Iron Warriors Squad! ** Update - 5 more warriors

[Legiocustodes]

I decided to start another new project recently in the form of a further Legion for Horus Heresy / Warhammer 30,000 gaming.

I know, I know... I have a thousand different projects on, but I find I need variety to keep me interested.



After much consideration I settled on doing an army of Iron Warriors as I love their aesthetic and I can also use them in 40k (possibly as Silver Skull proxies).



The basic metal power armour is relatively quick to achieve ... though I did spend ages on highlights where a drybrush might have sufficed. But those hazard stripes... man they take an absolute age!!



I chose to use MK III Iron armour for my first five man test batch as I think it’s sheer brutality suits the Legion’s look better than the sleeker MK IV Maximus pattern.



I’m really pleased with them overall, especially the Sergeant’s power sword and the new red bases I’m trialling! Now I’ve settled on a scheme I guess I’ll have to paint some more....

More hobby related goodness on my blog:

http://classicastartes.blogspot.com/2019/09/blog-post_8.html?m=0

[Whitwort Stormbringer]

Gorgeous paint jobs! Iron Warriors seem to suffer from oversimplified paint jobs pretty often, due to the almost-exclusively metallic nature of their color scheme, but these look really nice. Nice depth to the armor and crisp hazard pattern on the bolter housings.

[blacksoilbill]

Very nice indeed! The eye obviously gravitates to the hazard stripes, but the armour is very nicely done too.

[Inso]

Nice, clean work on those... especially the stripes .

I agree... the MkIII armour suits them perfectly .

[OSHIROmodels]

They look great 

[Lost Egg]

I don't know what it is but normally I intensely dislike Iron Warriors...but these guys are great, a lovely smooth job.

Out of interest where did you get the sergeants markings from? Are they free hand?

[Andym]

Even before I clicked on this thread, I knew these would suit your painting style! Great job!

[Legiocustodes]

Cheers Guys! I am really pleased with how they have turned out. The simple brutality of the metal paint scheme just looks so intimidating!

The sergeants chevrons are from the Forge World Iron Warriors transfer sheet!

[Lost Egg]

Cheers mate.

[zrunelord]

Nice  paint job 👍👍👍👍👍
They shine..

Keep it up
Z

[Westfalia Chris]

Excellence within, excellence without. I particularly like that power sword. Beautifully smooth gradients on that one.

[Suber]

I find these extremely interesting. The armours look great, and the stripes add the exact touch of colour they need.

[Legiocustodes]

Thanks all!! Yeah I was really happy with how that sword turned out!!

[Legiocustodes]

After the initial success of my first batch of Iron Warriors last week I decided to knock out another five Astartes in order to keep them company.



I went for another five tactical marines in Mk III Iron Armour (my favourite version of the iconic space marine battle plate) in order to bring the squad up to ten warriors.



I chose to equip one of the marines with a vexilia (aka banner) as this has some limited in game effects but also looks pretty cool.



Again these mighty warriors were really enjoyable to paint and I think they ended up looking pretty cool. I think I have finally mastered the art of hazard stripes now!!



I’m thinking of doing a few more in order to go for a twenty man Legion Tactical Squad.

[War Monkey]

Very nice work you have going on there!