Creations of Bile(’s Apprentice) Kill Team - Work in Progress

I love Chaos in 40k. And monsters. And body horror. I’ve loved it since I was a kid, and I’ve never really stopped being fascinated by monsters, and mutated horrors. So what better than to combine them into a Kill Team? Enter Creations of Bile - grotesque experimental Chaos Space Marines. I really like Fabius Bile as a character, and I’ve read the trilogy several times. However, he seems a bit too large of a character to use for small skirmishes, so I decided to use one of his apprentices instead. 

Most of the models are works in progress. 

The Kill Team will consist of: 

Visionary - Bile’s apprentice - still very much a WIP, he seems a bit boring to me, although I like the turning around pose I managed to get

Skinthief - a former Berzerker, changed beyond recognition with insane amounts of muscle and bone growth stimms

Screecher - a Chaos Space Marine, laced with genespliced xenos DNA, allowing him to change his body on a molecular level (basically, I love The Thing 2011, and wanted a marine in that vein)

Ventrilokar - “forced growth psyker” - a chaos space marine, showing faint glimmers of psychic potential, getting them massively improved by lots of stimms and chemicals, causing brain enlargement. 

Heavy gunner - again, boring compared to the rest - still considering

Melta Gunner - no ideas yet

I hope you enjoy them. :) 

Inquisitor Kill Team (Counts as Brood Brothers)

 The Van Sternbach siblings, Celia and Solomon, was on a meteoric rise as Inquisitors in their own right, in the Holy Order, each being a powerful psyker in their own right, but also gaining influence, power and personal retinues. 

Disaster struck, however, as Celia was accused of being a radical and heretic, on grounds of careless use of her psychic abilities. She was brought to trial and a torturous evaluation of her purity was deigned necessary, no matter the protests of her brother Solomon.
She endured many nights and days of physical and mental torture and cleansing, and finally judged as pure. However, she was but a shadow of her former self; her body was broken, several organs was beginning to fail, and her legs was so damaged that amputation was the only option. . Her mind was in shatters, and while she no longer was the pragmatic and razor sharp Inquisitor she used to be, she was still a very powerful psyker, and she had become even more zealous and ravenous in her desire to purge the God-Emperors foes, as a result of her purgatory ordeal.

Solomon had an enormous mechanical suit made for her, that could grant her her legs back, give support to her broken organs, as well as give her the strength to smite the heretics she desperately wanted to bring judgement to. She now lives only to destroy those that shy from the Emperors holy light, while Solomon still searches for a way to heal his beloved sister, if not in body, at least in mind. 

Inquisitor Celia Van Sternbach in her suit (Patriarch), Inquisitor Solomon Van Sternbach (Magos or Primus, depending on my mood)
… Centered by a Servo skull (psychic familiar, I need to make on more)

Death Cult Assassin (Knife Fighter), Preacher (Iconward), Interrogator (Commander), Astropath Acolyte (Comms), Zealot (Agitator)

Stormtrooper Bombardier (Sapper), Solomons Bodyguard (Veteran), Servitor Gunner (Melta), Stormtrooper Gunner (Plasma), Henchman Gunner (Grenade Launcher) 

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I… Can’t… Stop… Building… Kill Teams!

I would like to have a Brood Brothers KT to play with, since their playstyle seems fun, and I haven’t really got any “chaff” teams, but Genestealer Cults aren’t really my thing - they’re cool and all, but don’t really speak to me. Then it dawned on me that pretty much all of them are perfect stand ins for a Inquisitorial retinue - which IS my thing!

The only model that caused me some pause, was the Patriarch, but I think I found a good solution with the female inquisitor-psyker, interred in a massive combat suit.

I hope you enjoy them. :) 

Queen of the Malstrain Hive

 ... And here I was, making such good progress on painting my Iron Warriors... And then an idea pops up, that I just HAD to do, getting me sidetracked. Oh well. :) 

The story of Heretek Magos Biologis Illiex Delta-84 - infamously known as Queen of the Malstrain Hive - began as a higher ranking Magos Biologis. Her work led her to research of the Tyranid genomes, and she became fascinated by the species, the multitude of individual creatures, and specifically the genestealers - in particular, the easiness of which Genestealer and human DNA could mesh.
Very aware of the heresies she would be comitting, she began to aquire DNA samples of various tyranid creatures, in order to clone her own. However, her research quickly ground to a halt, when she realised the danger of the cloned creatures potentially being able to send a psychic signal to a Hive Fleet, thereby dooming the Forge World her laboratory was located on. However, further research led to her discovery of the Malstrain Genestealers, located on Necromunda - a certain mutated strand of Genestealer, unable to call upon a Hive Fleet, due to their twisted physiology. Decades of pulling strings, calling upon shady favours and working strictly under cover, led her to finally aquiring some usable DNA samples of the Malstrain Genestealers.

Illiex quickly went to work and went on to clone a handful of Malstrain specimens, in the secret vaults beneath her lab. She quickly realised that the specimens were close to uncontrollable and figured that their primitive intellects could be controlled by a leader. Thus, she excavated DNA strands from them, to clone a Malstrain Alpha brain, which she succesfully integrated into her own cognitive stacks. A milestone was reached - she could now walk freely among the Malstrain specimens, and they could be somewhat controlled by her thoughts. 

Catastrophy struck, in the middle of her groundbreaking research with integrating Malstrain DNA into human test subjects, her Skitarii guards being “volunteers”, as word of her work had somehow reached the higher echelons of the Biologis Prime. She was forced to flee, being declared Heretek ,under penalty of obliteration, and managed to secure a few of her Malstrain subjects, as well as a handful of her enhanced Skitarii.

Illiex now roams the galaxy, still continuing her research and leading missions with her “children” as she refers to, to uncover archeotech and DNA to help her work.

The Malstrain Prime brain, integrated into her cognitive system, has made her utterly insane, and while she is convinced her work will better humanity, she is nought but a vessel for spreading the Malstrain genes.


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I loved the Malstrain genestealers from the moment I saw them. Utterly twisted and horrifying. I just didn’t know what to use them for. Inspiration struck in the early hours of December morning, when I was washing the 4th set of bedsheets my 5 year old son had thrown up in that night (yay, stomach virus…), and I got the idea to use them as ruststalkers for a Hunter Clade team. They were almost the exact same size, and my weird imagination started coming up for a way to fill out the rest of the team.

The Queen is an Infiltrator Princeps, the Malstrain are Ruststalkers, the “Siamese” is an Infiltrator and the Tech Thralls counts a Skitarii - two of them armed with a Plasma Caliver and Arc Rifle. (I still need to come up with a way to make two of them look like Diktat and Surveyor, respectively.)

My Iron Warriors Kill Team - The Lords of Skaduhapaamunden (Counts as Angels of Death)

I wanted an AoD Kill Team - I already have an old intercessor KT, White Templars, and while ok, they’re not really been my thing. I struggled with all sorts of ideas, SW, DW, chapters of my own making, etc, but none really turned me ON (I have to be IN LOVE with a project to really do it justice). So I sat down and wondered - what are one of the defining things, that differentiate them from other SM teams? For one, access to a guy with heavy bolter, in heavy armour. Also, a Grenade launcher guy. And dedicated assault troops. Especially the first thing, access to a heavy armoured guy, got me thinking… And suddenly two things came to mind:

1) It probably has to be a Chaos team to really push me into overdrive. I’ve been a Chaos fan since I was 11 (42 now), and I’ve already got DG, WB, and Noise Marines teams, so chaos it is. Which legion then? Which led me to…

2) I need something that’s not a heavy intercessor, but still looks heavy. I’ve always loved the concept of Obliterators. Loved it. And hated every single version of the miniatures GW has put out. From the 3rd ed. “sprue guys” with guns in their eyes (sigh) to the squatting forestpoopers that came next (and don’t even get me started on Mutilators…) to the newest version, that looks super cartoony to me, and like someone mashed some heavy weapons into a severely overweight marine, trying to fit into power armour leg warmers and thongs. Why, oh why, GW? Why do you keep messing it up? So I decided to take inspiration from the greatest (probably also the only one I like) artwork of an Obliterator, and tried to make my own - MY vision of what an Obliterator should look like. More tubes, more (Venom-style) flesh tendrils, and more awesome.

With an Obliterator in place as my heavy gunner, the choice was obvious; Iron Warriors. I love painting necrostripes, and mechanical stuff is cool in my book.
So without further ado, here’s the team in all it’s unpainted glory. They’re pretty much ready for paint, barring a few small clean ups and scrapings here and there, but I could use some opinions on what head I should use for the Obliterator - I can’t seem to decide.