"A Mutilator is a vile Chaos Space Marine dedicated solely to the visceral thrill of melee combat whose intense lust for battle has warped his physical form until he fuses, body and soul, with his melee weaponry. The hulking monstrosities are born when a mind obsessed with slaughter and butchery falls victim to one of the many supernatural techno-viruses that gestate within the Warp. At first their symptoms are subtle, manifesting as a compulsion to constantly clean and sharpen weapons or a refusal to be parted with their favourite blade, but soon flesh and armour begin to knit into one impossible whole as the host Chaos Space Marine's mind decays and their body swells.
Transformation into a fleshmetal abomination is not without its perks, as Mutilators find themselves eager to absorb Daemon Weapons and add their power to their own. Such finely-honed killing tools can then be manifested out of the warrior's own mutated body, ensuring they'll always have the perfect weapon on hand to kill whatever is in front of them.
Much like their similarly mutated Obliterator counterparts, Mutilators are a common sight in the ranks of the Iron Warriors Legion, who are rumoured to go so far as to intentionally infect their own recruits -- though this is not to say they aren't found in almost every warband to some extent."
The new Mutilators! VERY cool kit, minor issues sticking them together. Very much enjoy that all the weapons are swappable. Felt the need to Iron Warriors the scultps up a smidge, so I swapped out the heads (lots of cutting and greenstuffing) and scraped as many of the Eye of Horus off as I could. Quite happy with how they've ended up! I think these lads mixed with the Saturnine kits from Horus Heresy could look VERY neat as like an IW Daemon Prince, so that might be on the eventual horizon. Pic with Boy for Scale under the cut.












