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What do you guys think about using Sanguinary Guard models for IH HQs, specifically for Chaplains and Captains (with jump packs).

 

The nipple armor seems like a great candidate, painted in metallic silvers/greys as an artisan-forged iron armor, look.

 

And then I was thinking about shaving off the blood drops, or perhaps doing them to look like a liquid iron "drop", using liquid mercury drops (just google it) for the color palette and model.

 

What do you guys think?  Too "beautiful" for Iron Hands? Do they have much of a chapter history for artisanship and beauty?

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The muscle armour doesn't match the aesthetic of any Iron Hands images from the Horus Heresy to "modern" day. However, as Harrowmaster said, they're you're models. Just because GW/FW have never shown an Adeptus Astartes of the Iron Hands in muscle armour doesn't necessarily mean that it has never happened.
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 Just because GW/FW have never shown an Adeptus Astartes of the Iron Hands in muscle armour doesn't necessarily mean that it has never happened.

'MY PECS ARE IRON-HARD BROTHER!' Is all I can think of an Iron Hand with Muscle Armour on.

 

It's an amusing thought :lol:

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I was actually thinking the Mortuary Masks would look pretty awesome in a dark iron/silver. The drops could also represent the metallic blood of the wyrm Asirnoth?

 

WRT the muscle armour? Heh, even if it doesn't fit 100% with established fluff of the Iron Hands, it'll look really cool, which is the most important. You can always say your Iron Father is a fringe believer in a different kind of metallic transcendence: not replacing flesh with machine, but making flesh into metal.
I'd however not go for something too shiny looking - I'd stick with black or charcoal grey in the crevices, with merely a drybrush of the metallic over the top. a - it'll put the texture into that much more relief, and b - it'll stick with the general colour of the Iron Hands much better.

 

Good luck :tu:

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I was actually thinking the Mortuary Masks would look pretty awesome in a dark iron/silver. The drops could also represent the metallic blood of the wyrm Asirnoth?

Great idea!

WRT the muscle armour? Heh, even if it doesn't fit 100% with established fluff of the Iron Hands, it'll look really cool, which is the most important. You can always say your Iron Father is a fringe believer in a different kind of metallic transcendence: not replacing flesh with machine, but making flesh into metal.

To transcend the way a Necron Lord transcended? One wonders what the Iron Hands found on Dawnbreak, and what they're doing with it now.
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I was actually thinking the Mortuary Masks would look pretty awesome in a dark iron/silver. The drops could also represent the metallic blood of the wyrm Asirnoth?

 

WRT the muscle armour? Heh, even if it doesn't fit 100% with established fluff of the Iron Hands, it'll look really cool, which is the most important. You can always say your Iron Father is a fringe believer in a different kind of metallic transcendence: not replacing flesh with machine, but making flesh into metal.

I'd however not go for something too shiny looking - I'd stick with black or charcoal grey in the crevices, with merely a drybrush of the metallic over the top. a - it'll put the texture into that much more relief, and b - it'll stick with the general colour of the Iron Hands much better.

 

Good luck :thumbsup:

 

Yep, this is the concept I'm going to go with.  I think I'm going to relegate it specifically to Chaplains (possibly with Captains as well); the idea is kind of like a Nietzschian "uber-mensch"...the "molten man-the man of liquid metal" is a spiritual ascetic idea of apotheosis...born again of iron/baptized in iron, to give it a Christian trapping...you get the idea.

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