Quarter 1 projects

I'm mostly posting this as a reminder to myself to get shit done. Let's chunk away at this through the next month, Casey!

Cypher, Lord of the Fallen

Been wanting to do this guy up since I got into the hobby. Cypher is one of if not my favorite character in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Always loved the model in all its icky old sculpt goodness. I finally have the talent to make it look better than the sculpt so I picked him up and, Whee!

I'll try to get better photographs when I can. Been talking with a roommate about it. Once I get a hobby drill to bore out holes in my bolters, I plan on getting some really nice pro shots done. In the meantime, we'll continue with horribly brown desks and cardboard.

On the paint job itself, figured I'd stick with dark angels colors including red spot colors to line his robes because it just looks good, and it fits. Stuck with the turquoise for the plasma gun too because it feels more mellow than a harsh white-blue. Decided to tarnish up all the gold with the Oxide paint GW put out toward the end of last year and glad I did because it adds age to the model.

Favorite feature though is his face. I darkened above his nose so no matter what angle you look at, its shadowed. Hope you all enjoy!

Dark Angels Legion Praetor

So the guy from stubble test is 97% done. I can't figure out how I want to do his base just yet, so I just left it as dirt without adding anything just yet. I'll probably go in a similar direction as I did with my 40k dark angels and slap some slate on it with some dead grass. I also think I might get some Lizardman bits from Warhammer Fantasy and sprinkle them around. In the plot of the universe, the homeworld of the Dark Angels had big nasty beasties that lived in the jungles so it'd be cool to represent that somehow.

Anywho, I love how his face turned out. I also love how the gold trim turned out. Its very grimy dirty which I think fits this model just great. The freehand Dark Angels symbols and holy verses scribbled on the armor came out lovely as well.

Only thing I dislike is his sword. It shipped to me broken. While I was able to fix it somewhat with greenstuff, its tip is still a llittle lumpy which makes the sword look really dinged up. I like my swords on my marines looking well kept. If he was a chaos guy it'd be fine but, alas. Gotta work with what you got.

Full disclosure, I bought this model off eBay thinking it was a reseller. This model comes alongside another guy I had less interest in so in my brain I figured someone got the two to piece out separately and make a bit by selling each individually. Turns out it was a recast, from Russia. The user posed as being from the UK else I would have known something was up with the price it was offered at. That's why there are so many dings in the model and the sword was broken.

The head was actually so misshapen that I threw it away. The head on this model was from the Chaos terminator lord/sorcerer kit. Had to hack up its neck and set it in a bed of greenstuff to make it work, and now I'm kind of glad for it because it makes my praetor unique compared to anyone else.

Stubble test

Read a post on DakkaDakka today written by user "bebopdrums2424" about how to add realistic stubble.

My pictures are kind of bad because I mostly took them for quick comparisons and don't really do justice to how great it came out. Went from Lex Luthor to Commander Shephard in about 20 seconds. Will definitely do this again in the future and will take better before/after photos along with a detailed explanation into what I did.

Long overdue post: Super Dungeon Explore! Heroes

I should have posted these forever ago when I finished painting them all.