Iron Warriors Iron is only as strong as the flesh that wields it - The Arkifane

[Prot]

Awesome job. The army looks fantastic and seeing it all in action is really cool.

 

I haven't played a 3 round day in a while, and yea with my back those can be killers. (I almost never sit during my games, even if there is a chair). 

 

I've seen Hellstorm gaming but never seen their event streamed. Where can we watch your game? I'm sure the appearance of your IW army was factor in choosing your game! You should be proud of that.

 

It does sadden me a bit that the 'wooden spoon' was battled for by my 2 favourite Chaos armies! lol 

 

I noted the dense terrain set up which is fantastic for an event of that size, but this is part of the reason that I only take the Landraider, and partially this is why I often don't take Defilers. As you note, that foot print can be awkward. 

 

I also notice a lot of 'closed' first floor ruins meaning this really favours CC armies with that much terrain. 

 

On secondaries I do find I usually take Long war because even the points awarded for killing something on an objective are just part of the 'primary' game so the other part is a bonus if you can do it. 

 

I'll make a small recommendation for you that has been working lately for my IW: Take Rise to Glory, and target your Warpsmith and Discolord against rewarding targets. Once you weaken a vehicle, this can be a really good setup for your character to finish the kill and take the points. It's been working for me lately, and I do find IW have trouble scoring, period. 

 

Once again, great job, and beautiful army. And congrats on the D.P! I just bought one!  

[TrawlingCleaner]

Thanks Prot!

I had such a great time and it's really got my competitive juices flowing. I know I can do much better, I just need a bit more pratice and some list tweaks

 

The VOD is here, I haven't watched it back as I can't stand the sound of my own voice :

 

 

The amount of terrain was great (although hindered my large models and bases at times), the only game I was shot off the board was VS Iron Hands Game 2 and that's to be expected to be honest.

 

I had the realisation the day after the event that Rise to Glory would have actually scored very highly for all my games and would have largely been much better than the Secondaries I picked most of the time. I'm not sure why I wrote it off when I read it on the day, it's almost custom built for 2 very killy characters

 

The Daemon Prince is going straight into my Red Corsairs army as I already have a Prince for this army but it was the one model in the Raffle I wanted, it was very jammy of me!

I have MESBG and AoS projects calling my name at the moment and a burning to get some bits done for my Corsairs, however I've also got some expansions I want to make to the army. Mainly in the form of another Forgefiend, a Decimator and some faster elements like Raptors and maybe some bikes. We'll see where it goes!

[TrawlingCleaner]

 

I received my copy of the Wrath of the Soul Forge King yesterday so I quikcly got to work getting Big Bad Vashtorr together. A quick nit pick is that the box didn't come with the seperating art like pretty much every other has so far, it just came with this:

 

It's a shame, I have a collection from the boxes I've bought to date and I was very much looking forward to this one!

 

Anywho

It's such a rad model with suprisingly very few fiddly pieces and is actually only on one sprue "sheet". I of course had to make some alterations to Vashtorr (it's almost obsessive to tinker these days ). I have him a big showy base, he is the king of fixing and crumping vehicles and also raise the claw to give him a bit more movement. The model is so creepy

and they've really nailed the gangly blacksmith vibe

 

 

Onto painting next! I'm currently following a guide on how to paint Vampire skin as a pale, gaunt look should pop with the hazard stripes and also the yellow landraider on the base

We'll see how I go!

[TrawlingCleaner]

Reasonably slow progress but progress I'm very proud of. I've gotten the skin done and this big metal ghoul is really starting to come together!

 

 

Now to do everything else!

[Dr_Ruminahui]

The flesh looks great - looking forward to seeing how you do the rest of the model.

[Prot]

I’m proud of you TC. That flesh work is top notch. This is going to be a stellar project. 
 

did you have to green stuff his armpit or was that a creative choice?

 

very interesting take on the base. I’m considering something similar.  
 

finally, I just hit my box yesterday and believe it or not I eagerly sought out the art print and was really disappointed. Why alsayacjais with the short stick on these things? I share your disappointment and this box wasn’t cheap. 
 

 Last importantly, I love what progress you’ve made. Awesome. 

[Pearson73]

Off to a solid start with Vashtor!

 

In love with Onionboy and the Defiler, the heat glow around the vents is a nice touch.

 

The biomechanical possessed are very fitting for the Iron Warriors, the drill chap has to be my favourite.

[TrawlingCleaner]

On 3/23/2023 at 4:56 PM, Dr_Ruminahui said:

The flesh looks great - looking forward to seeing how you do the rest of the model.

Thank you Dr, the Flesh is the bit I'm most proud of although it makes taking photographs of the armour as whole bloody difficult 

 

On 3/25/2023 at 7:32 PM, Prot said:

I’m proud of you TC. That flesh work is top notch. This is going to be a stellar project. 
 

did you have to green stuff his armpit or was that a creative choice?

 

very interesting take on the base. I’m considering something similar.  
 

finally, I just hit my box yesterday and believe it or not I eagerly sought out the art print and was really disappointed. Why alsayacjais with the short stick on these things? I share your disappointment and this box wasn’t cheap. 
 

 Last importantly, I love what progress you’ve made. Awesome. 

Thank you Prot, that's very kind 

The armpit was greenstuffed to keep the angle I wanted, the kit has 0 posability as it comes which isn't a problem. I do love a good kitbash! 

It's a shame that this was the first box to not have the art, it's so rad!

 

12 hours ago, Pearson73 said:

Off to a solid start with Vashtor!

 

In love with Onionboy and the Defiler, the heat glow around the vents is a nice touch.

 

The biomechanical possessed are very fitting for the Iron Warriors, the drill chap has to be my favourite.

Cheers Pearson! Onionboy and the Defiler are some of my favourite models I've made. I'm glad other people like them too 

 

 

Big bad Vashtorr, donezo:

 

I'm super proud of this guys and quite honestly is probably the best model I've ever painted. Now I need to see if all that effort was worth it in a game 

[Kaiju Soze]

Your Vashtor looks amazing.

[Volgon]

Echoing the other posters, your Vashtorr is wonderful. If you don't mind me asking, how do you get that really dark metal look on stuff like the wings and chest/loin plates?

[Pearson73]

Nice work on his eyes! I really like the blue/green highlights on the staff material too.

[TrawlingCleaner]

11 hours ago, Kaiju Soze said:

Your Vashtor looks amazing.

Thank you Kaiju!

 

1 hour ago, Pearson73 said:

Nice work on his eyes! I really like the blue/green highlights on the staff material too.

Cheers Pearson! I wasn't sure if I needed more spot colours but I think it adds a nice touch of colour. Apart from the Yellow and Reds, the model is pretty monochrome!

 

8 hours ago, Volgon said:

Echoing the other posters, your Vashtorr is wonderful. If you don't mind me asking, how do you get that really dark metal look on stuff like the wings and chest/loin plates?

 

Thank you Volgon! The metal is super easy, it's just: Leadbelcher Spray undercoat, slather Basilicanum Grey all over and then highlight with Leadbelcher. Done! I think it looks particularly dark because the white throws my camera's white balance off which was one of the reasons why I found it difficult to photograph