Another batch of Genestealer advanced hybrids, this time with Plasma Guns...
As if Genestealers aren't bad enough, these have guns!
And another character for the army, quite possibly a Commissar, since she'd scare just about anyone...
As if Genestealers aren't bad enough, these have guns!
And another character for the army, quite possibly a Commissar, since she'd scare just about anyone...
Originally Absylonia from Legion of Everblight for Hordes...
Interesting that the two concepts are really quite similar: both Legion and Genestealer Cult involve taking a normal population and infecting it with *other* (Dragon or Alien) and mutating the population as it overwrites their DNA with the invading organism.
Not a new idea of course, that goes back at least as far as 'Invasion of the Bodysnatchers' -though really that's more a case of Doppelgangers than Overwriting, since the sampled person is killed and a replacement is grown, but the root fear is the same. While Bodysnatchers was actually a metaphor for the U.S.'s paranoid fear of Communism, I think the root fear goes much deeper and further back in time, such as the fear of 'Demonic Possession', which was likely just an interpretation of Insanity, which is likely a primordial fear: the potential to lose one's identity and will, to become something other, someone else who then takes over your body.. to lose one's mind- might be no greater fear.
No wonder these army themes will come up again and again. If looking for a 'scary army', it doesn't get any scarier than that.
Here she is with a loyal subject, ready to shoot you. Or worse, wound you and give you a nice dose of new DNA.
And here's how the Bathalian sizes up with the 'stealer hybrids.
All for now, but more to come!
9 comments:
Commissar Gaunt has nothing on that Horror - instant obedience guaranteed!
Fantastic work indeed - those pink colours are amazing
Love them mate.. great job!
More fantastic Stealers. Lovely paintwork as always especially on those plasma guns.
These guys look great. I was poking around for more pics of your army, and came across several in various posts, but was hoping you'd have a gallery with more? I'd really love to pour through the images for inspiration.
Great stuff!
Thank you for the good writeup. It in fact was a amusement account it. Look advanced to far added agreeable from you! By the way, how could we communicate?
Plasma guns? Now that is scary!
Fun :) !
Thank! :)
That'sa good idea W39999... when I finish the army I may make a gallery page for it, like I have for the Blood Bowl teams-maybe worth making army specific gallery pages for other projects too. In the meantime, the tag 'genestealer cult' will bring up the previous posts, though not as neat & tidy as a gallery.
Have checked out your Genestealer Cult posts. They absolutely great - Ace work! Thx/Hans
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