but looking back, I wish that IвЂ™d sprung for another fresh box of Tacticals and some ForgeWorld missile launchers instead, and kept them all with backpacks/handheld heavy weapons instead mixing with shoulder mounted. For the most part, they look fine as the Marines themselves are all the same, and they all have ForgeWorld Iron Warriors heads. The Iron Havocs, like my standard Legion Terminators, unfortunately suffered a little bit from my early plans to do this army as cheap as I possibly could вЂ“ as a consequence, the lascannon-operators are MkIV plastics from Calth with ForgeWorld resin weapons, while the other five missile launchers are 100% Calth plastics (with Iron Warriors heads) that I found on eBay for about a fiver. Still, even on their own, they make for a cool centrepiece for the army on display, dwarfing Contemptors and Primarchs in equal measure. Between the shield wall rule these guys have (benefiting from having 2+ in the unit) and how easy they were to get from nothing to painted, I came really close to outright buying one or two more for the army it was only that theyвЂ™re pretty much only useful in Zone Mortalis games that held me back. The whole thing was washed, sponged and based in my usual fashion вЂ“ and thanks to the aforementioned details all over them, I think they turned out pretty well for the time investment. Aside from my usual all-over coat of Vallejo Metal Colour Silver, I slapped them black panelling here and there, some chevron-shoulders akin to PerturaboвЂ™s and settled on a black/chevron/iron scheme for their shields. ThereвЂ™s a good amount of nice flat surfaces too, and I could definitely see where a more skilled painter (or at least one willing to put a lot more time into these miniatures than I was) could absolutely go to town on with several thin coats вЂ“ but by this point, I just wanted these suckers done. Their grav-hammers are packed with little details, while their bodies bristle with various panels with layered plating. The miniatures themselves are absolutely dripping with detail and look every inch a monstrous, cold and unyielding foe. Like a good many miniatures in this project, I felt as if you could really take as long as you wanted on the Iron Circle automata.

alongside maybe Legion Destroyers and Recon Squads. One of the big winners of the Cool Model, Terrible Rules Awards. This left my вЂIron CircleвЂ™ Domitar-Ferrum Class Battle-automata, 10x Iron Havocs, a pair of Medusa Artillery Tanks, and a couple of characters left to paint.ДЇirst thing that I did was finish my pair of Iron Circle automata вЂ“ these models were already left in a halfway-finished state and felt like a relatively quick and easy win, compared to the Terminators or Typhon (which, admittedly, were both fairly quick jobs).

In my last post, I covered my return to the project with Perturabo, my Legion Cataphractii Terminators and my Typhon Heavy Siege Tank. It took about eight months ( four of which was spent doing literally anything else instead), but I finished 2 my Iron Warriors Horus Heresy legion. Every day, this project has loomed over me, psychically draining my soul that little bit every day, while every other вЂmore pressingвЂ™ project that has supplanted it in the queue. Certainly nothing quite on the scale of three thousand odd points of fine, expensive ForgeWorld resin sitting around neglected. IвЂ™m not the kind of guy who normally makes large-scale hobby purchases and then forgets about them yes, IвЂ™d be lying to claim I didnвЂ™t have a backlog of some description 1 to get through, but itвЂ™s largely fragmented bits and pieces and small expansions to existing, otherwise complete projects. There were several compounding reasons for this, which I go into in my previous Iron Warriors post, but suffice to say that finishing this army feels like a huge weight has been lifted.

If IвЂ™m entirely honest, for a while there, I was worried that my IV Legion might have been the first project I ever left unfinished, or abandoned completely.

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