The Bitterness of Iron (Praetor Conversion pg.4)

[Magos Kasen]

Progress! Spent a few more hours on these today. OSL fists done, some markings. Combi bolter casings. They're nearing completion, but man it's a grind haha.

So, the legion icon didn't fit sideways on the pads, so I put it vertical. I actually like it, I figure that the terminators always advance with their face to the enemy anyway. On the rear of the plates are their squad markings. 4.2.33 - fourth squad, second cohort, thirty third grand company of the 4th legion. My numeric freehand is so I haven't included pics haha. Might paint over it later... I like the idea that IW equipment is very functional and military - no fancy artwork, just functional ID numbers for everyone.

 

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Closeup that reveals my crappy painting lol

 

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[Pearson73]

Looking strong, especially the leather and fist OSL.

[hushrong]

If you want to see crappy painting wait for me to pick up a brush.

 

Your Iron Warriors look ace and I love the activated power first glow.

[Magos Kasen]

Thanks guys, appreciate the feedback :)

 

Haven't done much painting, being close to finished has killed my momentum a bit. Decided to mess around with some bits and mock up the first of a squad I'll tackle soon, five kitbashed Destroyer marines. Still want to add a little more armour to his lower half - I picture these guys having a lot of extra ablative plates and filters and stuff to counter the toxic weaponry they use.

 

Thoughts?

 

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[Quixus]

Those are some beautiful Iron warriors. Mind telling us how you did the metal colours? Where did you get the "paragon blade" on the tartatos praetor from?

[Magos Kasen]

No worries. The metal is a base of VGC Tinny Tin, drybrushed up with Reaper Adamantium Black and Shadowed Steel, washed with GW Nuln Oil and Agrax Earthshade, drybrushed again with Shadowed Steel and then honed Steel, and then edge highlighted with Vallejo air Chrome.

The Praetor's sword is from the Dark Elf Executioner's kit.

[Magos Kasen]

Oops, another brief break in transmission...

 

So, working on Ancient Iago, ensign of the XXXIII Grand Company. Just a mockup with blutack - got a sweet banner for him, but it's solid metal and weighs a crap ton, so not gonna add it until the mini is finished.

Thoughts on the pose?

 

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[Magos Kasen]

Jesus, has it really been 8 months since I posted in this thread? Bad form, bad form.

 

My beloved Iron Warriors haven't been forgotten, but other projects, including some Primaris marines for 8th ed, have distracted me. My lack of resolution when it came to basing was one of the biggest hurdles, as I was struggling to come up with an option I liked. The arrival of the amazing Sector Mechanicus bases solved my problem, but I didn't get around to picking up a set until recently, and then found myself unsure what colours to paint them... 
I've ended up going with a bone white and industrial-turquoise combination, which hopefully contrasts with the dull iron of the marines nicely, but is perhaps a little too bright and colourful? I would appreciate feedback!

 

 

Kinda a rubbish photo, but I hope it conveys they idea somewhat.

 

Any further progress for now is likely to be slow, since I'm mostly focused on trying to finish more bases, but hopefully I can also get some more marines on display, since I have about half a squad finished but largely unseen from back in April. 

[Thousand Eyes]

Good choice of basing contrast and welcome back to posting. :)

[The_Stray_Idea]

Welcome back. Wow what a blog great work throughout. The look you have created for your legion is fantastic.

[Warsmith Onyx]

Welcome back!
Great army you've got there, and definitely an inspiration for my own iron warriors.
May I ask from where you got that chestpiece for the destroyer marine?

[Reyner]

THe bit over the chest plate kind of looks like the chest armour from the Ad Mech Kataphrons could be that stuck over a MK4 chest plate?

[Magos Kasen]

Thanks for the kind words guys

 

Welcome back!
Great army you've got there, and definitely an inspiration for my own iron warriors.
May I ask from where you got that chestpiece for the destroyer marine?

As mentioned above, it is indeed a Kataphron armour plate on a Mk4 torso.

 

On that note, I promised more bases, but apparently what I meant was 'here are some more unpainted models'. Before my temporary hiatus from 30k I'd planned on a small 5 man destroyer squad, however the difficulty in getting together all the bits I imagined needing in the quantities I wanted stalled the idea. I've returned to it this week however, and decided to focus on actually assembling minis rather than worrying whether they are as intricate and complicated as I may have hoped. Using what I did have, however, along with some other new pieces I have turned the prototype destroyer into a Moritat.

As much as moritats are typically depicted as fast and lethal lone hunters, I imagine an Iron Warrior moritat to be a little more brutal and unsubtle, striding into the thick of battle laying waste with his pistols at the head of a hardened Destroyer cadre. These bitter, deadly warriors do what others will not or cannot to secure victory, and thus they perfectly embody the IV's spirit. But of course, such dangerous weapons and warfare requires improved defences. I imagine the Destroyers wearing a kind of up-armoured MkIII armour, with modified MkIV helmets that offer better rebreathers and air filters. And the moritat who leads them is clad in layers of additional ablative armour designed to make him almost unstoppable, the kind of shielding a maniac wielding two unstable plasma pistols would need. 

 

 

I'd love any feedback on them

[Sgt. Blank]

I think the mix of parts and poses are very effective. I think it's tough to make two pistols look serious and you've done a great job - plus the armor styling looks very Iron Warriors.

[BrotherJim]

Tough as nails man

[Thousand Eyes]

The moritat styling looks very well, but I would suggest having both pistols facing the same way. It would add a sense of action to the right arm, which seems out of place at the moment.

[Magos Kasen]

Thanks guys

 

The moritat styling looks very well, but I would suggest having both pistols facing the same way. It would add a sense of action to the right arm, which seems out of place at the moment.

I played around with trying to have both pistols aligned, but couldn't find a way that achieved it without looking goofy. I figure the way he's posed, he's letting one pistol vent heat while firing with the other. 

 

 

 

 

Finished building the destroyer squad, and while I liked how they turned out, they felt like they were lacking something, especially compared to the Moritat. So I thought 'what would a squad of Destroyers in the glorious IVth look like? What does a deadly, at-all-costs gas and radiation using squad of siege specialists resemble?' And lo and behold, the answer seemed obvious - trench raiders. So I went back to the squad and added the kinds of hodgepodge armour, extra grenades and suitably brutal melee weapons (axes and trench clubs ahoy!). And I have to say I really love them, hopefully other people do too.

 

Anyway, here they are at an early stage. Just some metals so far, that's always the longest part of these. 

 

 

Feedback always appreciated!

[Pearson73]

Ace use of parts on the destroyers, are those Alpha heads? The Guard grenade launcher looks right in place too, might have to steal that idea one day.

[codyrstuart]

I too like the grenade launcher on them. Very nicely done. How are you painting the destroyers?

[Magos Kasen]

Ace use of parts on the destroyers, are those Alpha heads? The Guard grenade launcher looks right in place too, might have to steal that idea one day.

Thanks mate! The heads are actually from the thousand sons terminators, they make awesome Mk4 heads.

 

I too like the grenade launcher on them. Very nicely done. How are you painting the destroyers?

The colours are the same as the method I detail a few posts up this page, albeit with a little variety in the number of washes/drybrushing stages. The colours are all the same though.

 

Not a lot of progress tonight, just too hot to paint for long. I knocked out some of the details like grenades and pouches, now I need to paint the shoulder pads, and then work out how many hazard stripes I want to paint on them... part of me says 'a lot', but I'm really happy with how dark and weathered the metal looks, and I'm loathe to mess that up with lots of colour blocks. 

[Sagentus]

These are awesome. Amazing work so far. Eagerly looking forward to seeing more!

[Magos Kasen]

You're most kind! Thanks Sagentus. 

 

Still not finished, but more slow progress. 

 

[Naryn]

Love them! The AOS (?) axe and the 1K Sons heads do a great job of distinguishing them from the standard marines.

[KrautScientist]

The squad's looking fantastic already! Some very inspired kitbashing on display -- the idea of using Kharadron Overlord axes as entrenching tools is nothing short of brilliant! :)

[Magos Kasen]

Hooo boy, it has been a hot minute. 

I (very) sporadically have tinkered with my Iron Warriors over the last few years, but now with Heresy 2.0, I'm diving back in. Partially because, at least in part due to my relentless proselytising, a fair number of my local 40k mates have jumped on board too. 

Anyway, I'm starting small armies for a bunch of legions, but my Iron Warriors have always been my first love. 

This model is going to be my army praetor, and is the culmination of an idea I had right at the beginning for this project, the Tyrant of Megaraxes. The model itself was the feverish result of trying to make a praetor that looked unique and appropriate to the legion, after I realised my first idea of just taking the axe praetor and swapping the head and weapon was... unoriginal. 

This is far and away the most complex and involved conversion I've done in years, but I'm really happy with how it came out. Boy was it nerve wracking carving chunks out of a $60 mini though!