This week I have completed an Iron Hands tactical squad.
I actually started painting these a few weeks ago.
When I took time off for my surgery but it was delayed, I decided I’d try to assemble and paint some of my Saturnine box during my leave, and instead of painting them in my existing Death Guard colours, I decided on Iron Hands. The Saturnine terminators didn’t really fit my plans for Death Guard and I wasn’t sure my colour scheme would work well - I’ve got a Leviathan Dreadnought that I started painting and it’s stalled for colour scheme reasons.
So, in the interests of having some Astartes allies for my Heresy Militia, I decided on Iron Hands. They seemed like they’d be easy to paint (lol) and their theme worked well with what I have imagined for my Militia. I started building and got 1200 points built and primed, with the Saturnine Dreadnought waiting for another building day to cap off a 1500 point project.
Unfortunately, I got sick a week in and only got this one tactical squad nearly completed. Now, post-surgery, I polished off the bases and the resin bits that I was doing separately (because they didn’t arrive in the mail until after I’d started painting).
Also, funny thing: I hate painting metallics. I’m leaning heavily on Vallejo Metal Colour Steel and Copper most of the time, or drybrushing, so the oily metallic black on these guys was mostly drybrushed and then gone over with diluted contrast paint. However, the trim? The trim was too fiddly if I just left it and too dark if I just used VMC Steel, so I pulled out the Ironbreaker and mixed with some Canoptek Alloy for depth of colour and it was absolute hell to get the consistency right. As a result, I might just cope with it being darker on the other units.
Anyway, that’s another last-minute project and ten painted minis off the pile. We’ll see if I get anything else painted this year.
BATG Score: +127
