WIP: Imperial Culexus Assassin #1

After 7 weeks of painting a single Imperial Knight I’m looking forward to paint something small and simple. I really love this Culexus Assassin, I think he’s the best sculpt of the four models released with the Assassins boxed game. The pose is menacing and powerful, and something different than the yelling and one foot on a rock poses you usually have.

I already made good progress on this guy. As you can see, I haven’t touched the head yet. Not sure whether I should go for the classic bone-white or do something different. Maybe keep it all black like the body suit? Or paint it red? What do you think?

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Stahly

Stahly is the founder of Tale of Painters. He lives in Craftworld Hamburg, located in the north of Germany, where he walks the Path of the Graphic Designer. He transitioned from Lego to Games Workshop models at the tender age of 11 and didn't look back ever since. He is known for bold colour schemes and sharp edge highlights, which he paints with typical German perfectionism (one of the reason he is such a notoriously slow painter).

5 Comments

Unknown

looking great so far

I would go with classic white maybe working up from a ghostly grey to make it look more menacing

6 years ago Reply
Zeuso

Love the black on the bodysuit! Almost looks like its shimmering

6 years ago Reply
1. Stahly
  
  Thanks 🙂 It's probably because I sealed some areas with gloss varnish. Once the paint job is complete, I'll add a coat of matte varnish to even it out.
  
  6 years ago Reply
Khorneflake

Great job so far, really like the model and the paintjob definetly lives up to it. I'd go for the red skull, would be something fresh and it would definitely look kick-ass.

6 years ago Reply
Unknown

Cover it with something black which does not reflect light (maybe some fabric like black velvet)

6 years ago Reply