Sometimes things just don’t work out the way we planned. Sometimes you start with a kickass Sister Superior with fancy pauldrons, a kitbashed head sculpt, and a whole-ass Nurgling, and that Plague Sister turns out to be just too big to fit properly into the case with the rest of the squad. A bargain had to be made, and I made that bargain with Wargame Exclusive and picked up their Cypheria the Fallen as a worthy successor.

This is definitely one of those “where a door closes a window opens” situations, though, because I love the sculpt of this model. Enough so that if I ever want to bully a Dark Angels player I would be open to picking up a second and actually painting it up as Cypher. The twin pistols, the bigass sword, and just…the sculpt in general was a lot of fun to paint up. Cypheria was a little on the small side, but that’s kind of what I needed for transportation purposes anyway, and…if anything, that made this model fit into my usual scale wheelhouse.

There’s lots of things I was happy with on this model but I’m proud of myself for doing the plasma glow and…just in general I feel like this was a really crisp-looking addition to my Death Guard. I did some of the same stippling effect on the legs that I did before with my Biologus Putrifier, and I feel like it really added a bunch to the leg armor’s texture. Couldn’t be happier with how the squad’s come together.