Pre Heresy Iron Hands: Ferrus Manus

Hello everyone,

I'm back with a quick post to show you the finished version of Ferrus Manus!

"Ferrus was amongst the strongest of the primarchs, within him burning the heat of the furnace, its fury tempered by an exterior as cold as unyielding iron"

After my last work in progress post I just needed to add the Ceramite White to one of the cog motifs and also add the Runefang Steel highlight. I chose to add the Ceramite White as it ties the rest of my Iron hands together and matches the clan transfers.

As I've already mentioned in a previous post it was the arms which I enjoyed painting the most. I used the Runefang Steel as the base with a light wash of Nuln Oil to pick out the muscles and then the Guiliman blue glaze to give them more of a liquid metal appearance. Finally I added a highlight of Runefang Steel to the raised parts of the muscles and the Guilliman blue glaze to fade the metal into the skin of his upper arms.

I have decided to not add the scenic base yet as I will probably magnetise the other components at a later date.

I did manage to get him completed by the Battle Bunnies Christmas party, however he really lacked a delivery method and ended up moving forwards with the Gordon Terminators and then back again without engaging any unit at all! This is why I have decided to add a Spartan assault tank into my future Iron Hands force.

I'm not the best builder of models so I did find the servo harness quite fiddly to put together, however I think it eventually came out quite well. The servo-harness itself includes a servo-arm, plasma blaster, graviton gun, grenade harness, heavy flamer and a nuncio-vox! Not bad at all!

With Ferrus completed I will soon be working on a character and I should be able to share my other completed units with you once the transfers are applied. I've now decided on Clan Sorrgol after reading about Meduson and I think he will make a great shattered legions leader in the future. I will also be doing a post with some background about Clan Sorrgol and why I have chosen this particular clan to focus on.


Thanks again for reading!

Aveinus Kaane

Pre-Heresy Iron Hands: Ferrus Manus WIP

Hello everyone,

I'm back with another work in progress post for Ferrus Manus! I decided to squeeze this post in after a few of you asked about how I painted Ferrus's arms. It was actually the most enjoyable part of the model I have painted so far as it was a bit of a step into the unknown for me. Unfortunately I have been quite focused on getting this model right so I couldn't break concentration to do a step by step painting guide, but I will talk you through how I painted his arms.

To start with I will just list the paints I used below:

- Chaos Black Spray
- Runefang Steel
- Nuln Oil Wash
- Guilliman Blue Glaze
- Rhinox Hide
- Rakarth Flesh
- Reikland Fleshshade

So this is the first picture although due to how shiny his arms are I couldn't get a brilliant shot. I began by applying the Runefang Steel on to the base coat of Chaos Black in multiple thin layers so no black was remaining on the lower parts of the arms.

I then used Rakarth Flesh in multiple thin layers over the black on the upper parts of his arms. I wanted to paint most of the arms silver so it would be the most eye catching part of the model, although I did leave enough skin so it is possible to see where the change occurs. It is at this point I also painted the straps on his gauntlets with Rhinox Hide.

I should also mention that where the Runefang Steel and Rakarth Flesh meet on the arms, I did not make the edges uniform. I did this so it is possible to see where the metal and skin are almost blending together. Next I washed the silver parts of the arm and the straps with a light wash of Nuln Oil. There should still however be enough wash applied so you can make out the arms muscle definition. I also applied a light wash of Reikland Fleshshade over the Rakarth Flesh.

It was important to ensure the two washes were very light around where the silver and skin meet. Next I applied a layer of Rakarth Flesh over the muscles of the upper arm leaving the Reikland Fleshshade in the recesses. I then used the Guilliman Blue Glaze as a light wash over the silver parts of the arms. I made sure I only applied it lightly around where the silver and skin meet so it enhances the blending effect where the two colours meet, again try not to make it too uniform so it looks quite natural.

The final steps were to highlight the silver part of the arm, over the fingers, hands and muscles to keep the arms from looking too blue. I was worried about applying too much of the glaze, but I do really love how it has came out. It should still look predominantly bright silver but with a blueish hue to it. 

I particularly like the blue because I think it makes the metal look alien and like its almost fighting with Ferrus's body to gradually creep up his arms turning his skin blue and then to silver. Obviously if you would prefer his arms to be more silver then just apply less glaze :).

So I hope you all like it! please feel free to ask any questions below. 

Thanks again for reading!

Aveinus Kaane

Pre-Heresy Iron Hands: Ferrus Manus WIP

Hello everyone,

I'm back with another post for my Iron Hands legion which features the gorgon himself;
Ferrus Manus!

So it was a bit of an impulse buy for a future meeting with the other bunnies to give my force some much needed close combat capabilities. However, I have to confess I was planning on doing a step by step build for the model but unfortunately I am in no way a master model builder! lol. It's definitely the fiddliest model I have ever built, as you have to apply all of the parts for the servo harness, chains and pipes separately. The picture below should give you an idea of all the tiny pieces before the build.

Sometime later after much frustration and cursing! Ferrus was ready :)

I will definitely say it is a beautiful model, the details on close inspection are brilliant. I personally enjoy the painting side of the hobby to the construction, so i'm excited to put brush to model over the next week. The only drawback I can see with the model is its posing. I know it is designed to be apart of the diorama with Fulgrim, but in most other cases he is swinging way too high in my opinion.

I did think about reposing him myself to change his stance or the height of his swing, but in the end I decided to build him as intended. Another Ferrus in the future may get some changes though :).

I have also decided to not paint or put together the scenic base for the time being. This is because I am wanting to maximize the amount of painting time I have on Ferrus himself, so he's completed for his first battle field appearance. The other reason being that I would like to magnetize the scenic base. Below is a photo without the dead Emperors Children on it ;).

So I hope you like the quick post from me, please feel free to ask any questions. I will be doing an overview post in the not too distant future talking about the legion, its organisation and tactics. After doing my research I'm looking forward to discussing the Gorgon's style of warfare and how I see it affecting my legion. (In a fluffy way of course!)

Thanks again for reading,

Aveinus Kaane  



     

The Gorgon cometh

Finally after months of planning and procrastination he is here, Ferrus Manus!

He was an absolute dream to paint as all the detail on him is so crisp it pretty much highlights it's self.

I started by building his body and hammer shaft to make it easyer to reach all the chest details and the bits in his back

After a careful chaos black primer spay I took to the air brush useing the same technique I use in my normal troops.

After an afternoon of fan boy nerdgasming I had painted all the detail on the Armour useing lead belcher and sycorax bronze

Next up was a Nuln oil wash and highlighting useing iron breaker on the armours symbols

Forge breaker was a nice quick paint and scrubs up really nicely.

Next up was his face, I was really worried about painting this but Mr Egan has done an amazeing job sculpting ferrus so it nearly paints it's self.

The last thing to paint was ferrus's famous silver arms, to get the base colour I used Vallejo liquid silver and washed it with a lahmian thinned drakenhof night shade. 

I'm really proud if this model and I would like to thank Simon Egan and the forge world team for designing such an amazeing sculpt.

Here's some pics of the finished model, I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed painting him.

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Ferrus Manus WIP

Finally after weeks of planning and waiting, it begins!

 I have partially build the gorgon ready to be sprayed.

Needless to say I'm very exited and keep your eyes peeled as I hope to finish him soon.

Ferrus Manus Pictures. From Forge World

A beautifully sculpted Ferrus Manus painted by the excellent Mat Kane was revealed today. And he will be available at Gamesday. 

Taken from the FW release video. 

Drake Seta