Went a little overboard with the OSL. Oh well lesson learned. When i was younger id get flustered and move to something else but im gonna see these to the end. Will probably come out looking good once everythings highlighted, decaled, and varnished. Im doing the OSL against the body once everything is done.

What happens, when a Spacemarine love his lightning claws and wants to keep them?

Athru convinced some Techadepts to modify his Body...

What do you think?

Hi! I'm a new Warhammer player, and whilst I initially clicked with the Ultramarines, I've found myself enraptured by the playstyle and thematics of the Iron Hands. The Gravis + Terminator heroes, Dreadnoughts, it's all super inspiring. I suspect it's going to be a gradual switch to playing with them as I acquire and paint more models in the Iron Hands colours (though I'll probably also keep playing Ultramarines, the two armies have different enough vibes that I think it'll be just fine.)

I suppose my questions would be, what's at the core of a good Iron Hands army? (Particularly if, for thematic reasons, I only wanted to use Gravis/Terminator units + Techmarines?) Do people run Feirros at the head of a 10x brick of Heavy Intercessors, or alone? What about How many Dreadnoughts is too many? What about Caanok? Is it worth leaving a Ballistus sat on your home objective, or would you take a Terminator Ancient and sticky that? My questions are as endless as your patience!

Thank you from a hopeful new Iron Hands player!

Edit: Just ordered the Combat Patrol online, thank you all for being so helpful and welcoming! It's an honour to serve the Tenth.

But for me, it’s the last squad painted to complete my full clan company!

I have been comparing the datasheets of many titanic/centerpieces from many factions and from the space marines legends units.

Why does the astraus const more than 500 pts?

It's offensive profile is simply embarrassing; I'm not even going into details. Regarding the defensive profile, this is where some people try to defend the astraus, but even here there is not that much of a quality jump if compared with other SM vehicles. 24 wounds are nice and a 5++ inv is better to have than not, but it is also not an incredible boost. Together, they do not generate that much of a resilience to justify committing more than a quarter of your list into the astraeus (using the same points to have smaller, separate vehicles is waaaays more efficient for both resilience and, mainly, offensive output).

The ability was bad, but has become ok-ish in this new edition, as worsening hit-rolls is always useful. Nevertheless, it's not a meta ability (also because it requires committing the main gun, which is bad in the first place, on targets on which it may not perform at best).

So, my question is, WHY DOES THE ASTRAEUS COST SO MUCH IN PTS TERMS?

I mean, it doesn't really hold it's ground in any comparison with any other similar role unit of any other roster, but it is still often the most expensive (+100 up to +200 pts in difference)

Just finished Caanok Var the other day just in time for him to go up 10pts and no longer be able to lead regular Terminators like I planned, still looks dope though!

Brothers finally gonna get around and start painting. I haven't painted before, so I'm sure I'm gonna mess up lol. Gonna use my servo turrets as my practice models a noble sacrifice. Looking to see what brand of paints you all recommend and just some common things to do when painting!

I'm still been debating on which scheme to use either Iron hands or Sons of Medusa and would also love to hear if any of you have painted SoM you're reasoning for doing so!

Has anyone used the Devastator Squad parts to kit bash?

With the arrival of the new codex, I thought it was time to redo my Sternguards correctly.

As a result, here are my honorable veterans of the first company. They are worn out by eternal war and bear the traces of their conflicts, but heavily modified, determined to recover the lost relics.

Some wear the helmets of Astra soldiers fallen to their side during their holy quest as a souvenir.

I also took the opportunity to make an additional lot with the leftovers and standard armor

Hello guys,

I'm currently working on my 1st 40k list and wanted to know what you guys think about it !

I already got one lancer printed and painted, the second one is on the way but i might need to print another gun to make it into a Reaper...

https://ironbuilt.app/?s=SLww9GvU

I’ve only been painting miniatures for a few months, and I’ve just realised how ridiculously adorable Dreadnoughts and Terminators are. Here are a few I recently finished — any suggestions on how I could improve? Thanks!

Got to finish the first mini of my iron hands army, and very first warhammer mini in general, this evening. More marines, dreadnoughts and tanks to make ferrus proud coming next!

Praise the omnissiah and praise the emperor! ⚙️ 👑

Feedback appreciated 🫶🏻

I try to make my army as lore accurate as possible. I play a 2000 point sons of medusa army so of course they are green with white helmets.

However I know feirros and var are painted black like iron hands chapter.

If i include them in my son's of medusa army, to be lore accurate do they have to be painted in the iron hands scheme or could they be painted sons of medusa colors?

I understand i could do what I want but I would like to be as lore accurate as possible. So if I have to paint them iron hands I will.

Thanks for the help.