jumai

Understrength units in this form really can't shake out to be a lasting, acceptable optimization tool, right? Units have minimum sizes for a reason, and it's more than just preventing detachment bingo... points costs are sometimes only fair per-model because the total investment in the unit is assumedly a certain amount or more. Like, a terminator champion with lighting claws will run you 44pts, and I doubt most people think that's undercosted. But a 2w character with 4 attacks at -2 AP, rerolls wounds, a 2+/5++, and deep strike? 44pt is crazy cheap for that, port behind your opponent turn 1 and if he refuses to immediately divert a non-trivial amount of resources, he'll start losing whole squads. That's not supposed to happen for less cost than a naked squad of cultists...

109th Host, XVII Legion Bearers of the Word pre- and post-heresy, though the calth box for the pre heresy iteration is still in the hobby queue

for the soul grinder flesh I'd advise a bruised purple recess wash (veins and muscle), then overbrushing a creamy bone colour onto raised areas (dermis), then very lightly glazing a translucent layer of light gray slightly tinted with fleshtone (epidermis, ie dead skin cell layer). Pretty much paintwater consistency with the glaze; you just want to get a dulled down sheen to mute and unify the main colours with it. Not to start actually turning it gray. Your chosen look great and the metallics seem super smooth. Did you airbrush them on?