Back to genestealers

 So it´s another paused project restarted. It was back in november 2020 when I last painted something for my slaanesh aligned genestealer cult. Having finished just a single purestrain genestealer so far I have been wanting to add a few more for some time. Finally I had both the models and motivation to paint them. BTW I working on a cult limo too. Hoping to get it ready in the near future.

Being plastics from Space Hulk and painted mostly with contrasts

these will most certainly not win me any prises. But they fit in quite well

with the rest of the cult.

Two times the Sacred Number

 That´s twelve you know. With the completion of these three new mutants I have now two full six mutant strong mutant band. They form the absolutely lowest caste of the genestealer cult and are ruthlessly exploited by it´s leaders. The mutants are so badly deformed that they have no other option than to stay with the cult as they have no chance blending in to normal population.

The newest ones

From another angle

Complete 2nd mutant band

And finally both bands together

Hobby year 2020 in pics

 If I´d have to describe my 2020 paitning year with one word that would have to be Xenos. 2020 started with some space elfs and vent on with building a genestealer cult army. That is still not complete. But hey! When is an old school army complete :D

With that I´ll just dump a whole lot of pics of what got painted last year here. I hope you´ll enjoy them.

Space elfs:

Genestealer cult:

Chaos:

Imperial Guard:

Fantasy stuff:

Leader for Cult Beastmen

 The Genestealer Cult Army beastmen don´t actually have a squad or platoon leader. They just come in bands whose size depend on the chaos power they are alligned with. As I intend to use my beastmen in WFB too I wanted to have a model that can be clearly distinquished as a unit leader. This Champion of Slaanesh model by Jes Goodwin is perfect for my purposes. A lovely sculpt he´s quite large and very fit to lead the beastmen. 

3142/3 Champion of Slaanesh: Huge Mace and Minotaur head

Funny little detail: a daemonette face groin armor.

Psykers - one sanctioned and the other...

 Not all psykers are decimated or taken to Terra to be absorbed by the Emperor of Mankind. Some become sanctined sanctioned psykers for Imperial Guard and those individuals are often attached to command sections. Always seen as suspicious by the Commissariat sanctioned psykers of the 114th Salihanian regiment are forced to wear red clothing as a warning sign for normal troopers. The are shunned by NCOs and common grunts but tolerated by officers who understand their value on the battle field.

Some psykers take mattes in their own hands. At least for a while. Joining a Genestealer Cult may seem like a way to avoid being killed or absorbed. But mingling with forces of chaos come with a price. Seen as just a human psykers are ruthlessly exploited by the cult leader and will be sacrificed without a blink if survival of the coven requires it. And the blessings of the dark powers behind the Cult are not always very beneficial.

Got the two models in a job lot I scored a couple of weeks ago. As they are duplicates I wanted to have one as a IG sanctined psyker and the other as a GS Cult rogue psyker.

Sanctined psyker wields a IG standard issue las gun. For the rogue I gave two autopistols. The rogue was painted first and I didn´t like the big shoulder pockets on him so I removed those from IG one´s plastic arms. Much better that way.

As the IG psyker is assigned to desert themed army his skin a bit darker than that of the rogue´s. 

Here´s another rogue psyker I painted earlier and a sanctioned one too.

The mutants

With the completion of the last two models Genestealer Cult army´s Mutant band is now ready. Imperial guard bodies with CP models and other parts for mutations.

Left to right: 

Spidey, Kurt, Penquin, Joker, Thirty-Thirty and Glarogo

 Spidey is a cross breed with spider who has a tentacle in place of his left arm.

All made by CP models.

Kurt has albinism, tail and horns. Tail by CP models. Horns from a cold one.

 Penguin has been blessed with tentacles and an alien head. 

All his mutation parts are CP models.

Joker has claws and discolored skin and hair. Head from CP models.

Claws came from a 5th ed. dark elf cold one.

Thirty-thirty walks on very long (horse) legs and has a bony crest on his head.

Legs taken from 4th ed. elf horse. Crested head by CP models.

Glarogo´s two head and tentacle are by CP models. His two left arms

are from plastic skinks.

Two bands of beastmen for Genestealer Cult

It´s been pretty quite last two weeks on hobby front. Work, visiting parents for midsummer and son´s sports season going on full steam has quite effectively kept me away from the painting table. However today I had the chance to finish the last member of the second beastman band for my Genestealer Cult Army.

This bull headed beastman brings the second band of six to full strenght. 

And here he is with the his/her brother/sisters.

Next on the painting queue are hybrids, mutants and a patriarch. Let´s see what gets done first....

Mutant rabble

These sad individuals belong to the absolutely lovest caste of a Genestealer Cult Army, the mutant band. Too badly mutated to be able to remain in a normal society they found a haven of some sort with the Cult. They propably aren´t the most loyal servants of the Cult but with no other place to go they have little choise but to stay. The Cult leader knows this and will ruthlessly exploit the mutants if needed.

The two models came to me in a IG job lot. They were covered in thickish black paint and I quite a bad condition. I reckoned they would never get cleaned enough to be normal IG troopers. So they were chosen to get new life as a part of the Cult. Most of the conversion parts are from CP Models. The rest came from my bits box.

The first one has tentacle and crossbreed with a spider mutations. The second one

has been blessed with horns, albinism and scorpion tail. Both painted in the

same purple, yellow and black scheme as the rest of the cult.

Need four more to hit the sacred number.

First purestrain and another hybrid

Slaanesh alligned Cult army growns with a single purestrain genestealer and a 2nd generation hybrid. I´m planning on having a grand total of perhaps three purestrains and half a dozen hybrids all together. So trying to keep this project from growing too big for me.

 The hybrid I like, the purestrain not that much. I might have to repaint him. Or some parts of him at least. I don´t think the yellowish claws work out as I wanted them to do. And that skin could be a bit more pale I think.

As I lack proper hybrid arms this guy was thrown together with what parts I could find.

I have no idea where that sword arm is originally from. 

The old IG plastic arms work well enough for these hybrids too.