Iron Lords (build kit)

This WarpLand miniature kit puts the iron-fisted warlords of The Grunge directly in your hands. The Iron Lords are the most feared slavers in the shattered wastes, heavily armoured brutes who rule their bogland domain with cruelty and fire, crushing the weak beneath hobnailed boots and dragging survivors back to their smoke-blackened fortresses. Now you can field them in force, built exactly as your warband demands.

The Iron Lords build kit contains 33 unique resin parts, giving you everything you need to assemble five distinct 32mm scale warriors. Choose from 5 interchangeable heads, including open-faced helms with horns, spiked visored buckets, and the weathered snarl of a veteran lord,then pair them with 5 armoured bodies clad in layered plate and studded leather skirts. Twenty-three hands and weapons complete the kit: round shields embossed with skull motifs, broad swords, and a variety of gripping arms in aggressive and guarded stances. Every combination produces a fighter that looks like he has survived the Grunge's endless feuds and come out meaner for it.

Because no two Iron Lords ever rose to power the same way, no two models need look alike. Mix charging poses with shield-braced stances, swap horned helms for spike-crested ones, vary shield arms between ranks. The result is a warband that feels lived-in and brutal rather than uniformly stamped out. Suitable for tabletop RPG play, skirmish wargames, and display painting alike.

Parts are cast in high-detail grey resin. Minor cleaning of mould lines and light sanding of contact points is recommended before assembly. Supplied unassembled and unpainted. Bases included.

Painting Guide: Iron Lords (build kit)

The Iron Lords look their best when painted to suggest years of campaign grime, rust creeping at the edges of once-proud iron, and the dark mud of The Grunge caked into every crevice. This WarpLand miniature rewards a patient layered approach more than speed-painting methods.

1. Prime

• Prime with a black or dark grey spray for maximum shadow retention in the deep-cut armour recesses.
• A zenithal highlight of light grey from above will establish early contrast and speed up later highlighting stages.

2. Armour Base

• Basecoat armour plates with a dark iron or gunmetal grey, applied thinly so raised rivets and studs catch the colour cleanly.
• Work the studded leather skirts and straps in a deep brown, keeping it slightly warmer than the metal to separate materials visually.

3. Trim and Details

• Pick out belt buckles, shield bosses, and helmet trim in a slightly brighter steel to draw the eye to focal points.
• Wash the entire model with a dark brown or black ink, letting it pool in the armour joints, skull reliefs on the shields, and boot wrappings.

4. Weapons

• Highlight sword edges with a thin line of bright silver, keeping it sharp and uneven to suggest repeated sharpening and chipping.
• Add a thin rust glaze of orange-brown along the flat of each blade and into scratched areas for a neglected, battlefield-worn look.

5. Weathering

• Stipple dark brown and then orange around lower leg armour, boot wraps, and the bottom edges of the shields to represent Grunge mud and oxidisation.
• Use a fine brush to scratch bright silver lines over the armour surface, focusing on pauldrons, knee guards, and shield rims where combat damage would concentrate.

6. Bases

• Texture with a mix of coarse sand, small grit, and a fragment or two of slate to evoke the boggy, rubble-strewn terrain of The Grunge. Paint dark brown, drybrush muddy ochre, then seal with a gloss varnish on low-lying areas to suggest standing water. A tuft of dead grass finishes each base as a fitting home for this grim WarpLand miniature.