Media thread - 9 November 2022, 22:17

A photo of seventeen assembled miniatures in grey plastic. They're all wearing industrial-looking protective gear but their skulls are freakishly large and they're clearly not actually fully human.

Continuing my miniature-assembling spree by finishing putting together my Genestealer Cults! I absolutely love these miniatures, they look human at first glance, but then you look more closely and their heads are too large and the ones at the right have three arms. Looking forward to getting them painted up.

Posted on 9 November 2022, 22:17

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000 miniature, he's wearing dark green armour and is holding a shotgun in one hand and has a big knife in the other, with the pose implying he's about to use it. He's wearing industrial-looking goggles and looks mostly human except his skin is a very light purple and his skull is just... slightly too big. The base of the miniature looks like it's completely muddy and there's lots of dark green and brown grasses growing, and the mud is splattered up his legs.

Just finished the test miniature for my colour scheme for the Genestealer Cults squad for Kill Team I have. Pretty happy with how it came out, the usual thing with the GSC is that they're all wearing industrial gear so I wanted to do something different and so made it look like they're wading through a swamp instead. There's also a pool of gross-looking green swampy water at his feet but you can't really see it at this angle due to the grass. I'll have to make a point of not covering that up so much next time, oops.

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Posted on 15 January 2023, 14:22

A photo of my fully-assembled Wyrmblade (Genestealer Cults) squad for Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. There are twelve miniatures, they're all wearing industrial-looking armour that's painted in a dark green colour, but when you look closely they're clearly not human: their skin is too purple and their heads are too large, and some of them have claws or three arms or a freakishly-long lizard tongue. The Kelermorph I mentioned in the post has one pistol pointed off to the side like it's aiming something, its other arm is holding another one upwards, and it has a THIRD arm that's about to pull a third pistol out from a holster. It's got a red cloth mask around its nose and mouth, and its brown leather cloak is billowing out behind it as if it's actually in the middle of a gunfight. The leader's chainsword has been painting with black and yellow hazard stripes but I used a piece of microcell foam to dab dark grey primarily on the side where the teeth are, followed by the same for a light silver, and it absolutely looks like the paint has been coming off due to wear! All the bases are painted with muddy-looking texture paint and have swamp-looking grasses growing so it looks like they're wading through a swamp.

Three years after I bought them, and two years after I assembled and undercoated them and painted the first test miniature, I've finally finished my Wyrmblade squad for Kill Team. 😅

This has been a record pace for me, it took me under a week to finish them (although I'm cheating because I'm on holidays and have been spending hours at a time getting them done). The initial broad stages took maybe two and a half days, but then it was the same amount again spent on the details. Absolutely stoked with how they've come out though, the Kelermorph (the three-armed gun-slinging-looking fellow at the front) is such a cool miniature, and I did some weathering for the first time on the hazard stripes on the leader's chainsword and it came out absolutely perfectly!

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Posted on 2 January 2026, 18:39