Iron Warriors uber bang bang death army

[Monsterzonk]

Wow! I love that gritty and dirty look! ... and the melting Marine... :evilgrin:

[MrDee]

Your sir are a god :D

[OnnO]

These are very, very sweet.

I like the walking turret especially. TBH, in GS and plasticard I wasn't sure it would work, but painted and all it's an awesome job.
/envy on

[Fleafa]

I must confess, I really didn't like the walking turret when I saw it all converted up, but painted it looks great! Well done.
This is a great log, those big walkers have inspired me to things I shall not yet disclose!

[Dark Apostle]

I have to agree with Fleafa on the Vindiwalker didn't like it at all before it was painted, but now it looks reeks of pure awsomeness. Like the rest of your works. Even the old, ***** dread looks awesome.

[cyprus01]

me sad i can't see it....

[thecartwright]

awesome!!! how long did it take to do the first defiler

[ChromeZephyr]

Amazing work. I absolutely hate the Chaos dread, but you've managed to make it look awesome. Well done, sir, well done.

[LordKhaine]

..............i want your children

[glenning]

The silver is an undercoat of a dulux silver. Gloss paint as an undercoat is hard to work with. I made it work but now it's getting hard in spots. I'll have to rethink it for future projects...

Here are the pics of the vindiwalker, and yep; I dont' update for ages and then you get two in two days! Amazin'!!!

The jobs rougher on this one, for two reasons:

1. The paint was badly misbehaving
2. After getting near the end I realised it suited it anyways - who in their right mind is gonna go near a daemonically possessed vehicle to try and fix or wash it anyways...unless it's dead or disabled.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5306.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5301.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5311.jpg

And the view that says either RUN or you wish you had...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5312.jpg

Now that's a warmachine! Great, great work!

[A13X]

That is such an awsome walker...

O.o

...Could you make me one? Please?... :angel:

Amazing work, keep it up!

*subscribed*

[Khorghan]

The vindiwalker looks amazing, and the lava marine is a nice touch.

[Malakian]

If you were gurl, I'd marry you

[Stella Cadente]

that walking vindi looks Horrendous...........in the best way possible, it REALLY looks like its been fighting none stop for years and years and years, fanbloomintastic.

and People say Chaos lost flavour, HA

[Smiler]

my your army is sweet. your warmachines are excelent, nothing i've seen before

[Sideros Peltarion]

The silver is an undercoat of a dulux silver. Gloss paint as an undercoat is hard to work with. I made it work but now it's getting hard in spots. I'll have to rethink it for future projects...

Here are the pics of the vindiwalker, and yep; I dont' update for ages and then you get two in two days! Amazin'!!!

The jobs rougher on this one, for two reasons:

1. The paint was badly misbehaving
2. After getting near the end I realised it suited it anyways - who in their right mind is gonna go near a daemonically possessed vehicle to try and fix or wash it anyways...unless it's dead or disabled.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5306.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5301.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5311.jpg

And the view that says either RUN or you wish you had...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5312.jpg

I wish I could do that.
In fact its your army that has inspired me to make some custom vehicles for my own Iron Warriors.

[Stella Cadente]

the walking defilers are VERY inspiring, and the Basic principal seems easy enough, its just detailing the basic principal that looks time consuming

[Captin Korea!]

ANYHOO! Back to reality - I've decided I hate working on this defiler and the sooner it's finished the better. SO! That means that the job has been finished, no questions asked coz I couldn't be AR$ED to do any more conversion work on it. This will do I think. So happy or not, this is what it is! I tried adding chains but I couldn't do anything I was happy with , so it's another chainless beast. But it is very spikey. Very spikey and trophied (not atrophied) is good.

I figured the head wouldn't be too bad on this one, and I do like how it works, although I WILL have to name it Conan the Destroyer (Destroyer for short) given it's massive pinhead look.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF4699.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF4701.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF4705.jpg

And a family shot of Conan with Ripley:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF4710.jpg

Don't they make a lovely couple?

The final fitout of this one is Defiler cannon, Twin linked Lascannons and Havoc Launcher. For those hankerin for a shoulder mounted gun, there it is! For those yearning for a chest mounted weapon, there be ye lasers!

I just found this thead, and I am simply amazed by this thing, please tell me how to make one, and Ill be forever in your debt.

-Captin Korea!

[Lemmingspawn]

Just a quick one to let you all know I am still on this project, it's just on temporary hold. We've experienced some fairly significant flooding in our area, many people are out of home and unable to get to work or even out of town atm. So it's all temporarily on hold until things get back to normal.

[Kraal_Lord_Of_Blood]

Walking defilers<3

[SHIZNAFT]

hope all is well... stay above water mate. Great work, very original!

[D35t0y3r]

heh thats funny, cos its flooding in certain parts of where i live in australia there too

[Khorghan]

heh thats funny, cos its flooding in certain parts of where i live in australia there too

OMG THATS SO FUNNY!!!!!1111

[Dasqueek-Master Assassin]

WOW!!!!! Simply incredible! Amazing! Marvelous!PRODIGIOUS! Stunning! unbelievable! Wonderful! Bravo! Remarkable! Astounding! Breathtaking! Epic! Extarordinary!Miraculous! Spectacular! Staggering! Stupefying! Awe-inspiring!

Sorry but thats all thesaurus.com has for ******* INCEDIBLE!!!!
Would you mind a full army shot?

[Lemmingspawn]

Lol @ D35t0y3r - I'm actually in Emerald, so you'll be copping some of our water at the moment....

Everythings dry, we missed the water (just). It lapped up onto our porch and stopped - thank GOD for that! I'll be back on the wagon on Tuesday at this rate. A full army shot is on its way, but not till the lot is done. Which isn't that far off!

[D35t0y3r]

not likely its runnin' into rocky at the moment, so we probably won't, our rivers runnin over but thats it

[Khorghan]

Everythings dry, we missed the water (just). It lapped up onto our porch and stopped - thank GOD for that! I'll be back on the wagon on Tuesday at this rate. A full army shot is on its way, but not till the lot is done. Which isn't that far off!

Thats good news. How is conan coming along, painted yet?

[dr.oetk3r]

I think i can safely say "HELL YEAH."

[Verdi]

Haven't been able to paint or model in week due to uni but this thread has been keeping me happy during that time.

******* lovin it!

[Verdi]

as if f-r-i-g-g-i-n is consider a ******* worthy word lol.

[Dasqueek-Master Assassin]

I had the same f-r-i-g-g-i-n problem

[mechu95]

Man your stff is super-duper-*********-oober! Both the painting, and especially the conversions are great, consider some ideas nicked! *subed*

[Lemmingspawn]

D35t0y3r - that's great to hear about you guys. Hopefully Rocky doesn't get smashed by it. Our's has only really been receding since wednesday, and they only let light vehicles across the bridge yesterday at lunch time. We're all getting into cleanup. I bet there were some panicked people last night coz we got a thunderstorm...

Conan has had the undercoat stage begun. Hopefully I'll get some more paint on that later this week. The black widow should be done tomorrow, I just need to finalise the base and a few little touchups.

I've received the techmarine from GW (the mail order version with the bare head) and I'll be cutting sick doc oc style on that one, and then it's time to up grade the cardboard rhinos and the GW baneblade to more chaos-worldy badness.

Now I gotta go get my paints...I had them over at the place we got evacuated to and forgot to bring them home!! lol

[Lemmingspawn]

Well, here it is come hell or high water!! YEHAWWWW!!!

Here's the pics of the completed (almost, yet to gloss some spots) Black Widow. I'm not doing conan yet because I have the techmarine ready to build the chaos lord. And boy do I have some cool ideas. I just hope they work...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5328.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5326.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5321.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5333.jpg

Anyhooo - first come the floods, then I almost burn the house down tonight whilst cooking. Damn it, boy! Pay attention!

Army is still safe I am sure you're all happy to know.

[OnnO]

Damn, you just keep on churning out brilliant machines don't you!?

All I can say is: sweet!

[Ravenheart]

AWESOME! That's all there is to say!

[adreal]

wow....its so pretty

[Khorghan]

That is so cool, i have 1 small problem though, i think the light blue tenticles comming out of the mouth sort of take away from the beautiful work you did for the lenses on the monster's eyes-this is just me nitpicking however. Good job.

[Lemmingspawn]

Yeah fair point Khorghan. On the other hand, I think if I didn't do the tentacles blue the eyes would disappear into the model a bit... There is a little too much blue on the tentacles though, and that would have served better if I hadn't gotten a bit carried away. It happened like that coz I was having trouble with the paint breaking away on this one so I over-did the blue a bit trying to fix the patches...

[Imp of High Noon]

Oh my that bug is beautiful!

[Chaplain Desmodus]

Very impressive stuff!!

I think your infantry models would look even better if they had more of the wonderful rust of the vehicles though. A bit too silvery now, in comparison. Still, great job so far.

How did you paint the blueish vertigree (sp?) effect on the models? Looks sweet!

[dijit80]

Hi,
I'm really impressed, and was very intriguted to see you built the chickenindictor and the other vindictor out of card. My question why not use plasticard? How does the card fair in the rough and tumble of wargaming (ie does it get squashed?) And what thickness of card do you use?
Thanks and keep up the great work.

[Lemmingspawn]

Hey man! I don't use plasticard simply because I don't have a supply of it, and when I can get it it's a bit expensive for some jobs. So I simply use card. I usually coat the card with superglue and that soaks in fairly deeply so it's pretty tough. I haven't had any real problems with it not being durable enough,but when you bind it with superglue and use thick card and reinforce any flexing areas, you're pretty right. Not to mention a good undercoating with a spray tends to add strength as well. Sometimes it's not as easy to paint the card items though, like I had trouble with the chickendicator, the surface was a bit rough but that worked in my favour.

[Lemmingspawn]

Well, since I've adopted the moniker of Iron Giants for this army, I've completed the Chaos Lord, who is equipped with Plasma Pistol, Combi Flamer, Twin Lightning claws, Mark of Khorne and Juggernaught (both represented by the extra weapons and size - he is actually equipped with a combat servo harness assembly a-la Doc Ock). I used a mail order techmarine as the basis and I have a few bits to tidy up with GS yet, but you all have the pleasure of seeing it after the work I've done over the last couple of days. Here's the pics:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5383.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5381.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5379.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5378.jpg

Enjoy!

[adreal]

nice, did you find the full harness a pain to put together, when I had that model I did, still yours looks sweet can't want to see him painted and walking with ripley and conan

[Lemmingspawn]

Yeah I didn't have much trouble with the harness. The only trouble I had was trying to dry fit it with bluetac, my bluetac was crap and wouldn't hold. So in the end I just went with my mental pic and it worked pretty closely.

Few more details to add though.

And Conan is stomping around looking for his painter. I've been hiding.

[Lemmingspawn]

How I double posted is craziness....

[Torgaddon]

Love your work. The Chaos Lord is ace, looking forward to seeing him painted.

Conan and Ripley are probably the best defiler conversions I've seen. Transformers?
Also, I love the eyes on the spider defiler. I'll adopt that for my Brass Scorpion methinks.

[bluebugs]

That Chaos lord looks sick! I can't wait to see some colors on him!

[Lemmingspawn]

More done today :).

Father is finished. So is Father's Spawn. Actually, Spawn needs his spiky bits touched up coz they keep breaking off. I need to drill some indents and put the spikes in there before filling the holes back in with green stuff.

Pics:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5400.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5405.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5402.jpg

The biggest problem is, the chainmail loincloth on Father makes it look like he's packing more than an organic package down below...oh well, bring back the Eighties Rocker Codpieces!

[bdo]

that just means he´s a big mean father :D

both of them look really, really nice. your stuff is pretty inspiring and to be admired
*admires*

keep up the good work and the updates more regular :D :skull:

[Slobomeister]

This stuff is amazing. Bet you haven’t heard that before.;) Really cool Doc Ock arms. I will keep both my eyes on this stuff.

Good hunting

[Lemmingspawn]

Rightio guys, here's the finished defiler number 3! YAY! Defilers are now complete!! This one has turned out pretty good, I'm quite happy with it, even the little pinhead.

Here are pics and less talk!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5410.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5407.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5411.jpg

[Comrade Wraith]

Holy......

You really have some talent, you know that?

I like the overwatch pose, how the hell did you manage to get him to hold THAT gun nochalantly?

Well done, ice paint work, this army will look stunning when it's ready.

[Norminator]

That is amazing - I would offer some advice, but I can't see anything on it that I would criticise!

Simply fantastic!

[Dark Apostle]

...:eek: That is just ... wow!

[Fleafa]

Awesome work, dude.

[Khorghan]

The turquoise is a cool colour to throw in there, that monster is illl

[Brother-Captain De Angele]

your lava effects are great, your defilers and vindicators devine and your lords are to good for words continue your great work and i love the aspiring champ with bionics!(my first part of this message makes me sound like a fag but this log and all the models are the shiz)

[Lemmingspawn]

Ok, small update. I've been looking at the defiler and knew that I had to update it somehow and get a little more colour in. Problem is, I knew I couldn't do too much otherwise it'd spoil the effect. So what I thought I'd do it add some glow to the eyes of the mask. I think it turned out pretty good, here's some pics to show it finished.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5415.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5414.jpg

I think it improves the artistic aspect by drawing the eye upwards and over the model, while the lava draws the eye down. Interesting dynamic and I like how it works. But it's an evil destructive robot so I have to speak of aesthetics and artistic appeal in hushed tones so it does not attempt to destroy me...

And on another note, I've started painting Father and Spawn. They are in the final undercoat stages (ultra metal weatherings) before I start on the extra fills. I have also started modifying my two rhinos for use in the army. It was a bit of a chore to start with but now I'm really starting to see the fruit with them. Tomorrow you will see pics of the Rhinos. And tomorrow I shall reveal their dark secret....muahahahaha!

Some of you may want to kill me. But it's ok, I can live with that.

[OnnO]

Love Conan the Defiler!

The blue is ok, but in the pictures it looks more like just some color than a glow.
It might just be the picture though.

All in all, yet again awesome stuff.

[CaptainSenioris]

I didn't think that servo harness could get any more 'Doc Ock'...

I was wrong.

Lovely work you've got going here, I can't wait to see more.

[tagsta]

the latest defiler is awesome =)

love the glow effects :D
the verdigris also contrasts pretty good!

keep going and paint that Lord
can't wait

[Fleafa]

The glow is a vast improvement I didn't even realise was needed! In hindsight, the head was a little lost before, but now it really draws the eye towards it. Good job!

[THE CHIEF]

I genuinely can't wait for tomorrow now. Great, great work mate. I'm trying not to post the same thing over and over so I've had to keep a lid on my enthusiasm for this project - otherwise this log would be about twice as long and full of me jibbering on like a raving madman! Keep it up - each new update is awe inspiring.

[Lemmingspawn]

Ok here's the Valentines day gift to all you nerdy gamers (like me!) :p

First of all, just a WIP of the Father and Spawn Lord combo:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5423.jpg

And second, the rhinos I promised. There's 2. They look cool. Lotsa spiky bits and gubbins. But wait, something is wrong....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5435.jpg

What could it be??

The answer to that question is:

They are scratchbuilt out of cardboard. No original rhino parts used to make these suckers...(except for the chaos spiky bits)

[Brother-Captain De Angele]

best valentines day present ever! but seriously great work on your chaos lords and those rhinos the use of chain is great!:D and overall great rhinos!

[The_Warsmith]

my iron warriors feel more bitter and depressed than ever thanks to you and your crazy modeling skills :D



and how did you make the rhino's?

[Comrade Wraith]

Wow! I didn't otice they were scratch built until you pointed it out, thats really great work.

Can't wait to see the lord up and running. . . . err shooting

[ChromeZephyr]

I hate you. With a passion. Those are scratchbuilt??? Damn. Great work!

[Khorghan]

Wow! I didn't otice they were scratch built until you pointed it out,

Same, great work on those!

[dugaal]

hoolly crap those rhinos look amazing, I asked myself... why would he add plasticard to the tracks..., completely assuming they were normal Rhinos....
Everything else looks top notch, keep it up!

[Inquisitor Konig]

So how do you go about weilding an army like this?

No wait, how do you go about transporting an army like this?!

[Lemmingspawn]

Here's the almost finished Lords. Firstly you are presented with Father:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5455.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5452.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5450.jpg

[Lemmingspawn]

And his progeny, Spawn:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5444.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5440.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5439.jpg

Up until recently, having these models finished meant I was really really really really close to finishing the entire army... Now I actually have 5 more terminators and 10-11 more chaos marines to finish off.

Damnit it's never ending!!!

And to answer the question about how do I transport this army? I honestly don't know yet...

Weilding is easy - run shoot run shoot fight!

[OnnO]

Bloody h*ll!
Those are brilliant.
I especially like the Father, the lighting is perfect, as are the colors.

You've shown extreme skill in painting large models and now shown you're just as good (if not better) on small models....
I envy your skills.

[Lemmingspawn]

Thanks man! :) Anything to pad my ego...hehehehe

Here's some links, I decided to post someon CMoN so go and have some votey fun if you feel so empowered :)

http://www.coolminiornot.com/182703

http://www.coolminiornot.com/182702

http://www.coolminiornot.com/182699

Enjoy!

[anzghull]

good lord!

you put me to shame...

fantastic work there. i take my hat off to you...

[Comrade Wraith]

Awesome Awesome Awesome

Thats some brilliant work there well done.

[Lemmingspawn]

Well, here is the last of whats needed for the tourney list. I'm gonna slow down on Iron Giants updates for a bit because...well I'm sick of building and painting them! Painting mostly...

After this it'll probably be back to the orks and the models I have to finish off for that army. We'll see.

Pics of the rhinos, I haven't spent as much time on painting these, but they'll still serve the purpose well enough. I could've tidied them up a lot but...honestly...I'm over them...lol!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5473.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5472.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5468.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5465.jpg

[The boyz]

Wow Lemmingspawn, those IW lords look great. I particulalry like the 'Father' one. Nice work on the Rhinos as well.

[bluebugs]

I think this calls for an army shot!

[Mr Feral]

The Father is really gnarly, I just love what you've done with the Techmarine model *stores inspiration in the mind* Nice Rhinos and stuff as well.

[alphachicken]

Hey Lemmingspawn,

very very beutiful work there, you managed to get the quality up to a very high point with this log, and Im loving everything I see, especially the last ironfather and the rhinos are a work of art =)

If its possible can you please take a closer shot of the front of the rhinos? Would be nice to see whats going on there in detail.

Again, just lovely work, keep it up ^^

[Stella Cadente]

Thanks man! :) Anything to pad my ego...hehehehe

Here's some links, I decided to post someon CMoN so go and have some votey fun if you feel so empowered :)

CoolMiniOrNot - Black Widow pattern Defiler by Lemmingspawn (http://www.coolminiornot.com/182703)

CoolMiniOrNot - Conan the Defiler (Pinhead) by Lemmingspawn (http://www.coolminiornot.com/182702)

CoolMiniOrNot - Iron Giants "Father" by Lemmingspawn (http://www.coolminiornot.com/182699)

Enjoy!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
don't put them on coolmini, its filled with big headed no talent idiots, they don't deserve to see such fantastic models

[Mr. Poosk]

Army Shot would be great! Amazing models man.

[Lemmingspawn]

Cool, well this weekend I'll be having a game with the models so I intend to take some photos mid game and then maybe a fashion parade as well... :)

[HaraldurTrausti]

:O Oh my .. these are awesome! I like the spawn the most though!

[Lemmingspawn]

Ok guys, to start with, here are the current full army shots (sans Unpainted models):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5521.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5513.jpg

And a few games shots from the weekend and a time before that. I couldn't be bothered with a blow by blow coz ... well ... I can't remember. All I remember is the Black Widow blowing up first turn in 2 different games...

My 1750 force awaiting battle:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5484.jpg

And some fight scenes:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5488.jpg
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[Lemmingspawn]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5489.jpg

Trying to line up a landraider through the rocks:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5490.jpg

[Tommygun]

Lemmingspawn, this is one of the best themed armies I have ever seem. The lighting on the lava is great. I going to try it on some of my bases.

[StormCrow]

Incredible army lemmingspawn, i hope you brought swift death to those...uh...grey knights

[Khorghan]

that first picture looks so cool

[St. Apollo]

Amazing ARMY:eek:!!!!
How do you paint that yellow?

[Lemmingspawn]

Incredible army lemmingspawn, i hope you brought swift death to those...uh...grey knights

Goddamn it Stormcrow! I almost gave my monitor a good hosing when I read that :) I had a mouthful of water, read "grey knights" thought "Huh?" and then the revelation had me wishing I'd swallowed 2 seconds earlier... :)

Thanks for the comments, guys. This army has been a blast to paint, and I still have about 17 models to go to finish it, but I'm putting it on a temporary hiatus to make sure I don't burn myself out on painting them...

On an aside, I'm currently dolling up some orks and I've decided, once that's done, I'll build some more terrain pieces. I was thinking something along the lines of the Iron Giants bases but on a larger scale that can tie in with the army a bit, and then correspond to the board as well (lava floes bursting out and so forth) so we'll see how that goes... :)

To answer the question about yellow - it's based with Gold yellow from VGC, and then glazed with orange brown, brown and then lightly with black. That's what gives it the shades and weathered look. Same washes and glazes I use on the metallics and...well...pretty much everything else in this army...

[HaraldurTrausti]

Wonderful .. just wonderful. :D

[Nals]

this army is just amazing man, great work.

[Col. Wales]

All I can say is Damn, just Damn. Awesome job there.

[Kadrec]

I just happened to come across this log, and this is seriously the most beautiful Iron Warriors conversion work I have ever seen. I'm almost glad that I don't convert, simply so that I need never have my work compared to your masterpieces.

Wow, simply wow.

[ercan_sinar]

Tomorrow I will have an exam to take my pilot license, yet instead of studying all I can do is looking at your awesome work. I normally don't like scratch built things but you have swayed my opinion. I love the lava paint.

By the way, I don't know why but green paint job (some kind of rusting?) made me think about some marble effects on those minis. Would that be too out of the place?

[macattac]

Ive been working on iron warriors for about a year now, my first army, and all I can say is WOW. I was thinking about trying to scratch build a titan, but looking at what youve done, its a project for a different time. if only my bitz box was as big as yours....

[Neknoh]

Subscribed, I won't say anything else... simply. . . subscribed

[Father of Iron]

:O just :O!! there are no words in any language that can describe how amazing this army is, i'm really considering doing an IW army now(although my best friend would kill me cuz he does them) but wow, these are incredible!

[Fallan]

You might possibly be the greatest genius on earth. :eek:
That's all I have to say..

[Neknoh]

just realised something... if FW puts out the rules, Ripley and her sister machine of monstrous chaosy destruction would easely count as Knight Titans

[Yayale]

Well I only just found this thread after finding your Ork one and my first reaction was to realise tht I had creamed myself!!! nothing worse than cum in ure pants, girls just don't understand!!! Anyhoo away from pornographic and back to models absolutly incredible although after all the compliments your head must struggle to fit through doors now lol. I love the walking defilers and well everything could you tell me how you do the blue for the power weapons? is it just blending up from a light blue? do u do it in lavers or mix on the model to blend it up?

[jpobrich]

I almost feel bad for anyone playing against this army with unpainted figs. Talk about feelings of inadequacy...

[Comrade Wraith]

agreed.

I think most people with a painted army might even feel the same.....

[Blarp]

Brilliant! I envy you.

[JOBusse]

Wow! Very good, very imaginative work here. Also, you have a great sense of community; I noticed a few questions asked more than once, and they were answered each time without a trace of snippiness. I bet you're a blast to play against as well.

[Lemmingspawn]

Well, I've found a pic that should work well for my baneblade. I'll have a play around with it and see if I might be able to work it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/Walkingbattlefortress.jpg

[Catferret]

Looks a bit like the Spider Tank (http://www.ramshacklegames.co.uk/index.html) by Ramshackle games.

[Arhalien]

I've just read through this log and all I can say is, WOW! :eek:
Really, really, really, superb conversions (I love the spider vindicator) and excellent painting.
My one slight criticism is that I'm not sure about the yellow on the marines but I can't fault the painting at all.

And please please, PLEASE make the baneblade look like that, then I shall build a temple to your name and worship you :p

(and yes I am going a bit over the top here; tell me if you want me to stop ;))

[CaptainSenioris]

If you get the legs to look like that it will be awesome.

[Comrade Wraith]

Darn you! Darn you to the heck!

These models are far too awesome!

Noting the skills you have already, I reckon you can pull this baneblade off quite well.

[Yayale]

Tht will b one hell of a sexy baneblade!!! Please make it :D

[Nicho]

Absolutely god dam amazing thread mate. Inspires me to buy a whole load of defilers and just go to crazy town lol.

[Rahveel]

:commits a heinous act of thread necromancy:

any uptates on that baneblade? :)

[randyc9999]

I have to add my voice of awe to the others that are already here. Thank you for sharing the photos of your conversions with us. The painting is vibrant and perfectly matched to the conversions as well.

[MrSean]

man that walker is so sweet. the paint job is phenomenal.

[Lemmingspawn]

It's not that bad an act of threadnomancy - it is still in the process, but I have the ork project on my mind until I get that done. I have soooo many orkses to paint before I return to this baneblade yet. So I have to discipline myself until I finish them. I'm about a 1/3 the way through painting them, so it'll be a few more weeks before I get that far.

And just an update - these bad boys won best painted army at CowCon 2008 - so I'm happy with that result :) They got a good deal of being ogled at while there :)

[Yayale]

Im not surprised!

[andyg2006]

Wow! Absolutely amazing stuff! Of all the conversions I've ever seen, you could really do that Baneblade project justice.
By any chance, did you ever do a "work in progress" thread on Ripley? Conan is great as well, but Ripley is "the dog's..."

[FlintFireforge]

This army really deserves title "the best painted!

[Lemmingspawn]

There is a Ripley project log somewhere - I'd have to try and find it ...

[klstrider28]

hot damn i'm glad this thread is back

[Lemmingspawn]

Haha! :) There's not much happening at the moment though :)

[Yayale]

Yeh but once those orks are finished there had better b!!! Also the orks are looking good too

[Taker of skulls]

This log is amasing and has given me great inspiration to try one of those defilers:p

looking forward to more

ToS

[Meticulous]

Lem, figured you might want to know; these (http://www.thearmypainter.com/index.php) folks are about to put out some metallic spray primer. If your old GW spray starts running low, they may be a good choice. (I say 'may' because the priumer isn't out yet, and may suck, I have no idea).

And crap, there was something else I wanted to say (besides 'awesome models', which I have said several times before) here. Dammit.

[Lemmingspawn]

Yeah I don't use GW spraypaints. If I want to be raped price wise there are plenty of other sellers who can do a good enough job of that with better products. It's 20 bux a can here for GW sprays, and 7 bux a can for the stuff I use - and it's a better product. Just doesn't have the range of flat colour paints that the GW ones did.

And besides, those guys dont' sell in my country - it's tough getting aerosols through the mail :(

[LokkoRex]

ur iron warriors is the most awesome, win and LASTIE iron warriors ever seen!
please finish that baneblade spider soon, or i'll go insane(uhg8zubvu, see what i mean?).
i didn't know you did orks too, could you show some pics or post a link, please?

[Lemmingspawn]

Here's the ork link :)

http://warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130853

[Meticulous]

Yeah I don't use GW spraypaints. If I want to be raped price wise there are plenty of other sellers who can do a good enough job of that with better products.

Heh. I recall you mentioning way earlier in your log that you were using an old can of GW metallic spray, so I figured why not. Good to see you've found something better!

[Lemmingspawn]

Hmmmm - no I've never used GW metallics... I've used their purity seal once and it ruined about 20 models. Other than that, that's my only experience with their spray packs. Weird, I wonder if I said something meaning something else :O

[Dictator]

I miss seeing updates here! Your conversions on those defilers were breath taking, and the painting of your army was stunning. please gives us an update soon!! Even if it is the equivalent of 2 small bread crumbs for a hungry post colonial British orphanage.

[silent_lemon]

i must say very awesome work!! so great it has inspired me and ive almost completed a version of yours for myself. It looks great too:D i have just one question for you pertaining to size - does anyone ever hassle you for having a different sized stand in model than the real GW defiler?

would anyone else have a problem gaming against that sized model?

[Lemmingspawn]

I went to a tourney with it - they were all mostly in awe of the model than concerned with the size. It's made mostly from a defiler anyway - it just stands a little taller. Most people like that because they can see it more often to shoot at it... :)

As for updates - well - I'm getting close to the end of the orks so we'll have to see what I'll do next. I have ideas for the things I need to revisit (including the IW army) but you'll all hvae to wait for now.

[Cassarus]

This must be one of the coolest army's I ever seen!!!
You've done an awesome job, love your colour scheme, and your mechas/robots are truly masterpieces!

Now I wanna build me one of those...

Cheers

[Darthvegeta800]

Gorgeous, simply gorgeous!

[Lost Egg]

Simply amazing conversions! Your army is looking awesome!

*subbed*

HN

[claudiomarino]

I agree with the three latest posts. This is how a WIP thread should look like.

Great work!

[Lemmingspawn]

Just a small update. I've uploaded an article onto Cool Mini or Not on the bases of the Iron Giants if you are interested in checking it out.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/750

[swifty2]

Thats a very nice article mate, cheers for that, it's always good to have a decent method to paint things like lava which can look abit **** if you do them wrong, thankfully yours look awesome.

[Serg. Lynchbox]

My 1750 force awaiting battle:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF5484.jpg

How can that be 1750 force? Do you have an army list we can see please? I think you under pointed yourself... I might be wrong.
BTW did you win?

[hur@n]

:cries::cries::cries::cries:

[bert n ernie]

:cries::cries::cries::cries:

Don't cry.
I'l take him out back with the shotgun, then later we can bury him with the thread.
We can cement it over and neither of them will come back up again.

[pyramidhead7]

i wanna see more!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Unnamedperson]

Don't cry.
I'l take him out back with the shotgun, then later we can bury him with the thread.
We can cement it over and neither of them will come back up again.


Unless papa nurgle gets there:p

anyway I love the Iron warriors:D

[Lemmingspawn]

Here's something new:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF7568.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF7572.jpg

Objective markers:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF7578.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/DSCF7582.jpg

[spekkiebig]

I'm glad you've posted some new stuff Lemmingspawn. That way i don't need to comment on a long gone thread. I must say your army looks amazing, i'm seeing it here for the first time but recognise some of the stuff from CMON.

I like the gritty/dirty look on your Iron Warriors and the way you used the yellow instead of the normal gold rims and stuff. Also the scratchbuilds are quite amazing. I'll be following this one from now on.

By the way, have you ever started/finished you Iybreasil Eldar models i saw on some of the shelves in your hobby room? I'm having a log of my own Iybreasil Eldar army somewere around here and i would like to see how yours look for inspiration.

Keep up the good work and hope to see some more new stuff soon.

[Lemmingspawn]

Iybreasil? I don't recognise that name - is it in the eldar codex? I didn't do colours according to a specific craftworld...

[Darthvegeta800]

Oh wow... i like the lava.
When it comes to painting i only achieve tabletopquality.
Lately i started Anima Tactics which is very low scale (handful of mini's each side)
And i'm hoping to do better there.
I was thinking of trying something nice for some of the bases.
Could you give me some hints and tips on making such lava?

[tinfoil]

Outstanding! Wonderful, witnessing the revival of one of the richest and most creative plogs in the hobby.

[Yayale]

It will most definitely be nice to see some more iron warriors again :D

[Dark Magos Gillam]

Dude....your Iron Warriors ROCK!!! If mine look half as good when I'm done I would be most pleased.

[laudarkul]

Amazing stuff...It's more than perfect and just rock....

[Tommygun]

I love those Objective markers, especially the one with the guy looking down at the bomb.
That's funny.

[Lemmingspawn]

Thought I would tease everybody. I'm working on something new for this army. And it ain't a baneblade.

Let us call him Project X52.

And it's pretty cool - even if I do say so myself.

[LokkoRex]

yyyyyyyyyyyyes!

he's back!

Finally!

why am is still writing such short sentences!?

a bit sad it ain't the baneblade(yet!)

project x52, eh? sounds like some robot from the robocop or terminator movies.

hope it's as good as your other stuff.

btw, how are the defiler and marines you posted last time coming along?

please continue posting soon, please! :cries:

[Lemmingspawn]

Well here’s the update I promised. He’s not quite done – I’ve got a few little things to do like integrate the wings daemonically a little more and maybe trim the facemask back a bit and finish the base – but it’s getting pretty close. I also can’t decide whether to put the shoulder pads on or not – I kinda like it without the marine shoulders…

Let me know what you reckon, if I should or should not.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/ProjectX52.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/ProjectX52side.jpg

[Darthvegeta800]

Cool... incredibly cool!

[claudiomarino]

Looks swell. Guess the pads would make him look bigger but that doesn't mean badder in my book. Show us ow he looks with them on?

I'd like to see a close up of the right arm, it looks really cool.

[claudiomarino]

Looks swell. Guess the pads would make him look bigger but that doesn't mean badder in my book. Show us ow he looks with them on?

I'd like to see a close up of the right arm, it looks really cool.

[ashc]

I would take the pads on him, but then i think its mainly personal preference.

[Yayale]

Very very nice :D

[migsula]

Great DP!! the head is a tad large to my liking and somehow a big hammer would be nice for an IW - but really, one sweet model!

[khabal]

Really cool army!
I would go with the shoulder pads on the daemon prince (I assume that's a daemon prince?) The shoulder pads are a really bit part of what makes a model look like a space marine. Right now he looks really good, but he doesn't have the heavy torso build of a space marine.
That being said, like ashc said, it's mainly personal preferences.

[Pekel]

Great Daemon Prince all around, but I especially love the look of those wings! Saved for inspiration. :)

[Lemmingspawn]

Ok - had a fair bit of feedback on this and I think shoulderpads are the way to go. Maerlyn makes a good point that the shoulders sag a lot without them. And it's also been said about it looking like a heavily armoured dude without the heavily armoured part which makes sense too.

I've gotten the shoulderpads mostly done - I just need to tweak the spiky one because it's a bit weird at the moment. Without shoulder pads makes it look rabid like it's going to run in rashly and cut sick. I think with shoulder pads it makes it look brutal.

I like brutal more - fits the theme. Maybe one day I'll make a DP without the pads and do it up as Khorne. That suits...

Here's the pics:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/IMG_0016.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/IMG_0019.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/IMG_0026.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/IMG_0028.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/IMG_0032.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/IMG_0033.jpg

I've been really enjoying the sculpting side of this model. I've tried using water, KY, not vaseline because I don't want to deal with the residue and the latest I've used is a clear Aloe Vera product. It's really really flipping good! Aloe makes it so easy to work with. I'd imagine vas would stay workable longer, but aloe is easy to wash off and easy to deal with. Vaseline gets on everything and is a pain to remove so I really really like the Aloe. Water doesn't work that well for me and KY is strange to work with in this situation.

[Lemmingspawn]

And I find that the head doesn't look so oversized now that I added the shoulderpads in. Double bonus coz I really like the head :)

[claudiomarino]

Yeah, with shoulder pads. No doubt.

[Yayale]

you sir are a god :D
brilliant model, just fantastic, I want one now!!

[Mewy]

That demon prince looks amazing, really inspirational design, and the mechanical wings are awesome. The only thing I don't like are the helmet horns, just because I don't like horns that stick up really vertical. Everything else if first class. Especially the mechanics on the wings because to me they look like jets.

Edit - scratch that last comment, I didn't see the other pair of horns... I have no criticism anymore. They match nicely.

[OnnO]

Brilliant as ever mr Lemmingspawn.
I agree with the GS-shoudlerpad looking a bit odd, although I can't say why....

I love the righthand/underarm, the look of that is exacly right.

Keep up the good work!

[Zaku41k]

Looking great! Love the Gs work.

[xndrxw]

These are excellent. I cant wait till I can start crafting my army.

[philbrad2]

Very cool love the mech-daemon look on this guy reminds of a evil Obliterator Chaos Optimus Prime!

PhilB
:chrome:

[The boyz]

Wow, Lemmingspawn. That deamon prince looks insane. I especially like the bio-mechanical look to the wings.

[kris_h]

Wow! I always thought that Iron Warriors or similar armies with lots of bare metal are boring. You prove that I was wrong. Great stuff!

Subscribed :D

[Lemmingspawn]

I've rebuilt the head - mostly - and here is a pic of what I have done. I couldn't see what it was that people didn't like about it until after I compared the new on with the old. I was even thinking - meh I liked the old one better - but now I see them side by side I realise the error of my ways!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/IMG_0049.jpg

[mallymoocow]

can't wait to see this painted loving the head and wings
wicked conversion ideas:)

[Mojaco]

It's hard to see, but the head looks really cool. However, the old one had a better Iron Warriors vibe to it. The expressionless coldness does it for me. An open mouth like the new head gives it more of a truly daemonic look, which I always find works well for Khorne and Slaanesh, but less for others.

It can be argued that you don't need the head to be Iron Warriorisk though; the wings have plenty of iron in them. Still, if it was up to me, I'd at least keep the mouth covered.

[Darthvegeta800]

Personally i prefer the helmet. ^^;

[Mega Nutz]

Nice Demon prince! The wing build is really great.

[hobodog]

I really prefer that head
it does look less iron warriors but more openly evil

[Zaku41k]

IMHO I prefer the Helmet style... but hey, he's a daemon prince, more evil = excellent!

[x2wyckedx]

That Daemon Prince is looking awesome. Looking forward to seeing him finished.

[Lemmingspawn]

I've gotten through a good deal of the painting but I'm not entirely convinced of the colours. I can't work out how to improve the way that it looks - there's just something about the overall appearance of this colour scheme that I can't put my finger on...

Any suggestions or thoughts?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/ProjectX52Front.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/ProjectX52Rear.jpg

[hobodog]

I was expecting a sickly grey-rotting skin tone instead of the red
Maybe thats it?
The red does look a bit out of place imo
But the wings and helmet look great painted up

[Hammer49]

I think it looks really good. The only points i noticed are the white horns on the head, as they stand out maybe to much. The left claw maybe could be darker, a very dark red.
Apart from that a great model and army so far.

[OnnO]

I've gotten through a good deal of the painting but I'm not entirely convinced of the colours. I can't work out how to improve the way that it looks - there's just something about the overall appearance of this colour scheme that I can't put my finger on...


Well assuming this guy has to go with the rest of the army: I'd drop the red.
Maybe a greyish or whitish skin will work better.
The painting is great, yet as you yourslef pointed out, something is off...

[Cuchulain84]

maybe highlight the red up some more to make it look like the lava.

[Zaku41k]

I think you're lacking in silver/steel and hazard stripes.
He's majestic indeed, but right now he looks more of a Word Bearer than Iron Warrior.

[spekkiebig]

I think the human skin tone the Eavy Metal team used would look better om your Deamon Prince. The painting itself looks great as always though.

[Mewy]

I agree with spekkiebig, I think normal flesh tones would suit him much more. The red grabs too much attention from the armour. It's well painted, don't get me wrong, but i feel the flesh grabs your attention too violently to pay attention to the rest of the model. Maybe where the flesh melds with the metal you could keep the red, to make it look like the mutations are sore before they calm to the normal skin tone.

[Lemmingspawn]

I've played around with the colours but I'm going nuts. I'm much happier with the effect now. I'm not entirely happy with the wings but I suck at freehand and I suck at patterning flat surfaces. So I think I'll stay with this final colour scheme unless someone can give me a brilliant idea to finalise the overall effect...

Here's the pics:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/IMG_0076.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/IMG_0075.jpg

My only problem with the colour scheme is it now looks like papa smurf gone bad...lol

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/tamanade/Iron%20Warriors/IMG_0069.jpg

edit: and ignore the way the head looks huge - my new camera has this weird fish eye effect when I get closer to the model, creating anything nearer to look slightly enlarged...

[Tommygun]

Very impressive.
You should do a photograph of him under a UV black light.

[Dragon Lord]

Just finished looking through pretty much the whole thread for the first time and I must say, your stuff is absolutely amazing. As some other people have said I think one of my favourite bits are actually the bases, the lava and the glow from it is incredibly well done.

[Yayale]

He's looking a lot better now :D

[Nikolauss]

Epic hread is all I can say!

1 thing - maybe you mentioned it somewhere before, but how do you get the blue/white of your power weapons (champion sword, terminator claws)?

[Dark Magos Gillam]

Amazing! I love your Iron Warriors, the deamon prince looks awsome. I must do one for my IW. I kinda liked the other head though, but I'm glad you changed it......now I can use it as the head for mine without looking like I coppied yours, muahh. What rules are you using for this army? The regular CSM codex seems to plain and incomplete for a true IW army.

[Gu Long: Ancient Dragon]

Outstanding, simply outstanding.

You sir have inspired me to do an Iron Warriors army, and for tht i both hate and love you :p

very impressive, cant wait for more :)

Gu

[Stempe]

Well, I favoured the old head. I don't really like the new one, can't help myself. But a piece of damn good conversion and a overall nice paint job.