SMM's Horus Heresy WIP Armies - Iron Warriors 1000 points

[Operative]

Wow, love the models especially those brutal chainswords.

 

Also the Dread is great you've painted the skull just the right colour to make it stand out.

Keep it up!

[SkimaskMohawk]

Thanks a lot :)

 

I did forget to shave a few chaos symbols off the chainswords pre assembly so I'll need to go back and fix that before I prime them 

[SkimaskMohawk]

So its been pretty slow for me in the whole painting department as I've been prepping my Raven Guard for a tournament (where they'll counts as Raptors) and honestly the amount of grey Night Lords is intimidating me (currently 15 Terror marines, 14 terminators, 8 metal raptors and 20 plastic raptors). On top of this I'm almost out and primer and regal blue...

 

So instead of replacing any of that I decided to do some work on Curze to ruin any other motivation to paint standard guys. At first I was going to do a very standard approach to his armour with a highlight or two to pick him out (similar to Sevetar). That idea was swiftly discarded after the very first highlight when I started blending instead. Now because I struggle with light theory it takes me a while to get the result I want, which means that after two and a half hours I got the left leg (knee down of the front) to a point I was happy with and just blocked out the rest of him...

 

TLDR: Rough first steps of blending his armour

 

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[SkimaskMohawk]

First Legionnaire of the second squad done. I picked up some Blood for the Blood God and its excellent; I've touched up all my previous models with it. I've also started making a ton of guys with their CCWs, which will be mixed into every squad to keep things interesting (I did forget to trim off the chaos symbols though :? )

 

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[Big Bad Squig]

Love it! Always had a soft spot for the Night Lords

[SkimaskMohawk]

Thanks 

 

I want to try and take pictures of all the updated blood effects on people, but sadly my daylight is all gone now. I'll try for tomorrow 

[Dom_]

Very nice so far. Curze is looking good! Keep it up

[SkimaskMohawk]

Thanks a lot for the feedback, though Curze really frustrates me lol :)

 

I've been working on the next two members with CCW and its really getting me excited though, will have them done Thursday or Friday as its Canada day tomorrow 

[Kriegriss]

whoop whoop Happy canucky day

[SkimaskMohawk]

Wasn't able to take pictures yesterday as it was a super rainy (as in torrentially rainy) out, but with a combination of sun and yellow desk lamp I got some pictures that shows off the blood effect well

 

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[SkimaskMohawk]

And I have to double post because of the image cap:

 

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Now I noticed I painted part of his cloak as flesh originally so i'm going to have to go back and correct that, also he's getting a new right hand as the dagger one started to bend (and I never really liked it). New one is a beckoning hand from the new Dev kit. Am also going to shade his cloack more so there's more contrast

[jimbo13]

So much blood and lightning. I LOVE IT!!!!!! On a serious note I love all the details on the Mk. 3 helmets and the individuality.

[SkimaskMohawk]

Well her's some more for you ;)

 

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[Fangbanger]

Mate that dreadnaught is sick

[Son of Carnelian]

Whoo. That's some of the best lightning I've seen. Incredible work.

[SkimaskMohawk]

Thanks guys, really means a lot.

 

Hopefully the dreadnought performs well in my game today and the one I have planned for tomorrow

 

Also unfortunately the initial hand I had planned for Sev didn't work out how I wanted, so he has a pointing hand instead. Still like it more than his knife hand though

[SkimaskMohawk]

Here's some really good pictures taken by Crablezworth. Most are of units that you guys have seen before, but there are a few new models as well as my modification to Sevetar

 

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[Ishagu]

Love it all! Sevatar is one of the HH character series' best models, imo.

 

Can't wait to see Curze! The Contemptor is Brutal!!

[SkimaskMohawk]

I'm slowly working on Curze, mainly because I'm never satisfied with my blending on what's the definition of a centerpiece model; if I were to concentrate on him it would mean the core of my army wouldn't be worked on so I'm waiting until most things are out of the way

[SkimaskMohawk]

So I realized after going on a painting rampage and almost fully painting up 5 power axe cataphractii that I had forgotten to take any "before paint" pictures for ETL....so I get to paint up another 10 to make it count lol.

 

To make sure I didn't make any more mistakes I checked my vow and realized I needed to paint a Lucius Pod up too.

 

So here it is

 

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You can also see some of my almost finished terminators standing over to the side lol

[marshal seanisi]

Wow!.. seriously amazing work there man!

[SkimaskMohawk]

Thanks, feel free to give feedback

[Ishagu]

It's simply a wonderful looking army. Are you based in the UK or US btw?

[SkimaskMohawk]

In Canada ottawa to be precise

[Ishagu]

Ah, was hoping the UK might have some more quality representation :-P