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You bet! :D

I kinda like the way GW is portraying the vets: a white helmet stripe. As an alternative, I would consider painting them in the oldr Legion colors.

Be careful of what you wish for. ;)

Great work, IHF! I really love all the detail you have put into this. So...uh, when are you going to show us pics of the completed models/units for your Clan Company? :P

Those are some good looking Sallies there - I love the 3rd edition paint scheme.

That is the problem: This is the grim darkness of the far future....there is no savior. There isn't supposed to be. Everything is bleak and hopeless. That is what the far future of the 41st Millennium is supposed to be - only war. The Iron Hands turn themselves into mechanical constructs - not because it is a good thing - but because the 40K universe is full of terrible monsters out to devour humanity and humanity needs monsters of their own to defeat them. The Iron Hands are supposed to be cold, merciless and unrelenting. There is no room for compassion, there is no margin for error because the future hangs in the balance. Only the strong will survive and the Imperium can ill afford to protect the weak. That is the outlook the Iron Hands are supposed to have. Their mantra is "The unyielding mind and the unyielding body", not "Let's get reaquainted with our humanity".

This is perhaps the most drastic and offensive change tothe fluff. The Iron-Father was a unique character to the Iron Hands - an icon....maybe even the icon. He was an elite Chaplain/Techmarine hybrid. Changing the Iron-Father to be nothing more than an honorific is like making the Emperor's Champion an honorific for the Black Templars. The change only makes sense if your goal is a slow step-by-step transition of changing the Iron Hands into a Codex Chapter.

Oh, good - someone who is as lousy at taking pictures as I am! :D

Hey, you have one bright Space Marine there - no chance of anyone not seeing him coming! :P Other than a bit more shading the obviously missing shoulderpad, I think you have a great looking Sergeant.

That is a lot of work to get the red - but looks well worth it. You plan to build a company with this technique? Hope you have a good therapist. :P

Wow! Those are some nice looking Blood Ravens. The red seems....almost metalic in appearance - is that just a trick of the camera or something else?

It never explicitly states that Stronos wants less bionics. But it is inferred that he wants to change the Chapter's perspective of bionics. The small quote indow at the top of page 67 talks about the Iron Hands being nothing without a soul. Combine this with the Clan Council being steered away from the dominance of Techmarines to include Apothecaries and Chaplains. I don't like Stronos because he represents what the Iron Hands shunned - a single Chapter Master leading the Iron Hands. Elected or not, that is his role. I also do not like that he represents a kind of "hope" for the Chapter - another shiny spot among way too many in the grim darkness of the 41st Millennium.

I have only heard about about red (like bright orange - red) and white hair. But I imagine other colors are possible.

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/104019-painting-converting-and-artwork/

Wow - I lke your iconography on the top. Very well done! Not sure about the red bits. Next to the green, it kinda hurts the eyes. :P Great job :tu: