The Iron Warriors were the seige specialists.
They had alot of MK3 armor for the superior frontal armor.
I like to model them as down and dirty trench fighters
The Iron Warriors Upgrade was used to make this model with a simple shortening of a melta-gun to make it compact
I primed it black because metallics look better over black


1)-Boltgun Metal for the armor plate,
-Shining Gold for the Trim
-Tau-Sept Ochre for any yellow
-I then gave a thinned wash of Badab Black wash


2)-2 coats Undiluted Badab Black wash,letting each coat dry fully before adding the next
-1st layer an undiluted 50/50 mix of Asurmen black and Badab Black

3)-Highlight the armor plate with Boltgun Metal
-Paint the yellows areas Iyanden Darksun and the stripes Chaos Black
-Give the armor another wash of Asurmen Blue/Badab Black


4)-Neaten up any stripes
-Shade Yellow with a few layers Delivn Mud wash
-Give the Gold Trim a wash of Devlin Mud


5)-Using Mithril Silver paint an outline of a skull


6)-Using a mix of Boltgun Metal and Chaos Black paith the eyes and lines for the mouth


7)-1 layer of Devlin Brown wash on the legs below the knees
-1 layer of watered down Graveyard Earth
-Devin Brown wash spoltched over the graveyard earth
-The end of the melta I used Scorched Brown and Chaos Black
-The old codex would let you use servo-arms I like to model them on mine

Very nice!

this is an excellent tutorial on metallic color scheme.

i like the bluish tint to the model. works well with the yellow.

This is an amazin model, with a nice paintjob too.
Is there any change you could give me a list of the bitz you used to make it?
Thanks

Sure it is mostly IW upgrade bits(chest and head)
The powerfist is from the devastator sprue.
The trench melta is just a normal meltagun trimmed down
Normal kneepad legs carved to be mk3 the groinplate is a peice of scrap plastic with rivets added(see rivets tutiorial in the tute section of the site)

And the servo-arm backpack is the one that comes on the old techmarine model that you still can get in the GW collectors section.

Ps next time PM me for a quicker response I am always willing to help.

Will

Sweet model!

And VERY well painted!

Here's one of mine--I was going to post a tutorial but realised my method's about the same as BigWill's, so instead I'll just post it as another example of what it looks like.

Now you have to say what helmets/bodies you used ! :lol:

Oh, heh. :) It's discussed in my blog--basically this guy is a 1990s Chaos Space marine body with new Imperial plastic bits.

That model is Dead Sexy :lol:

Anybody know how to get those lines (yellow and black) really straight?

I painted the whole pad black, then just added the yellow carefully. It's easier to repaint over any errors in black than in yellow, which is why I used the black as the basecoat. So, yeah, take care. ;)

Thats funny I usually do yellow then black :lol:
I wish there was a secret but infact it is all practice and alot of touch-ups.
But I really try to make a supreme effort to keep them all the same width
If you look at Alot of my models they usually have a danger stripe there somewhere(I just love em to death)
The new DeathWatch Kill team I am doing will have Danger stripes going around the bases to help tie in the spacehulk themed basing I used.