Michka's 40K stuff... (Genestealer Cult Goliath added 7/3/17)

[Michka]

Recently I got a hold of a bunch of old metal Genstealers. There are a few hybrids in the batch as well, but I found the pure strain Genestealers fascinating. I've painted up plastic Genestealers for years now, but I never took the time to do a proper 'eavy Metal style paint job on them. Given the nature of 40K in the last few editions you always needed quantity, and you needed it fast. Since I stumbled into this gold mine I wanted to take my time painting these up. Anyway, here are the first batch.

 

I also planned to mix in the old style plastic Genestealers, but they just didn't look right next to the metals. (Forgive the bad paint job on the old plastic here. He's an example of what I was trying way back when. I got better.) 



I realized the problem was the position of the rear arms. With a bit of cutting and pinning I think I got these plastics to match up pretty well.



They're by no means a perfect match, but they look right when mixed into a big group.



Since I was doing some higher quality painting on my Genestealers I figured I'd give a couple Imperial Guardsmen an upgrade.



I'm happy with the guards so far. I need to paint up some more though, or they won't last for very long.

[Andrew May]

Love the genestealers! I'm pretty sure I painted a green one exactly like yours when I was a kid!

[beefcake]

Very jealous of the metal genestealers. They look great!

[dijit]

Those are some really nice minis and lovely paintwork.

[Suber]

I love the choices of colours and how you have managed to get along all those in such a great way. Both Genestealers and Guards look terrific!

[Chico]

Love your Purestrains alot, if you have no use for your Hybrids i'm sure i can trade you a few metal and plastic Purestrains of the same era for them

Cheers
Chico

[AKULA]

Lovely PJ 

[FramFramson]

Great old minis! Love the guards too!

[Elbows]

I miss the older slightly more campy nids...some of their new stuff is great, but the old stuff has a bit of charm to it.  Good lookin' minis.

[rob_alderman]

Love them, they look great!

[Jonas]

Awesome!

I have mixed the plastic and metal genestealers too in my horde.

I love the old metal genestealers, unfortunately I have the later edition with plastic arms.

These look awesome with the metal arms and the great painjob!

[Cypher226]

Looking good - you've made me think twice about selling my old catachans too.... 

[Michka]

Thank you for all the nice compliments.
 
Jonas: I have some of the plastic armed metal genestealers too. I haven't got to them yet thought. I had three blister packs of the all metal purestrains, and one pack had a missing arm. Turns out the missing arm was in the next blister. I was lucky. It's not like I can send a request to GW anymore.
Cypher226: I've always loved the metal Catachans. They were my first GW models.
Chico: Sorry, but I'm savoring those minis. I take my time when I'm painting this way, and those are going to take even more time.

I've started re-painting my old Hive tyrant too. I'd get him finished sooner if I hadn't distracted myself with other projects.   

[Dr. Kevin Moon III esq.]

They all look fantastic!

[Jonas]

Jonas: I have some of the plastic armed metal genestealers too. I haven't got to them yet thought. I had three blister packs of the all metal purestrains, and one pack had a missing arm. Turns out the missing arm was in the next blister. I was lucky. It's not like I can send a request to GW anymore.
 

Yeah  I have a couple of Squat Thuddguns in blister and one of them is a misspack with two leftsides og the barrels. I was thinking of complaining to GW, but I dount I would get anything out of it. Instead I bought a incomplete second hand Thuddgun, so once I get to it I can still fix it.

About the metal genestealers with plastic arms, I have seen a guy, on the internet somewhere, cutting off the closed hands of the plastic arms and putting on new GW zombie or ghoul hands, it looks much better.

This pic shows the plastic arms with the new hands.