Third Party Heresy Iron Warriors Dantioch miniature

[lansalt]

Apparently somebody is selling on Ebay what looks suspiciously like a legit Iron Warriors Dantioch model.

The seller calls it a "3rd Party model", but the style, details and material are incredibly close to recent HH miniatures released by GW.

What do you think?

 

 

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 01:54 PM by Brother Tyler
Link to eBay removed

[SalamandersBro]

Hmm thats tough. It looks good though. 

[Joe]

That's a fan made Dantioch - it's from the same person that did the custom Perturabo that cropped up at Golden Demon.

[Deus_Ex_Machina]

35 minutes ago, lansalt said:

Apparently somebody is selling on Ebay what looks suspiciously like a legit Iron Warriors Dantioch model : https://www.ebay.com/itm/257080212840?_skw=Dantioch

The seller calls it a "3rd Party model", but the style, details and material are incredibly close to recent HH miniatures released by GW.

What do you think?

 

 

 

 

The hammer is too big. Apart from that I don´t have a clue, if this model is legit or not.

[TheVoidDragon]

I don't quite see what suggests this isn't just a fan-made miniature? Even if features and style are similar it's not as if only GW could do those.

[Agramar_The_Luna_Wolf]

Hummm...not sure. It can be, I'm not  sure at all. Something still triggers my curiosity: why someone is trying to sell an official miniature, unreleased,assembled and as 3rd party  product.

[Evil Eye]

Official or not it's a very nice sculpt!

[Flaherty]

They'll almost certainly never do it, but a LEGO IDEAS style way to source ideas from the community would be pretty awesome. It could be for the Warhammer+ models, store anniversaries, or just alts, but I think there'd be an appetite for alternative treatments of some iconic characters and archtypes. For instance, I'm a huge fan of these alternative Eldar Aspect Warriors and think they'd make for a fun box.

After 11th Ed. the Primaris-ization project should be complete. They can spit out new unit types, and there's a mint to be made in Chapter specific upgrade kits, but I hope they focus a little effort on "exploring the studio space" with marine aesthetics more broadly.

 

Edited Saturday at 08:21 PM by Flaherty

[WARMASTER_]

3 hours ago, Deus_Ex_Machina said:

The hammer is too big. Apart from that I don´t have a clue, if this model is legit or not.

It’s not to big heresy has some wacky weapon proportions 

Real or not it’s a beautiful sculpt definitely on par with GW! The proportion's are pretty much perfect too which is rare to see  

[Deakz28]

23 hours ago, Joe said:

That's a fan made Dantioch - it's from the same person that did the custom Perturabo that cropped up at Golden Demon.

Do you have a link to the source? 

[Ripper.McGuirl]

23 hours ago, Flaherty said:

They'll almost certainly never do it, but a LEGO IDEAS style way to source ideas from the community would be pretty awesome. It could be for the Warhammer+ models, store anniversaries, or just alts, but I think there'd be an appetite for alternative treatments of some iconic characters and archtypes. For instance, I'm a huge fan of these alternative Eldar Aspect Warriors and think they'd make for a fun box.

After 11th Ed. the Primaris-ization project should be complete. They can spit out new unit types, and there's a mint to be made in Chapter specific upgrade kits, but I hope they focus a little effort on "exploring the studio space" with marine aesthetics more broadly.

 

These are dope, where are they from?

[grailkeeper]

The reisin looks whiter than GW reisin. I'd guess 3rd party. 

 

Still a cool model. 

The same seller also has this model listed which I havent seen before.

 

 

[Deakz28]

2 minutes ago, grailkeeper said:

The reisin looks whiter than GW reisin. I'd guess 3rd party. 

 

Still a cool model. 

The same seller also has this model listed which I havent seen before.

 

 

It’s the Iron Warriors Warsmith (Warhammer World Exclusive version) may also be fake though

[grailkeeper]

Actually on closer inspection its the Warhammer world exclusive Iron Warriors praetor. Its the same white reisin as the new one. It could be a recaster though., 

[Waaagh?]

It's a fan sculpt. Here's another one that someone's painted.

 

[lansalt]

On 8/30/2025 at 7:48 PM, TheVoidDragon said:

I don't quite see what suggests this isn't just a fan-made miniature? Even if features and style are similar it's not as if only GW could do those.

I'm not into 3d printing super secret groups, but I've never seen a fan-made STL that mimics so closely the style of newer HH releases. Even the details I would consider "odd" are exactly like the ones in recent legit HH minis. It 100% looks like something I would expect to see in a Heresy Thurday. Like a discarded unreleased model. 

Anyway, there's no proof and there's some evidence of it being around before, as @Waaagh? says.  Either way, whoever is responsible probably prefers being anonymous...

[sarabando]

4 hours ago, lansalt said:

I'm not into 3d printing super secret groups, but I've never seen a fan-made STL that mimics so closely the style of newer HH releases. Even the details I would consider "odd" are exactly like the ones in recent legit HH minis. It 100% looks like something I would expect to see in a Heresy Thurday. Like a discarded unreleased model. 

Anyway, there's no proof and there's some evidence of it being around before, as @Waaagh? says.  Either way, whoever is responsible probably prefers being anonymous...

theres a couple of former GW sculptors who now do 3d print stuff

[Wispy]

I don't like that hammer. Not enough hardware on it like the Terminator Warsmiths, just looks like an oversized meat tenderizer. The rest of the mini is pretty good for a fan sculpt.

Edited Monday at 10:57 PM by Wispy

[Gorgoff]

I don't like the Hammer for obvious reasons ans the head because it is the 40k Iron Warriors symbol. Why would dantioch have that? Or why would every 40k Traitor have dantiochs head as a symbol? 

[Corswain]

46 minutes ago, Gorgoff said:

I don't like the Hammer for obvious reasons ans the head because it is the 40k Iron Warriors symbol. Why would dantioch have that? Or why would every 40k Traitor have dantiochs head as a symbol? 

He's always had that helmet/mask. It was illustrated in "The Iron Within" which was his first appearance, as far as I remember.

 

Pretty sure it was a mask that he hammered onto his head so maybe he can't take it off!?

 

In any case, lovely model. I hope GW make a version one day.

Edited Tuesday at 03:19 AM by Corswain

[Gorgoff]

1 hour ago, Corswain said:

He's always had that helmet/mask. It was illustrated in "The Iron Within" which was his first appearance, as far as I remember.

 

Pretty sure it was a mask that he hammered onto his head so maybe he can't take it off!?

 

Yes, that is true, they made him some sort of Dr Doom in 30k, but why does it look like the 40k aymbol on that novel? It isn't described like this in the book, innit? 

[Nephaston]

22 minutes ago, Gorgoff said:

Yes, that is true, they made him some sort of Dr Doom in 30k, but why does it look like the 40k aymbol on that novel? It isn't described like this in the book, innit? 

Not familiar with the description, which I presume was the short story form 2011? What I know of is this Illustration from Unremembered Empire released in 2013.

 

 

[Corswain]

Must have my stories mixed up because that was the image I was thinking of. I feel like it was faithful to the description but everyone is gonna have a different image in their head.

[Gorgoff]

5 hours ago, Nephaston said:

Not familiar with the description, which I presume was the short story form 2011? What I know of is this Illustration from Unremembered Empire released in 2013.

 

 

Well that is exactly the 40k symbol right there. I always wondered why he has a helmet which apparently isn't sealed. 

[grailkeeper]

8 minutes ago, Gorgoff said:

Well that is exactly the 40k symbol right there. I always wondered why he has a helmet which apparently isn't sealed. 

 

Maybe his lenses are like this poker player's.