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I've always wanted to build a female assassin, and the rather handy new Wood Elf plastics gave me a perfect excuse.

Here's the end result:



Built from Wood Elf, Dark Eldar and Space Marine parts, with a little Green Stuff.


As always, comments and criticisms welcome.

I think the hair spoils it, even though lady callidus has a long braid I always saw assassins as being covered head to the toe. The hair with the geisha hairpins spoils it for me.
I also think the pose it a bit weak, she looks like she's waving a gun not really planning to use it.

BTW have you ever experiment with sculpting blanks like Reapers? I'm doing a callidus assassin now with one.

It is good work but not to my taste. A kinda weak pose. With your skills I could easily see you doing a firing pose while still retaining some femininity.

ender502

"With your skills I could easily see you doing a firing pose while still retaining some femininity"

I probably could have, if that was what I was after

The pose is based on one of the pics of the Vindicare that has been floating around for some time now... It's actually one of my favorite pieces of GW artwork. All I really did was lower the LOS a little, and turn the assassin into a girl.

I hate it... and I'll tell you why!>..


The pictures are too small. <G>
Seriously speaking... the mini looks really nice to me. I'd prefer that there be larger images in the post (close ups of the mask, especially)... but it looks really good.

Kudos!

Eric

Much cooler than I could have done, I'll tell you that much.

Nice work!

How do you get the GS to get soft enough to carve like that but not so soft it colapses under it's own weight? And how much GS do you use overall?

We got a winner for the "looks like" contest. Very nice work 2 tumbs up.

I think you nailed it. As soon as I saw your work I immediatlythought of the artwork you refrenced. I like it ... great work. Can't wait to see it painted.

Sexy kind of.

Posted By Infantryman on 10/22/2006 11:23 PM
How do you get the GS to get soft enough to carve like that but not so soft it colapses under it's own weight? And how much GS do you use overall?

I don't generally carve. Most of the work is just done while the GS is soft, while it can just be pushed around into the shape I want. So long as it has a decent support (either going straight onto a model or added over some sort of framework) holding it's own weight isn't a problem.

Overall... not as much as you might think. A little bit goes a long way. I'm using a GW GS packet at the moment (it was convenient when I needed some) which has so far lasted me about a month.