Iron Warriors. Armored Breakthrough list. 3000p

“From iron cometh strength! From strength cometh will! From will cometh faith! From faith cometh honour! From honour cometh iron!”

I am pleased that I finally have finished my armored breakthrough list.

This list draws a lot of inspiration from the books and stories from Tallarn. And the massive offensive Iron Warriors made on this backwater planet.

It is also a list that allowed me to combine things that I love, terminators, dreadnoughts and Tank.

I see this very much as a first version of this concept. There is plenty room for improvement but as it stands I think it is an ok list.

For me it is a very untested concept and I need to run this list a couple of times before I will start to make changes to it.

However, I am still planning on expanding this list to 3500p so that I can run this theme on the next AJAX2 event here in Sweden (http://dirtyk.se/events/ajax).

How to expand the list is a little up in the air at the moment. There is 3 possible roads that I am leaning toward.

1. Add a knight of some sort. This might not be in line with what you would expect in an armored breakthrough list. But I feel it is in line with the Tallarn inspiration. Obviously a titan would be spot on, but that will not be possible before the summer. The Tallarn stories features large walkers as well as mechanicum. A knight would fill that role perfectly in my opinion.

2. Add a shadow sword. A large tank in a tank list? If that doesn’t make sense nothing will. The shadow sword is mentioned throughout the Tallarn stories so it would be in tune with the lore. And the fact that the Torrmentor (Perturabo’s own ride) is a modified shadow sword, there is nothing to not like about it.

3. More of everything. More predators, more sicarans, more medusas. This makes a whole lot of sense from a list or game perspective. It feels like the more boring option to be honest. More of the same. But it would probably be healthy for the overall preference.

What option I decided to go with is something I need to figure out in the coming weeks, if I will be able to finish the list for the event.

So, enough talk here is the list and army show case.

Iron Warriors, Spirit of Tallarn.

3000p

Rite of War: Armoured Breakthrough

+ HQ +

Delegatus [115pts]: Artificer Armour, On Foot, Plasma Pistol, Power Weapon, Refractor Field

. Consul: Delegatus

Master of Armour [225pts]

. Sicaran Battle Tank: Accelerator Autocannon, Armoured Ceramite, Lascannon Sponsons

+ Elites +

Contemptor-Mortis Dreadnought [180pts]: Kheres Pattern Assault Cannon x 2

Terminator Squad, Legion [470pts]: Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armour

. Land Raider Phobos: Armoured Ceramite, Shrapnel Bolts

. Terminator Sergeant, Legion: Chainfist, Combi-Bolter

. Terminators, Legion: Chainfist, Combi-Bolter

. Terminators, Legion: Chainfist, Combi-Bolter

. Terminators, Legion: Chainfist, Combi-Bolter

. Terminators, Legion: Chainfist, Combi-Bolter

Terminator Squad, Legion [465pts]: Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armour

. Land Raider Phobos: Armoured Ceramite, Shrapnel Bolts

. Terminator Sergeant, Legion: Combi-Bolter, Power Fist

. Terminators, Legion: Plasma Blaster, Power Weapon

. Terminators, Legion: Combi-Bolter, Lightning Claw

. Terminators, Legion: Chainfist, Combi-Bolter

. Terminators, Legion: Chainfist, Combi-Bolter

+ Troops +

Predator Strike Armoured Squadron, Legion , Compulsory [95pts]

. Predator Tank, Legion: Heavy Bolter Sponsons, Predator Cannon, Shrapnel Bolts

Predator Strike Armoured Squadron, Legion , Compulsory [95pts]

. Predator Tank, Legion: Heavy Bolter Sponsons, Predator Cannon, Shrapnel Bolts

Predator Strike Armoured Squadron, Legion , Compulsory [95pts]

. Predator Tank, Legion: Heavy Bolter Sponsons, Predator Cannon, Shrapnel Bolts

+ Heavy Support +

Artillery Tank Squadron, Legion [155pts]

. Medusa, Legion: Medusa Siege Gun

Leviathan Siege Dreadnought Talon [325pts]

. Leviathan Siege Dreadnought: Armoured Ceramite, Grav-flux Bombard, Heavy Flamer, Heavy Flamer, Leviathan Siege Claw, Phosphex Discharger

Tyrant Siege Terminator Squad [780pts]: 2x Chainfist, 6x Tyrant Terminator

. Spartan Assault Tank, Legion: Armoured Ceramite, Dozer Blade, Flare Shield, Quad Lascannon Sponsons x2, Twin-linked Heavy Bolter

Horus Heresy. Iron Warriors. Terminators. Update. Part2.

Here is the final result of my update. 

And with this unit done, I feel that my 3000p armored breakthrough list is done. I will be posting some pictures and info about the list in the future. 

 I am also thinking about how to expand the list to 3500p if I will run it at the AJAX 2 event this summer.  

Horus Heresy. Iron Warriors. Terminators. Update. Part1.

Just brushing up some of my terminators for my armored breakthrough list :) . Soon I can call the list finished :D . 

Horus Heresy. Iron Warriors. Predators. Update.

The armored breakthrough list is almost done. I have some terminators that need some attention.

 But I also decided to brush up my already painted predators. 

Nothing to crazy. I love these old models, much because I have had them since I started 40k back in 2th edition. They are poorly built, painted a thousand times and looks kind of wired. But I love them. 

The true veterans of my legion. They have been through hundreds of battles, been holding the line, stormed ahead and died horribly on a “few” occasions ;) . 

There was never a question if they would form the foundation of my Tallarn inspired armored breakthrough list. The list would simply not exist without them. 

Horus Heresy. Iron Warriors. Predator. Part3.

The predator is done! And with this my 3000p armored breakthrough list is built and painted. I have a couple of models in that list that I want to update the paint scheme on. But the list is complete for the most part.

Horus Heresy. Iron Warriors. Predator. Part2.

Next little update on the predator. 

Horus Heresy. Iron Warriors. Predator. Part1

So next on the painting table is this little fella. 

Time to fill up the predator squad with the third one and to get one step closer to my armored breakthrough list :) . 

Horus Heresy. Iron Warriors. Spartan Assault Tank. Part3.

I feel relatively finished with the spartan now. I like how it turned out. I am happy to once more have a spartan for my Iron Warriors :D.

Horus Heresy. Iron Warriors. Spartan Assault Tank. Part2.

More rust and more rust. 

Just the back and the quad las cannons left to rust up.  

I am happy with current progress :D. 

Horus Heresy. Iron Warriors. Spartan Assault Tank. Part1.

Four months ago I gifted my iron warriors spartan to my world eaters. I don’t regret doing this. But I have since then missed this iconic battle tank within my favorite legion. 

So to correct this loss I bought a new one for my brothers of steel.  

The process of painting up this tank is very much the same as with the command barrage for my necrons. With the difference that I have a red/brown undercoat. 

Necrons. Catacomb command barge. Conversion. Part7.

The last step is simply to add some “rust strips” in a similar color as the rust effect. I used P3 Khador red highlight. It is pretty close to ryza rust if applied gently.

Here we also have a family photo :) . 

Necrons. Catacomb command barge. Conversion. Part6.

Now it is time for some details before I start highlighting. 

 I am not going to go over exactly how I do these details. But if anyone wants to know about specific things I will cover it in a later post. 

I have however added some black wash to areas that would be covered by shadow. So essentially darkening the areas that won’t get direct light on them. 

Necrons. Catacomb command barge. Conversion. Part5.

Next small step is to add some easy highlights and to break up some of the rusty areas.  

I do this by very lightly dry brush a very light silver on the model. This step takes a little longer than just dry brush the whole thing. I constantly try to think about very I want to break up the rust effect and where I want high lights. 

Necrons. Catacomb command barge. Conversion. Part4.

Today was rust Sunday :) . 

There is many ways to apply rust. Pigment powder might be the most common. I like to use Ryza Rust from citadel. It is a dry paint. How I use it varies between what outcome I want. Most of the time I add some water to the paint on the brush. I find that this creates almost the same effect as pigment powder.  

Necrons. Catacomb command barge. Conversion. Part3.

So far the painting process is quite straight forward. The washing of the model is no different.

Here I wash the model with Agrax earthshade. I try to imagine that the light is coming directly above the model. That means that I try to go light with the wash on the top surfaces and heavier at the bottom. Wipe of some of the pools and some on the bigger panels.  

I tend to use the wash, not only to bring shade but also texture and striping. 

Necrons. Catacomb command barge. Conversion. Part2.

So, I thought I could make a step by step tutorial on how I paint up my necrons after a couple of requests.

There is nothing complicated about this process and it is not a secret :) .

So for today I first based the model by first spray black then white and finally some rust brown/red.

Next I dry brushed the metal parts with a darker silver, ending up like this.

This is where I end the model tonight. Hopefully I will find some time to paint the next step tomorrow :) . 

Necrons. Catacomb command barge. Conversion. Part1.

I can’t really stop working on my necrons. It feels like this was a great break from all other projects that I have going. So I will continue until I run out of inspiration or parts :) .

Of course I need to add a command barge to my small force. It took some time to convert, but now when it is done I think it turned out rather okay. 

Necron Stalker. Necrons Warhammer 40k. Conversion. Part4.

I think I will call this one finished now. Great fun conversion. We will see what I will be doing next. 

 I am pleased that my little necron force is growing :) . 

Necron Stalker. Conversion. Part3.

Almost finished just some small stuff left to do and some dirt to be added :D .

Necron Stalker. Conversion. Part2.

Slowly getting there but still a lot more to do.