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Well, it's been an awfully long time since I've posted anything of my own, but I'm starting to get a bit more time available for the hobby now. This log is most likely going to be updated sporadically and the background of the force is only vaguely sketched out in my mind, so fluff may be a while in coming. Nevertheless, welcome to my new project log for that most brutal and unrelenting of legions - the Iron Tenth. I leave with you with the first eight members of a Seeker squad, though they are awaiting a fresh shipment of combi-plas with which to destroy the traitor foe:

Surprise is an insubstantial blade, a sword worthless in war. It breaks when troops rally. It snaps when commanders hold the line. But fear never fades. Fear is a blade that sharpens with use. So let the enemy know we come. Let their fears defeat them as everything falls dark. As the world's sun sets...As the city is wreathed in its final night... Let ten-thousand howls promise ten-thousand claws. The Night Lords are coming, and no soul that stands against us shall see another dawn. The War Sage Malcharion Hi everybody! I thought it's only appropriate to kick this thread off with a quote from Malcharion, since the Night Lords trilogy is one of the reasons why I came back to 40k. I've spent the last couple years building a modest force (I'm a terribly slow painter) and lurking around on this board, but now I've decided that I might as well join in on the fun. To give you an idea of what my Night Lords look like, here's some stuff I've finished recently. My MkIII squad, led by a still unnamed champion: And two Obliterators, the Eisenfresser: I managed to get my hands on some Gorgons a while back and I have to say, they are lovely miniatures. Naturally I just had to convert/corrupt one of them, which led to this fella: Warpsmith Hadur Cobannus Mars Ultor of the Ghoul Stars I hope you like them. There's more to come. INVENTARIUM Raptor Squad "Sol Invictus" - July 13th, 2016 Ceratus Knight Acheron - August 5th, 2016 Lord on Juggernaut - November 15th, 2016 Maulerfiend - January 17th, 2017 Headsman of Malal - April 26th, 2017 Terror Squad "Profugum" - September 2017 Warpsmith Hadur - January 2019 Terminator Lord Varkaus - July 2019 Hellforged Contemptor - August 2019 Sicaran Battle Tank - February 2020 Emissary Ostisoi - March 2020

"The Gorgon has been beheaded!" -planetside communication from the Urgall Depression, voxcast across all Xth Legion frequencies during the height of the Dropsite Massacre. The warband that became known as the "Harbingers of Taelus" were one of the scattered remnant fleets of Iron Hands in the aftermath of the Dropsite Massacre. Comprised of veterans of primarily Clan Clotho and a handful of other forces, these legionnaires had been isolated from much of the greater legion prior to the conflict. From Istvaan V they retreated in shock and anger to one of the last locations they had been order to liberate by their now lost gene-sire: the isolated Taelus system. For the next decade they wreaked havoc on the traitor forces, particular in fighting the forces of the Mechanicum embroiled in their own civil war. Hidden within their newly reconquered asteroid bases in the Taelus system, the Harbingers planned and carried out harrowing attacks against traitor supply convoys and isolated strongholds in the region of space. Their rage reached its zenith upon learning of the outcome of the Siege of Terra and fall of the Emperor himself. Throwing themselves into the scouring, they nearly went extinct due to mounting battlefield losses and would certainly have disbanded as a fighting force were it not for the legion, now chapter council, ordering their return to their homeworld of Medusa to be re-integrated into the new chapter’s ranks. ****** Greetings fellow hobbyists, I haven't fully shelved my Deathwatch force, as there are a few projects I am still working on over there (Watch Fortress Sentinel IX), but in the meantime I have caught a bout of Heresy bug and wanted to create a character mini from my favorite legion, the Iron Hands. I hope this eventually translates into a full Iron Hands/Sons of Medusa army project. Credit for this idea goes to @Ascanius and his Harbingers of Taelus: 30k Iron Hands project. Not sure if you are still out there, but I really liked your idea and decided to run with it, I hope you don't mind! Green is also my favorite color, so combining that with the Iron Hands has long been my plan. I came across @Ascanius blog and immediately knew this is what I wanted to for my own tiptoe into the Horus Heresy. I like the idea of Iron Hands wearing a proto-Sons of Medusa color scheme, which the later actual Sons of Medusa chapter adopted when they splintered off from the chapter during the Moirae schism. Speaking of Moirae, this was the name of the Fates in Greek mythology. There were three: Clotho (the spinner/the maiden), Lachesis (the allotter/the mother), and Atropos (the inevitable/the crone), who also happen to be a life metaphor (birth, life, death), and who controlled the fates/destinies of mere mortals. Clotho is not one of the names of the three clans of the Sons of Medusa of 40K (their third clan begin Megara, one of the Furies), so I figure my force can mostly be made up of marines of the (now long lost) Clan Clotho. So far, instead of doing a test mini or buying any actual HH marines, I went ahead and made an Iron Father conversion I have been thinking about ever since I saw @Ascanius's blog a few months ago. I present Selok Sataar, Iron Father of Clan Clotho and one of the chief leaders of the Harbingers of Taelus: “It is our role to ensure every being on this rock lives out their destiny as assigned to them according to the will of the Emperor. For all of you, that will is for you to die for your treachery, here and now by our Hands.” – Iron Father Selok Sataar on the rad-world of Hallam The exploits of the mysterious figure known as Selok Sataar are all but unknown prior to the outbreak of the Horus Heresy. He was speculated to have been Medusan in origin, having joined the ranks of the Iron Hands shortly after the discovery of Ferrus Manus and the Primarch’s restructuring of the Tenth Legion. His actions first begin to enter the Imperial record shortly after the Istvaan Massacre, where it is believed he emerged as a leader of one of the many scattered warbands of Iron Hands that went into hiding deep within the Traitor Lines. Selok Sataar is known to have led the clan through much of the Great Scouring, though it is unclear if he survived through to see the remnants of the clan reintegrated into the reforged Iron Hands chapter upon the Scouring’s completion and the reorganization of the legions during the Second Founding. Very happy with how his shoulderpad turned out. That was sculpted with some miliput in a rough amalgamation meant to look like a Medusa head. Should be pretty obvious where all the parts came from, as the mini was a pretty simple kitbash of the Black Templars Castellan and the primaris Iron Father Feirros. It was painful to have to cut off those beautiful skull shoulderpads though! The two tendrils on his left side are guitar wire and some tiny doohickeys from some Necron kit's weapon. Iron Hands symbol is also from the Feirros kit. Painting recipe was pretty simple for this guy. Again I was inspired by @Ascanius here. Black primer, then drybrushed on some boltgun metal to give him a silverish sheen. A coat of Poxwalker contrast and Biel-Ten Green was enough for the armor to turn a nice green-metallic color that I was looking for. The rest of him was coated in vallejo black wash to dirty up the mini. White was just some apple barrel grays worked up a layer or two from the metallics. I really enjoyed painting this guy! Very happy with how he turned out. I want to do the base in a yellow-desert color, maybe after I get some pigment powders. I am open to dirtying this guy up a bit more with some rust/pigments if I get brave enough. Doing a force in this scheme I think would be a lot of fun, he was a quick and simple paint job, lot easier than my deathwatch. I hope you guys like him, and I hope to return with some more Iron Hands/Sons of Medusa in the future.

So, this is my first thread here on the B&C and for it I'll be documenting progress on my latest army, the Alpha Legion (30k) So here goes nothing: First up my Praetor Now the autocannons: Thanks for taking the time to look, C&C welcome Apologies for poor quality, only camera I have is my phone

Hello Fraters! So, this is a bit of a one off, a build of my Player Character for @Black Cohort's ‘A Time of Reaving’ PBP Deathwatch rpg game. The game is set in the Horus Heresy in the aftermath of the Istvaan Massacre. My character is an Iron Hands Breacher (built from the Assault Marine archetype, for anyone who is interested!) called Elvrit Sharr. Elvrit wears MkIII armour and is supposed to be big and brutal, so I wanted to have a go at true-scaling him. Like many others I decided to use Cataphractii TDA legs as a starting point, because they have the segmented rear sections, but I also wanted to try to get closer to the classic frontal armour too. Here's how it’s gone: It was actually simpler than I thought! I started by filing down all of the detail on the front of the Cataphractii legs. Then I used a spare pair of knee pads cut out from the Intercessor greaves bit (though a cheaper method would be a blob of GS!) and stuck them on. The body is just a MkIII body front chopped apart and combined with an Intercessor rear torso for width. (The gap between the armour plates is a bit non-standard for MkIII, but I think the exposed tubes look like the Medusan Immortals torso, so it works for me!) Then I used 0.5mm plastic rod to create the trims and define the shape of the armour panels. Tip: cut the right length of rod, and use a paint brush to create a u-shaped bend in the middle. Then plastic glue them on at the center above/below the knee pad, then once it has set, bend the rod the rest of the way around the sides of the leg and glue it in place. It takes a bit of holding while it sets, but otherwise no problem! Finally, I took the same 0.5mm rod and cut off very thin circular cross sections, these were glued in place to make the rivets. And voila, plastic truescale MkIII with all the trims! (Shoulder pad details are just plasticard cut to shape, and the shield is a 3d print bought on Ebay) C+C very welcome as always, or if you have questions, feel free! Cheers for looking! Lysimachus