Assassin posts

Here's some direct links to the assassin tutorials I did when I painted up the Assassinorum boxed game.  With the new rules coming up in the March White Dwarf I thought I'd make these easier to find.

Vindicare Assassin Tutorial

Eversor Assassin Tutorial

Culexus Assassin Tutorial

Callidus Assassin Tutorial

4 Assassins finished

I just finished up the Callidus Assassin, and will be posting pics and a tutorial shortly, but I wanted to show off a couple pictures of all four together. I`m happy to have these guys done and would love to finish off the other guys from the box as soon as possible.  Hopefully I`ll be able to find time.

Eversor Assassin completed and tutorial

Here's the second Assassin I've completed from the Assassinorum boxed set.  This one might be my favourite, mostly because of the dynamic pose.  I think 32mm bases are great for this type of model, even though the 25mm standard one probably makes more sense from a gameplay point of view.

The paint scheme is very similar to the Vindicare, except the red details and skull head.  These are your standard reds and bones.  The vials and tubes had some additional colour too.  I've done all the base coats on the final two, so I should have those tutorials in the coming weeks.

Assassins pictures

I'm working on painting the Vindicare assassin, and he's coming along quite well.  No pics to share of the progress yet, but I've got the base coats and shades all done.

Here are some pictures of the assembled models before base coating them.  I included the Chaos lord since that model is new to me.  There's also a couple animated gif's that google auto-awesomed for me.  Pretty impressive and should paint up relatively quickly since the paint scheme is fairly simple.

Assassins Assembly video

Here's a video showing how these guys assemble.  The detail on the mini's is amazing, but that's to be expected these days.  The mold lines are very minimal, so just a little scraping is necessary.  I can't wait to get started on painting these guys.

For some reason my pictures of the finished models didn't upload automatically, so I'll add another post tomorrow with those.

Unboxing Assassinorum Execution Force

So I when I saw this I was sold... then I heard about the Knight release and couldn't decide... well, in the end I picked this up, so here's the unboxing.  I love GW's new plastic characters, so with 4 in the box this makes sense to me.

The details are amazing, but we knew about the mini's.  The actual game looks decent quality, and the boards are pretty heavy duty. I'm not sure how playable the game will be, but they put some effort into this.

Here' the unboxing video along with some sprue pics of the Assassins.