The new Ironhelms - Spyros' 42000 painting blog

[Spyros]

Nicely done, Spyros! I really don't know what it is, but blue helmets on red armour just looks fantastic.

I guess you'll love the Eradicators once I build them :)

[Spyros]

The list that drives the painting effort has been updated for 9th edition:

 

The armoured Ironhelms (1999 points - 12 CP)

 

Blood Angels Battalion (The Red Thirst, Savage Echoes, Defenders of Humanity)

 

105 - Primaris Captain, Hv.Bolt pistol, MC Power sword & Relic shield [Artisan of war] (Icon of the Angel)

170 - Chief Librarian Mephiston (primaris)

  95 - Primaris Librarian, Force sword, Bolt pistol

 

212 - Intercessor squad (10), Power fist, Auto Bolt rifles, AGL

120 - Infiltrator squad (5), Marksman Bolt carbines

130 - Infiltrator squad (5), Marksman Bolt carbines, Helix Adept

 

105 - Bladeguard Veteran squad (3), Hv.Bolt pistols, MC Power swords & Storm shields

 

150 - Inceptor squad (3), Plasma Exterminators

 

120 - Eradicator squad (3), Melta rifles

  90 - Eliminator squad (3), Bolt sniper rifles, Camo cloaks

361 - Repulsor Executioner, Hv.Laser Destroyer, Hv.Onslaught gatling, Tw.Hv.Bolter, Tw.Icarus Ir.Hv.Stubber,

          Icarus Rocket pod, 2 Storm Bolters, Auto launchers

341 - Repulsor, Tw.Lascannon, Hv.Onslaught gatling, Onlslaught gatling, 2 Krakstorms, 2 Stormbolters, Icarus rocket pod,

          Auto launchers

 

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/365451-the-armoured-ironhelms-2000pts-9th-primaris-combined-arms/

[Spyros]

- Enemy armour sighted!

- Brother, bring the Laser Destroyer. (Enter the Gladiator Lancer...)

The Heavy Laser Destroyer!

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Excellent work on the Repulsor Executioner. Edited August 9, 2020 by Bjorn Firewalker

[Spyros]

Crusaders assemble!

Edited December 28, 2020 by Spyros

[Majkhel]

Perfect! So glad you removed that senseless skeleton :D Where is the Chalice icon from?

[Xenith]

Oh man, Spyros, you're making us look bad!

 

I haven't finished a BA model in a while...

[Spyros]

Perfect! So glad you removed that senseless skeleton Where is the Chalice icon from?

It's one of the three icons from the Baal Predator. It has its own halo which I removed since the shield's was almost the same.

I too found the skeleton on the shield senseless and impractical, and it doesn't fit our aesthetics. I'm OK with the one on the standard.

Edited August 21, 2020 by Spyros

[Spyros]

Oh man, Spyros, you're making us look bad!

 

I haven't finished a BA model in a while...

 

I started this effort on June 2019, trying to get a full primaris list for 8th.... not fast enough hehehehe!

At least now, after a few changes in the composition, I 'm getting close. I need 17 more models to make it operational.

Lots of distractions, trying hard to motivate myself to paint.

[Spyros]

Reach out and touch somebody.

[Spyros]

There 's not an art of war that the Blood Angels cannot master, including infiltration...

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Good job on the Infiltrators. Edited October 25, 2020 by Bjorn Firewalker

[Jolemai]

Flock 

[Spyros]

Grass Flock works like a charm!

 

And now, for the shake of my daughter that asked me to keep the Necrons from Indomitus box, I tried something else for the first time.

It would be surreal to base Necrons on green grass, so the test batch has grey bases that are covered on top with Astrogranite. It's very interesting, it creates something like lunar ground/rocks/dust.

[Jolemai]

I think i've got a pot of that somewhere for use of another army*

 

 

*lololol like that's ever going to happen

[Imren]

Great work! I have a tips for your BA army. So you have good base coats and some highlights here and there on your models.Try this on as a smooth nice way of shading the recesses:

 

Materials:

• Odourless white spirit (you'll find it in arts' stores)
• A round synthetic brush size 0 or 1.
• Artists' oil paint burnt umber and lamp black.
• A small (2" x 2") piece of cardboard (that brown one with corrugated middle layer that is used on shipping boxes works fine.
• A small little mixing cup (these are perfect for it: https://www.amazon.com/GSI-kureosu-Dishes-Equipment-D175/dp/B076QBF1DF/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=metal+paint+mixing+cups&qid=1603718240&sr=8-3)

 

 

Procedure:

1. Put some burnt umber oil paint and lamp black side by side separated on the piece of cardboard. They are quite dark and can look quite similar so a good idea is to write which is which. Wait for 1-2 hrs and watche the line seed oil being absorbed by the cardboard.
2. Put some burnt umber in the mixing cup and apply the white spirit and througly mix so that the paint dissolves completely and no grains or chunks remain.
3. To darken it up you can mix in a bit of the black, this way it will be more alike agrax earthshade.
4. Apply the wash in the recesses with the fine tipped brush.
5. Wait 30 min until the paint dries somewhat so that it does not look wet.
6. Clean up the ecxess paint with a cleam brush that is a bit damp with white spirit.
7. Allow to dry for 24 hrs.
8. Optional stage is to give the model a coat of matt varnish (preferrably with an airbrush to seal in the paint job and oil wash).

[Spyros]

Imren thank you for the info, I'll study it nut I doubt I'll use it.

I'm a slow and basic painter. I did however started using recently Agrax Earthshade, and I've almost gone through with it all the primaris models you see here.

A small step for man...

[Spyros]

New addition for the 3rd company, new entombment in the sarcophagus, brother Noreo Borel.

[Majkhel]

Very nice job! I like how you managed to quite a few bits and decals, but not made him seem too busy with detail 

[Spyros]

I like especially the fist icon, a 2nd edition decal.

 

I think that the eagle on top left shoulder seems a bit too large, but it's done now.

Edited November 10, 2020 by Spyros

[Majkhel]

I agree, that one is lovely :)

[Spyros]

I was just 6 models away from finishing the list that drove the painting...

 

Now I 'm 22...

 

The Crusading Ironhelms, 3rd company (2000 points - 12 CP)

 

Blood Angels Battalion

(Company Command, Chapter Tactics: Red Thirst, Troops: Objective Secured, Savage Echoes)

 

105 - Primaris Captain, Hv.Bolt pistol, MC Power sword & Relic shield [speed of the Primarch] (Icon of the Angel)

  95 - Primaris Librarian, Force sword, Bolt pistol (Smite, Veil of Time, Psychic Fortress)

 

130 - Intercessor squad (6), Power Fist, Auto Bolt rifles

120 - Infiltrator squad (5)

195 - Assault Intercessor squad (10), Power sword

 

105 - Bladeguard Veteran squad (3)

185 - Redemptor Dreadnought, Macro Plasma Incinerator, Onslaught GC, Storm Bolters, Icarus rocket pod

 

135 - Outrider squad (3)

100 - Suppressor squad (3)

 

120 - Eradicator squad (3), Melta rifles

340 - Repulsor, Tw.Lascannon, Hv.Onslaught gatling, Onlslaught gatling, 2 Krakstorms, 2 Stormbolters, Icarus rocket pod,

          Hunter-Slayer missile, Auto launchers

370 - Repulsor Executioner, Hv.Laser Destroyer, Hv.Onslaught gatling, Tw.Hv.Bolter, Tw.Icarus Ir.Hv.Stubber,

          Icarus Rocket pod, 2 Storm Bolters, Auto launchers

[Spyros]

I only ever painted a single bike back in 2nd edition. It was an Attack Bike with Multi-melta, and more specifically with the wargear item Recon Pack which increased the strategy rating of the army. The fact that the bikers couldn't take melee weapons was a bit of a let down...

Things changed, ages changed, so I believe the new Outriders arrival deserves some proper fanfare!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRUY1rvnvMc

[Jolemai]

Always used that stratagem on my single bike :D

[Spyros]

10th Company heavy support inbound...