"Iron Within, Iron Without!"
The Infantry Finished
From an undercoat
To Finished. I only used 6 Colours. Plate Mail Metal, Evil Sunz Scarlet, Retributor Gold, Daemonic Yellow and Abaddon Black with a Dark Tone Wash.
Most of the force pre basing.
All my Iron Warriors painted and ready to game with.
These pics were taken maybe 1 second apart, not sure which is better so I'll use both.
The base is originally painted with Moot Green then stippled with a 75/25 White to Moot Green. This helps add little light spots that makes it look more like a dynamic base instead of a green one.
Perturabo's Base. You can see the technique clearer here. I'm not claiming it's perfect, I think I might end up dry brushing the black cracked earth to make it a little brighter but it works for now.
A light coat gives you a light, cracked finish suitable for a basic desert but I'm going for more of a weird volcanic/cracked earth recently hit with chemical/nuclear weapons so a thicker coat makes that effect. I thought I would need a new pot after only finding about a quarter of a pot left but it was easily enough to do this whole force, that stuff goes a lot further than you think.
You can see it start to crack. The smaller parts crack first while the bigger parts congeal then crack.
Close up of the finished thing, rim of base was painted with Abaddon Black.
The 40 Tactical Marines being based.
The finished force. Old Points this would be about 2500 but I have no idea what the new points will be. I've still got to paint up the 150 Penal legion Allies so I should comfortably be at that same 2500 Point mark again.
Top stuff, I’m hoping the new HH set can get me painting again…
You seem to have gotten this force build and done so quickly as well! Very impressive all round!
Thanks mate. Not having to do a highlight definitely saved a lot of time, if I was doing some Night Lords like I did back in the day this would have taken at least twice as long.
What Legion are you thinking of doing yourself?
That makes a lot of sense, they are looking great! Night Lords ugh! I dont think I would ever attempt to paint them 😀
I’ve picked two, one loyal and one traitor… I tried to avoid my usual Space Wolves and Dark Angel choices and went with the Emperor’s Children and Blood Angels, Brighter colours than I’m used to.
Nice. Make sure to throw them up in a project and post the link. Emperor’s Children are awesome although I do like anything in purple.