First Iron Warriors Squad

This is my first ever fully painted and based squad of Iron Warrior Chaos Space Marines. I painted this squad around 2021.

Most of the bits I used are from the "new" Chaos Space Marine kit. At that time I did not yet have any MKIII armor, but wanted to have some cleaner helmets than the very ornament CSM helmets. So in between, I added some parts from the Primaris Space Marine and the Tactical Marine kits. I also did some weird boltgun cutting so that the Primaris Boltgun would look appropriate on the slightly smaller CSM bodies.

Regarding the paint job, the main metal color for the iron was painted by first basecoating black and then covering it with Leadbelcher or any similar darker silver. For the gold Retributor Armour was used. All metallics were washed with Agrax Earthshade. The silver was then highlighted with Stormhost Silver and the gold again with Retributor Armour.

All chain mail was washed with Nuln Oil instead of Agrax Earthshade to give it a different look from the rest of the armor. The black I used was Abbadon black which was then roughed up with Leadbelcher and a sponge. For the red eye lenses and the cloth, I used Khorne Red as a base and then highlighted up with Mephiston Red, Evil Sunz Scarlete and Wild Rider Red.

All bone parts were just painted white and washed with Agrax Earthshade. The hazard stripes are simply painted with black and Averland Sunset as the yellow. For the basing I followed this Mars/Red Planet base tutorial.

The last two are the squad leader and the veteran. When the squad splits up, the veteran takes control of the remaining squad.