Pre-Heresy Iron Hands: Plasma Gun Support Squad

Hello everyone,

I'm back to show you my completed Plasma Gun Support Squad!

So after messing around with the shoulder pad transfers and making some finishing touches, I've finally finished them. I often find that when I look at the photos I take on a larger scale I notice some mistakes which I could clean up a bit. For example the free hand cog motif on the central marine, took a while to make the white edges defined and relatively sharp. Now I've tweaked it i'm pretty happy with it.

So I just thought I would show you some individual close ups, these took ages to get the camera focus right on!

I'll also just show you a better view of one of the transfers, apologies for the picture but the normal lighting I use doesn't show the transfers very well.

I've also been applying these transfers to my HQ units recently too as you can see from Aveinus below :)

Unfortunately due to work commitments its a short post from me but I hope you like the finished results! Look out for a new project being started on my next one!

Thanks for reading,

Aveinus Kaane

Pre-Heresy Iron Hands: Plasma Gun Support Squad Update

Hello everyone,

I'm back with another quick update on my plasma gun support squad. Unfortunately I've hit a bit of a speed bump this past week having made so much progress over easter weekend!

For all of my Iron Hands troop units I have decided to go with using the shoulder pads out of the Iron Hands Legion Mk III squad. My reasoning for this choice was just based on how unique they are compared to the standard Mk III ones.

As you can see from the picture above the shoulder pad has an embossed cog and an area within the cog for the transfer to sit. The problem I have been having is that the new set of Iron Hands transfers don't seem to have a clan emblem transfer that is the correct size to fit inside the embossed cog. Now this is just from my own testing, but the smaller shoulder pad transfers on the picture below are just slightly too big and don't sit smoothly within the cog. I should mention that I have cut out the transfers as closely as I possibly can.

The image below demonstrates how the new transfer sits in the cog and is slightly elevated at the edges.

The first picture on the post of the Forgeworld painted Iron Hand features the knee transfer from the old transfer sheet which I think was obviously designed to fit these shoulder pads. The new knee transfers on the new sheet are now absolutely tiny, so again don't fit the cog correctly. Therefore because of this discovery I'm having to use the old knee transfers for all of my Iron hands infantry! Its a good job I had two spare sheets of the old transfers!


Apologies because the transfers are difficult to see on this photo!

So below are some pictures of my progress! On the first picture I am trialing out the silver cog with the white transfer to compare it to them both being white like on the second image.

In my opinion I think the old transfers do look right for these shoulder pads and even if the new ones did only just fit in, I don't think it would look right with no black separating the two cogs.

I am undecided on which to go with as yet but you will see my final decision on my next post! So a word of advice to Iron Hand players using the new transfers, be careful and do some tests if you are using these shoulder pads. You may of course get better results than me so let me know if you do!


Thanks again for reading,

Aveinus Kaane

Pre-heresy Iron Hands: Plasma Gun Support Squad Update

Hello everyone,

Just a quick update, I have been slaving away at these guys all weekend whilst being busy with family, however, they are now almost complete! 

I have just noticed a few areas that I would like to improve on, so I will be correcting them and adding transfers before showing you the completed unit on my next post. I'm really loving how they are turning out though :).

After this I am planning on going on a transfer spree and getting more of my other units completed. This will include my tactical squads, predators and a land raider.

So I hope you all like my progress and I hope you have all had a good Easter!

Thanks again,

Aveinus Kaane