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Another 30k-possible release - new Mutilators!

Love to crush, maim, and kill? Surrender to the warp and become a new Chaos Mutilator

Depending on how big they are, there's a few conversion options...

Certainly I wouldn’t be mad if someone wanted them as Gal Vorbak.

They also could stand in as Charonite Ogryns

I predict a dual kit with the mutated heavy weapon guys.
Obliterators?

I don’t think so. If it was a dual kit they’d normally mention that in the article. Maybe it’s like the 30k kits and there’s a base body farm and two weapon frames that will get sold as separate kits but that doesn’t seem to be in trend for 40k outside of vehicles.

Anyway, to add to the list of things it could be in 30k, throw on some green stuff robes and call them corrupted Myrmidon Secutors.

This is the best attempt at this particular kind of Chaos model so far, but (IMO) they still look a bit...s**t. I've never really liked the big lumpy Chaos models (like the Hellbrute). Maybe they'll grow on me - perhaps if someone does a good 30k conversion.

I dig 'em

I like that they're seemingly smaller/less corrupted than obliterators. They look more like messed up marines than giant monsters in with a few marine gubbins.

From what I can tell, they are more or less a match for Obliterators.

They also appear just as corrupted, the fleshmetal is just covered in additional plating, where the Obliterator has bare thighs for example.

 Ashiraya wrote:
From what I can tell, they are more or less a match for Obliterators.

They also appear just as corrupted, the fleshmetal is just covered in additional plating, where the Obliterator has bare thighs for example.

At a glance, they look a lot smaller and a lot less corrupted. At least when put next to each other, and to my eyes.

Look at the arms. Both are twisted, hulking limbs of virus-corrupted flesh, but the Mutilator has additional armour plating over it. You can see the flesh is still there on the raised arm. The torso also has a lot of flesh which you can see in the high angle shot elsewhere in the article, and you can see more flesh poking out at the hips, etc.

As for scale, well, minicompare.info is as usual extremely quick in using base sizes to establish a basis for comparison, and they seem genuinely intended to be identical in terms of overall bulk, with just differences in posture, plating coverage, how high up the head is sat on the body and so on.

The shoulder guns make a huge difference in silhouette for models that otherwise would have the same volume.

Also, I liked it better when it was one unit that could morph lascannons into power fists.

One is for shooting one is for CQB....

 lord_blackfang wrote:
The shoulder guns make a huge difference in silhouette for models that otherwise would have the same volume.

Also, I liked it better when it was one unit that could morph lascannons into power fists.

That's what the current oblits are. They have big power fists.

Obliterators have gnarlier, more mutated armour. The Mutilators armour just looks too clean to me. And on that point it’s not the paintjob for certain.

Is it more mutated, or are they just wearing way less of it?

Definitely more mutated.

The comparison pic above shows it pretty clearly. The Obliterator looks like its armour is undergoing fleshification, the organic and inorganic becoming one and the same. Regard the teeth around the collar, the plasma cannon growing out of tortured flesh and his little tootsies manifesting from the armour, rather than bursting through it.

The Mutilator, and I’m not saying it’s a bad look as such? Looks more like the swelling flesh has forced his armour apart, or that the armour is just sort of attached to the flesh mountain. The distinction between squidgy flesh and thick armour is simply too pronounced.

I think the key difference is that the Obliterator is clearly exploring out of its armour. The Mutilator has become one with its armour and is within the shell.

One is a creature bursting to be free of its shell; the other is a huge beetle one with its shell even whilst bloated

The Obliterator Virus is a post-Heresy thing, right? GW hasn't shoved them into the Siege or anything yet?

The only one present in the Siege I know of is Volk, the proto-obliterator who used a scrapcode virus on the Lion's Gate spaceport.

Obliterators as a generic thing had not appeared yet as far as I've seen.

 Ashiraya wrote:
The only one present in the Siege I know of is Volk, the proto-obliterator who used a scrapcode virus on the Lion's Gate spaceport.

Obliterators as a generic thing had not appeared yet as far as I've seen.

IIRC there's a highly relevant short story in Era of Ruin where somebody basically

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