135 Son of Russ (Deathwatch Overkill)

The Sons of Russ have signed up a warrior for the Deathwatch!

I really enjoyed painting this guy, the scheme is really simple but works really well.

The Space Wolf details just add enough to compliment the dark of the standard black Deathwatch scheme.

I stuck with muted colours rather than give him the bright ginger hair that GW have gone with but otherwise I have stuck with their scheme if a little toned down in places.

Only another dozen (?) to go!

134 The Last King to Rise

Got my final Tomb King done and dusted over the weekend. He fits quite well with the gang but I have taken a slightly different style with him; going for a more corroded metal with nikilth (??) oxide to get a corroded brass look.

I stuck with the Dark Angels Green for the cloth (thats old paint) and general boney colours for the wraps and ribbons.

I tried to keep his shield front brighter as if he has carried on a memory to polish it as a reminder of his past.

I now need to decide on the basing style, whether to stay with squares or go round....

133 An elder Eldar?

Another lovely model spoiled by being made from Finecast!! So much lost detail, holes, weird overcast bits between parts... argh!

Now at least this time round I was generally able to tell what was poor casting and what was model, unlike my experience with some of the Tomb Kings where I couldn't tell if some of the decay was intended or not!

I didn't want to go with something close to the original GW idea this time round as I think its a little dated and too "cartoon" in some ways so went for something more toned down and gritty... well that was the plan.

Incubi Darkness was my starting point as a green black which I think works well, I went with flesh for her arms instead of the body suit she is meant to wear as I was wanting to step away from the synskin suits of the Assassins I have been doing,

I then tried to get a sort of enamelled look to the body armour parts by using some coelia greensahde and a moot green highlight which I think works well.

The contrasting red for the hair breaks up the otherwise very green palette which is just good ole scab red and a blood red wash. Love those old school paints!

130 Birth of the Four Armed God Emperor

Praise to the glory of the Four Armed God Emperor! Finally finished this guy off :-)

124 An Exercise in Basing

People may have noticed I have a problem.... I am not proud of it and I have lived with it for a long time... I am crap at basing my models!!!

I get the mini how I want it and then it just lingers, unbased, for evoooor!

Today I had a choice to change this sad state of affairs and try to make something acceptable.

Texture Paint - Will it save me from myself?

Like the hair over my ears, tufty and dead looking

A few minutes with a textured paint pot and some steel legion drab and a tuft of two of grassy stuff and they dont look too bad! Pretty basic but really simple and easy. I can see where I can develop these on from here so thats a bonus.

So basing, like a cream egg... How do you do yours?

123 Can you tell what it is yet?

Just a little teaser of the next project arriving on the desk; answers on a postcard :-)

122 - Multi spectrum warfare

The gang is all here! Really enjoyed painting these; it really took me back to the 90s and the first lot!

These were a long time in waiting for me as the box set came out, what? like a year ago now? But I am pleased with how they turned out and as most people have long moved on from them it is a little bit of variety than what else is going on at the moment!

I am totally going to get the old metal ones out and strip them down and give them an update! Will give me a chance to test a new stripping mix; people have suggested CilitBang?

I hope you have enjoyed read and watching my bungling through painting these and if you have please do take the time to add a comment; good or bad! It really does help me keep motivated.

121 Shape shifting chameleon - The Callidus

Yes you guessed it my favourite assassin was saved for last, the slinky synskin clad Callidus, I guess my passion for the Callidus started way way back before there were even the distinct temples and Ian Watson wrote the Inquisitor War trilogy and I met Meh'Lindi and her amazing polymorphine shapeshifting abilities.

Really impressed with the new model, the dynamic pose and sense of motion is great, they have really outdone themselves.

I stepped away from the current green effect for c'tan phase sword and neural shredder in preference to a blue as well as swapping my normal golden yellow hair for a deep red which I think works nicely.

I have really enjoyed painting the assassins as they are so simple and yet so effective. I am really tempted to get at least one or two again and go for a more daring colour scheme but we'll see when the funds can be found.

120 Brain melting pariah - The Culexus

The Culexus assassin has had some great fluff written about it and there are even little snippets about it tucked away in other codexes or bits of fluff. I particularly like a short snippet about how the Temple of the Culexus assassins was visible to the Eldar Farseers because so many Pariahs had been brought together in one place it was a blank spot in space.

That was back in the days when the fluff around Pariahs was linked to the Necrons and C'Tan and that the whole Pariah gene had been placed into human genetics by the C'Tan before they went into hibernation.

Now they are a little less deep but no less horrific with their ability to such out your soul and fire it as mind bullets! The whole thought of the Animus Speculum being some sort of hole into you soul is also quite a horrible thought. These guys always come across as very tortured individuals.

Painting wise I stuck with the simple and traditional style and I think it worked quite nicely. I added a few of my own tweaks with the bone psykout grenades but otherwise kept it simple.

119 Rage Unleashed - The Eversor

The Eversor was for a long time my least favourite idea for an Imperial Assassin, the original model for me was pretty meh and the fluff of this crazed monster was also not inspiring me...

Then I thought about, and read some short stories about it....

117 Synskin Sign in.

My goodness but my post titles are getting more and more laboured! lol

I have been making slow progress on the Assassinorum force (Easter Holidays bah!)but am pleased with how its going.

The Eversor is just in needs of some highlighting and his head putting on!

Oh and his utility belt, I had forgotten this off the sprue... whoops

The the Culexus I thought I would try a different style for the Psyk-out grenades and have gone for a bone colour. I am thinking they are carved out of skulls or something similar.

The callidus as always one of may favourites from back in the day so the fact that she now has one of the best models is really quite pleasing. With this one again I have tried for something a little different by going for blues instead of greys for the phase sword and neural shredder.

The state of my hobby desk as the end of March approaches 

115 Target Aquired

Any regular reader may have noticed that I am well and truly inside the "slow to paint" group or at the very list the "intermittent painter" group. So it may come as some surprise that I have got round to putting together my Assassins from the (no longer) new Assassinorum box within a year of its release!

I have always been a massive fan of the fluff of the imperial assassins and the original models were, at least for there time quite amazing. Original Assassins!

My photos nor my paint job (!) dont really do the originals justice but they were and to a degree still are great models and the new ones had a lot to live upto but I am quite pleased with them. I dont think they all have quite the same character as the originals but I think they are helped by the rose tint of gaming in my youth!

I have started with the Vindicare and Eversor (the Eversor being my least favourite) so watch this space for more!

112 Just a step or two left

Final stages for my Tech priest. Really liking how he is looking now and got some good ideas for what to do with my second one!

The photos dont really do him justice which is something I need to remedy I think. A light box or at the very least a decent background are approaching I think.

A few last tweaks after the jump

110 Tech (Priest) Update

Some good progress on my Tech Priest, worked up from my traditional scab red to a kind of deep burgundy rich with grime!

Leadbelcher is rapidly becoming my favourite for dry brushing metals, it makes for a really nice brushed metal look.

The burgundy went through some ups and downs as I worked on it with washes and neatened it up after.

Once I got some washes on and started to rough it up a bit it all felt a little better. You can see here me starting to get the trim on the armour plates; too bright and clean at this stage.

Mid stage on the arms and weapon systems, really liking how the different sections come together here.

Not sure how best to pick out some more of the details here with out taking away from the simplistic look but I will work on it.

Really enjoying this one, it was slow to start but its really coming together.

106 Genestealer Hype!

Suffice to say that I am super excited about the news of Genestealer Cults making a return to 40k!

before we continue I want to make clear none of the images below are mine and all are being reproduced here under fair use.