The Lord of Iron has ARRIVED!

Perturabo is the Primarch of my Legion the Iron Warriors. This is the model I have thought of since I converted to 40k in 2005. The Horus Heresy books had just started to be released and I wanted in. I opened up the third edition Chaos Space Marines codex turned to the rear cover and fell in love. The entire GW staff Iron Warrior army was set up in a display that just bled war. So I bought the Horus Heresy Visions and saw one picture of the man himself Perturabo. Back then the model was just an imagination. One day forge world came out with a primarch named Angron and I was just waiting for the IVth to get their day. Today is that day!!

Here you see the box of glory, my former Perturabo, test mini and the Vindicator I'm working on. 

The first three pieces of the display base. They will form a destroyed Knight Titan by Perturabo. 

The dead Knight Pilot

Here's the size comparison with my test miniature. 

Here's Perturabo in blowout. The detail is just incredible. I'm a huge fan of the dual hand cannons. I'd love to see his stat line show this improvement on his armour. 

He's so big. Notice it's just thigh to collar. 

His face is going to be my biggest challenge to paint but I'm going for it. 

A final size comparison next to my wip Vidicator tank. 

The official card of how to build Perturabo. (Which I lost and received a PDF version from Forgeworld)

I will approach a test model for my 30k Iron Warriors first, then Perturabo. That's all for now

Latest projects

Finally got this baneblade together and put the air scrubbers on.
Now I just need to fix a heavy bolter and give it a pintle mount

Here's my Primarch

I've been quite busy at work the last two weeks. This has destroyed my plans for painting over the last couple of weeks. I have a trip this weekend and next weekend with the family. Once the trips are done its time to hunker down and get my tournament army ready to go. I should have a few hours in the middle of this week to make some progress on the motor pool. In the mean time this guy is not finished recently but wanted to show some work off.  This is a model from the Kabuki Miniatures range. I use him as Perturabo Primarch of the IVth Legions Astartes, The Iron Warriors. To start off here is Work in Progress (WIP) shot.

I shaved off some of the extra decorum on the shoulder pads for two reasons. The first is Perturabo doesn't fancy, well the fancy. The second being I really didn't like the way that section looked. 

A closer look at the detail work which was excellent. 

If you see the original it comes with a different base (I didn't like that either). I used one from a very old metal Mortarion model. If you noticed I shaved the inner thighs decorum as well. 

Finally some paint was applied. This was my first attempt at photographing my work and painting with layers on the metal. I would normally just ink over a metal. This looks superior to that. 

Once the assembly and metal work was completed I went to work on the daemon hammer Forgebreaker. What a fun part of the model to paint. It can be missed if you don't look at it really, as it faces the ground. 

Side shot of Perturabo. I'm very happy with my paint job on him. The blend is great with the cables and across the armour facings.

Here's a size comparison with a standard Space Marine. I'm not satisfied with his face and will continue to grow in that area. Until then enjoy the finished shots. 

Thanks for looking and hope to see you next time folks. 

Flyrant, Shrikes and Genestealers...Oh my!

Flyrant, Shrikes and Genestealers...Oh my!

Updates on the hivefleet as I have been basing and adding to the models this week.  I am trying to get enough models built to finally build out and order my battle foam order.  I just don't know if I will make the cut before I leave for California.  I guess we will see.

Dual Thunderhammer  wielding Space Marine Inquisitor to add to my Emperor Shadows.  I don't have any background for him yet I just thought it would be a cool conversion.

This will be my third flyrant and this one will have a captain using his jump pack to assault the flyrant.

Another angle.

Tyrannocyte based over rubble of course.  I used a heat gun to bend the plastic tentacles and it has become my new favorite tool.

Toxicrene is now based.

 

 

All the models form last week are now based.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not much of an update other than pictures of the bases.  Thanks for looking and may your paint brush never be dry.

Miscellaneous Paint Job...2yrs in the making

So I was being a bum today and I got a kind reminder that I have things I need to get done around the house so...I finally completed repainting my shed out back to match the house.

So here is the before...

I still have to repaint the white trim but its pretty much done.

Thanks for looking and may your paint brush never be dry.