Crazyredcoat's Crazy Compendium of Collected Creativity

Been a while… Work continues on Cypher, albeit slowly. He’s actually getting quite close to being finished…though as the beige robes are a huge part of the mini it doesn’t really look like it. The lighting in some of these pictures is not the best, but for this step-by-step pictures it’s not too bad. Good lighting doesn’t happen for very long around here at the moment…

Where we last left off was the armour being finished, so the next challenge was the lining of the robes. This sort of had to be done this early so as to not have other parts get in the way. I must say with this particular mini that some of the connecting parts of Cypher are just blocks of plastic and while they don’t really show up once he’s on the base, if you skipped putting some sort of colour on them then they would…but that’s a small gripe.

I wanted the red of the lining to have a different tone to the red on the armour, so here I used Mephiston Red as a basecoat, then shaded with Agrax Earthshade. Then a brightening up with Mephiston Red again across most of the lining but ignoring the recesses before a final highlight of Evil Sun’s Scarlet. You could add some really fine highlights of Wild Rider Red, but I decided that I wanted a slightly duller appearance for Cypher…which I think I’ve managed…

The leather parts of the mini were next. Not too many bits were done in this colour, and the leather scabbard on the hidden dagger under his cloak was done in the dark red colour from earlier. As you’ll notice, I have sort of ignored the sword on his back, but I did do the leather part of the scabbard in this colour. It’s a simple recipe of Dryad Bark, shaded with Druchii Violet before highlighting with Gorthor Brown. Nice and simple, but I like the colour it gives.

The metal details we almost all the same with one difference. I wanted Cypher’s weapons to look old, and they hopefully look that way. The Fallen may be able to find new spare parts for armour, but I like to imagine that Cypher’s pistols are precious to him so he has kept them for all this time. The main basecoat was the same; Leadbelcher. On all parts except the weapons this was then followed by a wash of Nuln Oil whereas the guns were shaded with Agrax Earthshade. Before adding this brown shade, though, I picked out the yellow metal details with Retributor Armour including a band on the backpack and the knife hilt and scabbard decorations. After these shades I highlighted the Leadbelcher parts with Stormhost Silver and the yellow metal with Liberator Gold. I also dotted in the rivets across the armour with Stormhost Silver just to give an extra kick to the armour.

Just the outer robes and the sword to go, so maybe in the next week they will be up. Until then, have fun!