-Crisp & Grey- A NZ blog (May Update - I painted a Dragon!)

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**Knightley**

Update: Pretty much finished the bases, just need to flock them but will do that once everything else has been done

**Littletower**

Knightley wrote:
So I wanted to the assassins to have a unifying look but be unique as well, so after seeing how some of the other Dakka users painted their assassins I'm going with a coloured wash for each assassin, green - Vindicare, Blue - Calexus, Red - Eversor and Purple - Calidus and have some of their wargear the same colour. The unifying part is they will all have a bone white face area and all have a roman numerals on their shoulder to denote who they are and have blue eye areas.

Count me interested. Good plan, will be waiting for the next installements...

**Knightley**

Cheers LT!

Update: got the base colours and washes done on the Vindicare, My apologies for the crappy photo, the next one should be worth the wait

**Knightley**

Update: Vindicare done

**inmygravenimage**

That is very swish. Nice work mucker!

**ciuncky**

Very nice and sharp work on the assassin dude!
Congrats, keep 'em coming!

**Littletower**

Good. Very good. Suit came along really well and the spot colours work together great.

Spoiler:

PS: It's great to read tomorrow's update when it's still today

!

**Gitsplitta**

Vindicare looks great, but I agree with LT on the bore.

**ZergSmasher**

Nice job on that Assassin. Gives me some inspiration for mine (although mine isn't the cool sculpt from Execution Force). I especially like the subtle highlights on the black suit-I may just have to steal that idea!

**Knightley**

@Graven - Cheers bud!

@ciuncky - Will do!, 3 more left to paint

@LT - Good point well raised, waiting to go and buy a new thin drill bit as the one I had snapped, once I have that there is a bit of a back log with barrel drilling.

@Gits - Thanks dude

@ZergSmasher - Happy to do some inspiration, although I did cheat with the black as I used an airbrush with a dark grey pointing strait down

Update: started on the Callidus got the base colours and wash done

**Gitsplitta**

Her butt cheeks are dirty!

**Knightley**

I'll get the cleaner on to it Gits

Update: she's done

**Knightley**

Update: got the base and wash on the Culexus

**Gitsplitta**

I dare you to paint the head like a cucumber...

**Knightley**

This legitimately made me laugh, if I was any whizz at photoshop I would do this in a heart beat, so heres a challenge to those who are, photoshop a cucumber on this guys head

Update: done

**Kid_Kyoto**

I like the white face on the Calidus, very creepy.

**Knightley**

Cheers KK, appreciate the work you do for the Dakka gallery btw

Update: base done on the Eversor

**inmygravenimage**

Wow, you are pumping these out at some speed. Amazing!

**Knightley**

Yeah they are easy enough to paint that i can chop through them

Update: washed, thats it

**evildrcheese**

The improvement on the Devs is exceptional. The assassins are looking great too. Well done.

D

**Gitsplitta**

Very nice. I think he turned out great!

**Knightley**

@EDC - Thanks mate, it was a great feeling getting them alongside their better painted brethren again

@Gits - Cheers!

Update: Should be able to get him done today

**Knightley**

Update Assassins all done

Eversor

Group Shot!

**Gitsplitta**

Fantastic work Knightley... some of your best to date.

**StarDrop**

Knightley wrote:

I envy you.

(I sent mine for painting and I'm not exactly happy how they came back.

)

**inmygravenimage**

Together, they nail it. Coherent and cohesive, yet individuals. Magic

**hk1x1**

I do love these new Assassin models, and you've done a really nice job with this set, excellent work

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**Warboss_Waaazag**

Beautiful assassins. Lovely to see them all assembled.

**Knightley**

@Gits - Wow, I thought they looked cool, didn't know they were that cool, huge thanks Gits

@StarDrop - Oh dear, how bad do they look? What don't you like about them?

@Graven - Thank you dude, always offering your great comments, I do appreciate it.

@hk1x1 - Cheers!

@Warboss_Waaazag - Thanks

Update: So as you may know I purchased the Assassin box set, so I have all these chaos dudes just staring at me right, what you also may not know is for my birthday my very kind brother scoured Ebay for some models for me, He managed to find metal casts of Huron, Typhus and Lucius all NIB (top work from that man) soooooo....... This happened

I'll run you through what I have:
19 Cultists with a mixture of Autoguns and Close Combat types
4 Plague marines + Meltagun
4 Close combatish chaos marines
8 standard chaos marines (with Sgt, Heavy Bolter and plasma gun)
1 Scorcer
1 Full magnetised Terminator lord
1 Huron Blackheart
1 Typhus
1 Lucius

The ultimate goal here is to get the basic troops done with a base colour + wash and leave it at that (maybe pick more details up on a second round next year) and have the Characters really POP. There is a reasoning behind this and I am quickly running out of year and I still have the inquisition force to do (and I am really looking forward to that!)

**Gitsplitta**

Ooooh... chaos.... I'm quite jealous!

And yes, the job you did on the assassins is very cool.