40k assassin

[panzerfaust200]

An Imperial assassin for my 40K Inquisitorial warband...

although played as a Vindicare assassin, I like to think of him as more like
a loyal imperial guard veteran my Inquisitor has "collected" on his travels
and added to his retinue. Hence the use of a GW Guardsman figure...


New barrel and silencer from brass rod and tube, cloak extended and reshaped with
greenstuff....ammo cloak influenced by ACUPAT

WIP (such as there is) can be found here...http://www.guildwargamers.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=104&t=13893








the book is there as a tie in with all the other models in the retinue... all carry (or stand on) a
book in one way or another...
brass chain and an inquisitorial lock (from the GWinquisitor range of 4" models -
remember when you could buy just about anything as a spare part from GW? happy days!)

[Cosmotiger]

I really like that camo! Nice work. 

[Centaur_Seducer]

The cammo is great!

[dijit]

Very nice camo work!

[clanmac]

I second everyone else. Great cam scheme.

[Plynkes]

I  that cape. I've got a 40K Assassin somewhere, but she's nothing like that. She's more like Emma Peel crossed with a Ninja, in a very figure-hugging catsuit. Tis a very old figure, mind.

As we would expect from 40K, the weapon is ridiculously big, and yet somehow it totally works.

[YPU]

I've got a 40K Assassin somewhere, but she's nothing like that. She's more like Emma Peel crossed with a Ninja, in a very figure-hugging catsuit. Tis a very old figure, mind.

There are a few different "houses" of assassins in 40K and of course one of them trains its members to wear skin-tight bodygloves. 

[Doc Twilight]

I  that cape. I've got a 40K Assassin somewhere, but she's nothing like that. She's more like Emma Peel crossed with a Ninja, in a very figure-hugging catsuit. Tis a very old figure, mind.

As we would expect from 40K, the weapon is ridiculously big, and yet somehow it totally works.

That would be the Callidus assassin, if memory serves. From the last days of truly well written 40k game fluff. I had one of each - Culexus (anti-Psyker), Callidus (shape-shifter/infiltrator), Eversore (spelling it wrong, I'm sure, but basically a beserker type), and Vindicaire. Beautiful figs. Combined that sort of tongue-in-cheek earlier 40k look with some newer styling and as you say, it somehow totally works, as did most of the earlier 40k pieces. All of them painted up beautifully (and easily) with inks or drybrushing.

-Doc

[anevilgiraffe]

nice work, bruv...

you're coming along nicely 

[Plynkes]

That would be the Callidus assassin, if memory serves. From the last days of truly well written 40k game fluff. I had one of each - Culexus (anti-Psyker), Callidus (shape-shifter/infiltrator), Eversore (spelling it wrong, I'm sure, but basically a beserker type), and Vindicaire.

No, older than that, I think. Rogue Trader era. There weren't four different ones, just one called "assassin." I think it was from a line called "Adventurers" or something like that. Had techs, pilots, Navigators, Astropaths, armed civilians, a female in Space Marine type armour, all those cool character model types. Sculpts weren't up to much by today's standards perhaps but at the time I loved them.

[Inso]

Fantastic urban camouflage!  Very nicely conceived miniature.

[Pil]

No, older than that, I think. Rogue Trader era. There weren't four different ones, just one called "assassin." I think it was from a line called "Adventurers" or something like that. Had techs, pilots, Navigators, Astropaths, armed civilians, a female in Space Marine type armour, all those cool character model types. Sculpts weren't up to much by today's standards perhaps but at the time I loved them.

Ah yes, the old Rogue Trader Imperial Assassin, lovely model:



I really like the camouflage on the model, great work! I'm not a big fan of the purity seal and the book though (I don't like the purity seals in general though).

[Steve F]

I've got a 40K Assassin somewhere, but she's nothing like that. She's more like Emma Peel crossed with a Ninja, in a very figure-hugging catsuit. Tis a very old figure, mind.

I'm not a big fan of the purity seal and the book though (I don't like the purity seals in general though).

I suppose that, if you wanted an Emma Peel/Modesty Blaise type character for the 40k universe, you could do worse than to call her Purity Seel.

[Cory]

... you could do worse than to call her Purity Seel.

And with that my reluctance to join the local Rogue Trader RPG game vaporizes. Thank you for the inspiration, the others will hate it

[Plynkes]

No, Pil, that picture isn't it. It's a female in a figure-hugging catsuit. She has no gun, just some kind of blade/throwing star type thing I think.