Shadow Over Grimdark Innsmouth - A Genestealer Cult Log

[zoggin-eck]

Great work mate, love it so far. The armoured cars look fun, as do the Dark Eldar knives.

Good on you for not ruining it by adding unrelated tyranid parts and calling it a day! I likes me genestealers actually fitting the fluff.

[Lord Damocles]

Thanks for all the continued praise, positivity etc., everyone


There almost wasn't going to be much progress to report, and then I sat down to potter away at some more Purestrains, and this happened:


Patriarch!

Probably my joint-favourite model GW have ever made. Where did he get all those skulls from? And what happened to all the jawbones?


And on a less exciting note, a pile of part built Brood Brothers:

[Hideous Loon]

Their jawbones clearly fell off after seeing the wonderful paintjob. Good work, Sir (or Madam)! The Genestealer Cult army always struck me as a great example of 40k weirdness, and there needs to be more armies of it out there.

[igneous]

always nice to see a cult army i'll be wathing this thread

[Lord Damocles]

Boring update. Sorry.
Progress on cultists has slowed while I finish my Ad mech army off for a tournament in April.

More Purestrains:

[wyvirn]

Mind if I ask what the color scheme is? I've been trying to get my stealers to look like that for years, but I could never really pin the paint colors down.

[Lord Damocles]

Sure.

Over Chaos Black undercoat, for the chitin:
Heavy drybrush with Necron Abyss, drybrush with Regal Blue, heavy wash with Badab Black, drybrush to taste with Regal Blue again.

For the flesh:
Drybrush with Hormagaunt Purple, wash with Leviathan Purple, highlight with Liche Purple mixed with a little Skull White.

[Cap'n Facebeard]

Must comment here to keep up my comment-on-OOP-stuff cred.

Looks great!

[wyvirn]

Thanks! I'll have to pick up some of the colors I'm missing tomorrow and see how it turns out!

[Lord Damocles]

Back again!

Icon Bearer is done:


Why does he have purple skin when all of the other hybrids have a pale tone? Uh uh *shrug* Genestealer made me do it.




I've also (finally) made a start on the hybrid heavy weapon teams:

Yes, that's a Conversion Beamer


And here's a not very interesting picture of some more Purestrains freshly smothered in Badab Black:

The three Space Hulk Purestrains are destined to become counts-as Tyrant Guard for the Patriarch.

[MOMUS]

Conversion beamer from the 1990 chaos/genestealer heavy weapon sprue!?! I LOVE THAT SPRUE!

Your hybrids warm the cockles of my heart, it makes me want to start that beast-guard army i had planned....

[Sunshine and Night]

What are you using for the cultisit bodies?(model-wise if im being unlcear)

[Lord Damocles]

They're Fantasy Empire Flagellants.

I've now got an impressive number of clubs/chains/flails/beards left over...

[Lord Damocles]

Moar Cultists!


Given that GW now does fourty-seven different shades of purple, or whatever it is in the new paint range, these guys might get some slightly different robes...



Plus the heavy weapon teams are finally ready to recieve some paint


And some more Purestrains:

Although, to be honest, I could keep on posting pictures of the same few models, and it would be hard to tell the difference...

[Chem-Dog]

Moar Cultists!

Great stuff Lord-D, I especially like the Hybrids. I have a handful of the old plastic 'Brids on my windowsill, they glare at me whenever I have a look on this thread

Given that GW now does fourty-seven different shades of purple, or whatever it is in the new paint range, these guys might get some slightly different robes...

Just a thought, quite a few religious organisations tend to mark out different "ranks" of their officers and practitioners.
So.... You could use different colours to mark out different squads or squad types, to give you (and opponents) an easier time working out what's what on the table AND to make it less of a headache trying to match colours. You've started doing it already with the Magi, so it wouldn't look too out of place to perhaps extend into blues and reds?

[Lord Damocles]

Looksie what I found! The original tiny-tiny Patriarch model (destined to become a counts-as Broodlord for the Purestrains):

Just as well he has a hypnotic gaze, because with a face like that he's not going to be attracting many admirers.

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Just a thought, quite a few religious organisations tend to mark out different "ranks" of their officers and practitioners.
So.... You could use different colours to mark out different squads or squad types, to give you (and opponents) an easier time working out what's what on the table AND to make it less of a headache trying to match colours. You've started doing it already with the Magi, so it wouldn't look too out of place to perhaps extend into blues and reds?

Not bad idea at all. There's a very dark purple base, and a light lilac drybrush in amongst the new colours. Plus, I discovered a pot of Blue Ink from ye olden days at the back of my paint drawer...

[razormasticator]

Wow amazing work and great painting! This is coming from a former Genestealer cult owner myself, Back in 2nd edition days I had a Nurgle Genestealer/Chaos cult.
So props to you my friend for keeping up something that has slipped by the way side.

Now all we need is for someone to do a log of Commissar Training Squads. LOL

[wyvirn]

Given that GW now does fourty-seven different shades of purple, or whatever it is in the new paint range, these guys might get some slightly different robes...

Note that you have an official color to compare to, Genestealer purple.
Still, I tried your suggested color scheme, and decided to pick up a few extra pots of Regal Blue and Necron Abyss before they get merged Thanks!
Also: That Patriarch blew my mind. Keep it coming.

[Xisor]

Lord Damocles: These are decidedly excellent. Love 'em, concept and execution both.

I'd note that you've missed a trick however. Title-wise you should've went with Shadow Over Ipswitch.

[Lord Damocles]

Tyrant Guard Purestrains complete:



And the last three regular Purestrains:

I was beginning to think that I was stuck in a recursive loop of painting Genestealers which I'd never get out of...

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Now, who wants to see a badly lit picture of some half painted Brood Brothers?

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Tough. It's compulsory: