Today we have the Narik Dreygur Iron Warriors model from Forge World. Nominally for 30k/HH, Narik, the “Gravewalker” was a renowned Iron Warriors commander during the Horus Heresy who eventually turned from the Traitors and became a loyalist and close confidant to the Salamanders – specifically, Cassian Dracos, the “Iron Dragon”. While my grand plan for my Iron Warriors force does include creating a decent element that will be 30k/40k compatible, I’m also realistic to know that my chances of ever playing 30k aren’t huge, so the main focus will be the 40k aspects.
With that in mind, I’ve painted him following the same scheme as my 40k Iron Warriors. They’re pretty much the same between 30 and 40k, but perhaps a little more in terms of Hazard striping and in some cases copper/brass trim. I considered going brass with his right shoulder, but felt it looked good in iron – and would probably look less good if I changed it, so it remained. My 40k IW retain the heraldry of the IV Legion, so Dreygur’s power fist seemed an appropriate place to stamp that firm.
I gave him a not-Iron Warriors shoulder pad from Puppetswar, in Poland. They have some amazingly great designs, but when I ordered from them they were slow as molasses and the casting quality was nightmarishly bad to the point where they ended up having to replace most of my order – but only after I kicked up a huge public stink with the photos to the extent that they stopped posting on Dakka for a couple of years. I’ve not ordered from them since, so I don’t know if their casting quality and QA have improved, and I’m not that desperate to try again. I know they do occasionally send out freebies for review, and those models would obviously be lovely, cherry-picked casts.
The backpack under his feet is painted in the dark green of my Dark Angels. I considered Minotaurs, but I felt that the brass of their armour would be too much metallic to add to the model, and not distinct enough from either Dreygur or his base, while their traditional foes, the Imperial Fists wouldn’t work well since I plan to eventually have only 1-2 squads of them, as opposed to the scores of Dark Angels I’ll eventually have painted up.
While Dreygur is a named character in 30k, in my 40k force he’ll be used as an Exalted Champion, to run up alongside assaulters to help inflict those important close combat wounds (rerolling 1s to wound!) I might well keep the moniker of Nârik Dreygur, as I’m sure the IW would appreciate that kind of dark irony.
Cracking job mate, loving the paint job on this – manages to look utilitarian and imposing without being too busy, and suits the character perfectly. Spot on dude!
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Thanks Alex. I’m liking the understated and utilitarian aspect of the IW more and more as I go through more of their models. The pose is a great one – the imposing part of it really comes very much from the great sculpt!
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He’s a beaut mate. Great model and pose. I’ve never had an issue with PW
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Thank you mate. As for Puppetswar, have a look through here to see the shit quality casts that they sent me. https://imgur.com/a/GMDqW
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Oh dear
Then again it could have just been the luck of the draw. At least they replaced it
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Nah, that’s not he luck of the draw, that’s clearly giving no fucks about the quality of the stuff they ship over a wide variety of SKUs. It honestly felt like they sent me stuff from the miscast bins. I wasn’t the only person they did that to at that time, either.
The next few links are from the same thread where people got sent garbage over a several month span of time. I’d just suggest clicking the first link and reading through it. Get yourself a comfy chair and some popcorn first, though…
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/90/503188.page#5263434
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/180/503188.page#5326742
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/180/503188.page#5332279
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/240/503188.page
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/390/503188.page#5789010
This pic shows yet another person’s stuff. Check out that “quality”.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/150/556517.page#6511727
And this one… wow.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/450/503188.page#6042507
So if you read through all that
A long, painful and drawn out experience spanning more than 3 months (Order Feb 1, replacements arrived May 5) that I hope to never ever endure again. Glad your experiences with them have been better than mine. 🙂
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