Well I thought I’d finished making models for the Nestorian Infestation, I thought I’d be focussing purely on painting the ones I’d already made then moving on to one of the other creative projects I’ve been juggling. Apparently I thought wrong.
In my defence at least some of the blame for this particular model needs to laid at the door of that mad and creative powerhouse and fellow blogger IRO. It was him that put into my head the idea to make a genestealer child and, like tainted xenos genetics worming their way through a once loyal Imperial citizen, once implanted the idea wouldn’t leave me alone. After several fruitless hours trying to track down a model pram of just the right scale I suddenly recalled this image from the cinematic trailer released ahead of the genestealer cultists release back in 2016.
It’s a wonderfully potent image of the corrupted civilians and their family orientated outlook. Whilst their eyes see a beautiful and innocent baby ours’ see a savage monster just waiting to grow big enough to start hunting and devouring human prey. It’s a concept that lies right at the heart of what makes the genestealer cultists both so interesting and so horrifying. Whilst the Chaos cultists revel in destruction and seek only to tear down and destroy the civilisations within which they have hidden themselves, the genestealers value hard work, family and caring for the next generation. Indeed I would imagine the whole community being fiercely protective of any children, and heavily involved in their care and upbringing, especially if that baby is a purestrain genestealer.
I also realised that my plan to make a lady genestealer cultist (codenamed; Xenos Warrior Princess) for Fembruary had evolved into a genestealer hunting assassin instead. Merge the two ideas together however and I realised I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to make a genestealer mother and baby.
Of course time is now fairly short to get her painted before the early April deadline, especially other corrupted civilians still demanding attention. Time to break out the brushes!
March 16th, 2018 at 6:47 am
That is straight up creepy and fits perfectly with the setting 😀
March 17th, 2018 at 10:46 am
Thank you! 😀
March 16th, 2018 at 7:24 am
Wow, very disturbing conversion, even without paint. What did you use for the body of the “baby” ?
March 17th, 2018 at 10:47 am
Cheers 🙂 The baby is one of the “brain rats” from the Skaven stormfiends, with the head of a genestealer.
March 16th, 2018 at 7:56 am
As always your work is inspiring to us all. Great job!
March 17th, 2018 at 10:47 am
Cheers 😀
March 16th, 2018 at 9:07 am
That’s awesome. Also disgusting. Also disturbing.
March 17th, 2018 at 10:47 am
Basically the three main things I was aiming for 🙂
March 16th, 2018 at 9:20 am
Disturbing and yet clever 😀 Great addition 🙂
March 17th, 2018 at 10:47 am
Thank you! 😀
March 16th, 2018 at 9:46 am
This is so good I may have to steal the idea!
March 17th, 2018 at 10:48 am
Steal away! 🙂
March 16th, 2018 at 10:00 am
Creep-tastic! One of your best pieces to date, I’d say.
March 17th, 2018 at 10:49 am
Thank you – I’m actually ludicrously proud of her, and the feedback has been overwhelming positive 😀
March 16th, 2018 at 10:58 am
Now that is fappingly brilliant mate! You’re properly hitting all the creep-out buttons here, with a ‘casual-glance’ niceness, but then you get the monsterous detail… utterly superb.
March 17th, 2018 at 11:38 am
Cheers mate – now I need to see if I can maintain that effect once the paint goes on 😀
March 16th, 2018 at 1:58 pm
What an awesome concept mate and it’s looking brillant. Can’t wait to see it with colour.
March 17th, 2018 at 11:01 am
She’s primed and the basecoats will go down shortly. 🙂
March 16th, 2018 at 2:05 pm
Okay, now this is freaking brilliant indeed! Next level stuff! I second the demand for a bitz list 😉
One minor gripe: the face is still looking a bit too male, if you ask me. Maybe you could try shaving down the features a bit or – less fiddly – experiment with a daemonette head?
Anyway, fantastic job! 🙂
March 17th, 2018 at 11:50 am
Cheers mate! 😀 The positive response to this one really has been overwhelming!
Yeah, there’s been a bit of debate regarding the head and whether or not it looks too male. Although I actually rather like it the way it is the challenge of emphasising the female elements whilst still keeping her clearly a genestealer hybrid is too interesting to overlook so I’ll have an experiment and see how things go.
As for the bitz list the mother is a splicing together of a flagellant’s legs with an escher torso, plus flagellant arms. It’s not a neat fit under there, although it could be with a little more work, but as it happens the sling hides everything so in this case there was no need. The baby is one of the little brain rats from the skaven stormfiends with the head of an acolyte hybrid. The sling itself is greenstuff.
March 19th, 2018 at 5:56 pm
Aw, man, I should have recognised the embryonic rat — it’s a testament to the quality of your conversion, however, that it looks like a stock bit. Cheers for the list! 🙂
March 16th, 2018 at 2:12 pm
Nice!
March 17th, 2018 at 10:49 am
Cheers!
March 17th, 2018 at 1:36 am
Ohhh maaate, this is just ACE! I think a pram would have been a bit naff. I like the swaddling wrap. Great, GREAT conversion. Bloody ugly mum though innit haha. Cool images too. I’ll have to go and look at the trailer now. I’m glad you went ahead with the idea and you’ve more than nailed it.
March 17th, 2018 at 11:53 am
Yeah, a pram would have been overkill I think, it was fun to consider but I’m glad I went the way I did in the end. Thank you for the push to make this, I’m stupidly proud of her and she’s been really well received by everyone I’ve shown her too (so no pressure at all not to screw up the painting!)
The trailer is well worth a watch (as in I must have watched it at least a dozen times) – you can find it here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8klnCoAEi0
March 17th, 2018 at 12:13 pm
That was brilliant!
March 17th, 2018 at 10:46 am
D’aww, look at its liddle claws…
Great concept and execution, dude!
March 17th, 2018 at 11:58 am
Isn’t he the cutest!!
Cheers mate 😀
March 30th, 2018 at 7:25 pm
I mean this is obviously genius
March 30th, 2018 at 9:47 pm
Thank you! 😀