Creations of Ghaust (Bile) Kill Team

[GuitaRasmus]

After a month of working on them almost every night for at least a couple of hours, I can finally present my “Creations of Ghaust” Kill Team. I’m very happy with how they turned out, but any and all comments and critique are much appreciated. 

Feel free to skip the lore bit, I just had some fun writing it out. 

Zamael Ghaus - Fleshsmith of the Black Legion. (Creations of Bile Kill Team) 

Zamael Ghaust is a name sometimes whispered and often cursed when mentioned in the ranks of the Black Legion. 
Not much is known about Ghaust before he joined the Legion. He roamed the Eye of Terror, with a few of his assistents for many years, until he was captured by a contingent of Black Legionaries. Being an apothecary, a rare treat in the Eye, he was brought before Abaddon. Few were witness to the exchange, but Ghaust admitted to having been a gifted student of Fabius Bile and later fallen from the Primogenitors’ grace, and being forced to flee further into the Eye. A bargain was made - Ghaust’s life, a laboratory and as many subjects as he wished for, in exchange for monsters. 

And monsters he makes; most subjects do not come willingly, whether from disobedient Black Legionaries or Space Marines from rivalling Legions or Warbands - and understandably so. His work in his laboratories is made to a soundtrack of screams, moans and gargles of agony. For someone unlucky enough to find themselves on the workbench of Ghaust, they will emerge as much, much less human, even compared to the dwellers in the Eye. Ghaust often field tests his subjects on small but important missions, to see for himself how they fare in real battle.

Varghorak:
Varghorak, once a Berzerker of the Angrons legion, is one of the few willing subjects of Ghaust. He approached the Fleshsmith, after failing the preliminary trials of the Eightbound, wishing to become stronger, tougher and faster, so he could better serve his deity. Ghaust obliged, using an experimental concoction of muscle and bone growth compounds in extreme amounts. Varghorak is a grotesque mountain of muscle and bone, his skin stretched to and beyond it’s limits, with a strenght unheard of, even among the strongest of the Astartes. However, the chemicals used in his apothesis has taken their toll on his mind, and he is little more than a beast now - living only for the blood he can reap for Khorne. 

Vraxek: 
A former 3rd. Legion Warrior, Vraxek has joined the Black Legion centuries ago. Like his kin, he was always pursuing perfection, in Vraxeks case, perfection of form - he dreamt of a body that was made entirely for combat. Ghaust happily obliged; Ghaust had recently aquired DNA samples of the vampiric shapeshifting Xenos species known as the Lacrymole, and begun experimenting with  lacing Astartes genes with the loathsome Xenos and succeeded - over the course of a few years, Vraxek was continually treated with injections of the vile cocktail, and slowly began changing. His metamorphosis now complete, he looks like the warrior he has always been - although when thrown into the heat of combat, his battleplate cracks open, revealing his true self - a writhing mass of flesh, spiny limbs and maws filled with razorsharp teeth, charging forward while emitting blood curdling shrieks. 

Maliax: 
An apprentice of Ghaust, he has been under his masters knife multiple times himself, giving him a hideous appearance, although it is hard to understand exactly how he has been “enhanced” - perhaps known only to Ghaust and himself. He joins Ghaust in his field tests, collecting samples of tissue, geneseed and whatever else might strike his masters fancy, but on the battlefield every warrior must pull their own weight, and thus he dons a missile launcher, giving heavy support from the backline. 

Xorphio:
Once a Legionary with very modest psychic abilities, Xorphio was “volunteered” to participate in Ghaust’s attempt to enhance psychic abilities - high level psykers and sorcerers being highly sought after in the Eye. 
Xorphio has endured many brain surgeries, to modify his neural network, as well as recieving constant doses of Norepinephrine, distilled from human psykers and astropaths. The result is convincing, although his appereance is rather grotesque - his brain has grown to massive size, and a third eye has sprouted on his forehead. Xorphio cares little for this, for he now displays powers that equal experience sorcerers, and can wreak havoc on any battlefield. 

Khimeraon:

It is unknown whether Khimeraon, a lowly legionary melta-gunner (his former name is forgotten) had displeased some lord, or just happened to be in the wrong place when inspiration struck Ghaust, but it ultimately matters not - he unwillingly became the subject of a mad experiment that involved merging an Astartes with a particularly brutish xemos specimen Ghaust had stumbled upon. The experiment was a success (at least in Ghaust’s mad viewpoint), since he had managed to link Khimeraons neural pathways to the Xenos’ body, so Khimeraon is in complete control of the twisted cojoined body - however, Khimeraon, in constant pain from the mismatch of biology, forced to endure endless chemicals pumped into his body to avoid his immune system expelling the foreign tissue, hates Ghaust more than even the corpse-emperor. He is very much aware, however, that Ghaust fears not that subjects who were unwilling participants in his experiments turn on him, since Ghaust always makes sure they have a failsafe in them; a small melta-charge surgically implanted in their brainstem, linked to Ghaust’s twin hearts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 3 by GuitaRasmus

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Those are absolutely brilliant, from start to finish.

[BadgersinHills]

Excellent work. These are lovely.

[Volgon]

Fantastic conversions and great painting! I really love the deep green/blue-black armor you've got there. Super unique color. Thanks for sharing the finished product! Any ideas for your next bespoke kill team? I am (mostly) finished with my Legionary team, and have been painting up my Visionary for a proxy Nemesis Claw.

Edited March 4 by Volgon

[Maschinenpriester]

Absolutely stunning conversions!

May i ask where the head for the heavy gunner is from?

[Firedrake Cordova]

Absolutely great work. The liquid in the vials is particularly lovely 

Edited March 4 by Firedrake Cordova

[Dr_Ruminahui]

On 3/4/2025 at 2:01 AM, Maschinenpriester said:

May i ask where the head for the heavy gunner is from?

 

It looks like one of the ones from the Chaos Chosen kit.

 

EDIT: I was referring to the (multi) meltagunner head - you probably meant the missile launcher gunner's head.

Edited March 5 by Dr_Ruminahui

[Urauloth]

Absolutely fantastic conversion work. Also I love that green!

[Terminatorinhell]

Oh man I am absolutely loving these 

[Gnasher]

Yeah as other have said these are just EXCELLENT!

[GuitaRasmus]

Thanks a lot for the kind words, guys! :) 

 

7 hours ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

Absolutely great work. The liquid in the vials is particularly lovely 

Thanks! The vials are actually pretty easy - just a few glazes (darker and lighter) over sybarite green, a thin glaze of Fluor Green for the glow, and some very light blue lines for the glass effect. 
 

12 hours ago, Maschinenpriester said:

Absolutely stunning conversions!

May i ask where the head for the heavy gunner is from?

Thanks a lot, and Sure - It's one of the heads (the icon bearer, I think?) from the Death Guard Heroes set. 

 

16 hours ago, Volgon said:

Fantastic conversions and great painting! I really love the deep green/blue-black armor you've got there. Super unique color. Thanks for sharing the finished product! Any ideas for your next bespoke kill team? I am (mostly) finished with my Legionary team, and have been painting up my Visionary for a proxy Nemesis Claw.

Thanks a lot! I have a few ideas brewing, but right now I'm working on a few NPC's for a weekend gettogether with my Kill Team gaming group, and we've got an awesome 4 player scenario planned. I *really* also should get some of my 4-5 unpainted teams painted... ;) 

[Firedrake Cordova]

14 hours ago, GuitaRasmus said:

Thanks! The vials are actually pretty easy - just a few glazes (darker and lighter) over sybarite green, a thin glaze of Fluor Green for the glow, and some very light blue lines for the glass effect. 

Well, it's certainly very effective - the change between a tealy-blue at the top and an almost phosphorescent green at the bottom, together with an apparent texture towards the bottom creates a lot of visual interest

[Heraclite]

The conversions looked amazing on their own, but they are even more beautiful painted.

 

Great Job @GuitaRasmus

[sitnam]

I'll echo everyone else: absolutely amazing. Khimeraon might be my favorite,.both lore wise and as a mini.