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So it is!

Reminds me of Dr Mephisto and Kevin from earlier seasons of South Park.

omg. Necromunda continues to be utterly amazing with the malstrains

Oooooooh, That looks awesome! A shame it's resin, but I love this entire concept.

I love that the designers are being give a pretty free hand on Necromunda models.

They’re still instantly recognisable as being from 40K, but with a visual interest and flair we’ve not really seen in 40K since the end of Rogue Trader when it began to really codify into what we know today.

The paternal claw resting on the back of the genestealer is just such a lovely pose.

I wonder if he's reborn with the bionics, or compelled to replace his fleshy bits with cold metal?

beast_gts wrote:
I wonder if he's reborn with the bionics, or compelled to replace his fleshy bits with cold metal?

In the description of him as a shadow in the broodmind that brought him back to life, I really like the idea that there is a deep immovable compulsion to recognise the flesh as weak.

The best Adeptus Mechanicus model in many years...

That model is freaking awesome!!

He good yo

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Reminds me of Dr Mephisto and Kevin from earlier seasons of South Park.

"Wait, is that a Geneste..."

"That's not important right now!"

That's a lovely model. I've never bought a full resin model from FW before but I'm definitely getting this one.

 modelhunter wrote:
Nice mini, but too expensive given it is FW resin. I thought GWS were moving FW towards plastic. If so, it is happening at a pretty slow pace.

That set of rumours was (obviously tbh) false.

FW/Specialist game character models will be resin for the forseeable.

Nice that they announced it the same day as a hh book involving the Dark mechanicum.

Wow, a Malstrain model that I actually like. Not just a little but a LOT. Well done!

I'd use him as a techpriest in my brood brother army if I still had anyone to pay against.

Damnit, now my converted magos -> patriarch will look like I copied this!

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
Nice that they announced it the same day as a hh book involving the Dark mechanicum.

Yeah, I'm definitely converting this model for Heresy.

 KidCthulhu wrote:
Wow, a Malstrain model that I actually like. Not just a little but a LOT. Well done!

I'd use him as a techpriest in my brood brother army if I still had anyone to pay against.

Techpriests aren't able to be taken in Brood Brothers...

It's a great stand-in for a Magus or Biophagus though.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
The best part is clearly that his little buddy there is wearing a shirt.

They are now stealing shirts in addition to jeans? What’s next? Socks? Underwear? Blasphemy!

 Nevelon wrote:

 Mr_Rose wrote:
The best part is clearly that his little buddy there is wearing a shirt.

They are now stealing shirts in addition to jeans? What’s next? Socks? Underwear? Blasphemy!

Arrrgh!

Underpants Gnomes!

I'm also kind of meh about a lot of the Malstrain stuff but this is great.

Also he's the Hermaphage Magos, so confirmation, if any was really needed, that the Book of Ruin lore is being overwritten.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

 Mr_Rose wrote:
The best part is clearly that his little buddy there is wearing a shirt.

They are now stealing shirts in addition to jeans? What’s next? Socks? Underwear? Blasphemy!

Arrrgh!

Underpants Gnomes!

There is a Fabricator-General joke around here somewhere…

I just realised this, as I read Hermaphage Magos. He is clearly redesigned from his original appearance in Book of Ruin.


I wonder if they will ever reuse that artwork as a generic agent of some kind.

It’s not the same guy. It’s akin to a Kellermorph/Magus/GSC Character, a separate being manifested time and time again.

The character isn't a single individual though. The lore above states he gets regrown by the Patriarch everytime he dies. Those images could be of different examples at different times.

Edit: ninja'd!

 Kanluwen wrote:
Techpriests aren't able to be taken in Brood Brothers...

It's a great stand-in for a Magus or Biophagus though.

I should clarify; my Guard army since 5th has been "traitor guard" Brood Brothers using standard Guard rules with nice conversions.
Forgive me, I haven't played since 8th with indices.

very cool mini, which is, unfortunately, a bit ruined by the cutesy genestealer familiar.

The fluff is pretty bad though, and seems to go against what we knows about genestealers cult

 streetsamurai wrote:
very cool mini, which is, unfortunately, a bit ruined by the cutesy genestealer familiar.

The fluff is pretty bad though, and seems to go against what we knows about genestealers cult

That's the point though - this isn't a pure genestealer cult. It's one that has been messed with on a genetic level. It's going to behave very differently.

 Overread wrote:

 streetsamurai wrote:
very cool mini, which is, unfortunately, a bit ruined by the cutesy genestealer familiar.

The fluff is pretty bad though, and seems to go against what we knows about genestealers cult

That's the point though - this isn't a pure genestealer cult. It's one that has been messed with on a genetic level. It's going to behave very differently.

I get this, but I dont see why he couldn't have simply been infected by the patriarch, like a good regular victim. Does breaking the established fluff makes this character more interesting? (I dont think it is the case, but that's mostly subjective). Might be me, but I find that newcromunda fluff writers tries a bit too much to be edgy and different (I still can't get over the abomination that is the Delaque origin story lol )

Hermiatus and his experiments with Genestealers are established fluff from 1992, though. I like to see them riffing on things like that

Not sure what the problem is? Saving a copy of a personality and growing it a new body is a canon Tyranid ability even if they only use it for things like the Swarmlord. Brood minds are also established to be miniature hive minds in almost all respects so this should be a simple thing. The only anomaly is that the Patriarch keeps creating Hermiatus-clones, which seems almost like a twisted sort of filial affection… did Hermiatus Prime actually succeed in creating a more human genestealer?