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Building my own model almost time to paint. Hung up on weather to paint armor green or go black like the Dark Angels pre heresy... GW and everyone else has his armor green. Just wondering if there is a reason behind it?

It's to add to the intrigue as to whether or not he's one of the Fallen or one of the few who stayed loyal and fought Luther's forces on Caliban before the Dark Angels returned.

Option A is that the studio painting team are idiots and forgot to do it black, option B is that its a hint that Cypher is actually a misunderstood Loyalist on some personal crusade. Which do you prefer?

*In the new Dataslate they state that those who remained loyal and fought against Luther re-painted their armor Green.*

Im doing a cypher and have decided on black armour with white and gold
trim but to do the robes pure while as clean and soft as i can get it with green ropes and gana try to do green vines on the bottom trim and then doing one shoulder pad pre heresy colors and the other post heresy kinda trying to combined both styles

I found out during the Horus Heresy weekender that the real reason for the change from black to dark green was the artwork supplied for the cover of an Epic supplement for Epic called 'Space Marine':

Until then all DA where black.
As things like photoshop did not yet exist, GW had to run with the artwork as it was.
They then had to come up with a reason for the colour change & eventually, as details of the HH & the DA background were developed, the change due to the split within the legion was chosen.
IMO Cypher should be black.