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Hi All,

So as promised (albeit a bit late) is the update to the Iron Hands army.  I was working on this addition a few weeks ago.  I’ve been meaning to get the photographed for some time, however time restrictions have meant that I’ve not been able to get to them until this morning.

So this tranche reinforcements consists mostly of characters and a few nice to have, but not urgent units.

We’ll start off with Forge World’s interpretation of the classic Rogue Trader era Land Raider, known now as the Land Raider Proteus.  What a great job (as usual) they’ve done.  Whilst Forge World haven’t gotten around to casting the tracks onto to the hull just yet, it’s still a great kit.  Brings back a lot of fond memories.  The plan with this vehicle is to transport the Tactical Support Squad I did with the plasma guns.  The idea is they jump out, hose something, and if they survive after that, then all good.  But hopefully in their suicide mission, they scrub out a difficult to kill infantry unit.

Next up is the Sicaran Venator.  I’m not 100% on what the meta is on these (I’ve not played 30k in quite a while), however they seem to produce a lot of bang for your buck.  You’ll notice a bit further down I’ve got a tank commander popping out of a hatch.  Thats meant to be Casterman Orth.  A nice force multiplier for the Venator.  

Casterman Orth.  Based on the Games Workshop model for Sergeant Antaro Chronus, featured in the Ultramarines codex.  I’ve modified it slightly, including Iron Hands shoulder pads, and replacing the bolt pistol with a power maul.  For the power maul, I ended up making the shaft out of brass rod, I feared that the resin one would be too fragile for day-to-day gaming.    

So Gav-cannon rapier platforms.  Just because they’re cool.  I magnatised the weapons incase at some point in the future I want to give them a different load out.  I put them on the GW oval bases because I think it give them a nice finishing touch.  

A librarian.  I’ve long thought that the Sevrin Loth librarian model (of Red Scorpions fame) as the best librarian model ever produced.  I’ve actually also considered doing one for the World Eaters too (for loyalist forces).  

With the new rules for the Master of Signals coming out regarding his command rhino, I think we’ll see more of these guys moving forward.  They can bring down some pretty serious fire-power in one turn, whilst also delaying or speeding up reserves.  

Yeah, this guy…  with the new rules, I’ll probably take off the jump pack and put him in a squad of destroyers….

Nice to have… nuff said.  

I really like these models.  This squad have some ray guns.  Ok, thats it for now.  I’ve been doing a fair bit of 6mm scale painting and gaming of late.  I find the scale and game play  much more enjoyable.  The models I’ve been working on are just reinforcements to my 6mm scale World Eaters.  So I may or may not do posts on them.  Just run of the mill stuff, more tactical marines, basilisks etc.  I am working on three Thunder Hawk transports, which are seriously cool models and very usable in 6mm, so I may do a post on them too.  We’ll see.

Ok, thats enough from me.

Bye for now

John

Hello everyone,

So this is a blog post I’ve been wanting to do for some time.  Remember a couple of months ago when I posted up that 30k Iron Hands army?  Well, I had the Ferrus Manus model ready to go at the time, but I really wanted to do something special with him.  Ever since Forge World released Ferrus and Fulgrim, and made their display bases in such a way that they could be joined, I’ve wanted to do them.  However, I didn’t just want to chuck them on their 60mm bases and call it a day.  I wanted something a little more befitting of such a significant, and one may argue, pivotal, confrontation between the Primarch of the IIIrd legion and the Xth Legion on Istvaan V.  The aftermath of the drop site massacre echoes through the legions present, and indeed had an indelible effect on the history of the 41st millennium.

So just a few quick thoughts on the painting of these minis.  Firstly, I didn’t want to do the ‘grey’ stone base for these models.  Firstly, Ferrus is black, which is a tricky colour (it’s a shade) to paint at the best of times, let alone trying to make it stand out on a black base.  Secondly, I wanted something to compliment Fugrim’s primarily purple and gold armour.  I ended up settling on a variant of the bases of the larger Iron Hands force I did, that being yellow.  Yellow is a nice complimentary colour for the purple and a good background to create enough of a contrast for Ferrus’s armour to stand out on.    The actual plinth the scene is mounted on is a trophy/plaque base.  Minus the plaque.  They come pre-lacquered to quite a nice finish.  I was going to get some dark marble in the beginning but after investigations I discovered it was going to be outrageously expensive, so I sought other means.  I chose the name of the scene for two reasons.  Firstly, it’s the name of the soundtrack that is played over the three-way duel between Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon and Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace.  Now, I’m not actually a Star Wars fan: at all, however, that fight scene is seriously impressive.  So much so that I went and tracked down the sound track that accompanied it.  It just evokes images of titanic and climatic clashes  in my imagination.  The second reason I chose the name was it seemed to suit this duel.  Once very close brothers: one now possessed by a daemon and condemned, one betrayed.  At the conclusion of this battle, the fate of both Primarchs, and their legions is sealed.  One Primarch and his legion now and forevermore heretics, and one Primarch dead, and his legion shattered and irrevocably changed for all time.

It was a real pleasure painting these two.

Here are the pics, enjoy.

Thanks for dropping in.

John