Red Brotherhood

[Rogue]

Hello

 

I've been painting up a small kill team over the last month or so - it's the neophyte hybrids from the kill team box. 

 

Cultists are a bit of a departure for me, and bit of a full circle. In the main, I'm a marine player; I've been playing with marines since Rogue Trader days, and have slowly built up over 6000 points worth. But the game that really hooked me on marines was Space Hulk - terminators versus genestealers. I've always had genestealers hanging around because of it, but have always had a background desire to build up a few hybrids to complete the set.

 

And now I have. Well, I've made a start, anyway. There's only ten of them right now, and being neophytes, that's not even a full kill team. But it's a work in progress, and I'm enjoying how it's going so far.

 

Anyway. Photos.

 

The whole kill team

 

My leader, Ilia, flanked by his guards, Nicolai and Yakov

 

Team shotgun - Timur, Sergei the icon bearer, and Vitaly the zealot

 

Mikhail the demolitions specialist, and Pavel

 

Yegor, my heavy, and Dimitri

 

I'm trying a lot of new things with them. It's my first time following the base, shade, layer, highlight pattern (usually I just go with neat block colours and dry-brushing), first time trying edge highlights, first time using texture paint. The way I see it, new force, new ideas.

 

And if you're interested in seeing the team in action, there's a few battle reports over in the kill team forum (http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/349390-kill-team-%E2%80%A2-battle-reports/page-2)

[Axineton]

Brilliant looking genestealer cultists mate! Can’t wait to get mine done

[Dosjetka]

Simple, clean, effective paint jobs. Good work, especially with the techniques you've used for the first time. :tu:

[Rogue]

Thanks for the positive comments - they're very encouraging.

 

If you've been over in the kill team battle report thread, you'll know that my patience with neophytes is wearing a touch thin (because they're awful at doing things). So I've done something about it, and recruited a trio of acolyte fighters to the cause, on the grounds that big smashy close-combat weapons on WS3+ multiple attack hybrids looks like a lot of fun.

 

Marat, wielding the heavy rock cutter

 

Alexei and the heavy rock drill

 

Daniil, revving up the heavy rock saw

 

And all three together

 

Next on the painting list, a couple of metamorphs...

 

[Dosjetka]

They look goos and I hope they will perform well on the field of battle, brood-brother. :tu:

 

Just make sure you keep them within range of Sergei!

[Rogue]

Not a great one, but you can see my metamorph leader (Koschei) at the front of this team photo. His one outting so far saw him diced up by an ad mech infiltrator, but he's probably just a slow starter.

 

 

And looking to the future, here's my cult's Patriarch. It's a model I've had for years, but one of the arms went mysteriously missing a long time ago - I finally got round to replacing it, stripping the old paint off and redoing him to match the rest of the Brotherhood.

 

 

Edited January 7, 2019 by Rogue

[AnvilofFenris]

Nice neat paint jobs there, well done with the new techniques! Good choice of colours too, look forward to seeing more

[Rogue]

It's been a while, but quite a productive while. So here's an update on the Brotherhood. 

 

Patriarch

 

Iconward

 

Abominant

 

Neophytes

 

Acolytes with mining tools

 

Acolytes with flamers

 

Clamavus

 

Aberrants

 

Genestealers

 

Leman Russ

 

As things stand, all the squads need adding to for combat purposes; and I'm working on a couple of Russes to give myself some shooting capability too. For now, I'm using some old guardsmen to act as brood brothers, and occasionally allying with my wife's Ad Mech in friendly games (because the Cult gets everywhere...)

[Rogue]

I've just noticed how rude I've been in failing to respond to various comments people have made. My apologies, and thanks for the encouragement (which was noted and appreciated at the time).

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Excellent work.

[Rogue]

Thanks Bjorn.

 

I had the battle-mat out again yesterday (teaching Abaddon and the Black Legion not to mess up the Cult's masterplan), so I got some photos of my ETL additions to the Brotherhood.

 

 

The full Russ squadron - a re-purposed mark 1, accompanied by two more recently acquired mark 2s.

 

 

And the Primus. I feel tempted by a Magus now, to round out the broodcoven...

[Rogue]

Here's the first of my refreshed brood brothers squads:

 

 

 

 

 

 

The last image is two of the closest models I could find, because I was interested to see the difference a 'proper' base, shade, layer, highlight approach and my early teenage straight-out-of-the-pot technique. I've definitely got better at eyes. 

[Naryn]

Amazing the difference a good paintjob makes! Lot of retro charm in those models, looking forward to more.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Good job.

[Rogue]

It really is*. They still suffer in comparison to newer models like the neophytes, but I was surprised how well they scrubbed up.

 

* the difference, I mean, rather than a cocky response to Bjorn. Got a bit ninja'd there.

Edited September 28, 2019 by Rogue

[Rogue]

Here's that Magus I decided I needed after all:

 

 

Along with a second squad of brood brothers:

 

 

 

 

I'm working on a command squad, and have a third squad and officers still to go after that.

Edited February 13, 2020 by Rogue

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Excellent work on the Genestealer cultists.

[Rogue]

Thanks Bjorn. I'm really enjoying painting them :)

[Kolgrim DeathHowl]

Excellent painting and conversions!!

[Rogue]

Thanks - the neophyte kit is an almost perfect fit to the old Guard plastics, which has made the job much easier than I thought it would be.

[Rogue]

I've been having a productive few weeks, and have finally updated all of my old guardsmen into retro brood brothers. Here's how they look:

 

Squad three - these were the ones not in need of new arms, heads or weapon swaps, so they look closest to the originals.

 

Command squad

 

Icon bearer

 

Commissar without the Star Emperor's blessing...

 

and Commissar very much with

 

Colonel Vasily Alexander

 

 

 

Brood brothers defending a munitions yard in the Kursk hive

 

The whole platoon, with armoured support

 

This last image shows the entire brood brother contingent. Back in the RT era, this was my first real army - a box of plastic guardsmen, a few metal officers and a Leman Russ. In 8th edition, it doesn't quite make 400 points. Scary.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Good job on the Genestealer cultists.

[Rogue]

Or totally loyal Guardsmen. Who can say?

 

Thanks Bjorn :)

[Rogue]

It's been a productive but relatively uninteresting few months on the painting table - I picked up the Cult half of the Overkill box, so have been working through various neophytes, acolytes, aberrants and genestealers, adding bodies and options to existing units.

 

But September has seen me breaking into the Cult starter box, and I've been painting up a ridgerunner. It looks like this:

 

 

 

The weapon and turret options can be switched around, but I like how this configuration looks (plus, big laser)

[Rogue]

A few more bits and pieces - some are from a while ago, others a bit newer, but it's all Cult so it's all good.

 

 

Acolyte reinforcements

 

Genestealers and their little friends - the pair at the back are the first of many Space Hulk era 'stealers.

 

My tech-priest - he's not a codex option, but is a handy support for the tanks if I bring in a Guard detachment.

 

A second primus, but in an alternative scheme (grey coat with a red lining - he's slightly flashier than the first one). he also has a bone-coloured bonesword, which I prefer to my original light grey and black ink effort.

 

Rock saws (thanks, ebay)

 

And a few hand-flamers, because it's important to be down with the meta, obviously.