My Iron Warriors Kill Team - The Lords of Skaduhapaamunden (Counts as Angels of Death)
I wanted an AoD Kill Team - I already have an old intercessor KT, White Templars, and while ok, they’re not really been my thing. I struggled with all sorts of ideas, SW, DW, chapters of my own making, etc, but none really turned me ON (I have to be IN LOVE with a project to really do it justice). So I sat down and wondered - what are one of the defining things, that differentiate them from other SM teams? For one, access to a guy with heavy bolter, in heavy armour. Also, a Grenade launcher guy. And dedicated assault troops. Especially the first thing, access to a heavy armoured guy, got me thinking… And suddenly two things came to mind:
1) It probably has to be a Chaos team to really push me into overdrive. I’ve been a Chaos fan since I was 11 (42 now), and I’ve already got DG, WB, and Noise Marines teams, so chaos it is. Which legion then? Which led me to…
2) I need something that’s not a heavy intercessor, but still looks heavy. I’ve always loved the concept of Obliterators. Loved it. And hated every single version of the miniatures GW has put out. From the 3rd ed. “sprue guys” with guns in their eyes (sigh) to the squatting forestpoopers that came next (and don’t even get me started on Mutilators…) to the newest version, that looks super cartoony to me, and like someone mashed some heavy weapons into a severely overweight marine, trying to fit into power armour leg warmers and thongs. Why, oh why, GW? Why do you keep messing it up? So I decided to take inspiration from the greatest (probably also the only one I like) artwork of an Obliterator, and tried to make my own - MY vision of what an Obliterator should look like. More tubes, more (Venom-style) flesh tendrils, and more awesome.
With an Obliterator in place as my heavy gunner, the choice was obvious; Iron Warriors. I love painting necrostripes, and mechanical stuff is cool in my book.
So without further ado, here’s the team in all it’s unpainted glory. They’re pretty much ready for paint, barring a few small clean ups and scrapings here and there, but I could use some opinions on what head I should use for the Obliterator - I can’t seem to decide.
So without further ado, here’s the team in all it’s unpainted glory. They’re pretty much ready for paint, barring a few small clean ups and scrapings here and there, but I could use some opinions on what head I should use for the Obliterator - I can’t seem to decide.
