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Isn't that its actual head?

Look at the artwork

Edit: I guess it's not 100% clear either way, but it's interesting seeing other people's interpretations

It's more or less a Chaos Spawn with a Zoanthrope as the base model. The weirdest bit is tentacles passing straight through the human parts.

It looks way more like a Chaos Spawn than something from GSC.

Pretty sure the head is it's actual head.

Looks excellent to me.

Very cool model

 Souleater wrote:
It looks way more like a Chaos Spawn than something from GSC.

I mean, the point is that it's not something from a healthy GSC?

Tyranid Hive Fleets are actively avoiding Necromunda because of the screwy signals that the malstrain organisms in Secundus are sending out. Something about the fallout from the graviton bombing of the hive has screwed things up so, so badly at a genetic level that it's just...NOPE.

Yeah those mutations are a step too far for the hive mind.

The mini is ok but if there was no top part I would just think it was a chaos spawn of some sort.
Noticed the hand is like a flesh "glove" almost like the tentacle growth made it redundant.

Probably just another cool mini that is unfortunately resin.

I could be entirely wrong but I lean towards plastic on this one. Just something about the... solidity(?) ... of the detail.

Confirmed Forge World resin on Twitter.

Yeah, there's no way it was ever going to be plastic, the detail is too good for a start

 NAVARRO wrote:
Yeah those mutations are a step too far for the hive mind.

Good job the hive mind had ver little to do with it then: some dumbass Magos hanging out in Secundus started with genestealers and tried to do… something. Maybe make them loyal servants of the emperor or something. They screwed up and released the original Malstrain by accident. It tried to start up a regular cult but the changes the Magos made persisted. Eventually the cult was discovered and after initial containment failed the hive was grav-imploded in on itself crushing 99% of the inhabitants and dousing the rest in radioactive mutagens from the various factories, some of which were also changed by the twisting gravity. So the Malstrain that survived got even worse. Now instead of Aberrants which look positively homely next to this you get proper abominations wrought of hubris, alien genetics, and twisted science.

 Fayric wrote:
Looks like a tyranid horror asked a bad AI bot how to disguise itself as a human, not really having a clue how humans percive themself.

There was just an article about that on Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/ridiculed-stable-diffusion-3-release-excels-at-ai-generated-body-horror/

Warning, contains pictures NSFL (Not Safe For Lunch).

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:
these rules so much. absolutely in love with the malstrains. if they don't get rules for 40k, i might have to make some homebrew rules of my own

You can still just... use them as their obvious vanilla analogue

but this new model doesn't have an obvious analogue. it's based on the 'thropes, but those don't have rules in GSC, so there isn't anything obvious to use this as


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 Shadow Walker wrote:

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:
these rules so much. absolutely in love with the malstrains. if they don't get rules for 40k, i might have to make some homebrew rules of my own

You may start already as they will definitely not get 40k rules.

i want to wait until we get the full reveal for malstrains since it's pretty clear there's still more coming

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:
these rules so much. absolutely in love with the malstrains. if they don't get rules for 40k, i might have to make some homebrew rules of my own

You can still just... use them as their obvious vanilla analogue

but this new model doesn't have an obvious analogue. it's based on the 'thropes, but those don't have rules in GSC, so there isn't anything obvious to use this as

An Abominant! It is, after all, quite the abomination.

 Mr_Rose wrote:

 NAVARRO wrote:
Yeah those mutations are a step too far for the hive mind.

Good job the hive mind had ver little to do with it then: some dumbass Magos hanging out in Secundus started with genestealers and tried to do… something. Maybe make them loyal servants of the emperor or something.

No, Hermiatus (the Magos) just wanted to create an antidote against Genestealer infection. He somehow got infected and fled the planet. It's from an old Space Crusade campaign in WD ('Renegade').

Well, the model is pretty weird but I somehow like it. It better fits to Tyranids though - the old school Tyranids who created all kind of twisted stuff using the genetic material from their victims. Back then, when they had mind-slaves, and the Grabber-slasher. And walking lightbulbs. And weapons who could attach themselves to other species and controlling them. And Zoats, of course.

 Shakalooloo wrote:
An Abominant! It is, after all, quite the abomination.

I'm thinking Benefictus, depending on size.

beast_gts wrote:

 Shakalooloo wrote:
An Abominant! It is, after all, quite the abomination.

I'm thinking Benefictus, depending on size.

size is my concern. no idea how big that base is, but my first instinct was 40mm, whereas most GSC characters are on 32mm or smaller

not a fan of using it as an abominant. doesn't match the look or vibe

Like a fair bit of the Necromunda Range (and especially their resin models), the Coalescence prompts a strange "uncanny valley" effect for me. In this case not that its "not quite human", but that its "not quite a GW model".

It will probably pass in time.

It has a very clean paintjob at the moment, which is of course suited to showing the model off.

But…mankied up, on a base strewn with trash, the flesh painted red and purple to show infection and strain? I think it would really hit the mark then.

It was envisioned as a riff on a spore mine, rather than a zoanthrope, apparently:

Stephen May, @stevepaintsandsculpts wrote:Another one of my boys has been previewed!

I designed this in my spare time (concept through to model) because I felt the variety of enemies for Secundus was a bit lacklustre and the model for Cursed City in terms of variety should have been followed.

The idea was supposed to be a horrible fusion of spore mine and human.

Anyway, it looks like it has been changed somewhat since I left - unfortunately a lot of the changes I feel have been a bit clumsily excecuted. It was previously much more tumour/texture covered with much more spore mine being obvious.

It looks like it has been made much taller too, but I'm not 100%

I feel the paint job could have made it more like a single model, rather than skin stretched over something else?

Funnily enough, tumour was what I was thinking. It reminds me of more organised cancers like teratomas, which can grow teeth and hair and stuff. This is a GSC tumour, which is clinging to life being a psychic Tyranid abomination.

Looks like the Jeff Goldblum "The Fly" movie.

Only with Nids.

I love it!!!

There are a few obvious tumors, and they would have done well to keep more of them instead of the random intersecting limbs. I sure wish we could see Mr. May's original designs, for this and everything else.

Apocrypha Necromunda – Dare You Wield the Whispering Weapons?

Whispering Weapons are pretty cool!

I'm assuming the +6 Damage on "The Rage Unending" is a typo, but should it be 6 or D6?

EDIT: Or is it meant to be the 6+ Ammo roll?

Almost certainly a typo. Dunno what it’s meant to say though.

The 6 is most likely its Ammo roll though.

Seems like the kind of thing you'd want to use sparingly in a campaign.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Almost certainly a typo. Dunno what it’s meant to say though.

The 6 is most likely its Ammo roll though.

Another typo; the last weapon has the same name as the first on its profile row, but the profile itself is different.

Is the Malstrain FW? (ie Resin and not plastic).