Iron Warriors 122nd Grand Company; Chaos Unleashed

[G.Hawke]

i've only been working on this force for a week and a half, and during that time i've noticed something....

i don't understand why IW's are so popular, i mean, when i started them 7 years ago they were the third least popular army... it used to be all about the death guard/world eaters/black legion. guess everyone loves silver murhenz...

Update time; started some dreadclaw drop pods, one is finished, the one in red is going to be heavily modified. i wanted some veriety between the two so.... clean and the mean.



-hawke

[livevil]

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[G.Hawke]

update time, i've more or less finished the daemonknight. i might do some touch ups later, but given the damage present on the model i think it hasn't turned out too bad.







-hawke

[TheConverter15]

Oh sorry! Didn't see the Decimators in the list The deamonknight looks fantastic!

[Mega Nutz]

Sweet looking build!

[Red Skullz]

Ye gods you`ve picked up speed, and I likes it!

R

[G.Hawke]

Sweet looking build!

thanks man!

Oh sorry! Didn't see the Decimators in the list The deamonknight looks fantastic!

hehe, no worries, it's a big list. and thanks dude!

Ye gods you`ve picked up speed, and I likes it!

you've got no idea...

Before i post tonight update, i can check the following things of my list, by some crafty ebaying and securing a forge worldised iron warrior army i now have the following items coming my way;

15 terminator
3 rhinos
3 vindicators
2 predators
2x warsmith
Chaos lord

Bring my total units to;

4 rhinos
4 vindicators
3 predators
4 dreadnoughts
2 defilers
25 terminators
2 lords
sorcerer

and now for the painty painty bit; i've finished the dreadclaw;



I've also started work on the tripiest thing i've built in this log so far, it's got alot of work left on it (half its held together with white-tac) but this is the general idea of my daemonprince/greater daemon model; The Iron Daemon



C&C welcomed as always,

-hawke

[Teku]

damn you sir! I look forward to see the count as grey knights complete!
You did a great work!

[G.Hawke]

damn you sir! I look forward to see the count as grey knights complete!
You did a great work!

well, it soon will be, i've got 1 squad 80% painted, one squad base coated, the lord base coated and one daemonknight to finish, then that's done.

I've finished building the double CC dread, this time i've opted for the codex lore option, the heavily modified and rebuilt, i've also build in a heavy flamer in to the new arm and rebuild some of the lost detail. The pose is also heavily modified to show some movement, but since i've added extra height this may have been lost. There's also some joint armour on the hips since i had the room to add it.





C&C welcomed, next update will be sunday/monday. There may be a raven guard update so keep an eye out for that log, it's down to my clients opinion on the test scheme.

-hawke

[andyg2006]

I'm always very impressed by your work and these guys are no exception.
As soon as I saw our idea for Berossus' daemon engine company-thing, I thought: "If anyone can do justice to that, G.Hawke can!" and you are definitely doing a fine job.
The Iron Daemon Prince is looking very tough and mean, too.

[dwarf]

Great log your OSL looks really nice and your conversions are great!!

[TheConverter15]

Lovely OSL on the Dreadclaw, and a nice Deamon Prince conversion, looking forward to that dread too

[G.Hawke]

I'm always very impressed by your work and these guys are no exception.
As soon as I saw our idea for Berossus' daemon engine company-thing, I thought: "If anyone can do justice to that, G.Hawke can!" and you are definitely doing a fine job.
The Iron Daemon Prince is looking very tough and mean, too.

thanks man! i must admit, i can't wait to get to dreadnought No20... Berossus' himself. At the moment though, i've only got 4 on the desk, with 1 completed... ish.

Great log your OSL looks really nice and your conversions are great!!

thanks man! i'm happy with the way this projects going, admittidly my army is very stylised, but i really like it, at the end of the day, what else matters?

Lovely OSL on the Dreadclaw, and a nice Deamon Prince conversion, looking forward to that dread too

thanks man, he's probably going to end up a greater daemon, since he's a bit.... tall for a standard DP (since i want something that will have a chance when it comes to LOS).


Time for the first update in a few days, i've got the termies close to completion (waiting on a new termie base for the medic, and need to do a few touch ups);





I've also got some progress on the dread, it does need a few touch ups, i also want to ask peoples opinions on adding gore effects to the buzzsaw, at present he feels a bit plain on that arm;




and with his ride;



thoughts?

-hawke

[nebulushoax]

Love your painting, I think its right on for Iron Warriors.
The CCW could do with some more definition, but bright goo would perhaps clash with the muted colors? What about some dried up blood/alien ichor?

[G.Hawke]

Love your painting, I think its right on for Iron Warriors.
The CCW could do with some more definition, but bright goo would perhaps clash with the muted colors? What about some dried up blood/alien ichor?

funny you should mention that, i did ask about the blood definition, so see below...

So i've got my first match under 5th with chaos murhenz tonight, so here's my 1k points force;



Not much atm, half of its borrowed from other armies, since i'm waiting on the installment of the next lot, which should be coming my way in the next few days. I've had time to do the gore effects, start my DP (lot left to do) and do a quick patch job on the wrong directional hazard stripes;






Next post will either be an 'army so far' shot or some more wips, and i'll reveal the game results.

-hawke

[Rogerio]

Looks good mate simple and effective! great conversions.

I totally agree about the amount of Iron Warriors i am now in the process of re painting my Chaos space marines from Iron warriors to Night lords.

[Teku]

I really like the stuff you are doing here. Dreadclaws look awesome. I do wonder how you did the power glow. With an airbrush or an easy method?
Keep up the awesome modeling! Like the daemon/dread knights!

[G.Hawke]

Looks good mate simple and effective! great conversions.

I totally agree about the amount of Iron Warriors i am now in the process of re painting my Chaos space marines from Iron warriors to Night lords.

night lords? good choice. if i wasn't so taken by the iron warriors i'd probably play NL's

I really like the stuff you are doing here. Dreadclaws look awesome. I do wonder how you did the power glow. With an airbrush or an easy method?
Keep up the awesome modeling! Like the daemon/dread knights!

sadly an airbrush, there's methods by hand, but tbh, whilst it isn't cheap to buy an airbrush, it's worth it. The level of control i've had has sped up my painting no end.

Time for the birthday post, and all i can say is;



ready? this is week 3, and so far i have this many murhenz;




and i've nearly finished a predator, just a few touch ups in places to do;





comments? crit?

-hawke

[Aspect]

Brilliant; this is how I always imagined Perturabo's lot to be - dirty, grizzled, murderous of intent and visage. I'm a huge fan of excessively weathered models, so I'll be following this very closely

Just a little nitpick - you missed out a mould line along the length of the Predator's barrel. Other than that it's hideously beautiful! What is also fascinating is that your modelling table matches the colour scheme of your Iron Warriors...what colour was the table originally?

[LokkoRex]

sueet! that predator looks ace.