Saturday, May 10, 2014

Thorwarg Ironmane




"Like iron is forged to steel, so has our brotherhood been forged in the fires of the battlefields. We paid the ultimate prize in the hands of those Tyrannid scum but we survived  and the brotherhood will never break. Together we will avenge the death of our forebeards and make our ancestors proud!"








So here comes the revered force commander Thorwarg Ironmane. He was the high commander of  the League of Emberg. Emberg  was one of the smallest  of the Squat Leagues closest to the Eye of Terror and included only four strongholds. When the Splinter fleet  destroyed the Squat home worlds Thorwarg and his brothers had gone to war and were drifting through the warp when the tragedy happened. Warned by his spiritual ancestors, Thorwag quickly steered his ships back home to aid his brothers but Warp currents delayed Thorwarg's fleet and when they finally got there it was too late. Now Thorwarg and his fighting brotherhood are roaming around the galaxy to seek their vengeage!  





Squats beign so stunty and all, I decided to give him a battle shield to go to war. For the obvious fact that the shield and it's carriers can, at some situations be too much for gaming purposes, I added magnets to allow him to be mounted either on the shield or just regular gaming base for those drop pod assaults missions etc.

"Forged in fire, forged in death, We march to war, Hammers will rise and heads will fall, when we go to war, Red dawn is rising, the brotherhood of steel…" 
Old Squat battle hymn 

9 comments:

  1. Excellent miniature, I wouldn't have thought that Dwarf characters would translate so well to 40K... outstanding work!

    Maybe you should have chosen a bike base, though ;D

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    1. Thanks Jimmy! yeah, bike base would have worked perfectly;)

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  2. Very awesome! Will there be more weird stuff coming along as well? Exo suits, trikes, airships, etc? Maybe this Epic Chaos Squat army will inspire you: http://gemana.wordpress.com/chaos-squats/

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    1. Cheers! Oh yeah, plenty of crazy stuff on the pipeline - dreadnought, eco suits & attack buggies ;)

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  3. Very cool! I noticed the sqauts had a mention in White Dwarf the other day, probably be added to the Astra Millitarum at some point. I notice some Forge Fathers at the top as well, sweet mashup!

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  4. Brilliant – I'm really enjoying this project. Colours are perfect; a sort of ceramic feel to the armour which gives it a nice sci-fi feel.

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  5. Wow these really look just so cool, It's good to see more people out there who still believe, Squats 40k Survive !

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  6. Hi you foolish and refreshing northern! i really enjoy this kind of conversion... i've quite done the same thing with my skavens few years ago and with the quite same colors!!! but i'll never get your high quality... really interesting way of hobby

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  7. Excellent work man, what models do you use for converted your squat? I search since a long time beautiful model's base to convert them.

    Thank you ! And inspiring stuff here :)

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