Iron Angels

[Leardinal]

Hello all,

I have read/posted in the thread on BA Successor Chapters, the Blood Saints thread, and leafed though the Hall of Honor. These have inspired me to make my own thread with pictures of my BA successor chapter, the "Iron Angels." Also, I started 40k about 5-6 years ago, but moved and couldn't find a group during that time so my 40k progress stalled for about 3-4 years, I started back almost a year ago and in all that time have yet to field an even mostly painted army. This is the other reason I am starting this thread, I figure it will keep me going a decent pace.

Note: I would guess that "Iron Angels" has been used or at lest very common, but I like so I am rolling with it for now.

Alright, on to the Pictures!

Honor Guard

I almost never field them, but there one of my few actually painted squads

Blood Champion

Big kit bash. I started using him when I realized he was a mini captain

"Good ol' ablative wound" Honor Guards

"Mr. Invincible" Chapter Banner Bearer

Bit of history: I was fighting a Tau player in a friendly annihilation game. One out of the three of my Deep Striking RAS squads falls to the red thirst. Squad is blasted apart next turn by tau, except for the sergeant, who really appeared to have fallen hard when he charged a 10 man fire warrior squad, took no damage, smashed 3 of them to pulp with his power fist, they broke morale, and he caught them with a sweeping advance. The Tau player wanted full VP's for the squad so he shot at the sergeant with his other fire warrior team. We watched with jaws hanging open as he not only survived that, but the missile from a marker light, 3 sets of smart missiles and 3 TL Railgun shots. He then brought his crisis suits into the fight, which had 3 TL plasma rifles and 3 missile pods. The sergeant survived the missile pods, and most of the plasma rounds, the last shot managed to bring him down. I have since decided that he was recovered and advanced to the Standard Bearer, which why he is throwing away a drone he apparently just destroyed.

My Three Sanguinary Priests

I didn't have enough apothecary drill arm attachment things for the amount of priests I needed, and I wanted more wings to do my HQ's, so I got another Sanguinary Guard kit.

Sanguinary Priest

I wanted them to look like aging marble statues that where made in the likeness of Sanguinius, and have suddenly come to life by sprouting black and brass wings and taking the fight to the enemy in the Emperor's name. I think I pulled off the concept well enough.

Sorry for the quality of the pictures, they where taken with my phone.

I have a 5 man Death Company painted, but that will have to wait until I get more light. Then I will have to start painting the rest of my army, plus build a new Reclusiarch, (don't like any of the chaplains that GW sales,) and 4 more Death Company

C&C welcome

[Zeller]

I really like the 'iron' look you've acheived on the armor. They look like their armor is fresh off the forge without any paint. Granted they've seen some action with the darkened appearance and all.

 

The marble priests also look great especially with the grass. Is there any chance you could post a closer shot of an entire priest with a more level angle? It's a cool idea having statues come to life to fight under the spirit of Sanguinius or the Emperor.

[LordofDeath11]

I really like everything, except for the helmets.

 

How did you get the gold effect one the snag guard shoulder pads?

[Leardinal]

Thanks for the replies

 

@Zeller

I will try to get a closer shot, and probably use a different priest, as that was the first and I got better with them as I went along, I just happened to have this picture ready. I am workining with a phone and not a camera so we will see what that close up looks like.

(I said they appear to be statues, I meant that they where still power armor Marines, but your right, Statues coming to life to help the chapter also sounds cool <_<)

 

@LordofDeath

If you are talking about the winged shoulders, I did this on basically anything with that looked like a wing: it's just a drybrush of dwarf bronze over a chaos black basecoat.

Now, when you say you don't like the helms, why? Because they are gold? If that is the case, know that they are gold because they are the Honor Guard, the rest of the army won't have gold helms.

[Leardinal]

Got enough light to take pictures of the Death Company

Although they only have a minimal amount of red, but it proved to me that I hate painting red, my other attempt was to paint a rhino for the Inquisition, and it somehow ended up orange, even after an unknown number of red layers.

Although they aren't as vicious looking as some of the awe inspiring DC in this form, I figure that the DC go from extremes of complete calm, killing with cool calculations, to Rage filled beserkers all in the span of only a few moments. To show this, I will have these relatively calm DC and then another 4 in poses that show their rage, though I have yet to build them. I also have yet to rip of their jump packs, which I put on there because I did not yet know how the Rage rule messed up cover so much.

As per Zeller's request, here is a close up of one of the Sanguinary Priests

And here is him from the side

I am planning on building and painting the other DC for now, after that I am hoping to have my magnets so I can build the Reclusiarch

C&C always welcome

[Zeller]

Yeah the SG look good. The cracks are the perfect touch. Will barrels be drilled?

[Leardinal]

Maybe eventually. All I have readily available is the GW pin Vice, which looks too small. I might just paint a small black dot on the end of the barrels, that would be a nice touch.

[whitewolfmxc]

In the Grim dark future of the 41st blablah , there is only DARK ANGELS..(jokes on the tone of the color theme)....oh wait i mean iron angels XD

 

anyway good cool grim look theme you got there , they are loyalist right ? They can be easily mistaken a chaos XD but yeah their cool looking

[Brother Jim]

Maybe eventually. All I have readily available is the GW pin Vice, which looks too small. I might just paint a small black dot on the end of the barrels, that would be a nice touch.

 

:whistling: :ermm:

 

You want to use the GW pin vice with one of the smaller bits in the drill bit set to carefully drill out the barrels and muzzle brakes, otherwise the barrels will split and be ruined... ;)

[Leardinal]

@ whitewolfmxc: You know what? You are the second person to tell me that they look Chaos-esk. Yes, they are loyalists, but I guess its the black wings, red eyes, and generally dark atmosphere about them, but what do I know? *shrugs*

 

Though, I used to have a friend who refused to believe any Space Marine fought on the side of humanity. He finally revealed it was the normal helmet that through him off, because it made them look permanently PO'ed ;)

 

And then there is a friend in my current group who says, (mainly because their from the BA codex,) they are the ultimate form of chaos: Whenever they fight and he walks over he shouts, "Beware the sparkly vampire marines!" :whistling:

 

Anyway, I was going to start on the DC, but instead decided to work on my Reclusiarch. I was going to magnetize him, but I don't know when the magnets are coming so I figure I build him now, tear him and about 60 more marines apart, magnetize what I can and then order more magnets.

[Leardinal]

@Brother Jim: Oh! *face-palm* It seemed too small in my memory, I'll have to go back and see. Thanks for the advice.

[Leardinal]

Just finished my Reclusiarch. Didn't magnetize him because I truly didn't know how to with this arm. there was barley any plastic left when I cut off the normal gun and swapped it with the infurnus pistol.

Reclusiarch Tiber Notslyob of the Iron Angels Third Company

Side

Side

It occurred to me that as furious as he looks, he also seems to be thinking: "Silly guardsmen. Did you really think these sandbags would save you?"

Edit:I just realized that the lighting makes it hard to figure out he has black armor :) , will try for a better picture when it stops raining and the sun comes out.

[Leardinal]

Hey all,

Got around to taking a better picture of the Reclusiarch

Just made up a new list. Unfortunately, I took out the Death Company. I had already started on this one so I finished him. I usually don't go with lots of gore and blood, but since he was going to be another "decorative model" to commemorate a game and be more vicious looking then my other DC, I figured I would give the blood a shot.

Inspired from the line:"This isn't physically Possible!!"

Skull

Sword

Leg Position

I was playing a 1v1v1 game, Tau vs BA(me) vs CSM. I split my forces, all my RAS squads Deep Striking at the Tau, while the DC, DC dred, Reclusiarch and Storm Raven charged the CSM. My SR lost it's weapons from broadside fire, the DC dred killed 2 CSM rhinos, only to be immobilized by melta fire from the plague marines who where in them.

I was going to leave the dred to work on the CSM, (before it was immobilized,) and take the DC in the raven to fight the Tau, but his Deamon prince deep struck next to the raven, and it was too tempting to not throw the DC at it.

I killed his prince in one round, multi charged the plague marines, also killed in one round, his land raider came forward only to be wrecked by broadside fire, the beserkers charged out, but fell short of getting the charge, DC charged the besserkers and killed them in one turn. I then caught his rapters because he didn't expect me to make the difficult terrain check to assualt them.

The SR used up all it's missiles, so I rammed it into the land raider, immobilized the SR, blocking a direct path of the chaos land raider and letting the broadsides rip into the raider. The RAS squads took out a lot of suits, but where all ultimately killed. The DC dred was finally taken out when the Tau couldn't see any of our marines. The SR was also taken out at about that time.

I won because the RAS did a respectable amount of damage to the Tau, but the DC almost tabled the CSM by themselves while only losing 2 of the members.

As always, C&C welcome

[Leardinal]

Hey all,

 

I do appreciate any comments, as they help improve my painting, so don't be afraid to leave harsh criticisms, I am not going to be offended.

 

I don't have any newly painted men, but I do have a question. I played a game, and have gone back to the unit that orginally drew me into the game: Terminators.

 

My question is this: How do you make the chalice of blood for terminator prirsts. I was hoping to find a way to make it with out buying the one from space hulk or buy the coroblue model to cut it off him. I am considering making it out of green stuff, but was hoping to avoid sculpting.

 

Any one found a set of parts that could come together to make the chalice? Any help would be appreciated.

[Forgefather Vulkan]

Hey all,

 

I do appreciate any comments, as they help improve my painting, so don't be afraid to leave harsh criticisms, I am not going to be offended.

 

I don't have any newly painted men, but I do have a question. I played a game, and have gone back to the unit that orginally drew me into the game: Terminators.

 

My question is this: How do you make the chalice of blood for terminator prirsts. I was hoping to find a way to make it with out buying the one from space hulk or buy the coroblue model to cut it off him. I am considering making it out of green stuff, but was hoping to avoid sculpting.

 

Any one found a set of parts that could come together to make the chalice? Any help would be appreciated.

 

I made mine from a vampire counts skeleton horn for the top and the bottom was a part from the horn arm... And I just stuck it either side of a hand, I have a picture of it on it BA WIP. It's called my blood angels on here somewhere if you want to take a look. May be a few pages back...

 

Hope this helps

 

Forgefather

[Leardinal]

Thanks Forgfather.

 

I actually have a Chaos Warrior kit, so maybe I can do something similar with the horns from them. Will look into it and post pictures of the result.

 

Your Angels look amazing, BTW.

[Forgefather Vulkan]

Thanks Forgfather.

 

I actually have a Chaos Warrior kit, so maybe I can do something similar with the horns from them. Will look into it and post pictures of the result.

 

Your Angels look amazing, BTW.

 

You could yeah.. The hand on my Corbolo is one from the warriors sprue (recommend the standard bearer hand as the bit in his hand is thicker)

 

Thanks :blush: comments like that always help morale, I looked at the pics and they don't do justice to the actual thing, but watch this space as I've almost completed the squad and am starting some DC...

 

I like the metal-ness of yours, it's nice to see a BA successor that isn't red!

 

Forgefather

[Leardinal]

Converted, built, painted and based all in one day, I don't know why this one took so long...

Any way:

Sanguinary Priest in Terminator Armor

I made the chalice out of the Chaos Warriors kit. The bottom is the bottom of the banner pole, the skull is cut from the skull head in the kit, and the top is the front of the Horn, musical instrument, which had a little lip and actually appears to have an uneven liquid level inside, so I positioned the arm to explain it, though I don't think it showed in the pictures.

He has wings because: Everything should have wings :nuke:

I am working on entirely magnetizing a dread so I can swap arms/sarcophagi so I can choose what type of dread to use. I am using the new venerable dreadnought and am awe of the customization options

C&C welcome

[Leardinal]

Hey all,

I have purchased a ravenwing battle force, because I decided I was going to start running bikes. I had some models from before, but I decided to try to convert them to a pre-hearsay jet bike that would count as Thunderwolf Cavalry. I got about half way through when I switched to BA, but not soon enough to have avoided cutting the front wheel housing and back wheel off. I salvaged what I could, but only saved 1 out of the 5 bikes I started with. I decided to work on this bike while I wait for my bikes to come in at the end of the week.

I wanted my bikes to have a knightly feel to them, so the sergeant will have a thunder hammer, the specialists will have sheathed swords, and the rest will be toting lances.

Front

Side

Edit: light drowned out the black of the shoulder inset, but it is black.

This was my first attempt at highlighting, so I only did the black areas of the bike, and certain areas of the helm. At least, I think it is highlighting,*shrug*. I also decided to go with an inverted color scheme, (black with iron edgings instead of vice versa), to break up the iron color.

C&C welcome so I know if I should continue with this scheme and if the highlighting came out well

[Leardinal]

Hey all,

I started college not to long ago, and my parents have decided I must prove myself with good grades before I can take my 40k stuff to my school, (supposedly because they don't think I can juggle studying and 40k in my free time with out them looking over my shoulder, even if I have 5 hours of free time in the middle of the day followed by more free time after 5 and a 3 day weekend,) so I haven't been able to do any painting for a while. I did get to come home for labor day weekend, so I did some painting. I say some, because interruptions are plentiful when my family is expecting company. The pictures aren't great because I was in a hurry and my phone has been charging and now is too dark for photos. I go back to school tomorrow so I don't know if much more painting will happen before another break or my parents decide I am responsible enough to take them with me.

Reclusiarch on Bike

Sergeant

I didn't realize until after I tried to make a list for a game that bike sergeants can't have thunder hammers, but I wanted the "Knightly" feel and I am now considering giving all my sergeants power fists that look like hammers

Priest on Bike

Couldn't fit wings on this guy

Bikers

Biker with Plasma Gun

With new, unpainted bling

The other half of the reason for posting these pictures is the story of what happened while waiting for the basecoat to dry. The bikers fought off a deamonic incursion of epic proportions. Here are the casualties of the attack:

Luckily, there was very little permanent damage before I pulled the beast away. A few teeth marks that can be filled in or called battle damage, but most of the reason they are broken is the little beast battered them apart with its paws.

The Deamon sleeping, moments before it attacked

Her name is Daisy, she is my 2 year old black Labrador puppy, and I left her alone because I thought she was sleeping and I needed to help my dad move a bevel table.

[Judaz]

The one remark I have is not related to your painting, but to the pre-painting phase. Get rid of the mold lines and drill the barrels. It's so sad to see someone that have spent hours on painting a good looking model, but haven't removed any mold lines. It takes about 5 mins per model and it's totally worth it.

[Leardinal]

@Judaz: I do need to do all of the above. Unfortunately, most of the time when I sit down with a built model I am normally thinking about painting only. I actually drilled out the barrels of all the guns of the mostly painted plasma gun biker, but I forgot mold lines stand out. How do you remove them, I think filing them off would work but I would have to be careful to avoid flattening the plate.