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Got some painting done today.

A mutant from the accused cultist kit with a head swap for flavour reasons i may get into later

I’ve been working on a slaanesh cult for necromunda for a while now. I really wanted some spawns and these were perfect for the job.

This blessed creature has been incredibly fun to paint so far. I got to play around with a recipe for skin that I’d seen and wanted to try out.

A lot of layering and glazing so it took a long time but it was worth it.

I really like how this thing looks like it can’t contain its mutations anymore and is bursting at the seams.

Still have a ways to go in this guy but it’s shaping up pretty nicely

Finished the bastard today

Over all a delight to paint

The cult is a Cawdor/Redemptionist gang turned to the worship of slaanesh hence the flames on his clothes

An angle i didn’t take a good enough picture of yesterday showing off the arm

Got some painting done today.

A mutant from the accused cultist kit with a head swap for flavour reasons i may get into later

I’ve been working on a slaanesh cult for necromunda for a while now. I really wanted some spawns and these were perfect for the job.

This blessed creature has been incredibly fun to paint so far. I got to play around with a recipe for skin that I’d seen and wanted to try out.

A lot of layering and glazing so it took a long time but it was worth it.

I really like how this thing looks like it can’t contain its mutations anymore and is bursting at the seams.

Still have a ways to go in this guy but it’s shaping up pretty nicely

I mentioned this gang in a previous post I and figured it was time to show them off. They're a Cawdor gang turned to the worship of Slaanesh.

Formerly devout followers of the emperor and proud members of the Redemptionist cult, now screeching the praises of a new master.

Seeking atonement for their sins through purifying fire, their prayers were answered but not by the emperor. Something in the flames spoke to them, it spoke of the lies told to them by preachers and propagandists.

Maddened by their experience and turned from the imperial creed, they set out into the underhive to spread their faith. They believe that pain will liberate them from the limits of their mortal bodies and souls and are only happy to share the suffering that others may see the truth.

Members of the cult leave their old identities behind by burning themselves beyond recognition, donning heavy iron masks to be their new faces and adopting new names.

This gang has been in the works on and off for a while now. most of the models are just Cawdor and Redemptionists with a head swap and sometimes a little bit of sculpting. the heads are from Reptilian Overlords Miniatures.

I find that Necromunda's relatively low model count means that you can put quite a bit more time in every model while still keeping it manageable.

It's already a sizeable gang but i do have plans to expand it further. plans include The Unmade from warcry as well as another Cawdor kit to make some of the more deranged members of the cult. I’m also working on a stig shambler I’m building from some spare bits as well as two more spawns made from accursed cultists in the works to represent the higher tiers of chaos spawn

Another spawn of chaos joins the fray

I had some spare bits from my redemptionists so i figured it would be a nice way to tie this guy to the rest of the cult.

I figured the daemon head didn’t quite fit what i was going for so i sculpted a ring of teeth there instead.

I wanted the mutations to be a different colour than the guy they burst out of and figured that a flayed look would pop well

The base was a bit of an obstacle as i don’t have any neceomunda bases in this size so i had to make my own. I took one of the 40mm bases from the accursed cultists box and went to town with a knife, plasticard and a couple greeblies.

Chaos spawn provide a fantastic canvas for conversions as they’re very forgiving when it comes to messy sculpting and wonky proportions.

It begins!

A quick update. I’ll be expanding the Slaanesh cult quite a bit. Do I really need 19 more cultists? No, but is it in the spirit of excess to add 19 more cultists to my already quite large gang? Hell yes it is!

I’ve been sitting on a box of Cawdor for a while and waiting until i felt i could comfortably order some Unmade for some kitbashing

My progress so far with some Redemptionist bits thrown in for good measure. I still need to mess around with the heads in blender a bit so I can start printing.

I’ve remade my old gang leader as i thought he deserved a bit of a glow up. The stilts and even beefier chain glaive really help make him proper menacing.

I couldn’t wait to paint this one. This is the new model for my necromunda gang leader. Converted from a blissful one, I’m really happy with how he’s turned out.

Not the best light for taking pictures but ill get some better ones once I’m done with the rest of the heretics.

His name is Lakalom the pilgrim, he is not the first to bear the name nor will he be the last. It is said that those who take on the name will begin to act more like him for every day that passes and even claiming to be the very one who crossed the ash wastes on foot in search of the gifts offered by the great pyre.

I had this idea of making some of the new heretics partially flayed as they take the redemptionist beleif in purification through pain and twisted it to perfection through pain.

I absolutely love the designs of the unmade and knew early on that I had to do something with them for this project. Had to change his pose a bit in order to even get him to fit on a 32mm base

He’s probably my favourite conversion so far. All the pieces came together without much struggle and painting him was really fun.

Here he is next to his old model. The old one was already too tall for some of the terrain we use and this glow up sure ain’t helping.

A bit more progress on my cultists.

Half of them still need a bit of work before I can start painting.

These first four were assembled before I’d gotten around to printing the new heads. Still lots of work left on these but they’re shaping up nicely.

I’m pretty happy with how the flayed bits are turning out.

The unmade and cawdor bits went together with relative ease so I didn’t have to do too much with green stuff

Four more ready for priming. The black resin and poor lighting really isn’t doing the printed parts any favours in these photos.

After messing around a bit with the heads in blender and printing a batch i could put a few more together, these four are the ones I’ve gotten to a point where i feel i can start slapping some paint on them.

I’m liking the variety added by the new heads and unmade bodies

They’re mostly equipped with pistols and sharp things as i needed some more bone pickers and zealots

When I first started making this cult I figured it’d be a small side project that maybe got a new model or two now and then. Since then it’s become one of my absolute favourite things to work on, I’ll look at completely unrelated models and start trying to figure out how I can turn them into something i can use for the cult.

Hopefully gonna have more pictures of this batch of conversions soon as I make more progress. There are also a few other models I’ve made for this cult that I haven’t showed yet so you can look forward to those as well.

I want Games Workshop to acknowledge that Necromunda exists more.

So often, GW (Games Workshop) goes straight where the money is. Where are people spending their money? On Space Marines, of course. It's the poster boy of the franchise, so the number one thing that they're gonna do is make as many space marines as they can because it's essentially guaranteed revenue for the company. Every noob to the 40k franchise wants a space marine army. It's just how it goes.

The problem I have is that within the franchise, there's so much more they can do with it than just the most powerful guys in the galaxy. rather than make the biggest, baddest guy in the room the posterboy, the citizenry of the imperium should take center stage to really introduce people to the universe, and to make neofascists understand that THIS IS NOT FOR THEM.

The problem with Space Marines is that they already know everything. They study up on all the enemies of the Imperium, which means a lot of the mystique of the factions is lost. Save for the Tyranids, of course, because they’re from another galaxy so nobody *really* knows what their deal is. If you are introduced to 40K by getting to know a bunch of Mary Sues like the Ultramarines, you wouldn't be remiss for thinking that humanity wins all of the time.

That statement couldn't be further from the truth.

In %80 of battles, wars, and any other conflict in the Imperium, people are fighting tooth and nail for inches of the battlefield, often with catastrophic losses on both sides because of just how desperate and how pissed the factions are at each other. This is one of the main messages that 40k as a whole is directly screaming into people's faces: War Has No Winners. What better way to introduce people to the concept who look at the battles and cant see that about the universe than looking at it from the perspectives of people who are practically destined from birth to lose?

Under the crushing power of the Imperium, scuttling around the piles of garbage, among all the soot and shit and piss and rust that EVERYONE generates; what are their little victories that help them to live another day in the Underhive? What keeps them from driving themselves to drink in a place where it's likely they've never even heard of the Sun before? In a world without hope, what gives them life?

This applies to whatever Cavill's cinematic project is in the universe as well. In order to make people understand that the viewpoint of the protagonist is bad, we have to start small. Dumping an audience in a place where there is practically infinite scale makes it meaningless, and kills off any serious stakes. A Necromunda story is the perfect starting point for people who have no Idea what the word 'grimdark' even means and by keeping it "small", we have a baseline for just how huge everything is.

I just want more Necromunda books, videogames, ANYTHING BUT THE TABLETOP GAME, man! There is SO much potential there for stories that are more than "I am the Big Gun Man!" Gang wars are happening all the time, High society intrigue, Smuggling and illicit stuff?! People love that mafia shit!

Did some goobers for a 40k wrath and glory game I’m in and wanted to share

The struggles of this aesthetic 😔🪦

Time to practice medicine.

Imperial Fist - Necromunda Goliath by luffie 

Very Badass, he’ll be promoted to a Space Marine soon, guaranteed