Chronotonic Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I like the beakie in the bottom of the picture wasn't that mark vi armour only a handful made and the raven guard got the first batch Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4028432 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammer of Olympia Posted May 3, 2015 Author Share Posted May 3, 2015 nope,those arent beaks,just flat nosed. And yes RG do got the prototype and first batch Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4028433 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slips Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I like the beakie in the bottom of the picture wasn't that mark vi armour only a handful made and the raven guard got the first batch Except, the AL, in typical AL fashion, somehow got a hold of the Prototype Schematics and made their own Mk VI Power Armor suits because, why not? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4028434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatOneMarshal Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 For me it is a let down. When I think of iron warriors of hardened warriors. They fight trench warfare, they don't have clean armor. Their armor is beaten up and they have to patch it up themselves with heavy metal plates. They should look intimidating and kinda add Lib their armor. But I do have to admit that the torsos could make a unification era force and the helmets look pretty neat. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4028487 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Rohr Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Only superficial scarring is left. Something that would require a patch would probably just be given a new plate. The outer layer of space marine armor isn't going to be hard to make, since it is just an elaborate strike plate. Its the stuff underneath that requires the majority of the effort. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4028492 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Loss Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 I'd love to hear what significance the star symbol is supposed to have. It seems peculiar to me that after having their iconography covered extensively in Book 3, they turn around and pump out an upgrade torso with a symbol that has no relevance to anything anybody knows about the IV Legion. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4029298 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyaenidae Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Perhaps it's not a symbol at all, but a bonded strike buffer meant to deflect blades...? Man, I don't know. Unification era anybody, as far as I'm concerned. :P Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4029302 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slips Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 It is a Mk II chest after all. It seems to be the most logical explanation as distasteful as it might be to some. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4029310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Chaplain Kage Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Look at Dantiochs use of the Kit. Doesnt look that bad. Well, the heads anyway, but then he also made the IW Contemptor look good, which is no small feat. He might actually be a witch of the Warp... I'm still trying to find some pics of the chest pieces in use, to no avail. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4029322 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dantioch Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Thanks Kage, a warp witch you say..... haha Here's the chest piece unpainted might help to see it actually in use. http://i1379.photobucket.com/albums/ah131/Dantioch/photo%2038_zpsa9wsmlwk.jpg Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4029507 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Rohr Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Doesn't the star have something to do with the fact Graham McNeill wrote Perturbabo as having the ability to see the Eye of Terror no matter where he is in the galaxy? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4029543 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skalpynock Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 It just happened to me as I was posting on the Ironfire thread: perhaps these four points on the stars are the four Brotherhoods (Dodekatheon, Apolakron, Kheledakos, Lyssatra). Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4029983 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Chaplain Kage Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Of all the possible explanations I've heard, I think I like that one best. *edit* Dantioch, thanks for the pic! It already looks a little better than the FW pics, but get one painted! (Please?) I have a feeling they'll look much better than most people think they will. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4029986 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemon2027 Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Dantioch, kind of looks like he is wearing a bib... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4030066 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brofist Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 I was pretty let down by the release, honestly. After waiting so long and getting something worse than I have been kitbashing was disappointing. On the plus side, I don't need to redo anything in my army, but on the minus I have to use other legion bits that are more fitting with the Iron Warrior aesthetic for all the things I hoped to use this kit for. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4030174 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Chaplain Kage Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 I think the heads are fine, and while I don't think the chest is a total write off... still reserving final judgment until I see some painted... I do wish they had gone a different route with the chests. MK II? Come on! With all the stuff they name with Iron for the Iron Warriors, they didn't give them Legion specific MK III Iron Armor chests? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4030177 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dantioch Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 @Kage Would have loved for the torso upgrade just to be MKIII armour with the iron skull on front of it and maybe some extra armour plating similar to the Destroyer armour. I'll try and get it painted by Wednesday, this will give me a push to get him finished. He has been sitting on my desk half done for ages now haha @Hydra, what has been seen cannot be unseen haha. Its to clean up all that loyalist blood Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4030193 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Chaplain Kage Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 You mean like this DG torso that's more Iron Warriors than anything actually made for the Iron Warriors? http://i.imgur.com/21SpdnA.jpg?1 Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4030215 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaplain mortis Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 The releases for me were very "take it or leave it"... The helmets aint that bad...to me the Iron Warriors suit just basic armour really with little to no adornment. Would have really liked to have seen decals and brass etch first and more time spent on figuring out how to do the warriors justice.. Edit....Kage has got it right...the good old Deathguard kits look great for Iron Warriors... As well as there contemptor lol Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4030222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slips Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 The releases for me were very "take it or leave it"... The helmets aint that bad...to me the Iron Warriors suit just basic armour really with little to no adornment. Would have really liked to have seen decals and brass etch first and more time spent on figuring out how to do the warriors justice.. Edit....Kage has got it right...the good old Deathguard kits look great for Iron Warriors... As well as there contemptor lol That goes for almost any but the Most Blinged out Legions. The DG Chests and Contemptor are the most easily used for another Legion :P Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4030227 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaplain mortis Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Thank the Emperor for the Deathguard haha :-) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4030232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
depthcharge12 Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 I think the armor looks great for a Lightning Bearers Legion ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4030296 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 I think the armor looks great for a Lightning Bearers Legion Problem is, it looks not-so-great for everyone else. That said, Athrawes must have entire boxes of those things by now, surely? :P Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4030300 Share on other sites More sharing options...
depthcharge12 Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 I think the armor looks great for a Lightning Bearers Legion ;) Problem is, it looks not-so-great for everyone else. That said, Athrawes must have entire boxes of those things by now, surely? :P Don't know. Haven't seen him since the purging of Madr- I mean his house fire. Nothing to see here. Just loyalty. :D I believe he got some to make some Oni guys but I'll let you know next time I see him if he doesn't say anything here first. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4030307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delvarus Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 I have found the heads are exactly what I have been waiting for to add flavour to my Siege Terminators. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306990-iron-warriors-upgrade-kit-a-letdown/page/2/#findComment-4030882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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