Horus Heresy - Shattered Legion - Iron Hands Scheme

Although the bulk of the models in the army are Salamanders and I intended to game with them as a Salamanders force, this Shattered Legion force has four Iron Hand Legionnaires in it, spread amongst the Tactical and Pyroclast squads.

I already had the steel and gold colours planned out as part of my Salamanders scheme so my main focus was on the Black. The Forgeworld scheme is quite diverse in it's use of paints and techniques, and whilst I was quite tempted to it out I thought I'd experiment with what I had to hand. Likewise I didn't want to stick to the black I had for the Salamanders as it is quite basic and lacks some of the depth that I felt whole armour plates would need.

The 'official' Iron Hand scheme seems to limit itself to black and metal. In order to make these fit in better with the Salamanders element I decided to add gold to the shoulder pad rim.

Iron Hand Legionnaire #1

Paints

This time I didn't have a spare model to hand to act as a test piece, however there are plenty of areas on the four models that were to be painted in metal so I could experiment on these. The following is what I came up with.

The paint information for the steel and gold areas can be found on the Salamanders Scheme post.

Black Armour

Colour	Layer	Applied With	Brand
Dark Blue Grey	Directional Basecoat	Airbrush	Vallejo Model Air
Dark Sea Green	Directional Highlight	Airbrush	Vallejo Model Air
Medium Sea Grey	Directional Highlight	Airbrush	Vallejo Model Air
Nuln Oil	Wash	Brush	Citadel Wash
Medium Sea Grey	Edge Highlight	Brush	Vallejo Model Air
Administratum Grey	Edge Highlight	Brush	Citadel Layer
Lamanters Yellow	Glaze	Brush	Citadel Glaze
Druchii Violet	Stipple	Brush	Citadel Wash
Waywatcher Green	Glaze	Brush	Citadel Glaze

Close up

Once again I'll endeavour to get a step by step done shortly.