“This world may bring deep darkness,
but we are the bearers of light.
We´ll join our flames together,
and shine in the blackest of night.”
“Where do reality start and where does it end? My body dwindle but my perceptions is ecstatic. I cannot live without the other but one hold presidents.
Am I a slave or am I doing this to myself willingly?
Is my life in one end of the cable or the other?
Questions that once held important to us, do not matter anymore, for here we are free. In our own synthetic prison. Our silicon life, our software dream.
”
I am taking my blog in a new direction. Instead of exclusively focusing on miniatures and models, I will start to in cooperate some of my other creative hobbies as well. Like painting artwork!
Painting is a big part of my creative free time and I have been trying to treat it more professional since 2018.
I hope you all like it and that it adds a nice variation to my regular content. And do not be alarmed. There will be plenty of miniatures and war game hobbies as normal.
If you like the art presented in this post, you can buy art prints of it by pressing the “Buy artwork” button.
“The impurities of this galaxy will not be removed by faith or gods. You place your hope to worship and deities, to spirits and witches. I place may conviction to Blood and sacrifice, to the hammer and to Iron.
Iron within and Iron without.”
“So much faith is given to the so-called dark gods and to the ruinous powers. I watch my lost brothers and their honourless ways. Losing them self in the ecstasy and misplacing their purpose only to be puppets directed by madness and chaos.
Do not take my observation for disrespect. I see the deities that so many bend their knee to. And I see great power, I see a force that will split this galaxy in two and set it aflame. I see an uncontrolled storm of unrivalled destruction.
It takes a forge to hold the flame and a smiths hammer to direct its power. I will not worship the furnace or the glowing smelt. I will mould the power into a weapon and point it toward my enemy.”
So, my little exploration of chaos Iron Warriors is coming to a pause and looking back, I am quite happy with the new units for my chaos army. I have very deliberate worked in the direction of the “brother hood of steel” or the Apolakron as they are also known.
I kind of gravitate more towards the more “We bow to no one” mentality of the Iron Warriors. That sets them apart from some of the other chaos legions. Instead of worship they try to harness the powers and use it as a weapon. Turning demons into machines and utilising machine craft to break their enemies. Kind of like a darker version of Iron Hands.
Now that is also what makes Iron Warriors so interesting. That this very straight forward, stubborn, and uncompromising sub faction is full of nuance. Digging a little beneath the surface and the Iron Warriors is very complex characters and there is so much lore to work with. This is so much better reflected in older editions of 40k but also in Horus Heresy. This may be some of the reason why I have not been so involved in the neewest editions of 40k. Many times, the factions feel shallow and very superficial.
Anyway, I do look forward to try Warhammer 40k 9th edition at some point. Hopefully 2021 will allow for some games again and the first army that will march for war just have to be my Iron Warriors.
Hope everyone is okey out there. Stay safe and Iron Within, Iron Without!
My 40K Iron Warriors needs a lord to lead them. One of the cooler models released for chaos is abaddon. I really love what GW did with him. Unfortunately he doesn’t belong to the mighty 4th legion. So I have changed him so he fit with the rest of the army.
My first daemon engine is done :) . I am quite happy with it.
Some paint and oil washes later :) . Still very much a work in progress but slowly we are getting there.
It occurs to me that I have not shared the good news! Kuggköping have a new version ready for download. Based on feedback and my own playtesting some bigger changes have been implemented.
For anyone interested, Alpha 2.0 is free to download. It’s a solo / co-op skirmish game set in the wondrous city of Kuggköping.
Try it out and please leave your thoughts on the game if you feel like it.
Next little project is the venomcrawler. I didn’t intended to convert ever model to my Iron Warriors but looking at the models I can’t help my self.
Firstly I don’t love the design of the chaos units. Generally they look ok. There is a lot of cool details and for the most part nice designs. But I feel that most of them don’t reflect the deep heritage from the Horus Heresy and the legions they once were. So this is what I try to add in most of these conversions. Also I want things to be more mechanical to reflect the nature of Iron Warriors. I don’t see the 4th legion to be worshippers or supporters of daemons. I see them more as a legion that use the warp, chaos and the gods as tools or as weapons. It’s means to an end and nothing more.
That’s what Iron Warriors is to me and that’s what I want them to look like :) .
The venomcrawler conversion is based on the Horus heresy mechanicum vorax model. It makes sense to me that these mechanical constructs would eventually evolve to what the venomcrawler is after thousands of years in the warp and at the hands of the 4th legion. A fun and easy conversion. Maybe a bit expensive, but totally worth it :) .
The Lord has come and with him he usher in a new year, a new age of my Iron Warriors. If COVID is willing I will try 40K next year and leading the force forward will be my newly converted Lord discordant.
2020 have been a bad year for table top gaming. But I am very thankful that me and my family have made it so far without any incidents. So while the hobby side of things have been lacking the important things in life is ok.
It is hard to not think about all the families that have not been so lucky and I give a lot of thoughts to those that have gone through a really bad year. I hope that 2021 will be the very best year for everyone and that our life can soon go back to normal. Happy new year and stay safe!
It is that Merry time of the year. The Iron Warriors is eagerly waiting for the bringer of gifts and wonders. Slowly he is getting closer, just some washes and highlights and then he will join the ranks of jolly men.
Merry Christmas to all heretics and defenders of the imperium!
A new version of Kuggköping is ready to download. Changes big and small have happened to the game and a lot of playtesting have been done :D.
I enjoy this little creation of mine and I hope you will do it to. If you have any feedback or comments do not hesitate to share them with me.
http://notacollector.com/kuggkping-the-game
At the moment I am moving about some furniture between rooms. This have unfortunately made my regular “photo-place” unavailable. So the photos of my little dudes is not the best at the moment. I will try to take better photos once the redecorating is done.
But here we have the iconic warpsmith fresh out of the forge :) .
I didn’t really like the original master of possession model so I made my own version. This model will double as a sorcerer as well. I guess that the difference between a master of possession and a sorcerer is thin line :) .
The mighty Storm Lord is ready for battle. With its chassis tied to the unification wars, it’s mighty frame have seen a multitude of battles. The great crusader brought it to the stars and to the stars it brought its devastation. And now as Horus draws close to terra this behemoth return to its cradle to serve once more.
I decided to re-paint my Stormlord. I love the look of the tank and want to be able to bring it more often. Originally I painted the tank for my warhounds/world eaters. And it looked nice in blue. But it kind of stopped me to bring the tank with any of my other legions. So a neutral grey is the new color for it.
Another dreadnought gets rewarded for faithful service. Now it’s time for my Leviathan to be gifted some more dakka.
There is something dark and twisted moving in the ranks of the 4th. A holy union between steel and flesh, gun and limb.
Come forth my children of oblivion. Let’s bring ruin to the imperial truth and all who spread its lies. The kingdom of man will fall and the galaxy will burn.
Decided to give one of my contemptors a set of Volkites. I love the look of the autocannons that is he’s “original” load out, but the volkite have a little bit more bite to it. Don’t get me wrong, I like the look of the volkite as well but it is something with those long barrels :) .
I have this vision for a city that never seem to leave me. I can’t do anything else but to give in to it and try to make it come to life. This is the next chapter in my effort of creating my own tabletop miniatures game.
What started as a modification of a simple skirmish game ended in a re-write and a reboot of my self-developed game.
For anyone that checked out Kuggköping in the past, you will now find that the game is a lot different now. It has been re-imagined and re-done from the ground up. Now the game is far from finished and there is a lot left to do before I could call it all done. But I think that it is solid enough to share with the rest of the world.
Taking the game from a skirmish game and turning it to a solo/cooperative/ semi player vs player game have been really fun and I now have a game I can enjoy in my own company or with friends and family.
Since covid-19 happened there have been difficulty to meet with others and enjoy a simple tabletop game. So, some months into this pandemic I decided to do something about it. Why not create a game that I could enjoy while the world figure this pandemic out. Something that I can play on the evenings when my children is put to bed and that could give me a similar experience that many other games dose but in my own company.
Obviously as the games father I love it and find it enjoyable. But I do think others can enjoy it as well.
As we are sitting at home waiting for this disease to disappear, why not go on an adventure into the wonderous city kuggköping.
I hope you feel a little curious about the game and I encourage you to go and check it out.
http://notacollector.com/kuggkping-the-game
The Moonstone characters are done. Such lovely models, so much character and originality. These where awesome to paint.
Now I just need to get a game in with them. With COVID and everything going on that might take some time to arrange, but I am happy I got them painted.
I do have 8 more models for moonstone left to paint up. I do however have some other things to attend before I can start on them and it would be nice to play the game before making more models.
