Iron Hands Praetor

[arnesh88]

Raven Guard Praetor revealed. So sneaky!

[Deus_Ex_Machina]

7 minutes ago, arnesh88 said:

Raven Guard Praetor revealed. So sneaky!

He plays hard to get. His armour is not made of ceramite but of unobtainium.

[Marshal Rohr]

That’s a great model. Great contrast to the Iron Warrior from last week, both are the “tech” legions and both have unique aesthetics. 

[Astartes Consul]

Nice model. Probably a great base for a more toned down Forge Lord kitbash as well. 
 

At this rate, GW might finally have revealed a Legion specific HQ model for every legion by the end of the year! 

[Ironwrought Huw]

I like it, but I think I'll like it even more when we see an unpainted one and know how many parts he's built from. I'd like to see the back of the model, too - see if he actually has servo-arms or if it's just the mechadendrite tentacle things.

 

A few random thoughts  - 

• The helmetless head makes the bionic eye look like a giant monocle. I love it. 
• Love the grav pistol design. 
• I think the cyberfamiliar squatting on his shoulder is a bit too cluttered - I'd prefer something like the Praevian model where the servo-skulls are floating around but tethered to him by wire. 
• The powerfist is an... odd choice? 
• That brutal bionic leg is a very nice contrast with the bionics on the Meduson model - Meduson's are far more subtle and blended in with his armour.

 

Overall I'm a fan of it. I plan on picking up two - and already thinking of the conversions potential. 

 

Here's hoping that this is an indication of future re-sized techmarines and a new Forge Lord consul model... (I can dream!)

 

[StrangerOrders]

Absolutely marvelous model.

 

They called him a Praetor but his aura and the article make alot of mention of Iron Fathers, I do wonder if them and the IWs are going to have their Praetors default to the specialist variant that can be reasonably made into something more mundane? That would make the IHs fairly complete given their terminator Iron Father already being a thing.

 

Its hard to say but I would be happy either way.

 

So what's the current absent roster look like for Praetors?

 

If we count specialist Praetors that should have us at:

 

IW PA

WE PA/Termi

TS PA (Depending on whether we accept the Libi as a substitute, which the Stormseer and Rune Caster makes me think not)

Sally PA/Termi

RG PA/Termi

 

I miss anything? 

 

And that's before going into Consuls.

[Son of Rawl]

Wasn't a fan on first look, but it's growing on me with repeated viewings.

[Mmmmm Napalm]

I like it a lot, but i'm not a fan of the servo-skull familiar being sculpted as part of the backpack. He's already got a lot of detail going on to begin with, the servoskull crab kinda puts it over the edge in my opinion. It looks like it would be pretty tricky to remove it without getting rid of the cog-shaped iron halo, which is a detail i'd lament losing.

[Jukkiz]

1 hour ago, Mmmmm Napalm said:

I like it a lot, but i'm not a fan of the servo-skull familiar being sculpted as part of the backpack. He's already got a lot of detail going on to begin with, the servoskull crab kinda puts it over the edge in my opinion. It looks like it would be pretty tricky to remove it without getting rid of the cog-shaped iron halo, which is a detail i'd lament losing.

It could be also in two/three piece situation, seeing how detailed it is. So you might be in luck of just scraping the legs and abit detail off.

[Cadmus Tyro]

Great model, my only concern is that it sits somewhere between a praetor and an iron father. There are no current rules to allow praetors to utilise mechadendrites . It also doesn’t represent the Iron Father in game, unless there’s a melta gun and flamer hiding behind the model. 
 

It’s an odd decision in some ways, but a fairly easy conversion to give the model a machinator array…if you have the bits! 
 

Cadmus

 

 

 

[Xenith]

FINALLY! And he look great. Very...Praevian-esque? Could definitely be used as one. 

[Xanthous]

On 12/14/2024 at 1:28 PM, Cadmus Tyro said:

Great model, my only concern is that it sits somewhere between a praetor and an iron father. There are no current rules to allow praetors to utilise mechadendrites . It also doesn’t represent the Iron Father in game, unless there’s a melta gun and flamer hiding behind the model. 
 

It’s an odd decision in some ways, but a fairly easy conversion to give the model a machinator array…if you have the bits! 
 

Cadmus

 

 

 

Weirdly, I don't think the Forge World Iron Father has a visible flamer or meltagun either. WarCom labelled the mechadendrites as servo arms, and at that point I think we're too deep into semantics, so it wouldn't be unfair to call his set of tendrils a Machinator Array, and I think that's probably the intention. Maybe the flamer and meltagun are supposed to be implicit, like compact in-built tools that also have combat applications? The 40k chaos Warpsmith has something like that.

[Morovir]

That's mainly because in the last edition, an Iron Father came with a servo arm rather than a machinator array - I'm assuming it changed to make it more of a difference from the Warsmith.

[Evil Eye]

That is a really nice model and with minimal work could be made into a 40K-era Techmarine. Just remove a few IH icons (if you're not playing IH) and he already works as a generic Techmarine IMO.