Warhammer 40k Iron warriors.?

Question

What are the colors that I need to paint chaos iron warriors? Were do the colors go and how do I make hazard stripes?

Answer 1

Iron Warriors' basic colour scheme is Boltgun Metal.  The hazard stripes, even during their loyal phase before the Horus Heresy, don't seem to have been applied with any particular rhyme or reason, but generally no more than two or three armoured areas will carry them and these should be adjacent.  So there may be a striped shoulder pad and a striped greave, or two stripped greaves and a sriped plate on the backpack or whatever.

Painting hazard stripes isn't difficult, but it is quite time consuming.  The new Iyaden Darksun colour - in the Foundation Paint set - is your salvation as, originally, you would have had to paint white over black, which can take flipping forever to get right.

I recommend starting with a pencil on the black undercoat.  Use quite a soft pencil (3B-5B) and then you won't have to press very hard to get a visible line.  If you can avoid it, don't paint the hazard stripes on a cylindrical surface (like a leg) unless you're really confident with the technique, as you're bound to find that they don't quite link up properly.

Anyway, start by painting the yellow stripes as thin, diagonal, evenly-spaced lines on the black.  If you *do* paint on a leg greave, then make sure that there's an even number of stripes.  Then pick two stripes and fill in the space between them.  This should give you a number of thick, yellow stripes.  You'll then need to tidy them up with black, so that the black and yellow areas are the same width with good, clear, straight edges.  It's quite tricky, but will come with practice.

Finally, you'll want to paint Sunburst Yellow or Golden Yellow over the Iyanden Darksun (which is, truth be told, a shade of brown, but which has been specifically designed to be the basecoat for yellow).  Once that's done, if you're feeling flash, make a 50/50 mix of yellow and white and do a thin line on one edge of each yellow stripe as a highlight.

Answer 2

Boltgun Metal with Chainmail highlights.  Shining Gold with Burnished Gold highlights for the trim.  To paint hazard stripes, paint whatever you're painting yellow/ then paint black stripes through it in an even pattern.

Or look here:

http://uk.games-workshop.com/chaosspacem...

Answer 3

leigon colours are a bit hard to describe, why not just buy the codex? its in there.