Thursday, August 20, 2009

Iron Warrior Chosen Conversions! Meltas FTW!












After I fell for the Iron Warriors theme I painted on my oblitz and seeing as it broke up the "uh, another plague marine army" feel my army was starting to have, I decided that my 5 man chosen Melta squad would need to be done up as Iron warriors as well.
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I decided that since they were chosen, that they are veterans, so I gave most of this group augmetics and either a cool helmet or an IW themed one. Then I started to think about how I deploy them (they always outflank), which made me think about the beginning of Storm of Iron and how the Iron Warriors snuck up on the Guard in the beginning, so I gave them kits from various bitz that I had laying around. Most have the standard Chaos pistol holster, but one has a bag filled with ammo and a bolter and E-tool strapped to his leg while another has a shotgun on his powerpack.
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Hopefully these will be as much fun to paint as they were to convert. Let me know what you think!


4 comments:

  1. The conversions look brilliant and when painted they'll be a characterful squad indeed. I like all the little touches like the shotgun etc. They bring some individuality to the minis without going OTT. Now get them painted! ;)

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  2. I like these conversions. The use of the various back packs is inspired - nice job!

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  3. Cool minis, cant waite to see them painted.

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  4. I love the concept of CSM vets. Haha. I guess there's something that differentiates a CSM who's fought for thousands of years and one that's a Veteran. :p

    Cool looking models. I <3 Melta spam. :D

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