yet another iron warrior log, my style!

[LokkoRex]

the list i'm my currently trying to finish

warsmith with power fist and combi-plasma (finished)

sorcerer with mark of nurgle and combi-melta (paint in progress)

5 terminators with combi-bolters, 2 chainfists, 2 power fists, 1 heavy flamer and champion with power axe. (finished)

siege squad with lascannon, plasma gun and champion with power fist and combi-bolter (finished)

siege squad with lascannon, flamer and sergeant with power fist (finished)

possessed rhino (build in progress)

siege squad with heavy bolter, meltagun and sergeant with combi-melta (finished)

possessed rhino (still in the box)

siege squad with missile launcher, plasma gun and sergeant with combi-plasma (paint in progress)

two havoc squads, each with two heavy bolters and one missile launcher (build/paint in progress)

havoc squad with four lascannons (build/paint in progress)

now, here's my son's of perturabo:

whole-army shot:


current warsmith:


squad 1:


squad 2:


work-in-progress squad 3:


Work-in-progress havocs:


some models still need some finishing touches and basing, and i need to put varnish on them as well.

whatcha thinking?

edit: sorry for the crappy pics!

[LokkoRex]

update, sorry for the crappy pics:

failed attempt at taking a photo of the legion marking












question and comment please.

[Drakcore Bloodtear]

Your army looks good, I especially like what you've done with the IW lord (nice and simple)

But yeah you need some better pics, try a more rounded light source so it illuminates the entire area, or maybe zoom the camera out to get better focus and if your camera has a 'close' setting use it.

[Hushrong]

update, sorry for the crappy pics:

failed attempt at taking a photo of the legion marking

Very good work on the Iron Warriors. I also like your freehand of the Legion symbol but it could use one change in my opinion.

I wasn't great at freehanding the deathmask but definitely make the mouth piece smaller. Instead of spreading them out to where the 'cheek bones' are pointed downward, bring them in a little more in between.

[LokkoRex]

thanks for the comments guys, on my to-buy list are two more desk lamps to provide some more all-round lighting.

the weird thing is the camera is actually set to take pictures of small sized objects and is also set to take pictures from the maximum range, and if i set it to zoom the pics get even more blurry.

[Dejay]

I really like these, the freehand looks good, but it's a bit hard to see in the picture.

Are you using macro mode?

[LokkoRex]

uhm, i don't know what macro mode is, so "no"?

i'm using my sisters camera with its setting to small targets (less than 70 cm from the cam).

any body know what setting i should use?

plus i just realised the first pics were done only by the light from my desk lamp, with hindsight i should have put on the normal room light too, but it was late, and i had scool the following day.

[the damned artificer]

Macro is the setting for small objects and are usually shown as a little flower icon, which is the setting you need to use to get clear pictures of your minis, that and then you need to have auto focus unless you have a camera where focus can be handled manually. The minis look good on the pictures which are in focus, so great job on that

[LokkoRex]

so far i haven't found a flower icon on the entire camera, although there is a manual focus, but it is hard to make it work since my hands are a bit shaky every now and then.

might add that i've got my shaky hands on a CSM battalion and a CSM terminator box, and i've ordered a necromunda Escher, Goliath and Pit Slaves gang, which i'll turn into a bunch of Auxilia and Armsmen from the IA 9 Tyrants Legion list.

btw, anybody got any good tips for green stuff noobs, so far all i've got is:
- keep your tools and fingers wet.
- after applying the green stuff to an area let it be for 20 minutes, then start sculpting, and
- cut away the middle area where the blue and yellow parts meet.

any help or advice is appreciated since i'm freaking out about even opening the package.

[Drakcore Bloodtear]

It's always surprised me that people use the list in IA:9, but then never use the list in IA:10 (the siege one).
I can see why poeple use the first list but i've never seen the second one in use

[LokkoRex]

to be honest i have'nt used any of the lists yet, though i'd like to try the siege list with the stuff i already have.

[LokkoRex]

woohoo!

got the stuff i had ordered from GW last friday, which included a pit slaves gang, an escher gang, a goliath gang and a pair of squig herds.

the gangs will become armsmen and auxilia for my iron warriors, and i've begun working on a bunch of terminators for a tournament i'll be attending next weekend.

still not sure if i'll be using the scions of perturabo or my death skulls orks.

i'll post pics soon.

[LokkoRex]

the terminators i've been working on building:


sergeant count-as:

wanted to make him to look like he's about to punish some pitiless human that believed itself capable of fighting the chosen sons of Perturabo.

chainfist guy:

imagine a tank infront of him, which is about to get a new weapon port.

first shooty guy:


second shooty guy:

[LokkoRex]

and the assault cannon/chainfist count-as/obliterator:


bad picture of the green stuff and spiky bitz on his arm:


the beginning of an auxilia command squad:

from left to right: plasma gun guy, bodyguard, grenade launcher guy. the plasma gun guy will have it's left arm replaced with a suitably mutated limb.

the mainstay of my armsmen squads:

top left is the heavy stubber toting heavies and the sergeants, one with a plasma pistol and the other with a bolter.

start of the auxilia:

the guy to the top right will have a couple of spawn limbs added, and will end up as a brute for a marauder squad.

[LokkoRex]

progress!

obliterator/assault cannon terminator count-as:






need some additional green stuff filling on the shoulder pad and the space between upper arm and torso, but then it's good to go for basecoating.

[LokkoRex]

more progress:











think i've passed the 50% painting completed on these guys.

[LokkoRex]

damn blurry pics...

even more progress:

this guy's got a re-sculpted knee joint, since i didn't like the look of the armours possessing spirit taking a peek out into the real world.


this is a black reach termie that is having it's chest re-sculpted, and will be carrying a power mace and reaper autocannon wen i'm done with him.


another black reach terminator, this one with a combi-melta and lightning claw.


and something i want to make an objective marker out of, i'm thinking about having a traitor guardsman or cultist showing a bolt pistol to it's face or something like that.

[Julio]

Those are coming on along very nicely!
Some pics are a little blurry though...

[LokkoRex]

UPDATE!!! (i hate the camera i'm using and the fact i don't have some decent lighting...)

terminators and obliterator!


close-ups!
power-axe swinging dude!

[LokkoRex]

yes! i CAN do good photographs when i put my a*s into it!

first chain-claw dude with looted dark angels left leg armour!




second chain-claw dude!