There will be no mercy- Iron Warriors army.

[the damned artificer]

After reading "Storm of Iron" and being under a bad influence of a dedicated Iron Warriors collector for a few years I finally decided to make a small army myself.

This is not my first venture into the realm of chaos (there's a reason I call myself the damned artificer ) But this time around my love has fallen for the steel clad siege masters of Pertuabo.

I like their background a lot, and although it might be considered an easy colour scheme I see some great potential in it, and I personally think that the somewhat plain metal colours can be made to look very interesting and offers a great deal of opportunities for different techniques. I am also in love with the whole black/ yellow hazard stripe theme, it looks so great and I think it is a great way to add a very varied form of variety to the otherwise simple and perhaps even dull steel & brass scheme.

enough talking, and on to the pictures, first of is the test model.




The model is painted in vallejo metallics as I find them to be really great, and the steel areas have been washed in vallejo smoke, which I'm new to using but already feel like I'm gonna use a lot. The models head and torso are both green stuff press mould tests, to see if it was possible to get a good result by replicating certain parts in putty, which I believe it is from my results.

Next is my PIP dreadnought, converted from the imperial venerable dreadnought.



Hope you all like it so far, and feel free to leave comments, constructive criticism etc.

[_dwarf_]

Looks great so far! The black and yellow stripes are really well done and look smooth.
The highlights on the metal also look really nice and in the right places.
One thing you might want to work on is the eyes, imho they don't "pop" enough, they are kinda too small and need more highlights and even some sourced lightning effects. Same thing about the plasma cannon on the dread, will be fun to see how you tackle that

Looking forward to seeing the dreadnought all painted up! The base looks ace, where did it come from??

[the damned artificer]

Thanks _dwarf_

Yeah the eyes weren't the greatest I agree with that, I'm considering doing green eyes instead or maybe source light them but I'm not sure I like that for the ordinary guys, maybe the sorcerer or the possessed will have it though

The dread only have some of the hazard stripe work done an still needs a huge amount of work till it's done. And the plasma coils will be bright blue, as that looks cool and someone told me that plasma turns blue/white when superheated in the real world
The base is a microart studio base with some extra detail added in form of the shell casings, wires, cogs and the big cabling the dread is stepping upon.

[Wargamez03]

nice start.

[Mr Scratch & Sniff]

Very Cool!

Loving the tarnished look!

Always great to see a new IW log. Can't wait to see more!

[Stempe]

Nice start, though it really seems that you apply your colours without thinning it sufficiently. Maybe you ought to have a look at this tutorial I made (it's in German, but pics say more than 1.000 words ):

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showpo...5&postcount=13

Hope to see more soon. Keep going!

*subscribed*

[the damned artificer]

Thanks guys
Stempe: actually I thin my paints to a milk like consistency, the grainy look is probably due to the base coat as I used the boltgun spray once produced by gw and it was the last in the can. It was then given a coat of vallejo natural steel, and if you look at the dread it is very smooth as it doesn't have the boltgun undercoat. I'll try to do one without the spray

[the damned artificer]

Here's some of the stuff I press moulded in brown- and green stuff.



I also have a plan to add a small squad of traitor guardsmen, having an excuse to finish this rogue psyker I started almost two years ago.



More updates soon.

[tarr]

After reading "Storm of Iron" and being under a bad influence of a dedicated Iron Warriors collector for a few years

hehe sorry not!

well its good to see some paint on your minis, maybe i should start a tread
so we can compete

but you have a very good start and a good colour scheme.
and if you need more bits you know were to finde them

[the damned artificer]

hehe sorry not!

well its good to see some paint on your minis, maybe i should start a tread
so we can compete

but you have a very good start and a good colour scheme.
and if you need more bits you know were to finde them

I know you're not

I think you should definitely start a thread too, maybe involving your "little" secret project
And I'll probably raid your bitsbox on Saturday

[SDKFZ]

@ t d a: Great start ! Guess this fits you like a glove. Powerarmoured dark mechanicus or something

Like those press moulds youve made too. Did some for my Warhound but the didnt turn out this good

/ SDKFZ

[the damned artificer]

@ t d a: Great start ! Guess this fits you like a glove. Powerarmoured dark mechanicus or something

Like those press moulds youve made too. Did some for my Warhound but the didnt turn out this good

/ SDKFZ

Hehehe yeah I should make some dark mechanicus guys as well, that'd be neat

It takes some practice to get the press moulds right, and the results kan be so great. I have some press moulds of some titan icons and skulls as well, I can post pics in my titan thread if you'd like to see them

[Erazmus_M_Wattle]

How do you do your press moulds? The greens of your heads and chests look really great. I would definitely like to try that with some of the older helmet styles so I don't have to spend a fortune on eBay.

[Vitruvian XVII]

They look very good so far! Whered you get that awesome base on the dread from?

[the damned artificer]

They look very good so far! Whered you get that awesome base on the dread from?

Thanks I got the base from Microart Studiohttp://www.shop.microartstudio.com/tech-bases-round-60mm-p-132.html?cPath=3_26 and added some parts myself.

How do you do your press moulds? The greens of your heads and chests look really great. I would definitely like to try that with some of the older helmet styles so I don't have to spend a fortune on eBay.

I make the mould itself out of green stuff that I pack tightly around the object I want to replicate, and if the part is not metal I'll usually grease the part up a little with a very light touch of a brush with cooking oils on it. For the helmet and the torso a two sided mould was created by first covering half the part, letting it cure and then removing the part and cutting a straight flat edge on the mould to produce an even surface for the other half. I then put the part back in the mould and grease it, then I apply green stuff to the other side, enclosing the part, and making the other half of the mould. When cured I take the mould apart and removes the part inside leaving me with a two sided mould to use for reproducing the part, I then cut a hole somewhere where there's no detail (like the bottom of the neck of a sm helmet) for the excess green stuff to leave from. This hole can also be used to press the putty properly against the mould to reproduce a better result, this is easily done by pushing the back of a small brush, or a similar small rounded object, through the hole.

Hope this helps

[Ostling]

The silver and the yellow looks great! Keep it up!!

Greetings,
Ostling

[G.Hawke]

be interesting to see how you cast Murhens look

-skrall

[the damned artificer]

The silver and the yellow looks great! Keep it up!!

Greetings,
Ostling

Thanks dude, I'll do my best.

be interesting to see how you cast Murhens look

-skrall

My cast Murhens ??

Update time:

First up is my sorcerer, I haven't decided yet if he should be an Iron warrior, or a loan out from the thousand sons. What do you guys think ?


Next up is the PIP of my first possessed, still some work to do before he's done.



I also started playing around with some paint on my converted abaddon the despoiler even though he's not for this army, but had him lying around.


Lastly, a friend of mine commissioned me to paint his traitors of chaos set, here's the first of them almost done:

[SDKFZ]

@ t d a: Great painting, Mate ! And thanks for the "how to" press mould.
Have to try that one out myself someday.

/ SDKFZ

[The Unnamed]

Update time:

First up is my sorcerer, I haven't decided yet if he should be an Iron warrior, or a loan out from the thousand sons. What do you guys think ?

Hey, sorry to bother, but I was wondering how did you make the staff? It's a very interesting piece of equipment.