in, with highly fertile soil, owing to the high level of volcanic activity. Indeed, this heavy volcanic activity has in fact become the source of the regions wealth, for it is rich in metal work and craftsman ship.

The regions fortress' are similarly evocative of this, for the earthquakes and other natural phenomina in the region require them to be even greater in their stability. It is said they were the first to develop iron and steel re-enforment beams for their stonework, and indeed it is reported that a great many of the walls are topped with metal rims and parapet's. It is from this region the Iron Warriors recruited a great many of their smiths and artificers, indeed a significant portion of the 107th-132nd company's specialists are sourced from this area. However, as is typical of most hierarchical structured societies the divide between the rich and the poor also made them an almost completely seperate peoples in there own right. It is notable that only the tyrants and high aristocracy spoke soley in high gothic, and Olympian. The lower aristocracy (a merchant tier) spoke a host of languages, often including both high and low gothic, ancient terran and the native tongue of the Iarrnaig region. The speach of the region is vastly different from it's high society, being drawn from a pre-golden age technology language which has spread to only a handful of worlds, though it in far more wide spread use on such worlds, where more than one region speak it.[i]


I'll be developing more lore as this goes on, i'm probably going to write a cultural history essay on olympia as this rumbles on, paticularly developing the 12 tyrants as an almost separate society from it's working classes, who will (largely) speak different languages based on regions. However this is a modelling log not a history essay, so here's some model stuff.

A PIP landspeeder with the usual magnetic options on show.





and the next one is ready for repair and development.



-skrall

Small update, i've managed to rebuild the second chassis for the speeder and located all but one seat from the third.



On a side note, this kit was designed to make grown men cry, sit in corners drooling or rage quit the hobby. It takes more superglue and pins than the dark gods themselves could devise to hold it together. still, i love the look of the thing.

-skrall

Quick update before work; my new stuff arrived yesterday including the deminos and terminators. Magnet's are, of course, in full use. Next up is the LED process for it,





hopefully i'll have the led done tomorrow and be ready for painting.

-skrall

No no no, those Cataphractii just won't fit. You should promptly ship them to me. No really though, get back to work! I want to see more.

Oh my oh my! Lovely Forge World goodies. Skrall, you make it hard to not want to throw my money at the screen, goddamn you temptation! Lovely work still mate. Now all we need is some paint on them and let the nerdgasms begin!

 em_en_oh_pee wrote:
No no no, those Cataphractii just won't fit. You should promptly ship them to me. No really though, get back to work! I want to see more.

thanks man, i hope to keep this updated with a unit or two every few weeks.

 crimsonfist832 wrote:
Oh my oh my! Lovely Forge World goodies. Skrall, you make it hard to not want to throw my money at the screen, goddamn you temptation! Lovely work still mate. Now all we need is some paint on them and let the nerdgasms begin!

paint? before paint there needs to be.... LIGHT!

Time for this mornings crazyness, i've now got 2 of the 3 deminos pattern's LED ready and ive made my icarus lascannon all red zap zap.






All i need to do now is clean up the wiring on the lascannon and prep the predator for a basecoat,

-skrall

I'm wayyyyy to productive today, i'm currently working on my cataphractii terminators, first up the squad leader. He's PIP, but i want to see how people are feeling about the use of a Red leather like effect to distinguish veterans. I also wanted a new avatar to reflect my pre-heresy routes since the Warsmith avatar doesn't quite fit.



C&C would be highly welcomed,

-skrall

p.s as a bonus here's how the two deminos with LED's look together.

I love the OSL on the Lightning Claws. Probably going to copy that at some point.

The red looks quite nice I must say. It offsets the yellow, black and silver so I say stick to it skrall. The OSL is amazing.

 em_en_oh_pee wrote:
I love the OSL on the Lightning Claws. Probably going to copy that at some point.

Why thank you sir, feel free!

 crimsonfist832 wrote:
The red looks quite nice I must say. It offsets the yellow, black and silver so I say stick to it skrall. The OSL is amazing.

thanks man, i do plan a fair level more detail but i'm waiting on a new batch of paints... and other materials.

As part of the launch of Nerd By Design (a sort of hobby entity in which i try all the things) i'm putting up a number of youtube help videos. First up; LED's.



Hope people find this helpful!

-skrall

Bump simply because i had to re-upload the video. Sadly Youtube's video correction turned the last video into a bit of trippy experiance, for which i apologise.

-skrall

Time for a PIP, a member of first legion for an allies contingent.



-skrall

Just went thru this entire plog and I have to say... WOW!
Simply amazing.
A question..
Are you using a weathering powder(s)?

Looking sweet Skrall. Dark Angels for an allied contingent.... I could dig that, they were preety sweet pre-Heresy, more-so than post that is. I have been led down the path to Olympia as well. I'm thinking of switching my Legion for the Iron Warriors, there is just something about their character and the almost emotionless brutality of their psyche, I like them. But yeh, looking good as usual

Man those are some sweet Iron Warriors. Would you mind telling me how you did that red plasma glow and the blue glow from the claws? I'd love to use them in my painting somewhere. I feel your pain about staying up late to paint an army for a tourny. They looked rubbish once I was done but I redid them after. Keep up the amazing work!