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I was thinking replace an arm and chain sword with a bionic arm and a buzsaw

Really nice looking stuff here. The models all have a lot of character. My only suggestion is that I think the Imperial Fists on the Raptor bases could use a little more depth to their yellow. They look a tad flat.

WIP of terminators from my Warsmiths personal body guard, the Martensite Guard.

Some dreadnoughts and lightning claw terminators I just finished.

Nice freehand on the dreadnought. Great work all around.

Very nice stuff, as usual!

First update in what seems like ages.
Finally decided to finish my contemptor dread and start painting him to lead a mayhem pack or just run as a very expensive chaos contemptor.
Decided after I had done the lead beltcher base coat and first ironbreaker dry brush to try photo it in each stage of painting.
My process for all my iron warriors iron colours is as follows, Base coat lead belcher, dry brush ironbreaker, wash with thinned nuln oil then do progressivly ligher dry brushes of ironbreaker, runefang and necron compound. The difference is pretty hard to notice in the photos but really takes the finished model to the next level.

Apologies for the cell phone pics, left my camera at work.

If you want to see more of my Iron Warriors leave a comment cause I can't really be bothered updating frequently if it just sinks to the back pages without any views.


Nuln oil



Ironbreaker Drybrush



Runefang Drybrush



Necron Compound



krack grenade denied.

These are all amazing! Such brilliantly detailed basing/exploding bodies. You have one new subscriber Ratking!
Iron within.

 Edreynaline wrote:
These are all amazing! Such brilliantly detailed basing/exploding bodies. You have one new subscriber Ratking!
Iron within.

Thanks, my next project after this are some terminators tearing through some more fists. yay chainfist gore

Got all the main stuff done on the dread, just gotta do the base, battle damage and weathering and the unfortunate imperial fist.

Everything gold or yellow is base coated xv-88, then averland sunset and yriel yellow layers for the yellow.


Gold is done with vellejo brass, and cheverons done with black and masking tape.




Washed with thinned nuln oil



Gold picked out with golden griffon






I've also started making new raptor and terminator squads



An early shot of the terminator champion

C'mon man, no flesh heads; these are Iron Warriors, not dumbass Piss Astartes!

HOLY CRAP! Thats some seriously impressive work there.

And this:

 ratking wrote:
Heavy Artillery Carriage WIP.

This makes an old iron warrior's eyes get misty.

My only question. How are you going to transport these without half your army breaking in transit? It seems painfully fragile.

Kepora wrote:C'mon man, no flesh heads; these are Iron Warriors, not dumbass Piss Astartes!

I know what you mean, but I'm running out of interesting heads that don't have stupid tusks or horns.
Just imagine he took a shot to the face and had to remove it.

Frazzled wrote:HOLY CRAP! Thats some seriously impressive work there.

And this:

 ratking wrote:
Heavy Artillery Carriage WIP.

This makes an old iron warrior's eyes get misty.

My only question. How are you going to transport these without half your army breaking in transit? It seems painfully fragile.

Unfortunately the earth shaker carriage is on hold with most of the rest of my traitor guard now that they are come the apocalypse allies.
Hopefully the rumours of some forgeworld love for chaos mean I can use my massed artillery again.

As for transport, all imperial fist mutilation models are pinned with wire so they are surprisingly durable.
I play most of my games with my flatmate or friends in my garage so transport isn't normally a problem. When i do go down to the local club ( which is conveniently a few blocks away) I do it very carefully.

Clean work there

Then cut off the stupid tusks and horns, replace them with awesome ones!

Got the contemptor done, let me know what you think before I varnish him.

Looks sick dude. You have a way of doing gore that just looks so good and not tacky.

After a bit of break I'm returning to my Iron Warriors with a renewed passion.
I've recently finished 25 militia in their new olive drabish scheme, 5 iron warriors boarding marines (going to use them as plague marines.) and a new warpsmith with burning brand.
I've also gone overboard ordering from forgeworld, with 2 rapier laser destroyer batteries, 15 mkIII marines, IW contemptor to turn into a destroyer of cities dread, many iron warriors upgrade parts and even a warlord titan.

Started setting up a new light box,but have lost my camera so only phone photos for now.

As usual let me know what you think, more feedback motivates to put up morepictures and WIPS.






Operation human shield against 1500pts of nids.

Some traitor earthworks i've been working on.

WarLORD?! I'm pretty sure you mean WarHOUND! XD

Also, I love the Warpsmith - mind telling what parts you used?

 Kepora wrote:
WarLORD?! I'm pretty sure you mean WarHOUND! XD

Also, I love the Warpsmith - mind telling what parts you used?

Oh yeah I sure did, wish it was a warlord though.

As for parts, here goes, the torso, head, legs and arms are from the mkIII iron hands squad, mkIII shoulder pads, axe from dark vengeance, flamer pack from the sternguard kit with chaosy exaust ports added on, flamer is from a techmarine with green stuff tubing, servo arm is from a techpriest and the melta is from the Iron Warriors upgrade pack.

I think thats most of the parts, if there was something I missed let me know.

I'm loving the Earthworks, great idea for IW of course. Where did you get the sandbags? I'm curious because I recently saw a bunch of Tamiya ones at Hobby Lobby.

Hey there....

Lovely looking earthworks! Definitely one for the IW! great start!

Going back also... some lovely models but that heavy artillery piece is glorious! One for the "Stor-Bezashk" to be proud of!

Awesome! Glad you cam back to this project. Truly stunning force, one of the best Iron Warriors forces I've ever seen.

Looking forward to seeing some more updates!

As an iron warrior fan or the past 10 years, you can consider me suitably impressed. Your creative work is truely impressive.

-skrall

Dez wrote:I'm loving the Earthworks, great idea for IW of course. Where did you get the sandbags? I'm curious because I recently saw a bunch of Tamiya ones at Hobby Lobby.

They are the tamiya 1/35 sandbag kit, too about 2 boxes to do this trench.

MagosBiff90 wrote:Hey there....

Lovely looking earthworks! Definitely one for the IW! great start!

Going back also... some lovely models but that heavy artillery piece is glorious! One for the "Stor-Bezashk" to be proud of!

Cheers, I just finished modelling that and added chains holding it down to the decking. I was inspired by the daemonic guns in storm of iron.

clamclaw wrote:Awesome! Glad you cam back to this project. Truly stunning force, one of the best Iron Warriors forces I've ever seen.

Looking forward to seeing some more updates!

Thanks, updates you shall have.

Skrall wrote:As an iron warrior fan or the past 10 years, you can consider me suitably impressed. Your creative work is truely impressive.

-skrall

I appreciate the feed back. I've got far more stuff on my work bench that could be considered sane so there should be a bit of action here in the near future.

Some great stuff in here, love the dread tearing the marine apart, really nicely done

 Calibanite Lion wrote:
Some great stuff in here, love the dread tearing the marine apart, really nicely done

Thanks for the feed back, i've got another contemptor on the way, going to kit it out as a ferrum infernus destroyer of cities.

On the workbench at the moment, finished the trim on my sicarian, progress on the rapiers and crew, ruining limited edition forgeworld models and a chaos lord with black mace for my breacher squad.

Come on man - if your going to do an Iron Warrior mace, it's gotta be a hammer! XD

Wow! Just found your thread, and exalted it so I can follow along! Awesome army coming together, and I really appreciate the great pics and stage-by-stage painting of that Dreadnought. I have just begun painting some Iron Warriors with (for?) my son and I am really a fan of how you keep the basic metal clean, without too much hazard striping, but how you also incorporate that and other (gold) metallic colors.

Your bases are also awesome--I am a big fan of creating bricks to create some geometric lines on bases, and I like the effect of the mini wall you have on that Dreadnought. I haven't done that, but I will definitely try it, thanks to you.

So, fantastic stuff, and I look forward to seeing how the projects continue.