Crazyredcoat's Crazy Compendium of Collected Creativity
"I know not if he represents the greatest threat or greatest hope for the future of the Imperium. I only pray we stop him before we find out."
So I decided to do another ‘random’ mini that I had lying around, this time the elusive Cypher from 40k. For now I’ve only really worked on the main armour colours as this mini is really quite intricate and I probably should have thought about sub-assemblies… Black armour is a little tricky to do, so I thought I’d present the way I tried to do it. I think it turned out alright in the end even though it is a little tricky to see with the robes also being quite dark.
This is the first time I tried anything close to zenithal priming and while it's simplistic, it does do what I was hoping for. Because a lot of the deep recesses are tricky to reach here, it really helps to have the black base rather than the obvious grey patches that I wouldn't be able to reach.
Thanks to th miracle of Corvus Black (I think Necromancer Cloak is the equivalent in the Army Painter range and is usually just called a charcoal black in general) I could base the armour and still make use of a shade. That is a really great help with minis like this that have those large blocks of black on them in a sort of opposite way that a grey-white is usful for painting white.
And now the Nuln Oil shade. This is very subtle. Might not even show up in the pictures, but it is there...I promise! After that I added an edge highlight of Mechanicus Standard Grey. I went with edge highlighting on the black because I tend to find that dryburshing very quickly turns black to grey, and I was trying to avoid that.You may notice that I've avoided the gauntlets, as I intend to paint them as dark leather later on...but I haven't gotten that far yet.
After that I 'dot' highlighted the sharper corners of the armour with Dawnstone before picking out some details in Khorne Red. Included in this is a single red strip across the shoulder pad to break it up a little and is the only real divergeance from the GW examples that I plan on making. I like red on black. It stand out nicely. I'll also be using a brighter red for the lining, so the two parts should look different, too.
Then some washes of Agrax Earthshade over the reds (recess shade on the red stripe) followed by some simple highlights with Wazzdakka Red. I really do enjoy that red tone...So he’s far from done, and it may take some time for him to be done with school resuming on Monday, but hopefully more work can be done on the robes soon. Once they have some paint on them I feel like the black armour will really pop, but we’ll have to see.
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