Horus Heresy Heresy Thursday - Iron Hands Upgrades

[Astartes Consul]

57 minutes ago, fire golem said:

Id rather they not waste a weeks preview with a handful of rules from the new book when reviews of the new book have been all over the place since Saturday anyway. 
 

I like these. I think I’d sprinkle them around rather than a whole squad but they’re cool, especially the Sergeant ones. 

Sure but there are also several units that will have / needs new kits that I’d hoped might finally get a preview 

[WrathOfTheLion]

Great looking heads. They'd be great to convert up techmarines for other legions as well, which is what I was hoping to see.

[arnesh88]

1 hour ago, Lord Marshal said:

Techmarine heads for your tech-marines.

 

I think these would look good sprinkled in, but a whole squad kitted out with them? Nah. The MKIII heads still win for me, recognisably the same mark but each personalised and unique whereas these are a bit too uniform by comparison. 

 

I agree with this in general for most legions. As cool as some of the torsos were in the past, and (some) of the helmets, going overboard with a whole army with these upgrade kits can go too far and actually lose individuality in the army. Sprinkling them in, I would argue, gives more character, allowing models to stand out and add a lot of variety to the force. Only thing I would consider spamming is shoulder pads.

That's what I did with my salamanders with torsos and drakescale cloaks. 2/3 of my force are fairly generic, while a third have torso, cloak, helmet, or mix of 2 or all three of them.

[MagicHat]

I wonder if they would look good on Skitarii...

[Gamiel]

1 hour ago, Xenith said:

Now you all mention it, I see a bit of Batou...

Batou was also the first thing I thought of

[Master Commander Ajax]

I like that they’ve given the heads a “tech” look whilst still clearly looking like MKVI helms.  They’d make great conversion parts for a Techmarine. The bare head fits in perfectly with the Iron Hands too and it’s nice to see the extra effort being put into the shoulder pads.

[Vesalius]

These look pretty cool!  Will make for good techmarine/warpsmith. Still hoarding my IH Mk3 heads, though.

[Sarges]

Really like these and they look good on CSM too.

[dbrollsdice]

Really digging that bare head would fit well on some of my BL minis. 

[Gamiel]

53 minutes ago, Sarges said:

Really like these and they look good on CSM too.

What Chaos Marine? All I see is a Iron Hand with ornamented armour and some jury-rigging since he he has to fight his way to Terra.

[Xin Ceithan]

I like these.
Even if I can’t shake the impression that the front view seems eerily rodent-like on my mobile. Which immediately opens another can of worms..

[Mazer Rackham]

10 minutes ago, Xin Ceithan said:

Even if I can’t shake the impression that the front view seems eerily rodent-like on my mobile. Which immediately opens another can of worms..

 

Missing XIth Legion Primarch Fromage Manus Pattern. He was a big cheese back in the day, until he fell into the trap of chaos worship.

[Bouargh]

Great heads for son's of medusa forge-wrights...

Edited November 11, 2022 by Bouargh
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[Corswain]

I really like these ones too. So far my favourites have been the ones that are not very...... beaky. 

[tinpact]

Oh hey, called it. And they're pretty good to boot. So, I guess we can expect whichever legion comes up MTO to be the next upgrade set?

[NovemberIX]

Echoing the sentiment that these would make great techmarine heads, kinda wish they had the "roof scoop" though. Ole' Kohai eyes is totes adorbs, but I don't think I'll have any use for him.

[WrathOfTheLion]

36 minutes ago, tinpact said:

Oh hey, called it. And they're pretty good to boot. So, I guess we can expect whichever legion comes up MTO to be the next upgrade set?

They've been roughly ordered by Legion number, so I'd expect to see Ultramarines/Thousand Sons next, as we've already seen Death Guard.

[StrangerOrders]

Barehead looks like he is doomed to perpetually look mid-Poggers...

 

Other than that? A pretty damned good showing for the poor IHs! Shoulder trim and head crest especially have some real flavor!

 

So now we only have 3 traitors and 3 loyalists left! 

 

Somewhat concerned about the fact that a number of the remaining ones have some animal motifs given the split so far... I am somewhat terrified of the UM just having golden eagle heads or the Sally helmets being literal dragon heads. 

[sitnam]

I'm definitely gonna use these for my IH successors. I wonder  how they will look on some aggressors 

 

[Biscuittzz]

Design studio ran out of ideas so said just give em the primaris techmarine head and call it a day.

[spessmarine]

6 hours ago, StrangerOrders said:

So now we only have 3 traitors and 3 loyalists left! 

 

Somewhat concerned about the fact that a number of the remaining ones have some animal motifs given the split so far... I am somewhat terrified of the UM just having golden eagle heads or the Sally helmets being literal dragon heads. 

Should be fun, should expect a real gem and a real meme out to come out of the final bunch.
Genuinely curious how they'll do the Ravenguard helmets (do they get hammed up the most to make them stand out as standard beakies was already their thing)

[OttoVonAwesome]

13 hours ago, Lord Marshal said:

Techmarine heads for your tech-marines.

 

I think these would look good sprinkled in, but a whole squad kitted out with them? Nah. The MKIII heads still win for me, recognisably the same mark but each personalised and unique whereas these are a bit too uniform by comparison. 

 

Also the bare head's anime eyes make me laugh, senpai.

 

Haven't we been painting gem eyes like that for decades now? I don't get what makes them anime... They are round?

[Warden-Paints]

Personally I think these are excellent. The better helmets so far have moved away from the beaky aesthetic, which makes sense when you think about it. Why would I want more beakies to replace my beakies? (Looking at you Blood Angels ) 

[Jukkiz]

am i only one that thinks the nose parts look close to space wolf helmets?

[Marshal Reinhard]

8 hours ago, OttoVonAwesome said:

Haven't we been painting gem eyes like that for decades now? I don't get what makes them anime... They are round?

Feel it's a based on your brain misunderstanding what you're seeing at first, ("whoa, those irises are HUUUUGE"), then even when you understand that they are artificial lens-eyes, you still have trouble unseeing the mistaken first impression)

 

Typically bionic 40k eyes are a single eye attached to large "box" that's over a large portion of the upper head and face. Don't think we've seen this style of just the eyes are modified and little else. And both at the same time.

 

Like, the model is not wrong, but my brain goes "eh?" the first instance I see the image, each time.