#genestealers

[wh40kartwork]

Kibellah Concept

by Valeriy Vegera

[cannibalcaprine]

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[straight-edge-hippy]

[thewenglishwarlock]

Little genestealer cutie finished up!

[milk-rats]

I've been really interested in Warhammer 40K recently after my friend forced me to pick an army, then he bought me some little figures for the army. I picked the genestealers cult, they're adorable little abominations that infect a planet to prep it for a bigger alien species to eat. I built my guys a week ago but I took this weekend to paint 3 units of guys. It was incredibly overwhelming and exhausting cause I'm not a painter.

These are my Aberrants, Acolytes, and Neophytes. I love them all very much but I took a special picture with my Aberrants cause they're the first ones I painted! Excited to try out this new hobby.

[adeptus-illustratum]

Genestealer Magus Art by Gray-Skull --- My DeviantArt My Boosty (for my NSFW works)

[wh40kgallery]

Tyranids Vs Astra Militarum

by Thomas Elliott

[fromcommorragh]

Reductus Saboteur of the Genestealer Cults by Jaya Ply (nikingply) on twitter

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[thes-hitoverlord]

[khornedog]

Malstrain genestealers are even weirder than the official lore and I love it.

A genestealer cult got its claws into a Hive city and the rebellion was successful, but they got quarantined and there's no incoming Tyranid fleet. The cult is locked in, no one's answering the Call home, the rebellion is stuck on Necromunda. Nothing ever goes right on Necromunda.

Somehow, evolution found a way to exploit a new niche: genestealers. Malstrain genestealers are those cordyceps fungi that turn ants into automatons who infect the whole nest. Creepy as hell, I think it was The Last of Us that used the idea. The malstrain models have similar protrusions to a cordyceps infected insect. Malstrains are very explicitly NOT a regular genestealer but something else. Malstrains are a contagious disease that predates on Tyranids.

This is not supposed to happen, Tyranids are a super evolved predator that adapts to and devours everything in their path. The whole fungus/disease aspect would point to one of Nurgle's machinations, wouldn't it? But no, there's no evidence of Chaos corruption in the Malstrain and the existing Chaos cults have no genestealers. Tyranid biology blocks out the Warp, so Chaos may not even know the Malstrain exists. If they did, the Death Guard would be on their way to pick up their successful new bioweapon. There's just no overlap where Tyranid poxwalkers would slot in perfectly.

Something on Necromunda simply evolved to consume the deadliest xeno threat, but it's just chilling with the Gym Bros(who have the real deal Space Marine physique) and the Lesbian Separatists(who do quite well as feudal lords).

All the 40k assumptions go out the window the moment they hit Necromunda and I love it.

[wh40kartwork]

Blood Angels

by Jaime Martinez

[setsneedtofeed-hobbist]

I wasn’t happy with the skintone, so all the genestealers are getting lighter and pinker flesh

[shadow-realm-creations]

So, I made some progress on making a custom sprue of the hive scum heads. There are 10 heads per box, but only 5 are unique, so get to each. Next step will be making the silicone mold for these. That said I have more sprue of the malstrain genestealers bits.

Don't just what to recastw and copy every as is. I what to make some modifications with green stuff and make changes as I feel best for my work.

But this has been a fun treat to myself.

I can't wait to share more progress

[thewenglishwarlock]

Little malstrain friend! Hoo buddy they're fiddly but fun to paint!

[grumblinggamer]

Next Aberrant finished. I really enjoy painting them; they‘re a nice mix of muscles and carapace.