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golly gee i have some free time i'm
gonna read some codexes but which one am
i in the mood for
man these cover arts are pretty cool but
they lack a certain something
nah
boring
nope
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hey guys jay here welcome to eons of
battle the other day i was perusing ebay
and i found this little fella i was
actually looking for the old assassin
models i got this guy in the hopes that
it would snowball into the full set the
reason i was looking for these old
assassin models is the other day i was
at a used bookstore and i came across
this old codex
this wonderfully retro third edition 40k
codex comes in at a whopping 10 pages
with a wonderfully over the top cover by
the artist wayne england and is it safe
to say that this cover is paying homage
to iron maiden's eddie character the
similarities to the single cover for the
trooper is uncanny if a cover like this
was published today i wonder what people
would think of it would it knock
people's socks off or just leave them
confused although i'm a pretty young
blood in the grand scheme of 40k i love
old books like this i'm like an
archaeologist but a cool one i'm
basically indiana jones i can pour over
this book carefully examining it and my
encyclopedic knowledge of modern 40k
lets me see and understand the
wonderfully retro models in artwork i
can see the evolution how this stuff
evolved over time to become modern 40k
and speaking of indiana jones can anyone
else relate to the that belongs to
museum syndrome i'm experiencing i love
new plastic models they're super cool
the engineering is amazing the quality
is out of this world they are my babies
or rather they should be
but i am rough on my new plastic models
i pick them up by the handful i let them
knock around in a cardboard box when i'm
transporting them but whenever i work on
old stuff like this vindicaar assassin i
feel like the white silk gloves need to
go on this is a piece of history even
though it's just no lump of pewter
that's not really from that long ago
getting back to this book i know
wargamers love two things collecting and
complaining i wonder if having to buy
this book to play one of four models
earth the wargamers of old as much as
modern players like to complain about
the codexes sure they are just attacks
to play the game but there is something
magical about them especially the old
ones this one really gets me in the mood
to paint
and digging into this book a little bit
it's full of lots of fun quotes like
this little bit of flavor text about the
might of the assassins the officio
assassinorum is responsible only to the
fabled senatorum imperialis the high
lords of terror who interpret the
emperor's will silent deadly
and ruthlessly efficient an assassin can
strike at the heart of a problem quickly
and cleanly removing all those who would
dare oppose the emperor impassive and
impersonal an assassin sends a clear
message to a heretic and rebels no one
is beyond the emperor's justice
or this wonderful and in no way dated
description of the founding of the
assassins
no world shall be beyond my rule and no
enemy shall be beyond my wrath thus
spack the almighty emperor on the summit
of mount vengeance on thor
and a number of his most loyal servants
did meet together eager to serve the
emperor as best they could to help enact
his dreams of conquest and rulership of
the galaxy skilled were they in stealth
and subterfuge accomplished in the arts
of death were they they hunted down
those who would bring ruination to the
emperor's divine plan and struck them
down as a bolt from the heavens
but as much as i enjoy the lore i have
youtubers like baltimore's guide to 40k
and lieutenant 9 for that the old school
drawings paintings and photos of painted
models or where it's at for me
they were still figuring it out back
then there were no rules that didn't
have eons of battle tutorials to show
them what was what back then they had
paint and enthusiasm tan base coat and
you know what how about green highlights
and check out those bases they refuse to
be confined to the tops of the base and
you know what i don't like it i don't
agree with it but i respect it
i have read and reread this codex over
and over not a big ask it's only 10
pages but i am jazzed to paint up this
vindicaar assassin
there are four flavors of assassin the
anti-psycho the undercover operative the
crazy killer and this model the sniper
one thing i struggle with a lot in my
painting is value value is all about
lightness and darkness you can think of
it a little bit like good versus evil
it's all about how much white or black
is in your paints
now on this guy's black bodysuit i won't
be able to hide behind fun colors i'll
have to use black and white and maybe a
little bit of blue along with some
careful highlighting to get the job done
even though it's physically small this
project is going to require every tool i
have
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all right
it's time to paint this assassin i did a
little last-minute cleaning of the
assassin using my knives and sanding
sticks to smooth away any imperfections
these are much easier to see on a primed
model believe it or not this is not a
monopose model
kinda sorta one option but it does make
a significant change to the look of the
model
his sniper is meant to be glued at his
hip like this but i don't really like
that look it looks too much like a pose
i decided i like the gun held at the
waist like he has sensed danger and
thinks that his pistol will be faster on
the draw than his sniper and he's
scanning his surroundings looking for
the enemy i glued the gun on with good
old-fashioned super glue wood pinning or
epoxy have been better sure but i don't
think it's gonna matter and if i do
knock it off down the line i can just
glue it back on
and speaking of gluing this guy fits
really loose on the base but life hack
just bend the tab into a v and then it
should pressure fit in just fine
a little super glue and baking soda
later and he was properly attached i'm
not completely sure how i want to base
this guy i was thinking city or maybe a
jungle or something something dark
that'll kind of blend into most
environments and i haven't nailed it
down yet but i don't have to decide
right now i think i'm actually going to
base this guy after he's done being
painted
i stuck my little assassin down into one
of my favorite paint handles a little
cube of wood and got ready to paint
a few blasts of black primer through my
airbrush and he was ready to rock then i
prepared a palette starting with good
old-fashioned black and white then some
blue green brown yellow red and a little
bit of earth i want to practice values
so i want to use plain colors and mix
them myself i'm sitting here wondering
how to proceed on my vindicaar assassin
should i apply my darkest starks and
then highlight or should i apply my
lightest colors and then shadow usually
that's how i paint and it's pretty good
system because it boils the painting
process down into two steps you got your
lights you got your darks and then
wherever it meets in the middle just
becomes your mid-tone but on this guy
i'm not really sure
i feel like that style of painting only
really works when you have a really
solid vision and i don't really have
that with this guy i think i'm gonna
have to discover it along the way so i'm
just gonna go ahead and i'm gonna put on
my most medium colors and then go from
there
i slathered on some pure blue this made
him look a lot like captain america and
even though i ended up covering most of
this up in the end it was important to
see him all blue he did look very dapper
and it let me familiarize myself with
all his muscles
then i mixed up some dark blue on my
palette no careful ratios just
eyeballing it i painted this color into
all his recesses starting with his abs i
continued for about an hour going back
and forth with dark blue and light blue
i've just wrapped up his suit and i
really really like where i got it all i
did was a little bit of heavy blue and
white and black paint but it turned out
really nice and i think i can show
exactly how i did it on his butt
remember you can't spell assassin
without ass
twice
i took his base coated beehive and i
outlined it with dark blue then i went
back in with my original blue and made
sure that his cheeks were nice and round
then i did a darker wash of black very
watery just to make sure that the right
areas were drawing the eye
then i went in with a light blue and did
a small highlight on the top of each
cheek this would be where the light is
catching
i took my fine detail brush and drew on
a fine line on the top of each cheek to
give them a bright edge this is a lot
like an edge highlight
and that process was exactly what i did
for every part of his suit
next it was time for his harness i mixed
myself up some dark red and base coated
every strap with this the red looked
really good on top of the blue
then i used pure red for the highlights
and i liked the contrast against the
blue so much that i really made the red
strong it's like if spider-man met the
punisher
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with that said let's get back to sniping
some paint on this sniper
after this red the next color i
introduced was green i mixed my green
with a little bit of black to make a
more military color
once that was dry i mixed some green and
black to make a wash and put this on
both his guns
then an edge highlighting with my true
green these old metal weapons are a
little light on detail but they have
nice prominent features that are easy to
reach
i have finished this guy's clothing his
straps and his guns and i feel like i'm
at that point in the paint job where i
might be eighty percent done or fifty
percent done because now it's time for
all the little details and it's really
hard to guesstimate how long it's going
to take to paint the details but
i think i'm getting pretty close in this
guy
i mixed some brown and black together
and threw this onto his pouches and
holsters a sci-fi assassin has some nice
natural leather gear i used the pure
brown for an edge highlight and then i
washed it with a little bit of black
paints then i mixed myself up some grays
a dark a medium and a light using my
black and white paints
i base coated all the bits that ought to
be gray like his bullets and the scope
on his gun with a dark grey mixture
and i also used my grays on his tactical
visor using my gray and light gray to
highlight an edge highlight this went
quick because there's just not that many
decorations
i wanted to push these decorations just
a little bit more so i used pure white
and just threw dots of this around like
light was glittering off of these metal
doodads
i just finished painting this guy's
visor and boy oh boy 10 out of 10 i
would always recommend to paint the head
a different color it really makes the
most important focal point of the model
stand out
there's only a couple of things left to
do i'm really excited to paint the eyes
in his lenses but before that i'm gonna
have to paint all of the skulls all over
his armor and weapons
gold
but not really gold a non-metallic metal
gold i base coated all the skulls with
brown this guy is looking very colorful
and not particularly sneaky
but the tech in his suit probably makes
him turn invisible like the predator so
it's no big deal that he looks like a
clown
i highlighted the skulls with yellow and
the details are so soft that there isn't
much to bring out there aren't even
teeth it's just a lump with two holes in
it i threw a black wash over the skulls
to knock down the color a little bit i
did this mostly just to make sure that
the yellow spots did not pull focus away
from the face and the weapons
now it was the moment we have all been
waiting for the visor i base coated it
with a little bit of red i picked out
his eyes with some yellow and white to
make them just a little bit more
interesting
and
he is
done
well actually he's not done because he's
not based i've put it off as long as i
can
i have not decided what i'm gonna do to
base this guy
i could go industrial and then he would
look right in line with the current
assassin's game trick trap sells but i'm
not feeling it
i think i'm gonna go kind of dark
foresty bass
probably with one skull and a couple of
empty bullet casings
that way it'll be nice and subtle and
out of the way and he'll look pretty
appropriate no matter what type of game
board he's on
i got out the model magic and super
glued it down to the base this stuff is
like foam it's very light if you really
want to build up some height on a base
this is the stuff to use
and you can work with it before it's
fully dry just don't stick models down
to it before it's fully cured
crayola model magic soft squishy
modeling material is one of my favorite
all-time products and it's going to make
sticking down some small rocks and some
skulls super duper easy
i super glued down a skull out of the
game's workshop skulls box then i
covered it in wood glue in preparation
for some sand i started with some large
pebbles then i put on some smaller
pebbles and then some medium grit sand
and then finally a dousing of fine grain
sand
then i decided to yolo i just slapped
down some green and brown paint onto the
unprimed sand i won't tell if you don't
and i think it'll turn out perfectly
fine on the end then i took what was
left of the black paint on my palette
and made up a wash and put this all over
the base
and just like that the base was finished
and the only thing left to do was to
paint the rim of the base black
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i didn't plan to do a very retro paint
scheme but that is where the model has
taken me i don't know what arcane
sorcery exists in these old models but
it took control of my hands and turned
this project into a bright bold colorful
old school paint job
i really like how this guy turned out i
think mine is a little bit better than
some of the other paint jobs that you
can find in this book but that's okay
while i was painting him up a bunch of
different characters came into my head
he's a little bit captain america he's a
little bit judge dread you know what he
might even be a little bit crosshairs
from bad batch it's not the world's most
unique character a sniper assassin but
it gets the job done
and even though this book is long out of
date it gives some really interesting
suggestions on how to play this model in
game
one interesting suggestion the book
gives is to create an assassin vs army
game type one player creates a very
small army a hero and some bodyguards
then the other player takes the assassin
the assassin starts a fair distance away
and must kill all of the enemies before
he or she is found and eliminated they
even suggest that the enemy should not
be aware of the assassin on the board
and the controlling player should keep
track with pen and paper until the enemy
moves within two inches of the
assassin's hiding spot at that point the
assassin is uncovered and a fight to the
death ensues
i think i achieved what i set out to do
i worked off of a very limited palette
and i used black and white to darken and
lighten my paint where necessary usually
with models i'm more familiar with i can
just pull the color i'm thinking of out
of my collection but sometimes it is
helpful just to mess around on a palette
and discover the right color
this model turned out very retro and i
think it would be an interesting
experiment to paint up the new plastic
games workshop vindicaar assassin and
see if that model pushes me in a more
modern painting direction let me know in
the comments if that's something you
guys be interested in seeing
i always love a retro project and it's
fun that gamestop shop has been around
so long that there's basically always
two of every sculpt options are always
great and it's nice to sometimes take a
break from working with newer better
more modern awesomer plastic poses and
given pewter a try
but now it's time for the real star of
the show this week's eob complete
submissions we put out a challenge to
our community to send us before and
after photos of their recently finished
models to be immortalized in our videos
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hashtag eob complete without further ado
let's look at and get inspired by what
the folks have finished this week a
chaos champion by comic conomix a necron
world warden by the fluffy one some
blood angels terminators by dreech a
space rain combat patrol by mega slade
some storm cast eternals by duplicorn a
primaris invictor tactical suit by ryan
t a blood angels terminator with thunder
hammer and storm shield by mukel a nihal
storm caller by bird brains a gaggle of
dwarves by the brave a pair of penitent
engines by lookout science a saint
celestine by dark lord bodish a
yandrosta by lube some primaris
aggressors by ceziroke a necron
squareback destroyer lord by bread s a
knight on horseback by
ox4297 a necron royal warden and lackey
by disco i'm a fist on lord of death by
cheap maddie light a turtle warrior by
master builder 75 a night lord's chaos
army by dancing of doom a black templar
apothecary by asuka a huge batch of 60
grats by elec man 24 a storm cast
eternal by death arsenal a necron setan
shard of the nightbringer by civilian
waffles and a big space marine by
mightypenguin55
congratulations to everyone for a job
well done it's no small feat to get
paint on minis and you all should feel
really proud nothing gets the hobby
juices flowing like finishing a project
and we all thank you for sharing your
work motivating us and the hobby
community to paint our plastic thanks
for sharing