Kill Team: Nightmare brings blood-chilling balefire and terror tactics to the tabletop tomorrow, and we’ve got just enough time to see how the Warhammer hobby community have got on painting our new crop of extra-murderous operatives. We sent out teams of skulking Drukhari Mandrakes and skin-stealing Night Lords to some of your favourite community painters, and this is what they sent back.
The menacing Mandrakes proved particularly popular, with Chris, Maxime, and Crystal opting for classic colour schemes that pitted inky skin against blazing balefire.
Others chose to brighten up their Drukhari with extra colour and lighter vibes, such as Emma, Brennan, and Jon who used vibrant hues to illuminate the Mandrakes, almost appearing as if they’re cast in eerie moonlight.
Meanwhile, the Nemesis Claw kill team put on their best blues in spectacular work from Adán, Chrissie, and Jennie, including some truly menacing object source lighting showering Adán’s operatives in a hellish red glow.
Plenty of painters also chose to depict their kill team in the colours of other Chaos Space Marine warbands, like a red offering from Chris, bronze from Rob, and the reflective teal armour of the Alpha Legion from John.
Finally, Vincent took his usual jaunt across the entire colour spectrum and brought back an eclectic band of Mandrakes showing off a wide variety of skin tones and flame effects with some clever use of Contrast paint. All of them put a bright spin on the usually brooding assassins from Aelindrach, showing that you can still slink and stab from the shadows without compromising on colour.
Pre-order your own copy of Kill Team: Nightmare tomorrow and pit two utterly terrifying bands of hard-boiled killers against each other amidst the seaborne platforms of Bheta-Decima.