Imperial assassins. The shadows that haunt the traitor. Bane of the heretic. Those who truly face the wrath of the Imperium risk facing the execution in the form of the assassin. In the early days of Rogue Trader, the background of assassins had not been fleshed out; they were kind of a mix of the three most famous temples mentioned in 2nd edition but most closely resembled the modern Callidus assassin. They even got polymorphine!

I picked this up at the US Oldhammer Day in 2015 and finally (finally? It was less than a year! I wish all my models got painted that fast) got around to painting him. I wanted to do something different with him though. Every painted example of this classic model was largely a single color and almost all were dark: black, blue, or green mostly. I had seen one in a solid yellow body suit. I decided that I wanted mine to to look as if he was on the hunt for some heretic in a wasteland, but not necessarily through impersonation, plus I wanted to try something desaturated like Asslessman over at Lead Plague does so well. I opted for a desert camo scheme. I also wanted to try some water effects I'd recently picked up so I placed him on top of a broken sewage pipe flooding a drainage ditch of some sort. Overall, I'm pretty happy with him. He didn't turn out exactly how I envisioned, but he looked good enough to place first in the Single Figure category at the USA Oldhammer Day, last weekend!