Reaper miniatures prototype Cyberdemons

According to The Wiki, there were two different prototypes of the Cyberdemon Reaper miniature, both of which are exceedingly rare. We have a picture of one of them. Does anybody have the other though? Pictures or at the least a description of what the differences are would be great though I suspect this will be a tough one.

Try contacting Dusty. He posted pictures of both prototypes back in 2011, though the links have since died and I didn't grab copies. :(

GreyGhost said:

Try contacting Dusty. He posted pictures of both prototypes back in 2011, though the links have since died and I didn't grab copies. :(

Yep, Dusty Womack would likely have all the info you need. Can also reach out to him on facebook (or I can do it for you as he's on my friendslist) if need be.

Buckshot said:

Yep, Dusty Womack would likely have all the info you need. Can also reach out to him on facebook (or I can do it for you as he's on my friendslist) if need be.

If you could I'd appreciate it as I don't really know the guy and he seems to have moved on from collecting id Software stuff (all the pics on his facebook now are of his kid).

Quasar said:

If you could I'd appreciate it as I don't really know the guy and he seems to have moved on from collecting id Software stuff (all the pics on his facebook now are of his kid).

Done.

I wrote that section of Doom Wiki a few years ago. I still have the pics online but the links updated in 2014 thanks to a co-worker accidentally deleting my entire personal website and years of work.

You can go through the pics yourself to see the differences. I have multiple of each version painted professionally by Ed and Dave Pugh of Reaper, as well as original untouched versions.

http://v8killer.com/doom/reaper/cyber01.jpg
http://v8killer.com/doom/reaper/cyber02.jpg
...and so on through http://v8killer.com/doom/reaper/cyber28.jpg

Version 1 on the left, final in the middle, and version 2 on the right.
V2 is slightly beefier than V1, you can see it in the mechanical leg and stomach the easiest in the pics. In person the differences are more dramatic, and there's a lot of little details that changed as well. The final version, of course, looks WAY different than V1 or V2.



Oh - and I definitely still collect! My Facebook has a few pictures of my collection online.

Cheers,

Dusty

dammmmmn... absolutely jelly now, lol.

Dusty said:

I wrote that section of Doom Wiki a few years ago. I still have the pics online but the links updated in 2014 thanks to a co-worker accidentally deleting my entire personal website and years of work.

You can go through the pics yourself to see the differences. I have multiple of each version painted professionally by Ed and Dave Pugh of Reaper, as well as original untouched versions.

http://v8killer.com/doom/reaper/cyber01.jpg
http://v8killer.com/doom/reaper/cyber02.jpg
...and so on through http://v8killer.com/doom/reaper/cyber28.jpg

Version 1 on the left, final in the middle, and version 2 on the right.
V2 is slightly beefier than V1, you can see it in the mechanical leg and stomach the easiest in the pics. In person the differences are more dramatic, and there's a lot of little details that changed as well. The final version, of course, looks WAY different than V1 or V2.

http://v8killer.com/doom/reaper/cyber17.jpg

Oh - and I definitely still collect! My Facebook has a few pictures of my collection online.

Cheers,

Dusty

Thanks for the info. Is there any chance we could get you to make a pic of the 3, or at least the 1 that isn't currently on the wiki, without any watermarking? Our policy is to not host images with any sort of watermarking. However we would of course be happy to link the File page to your website, and require credit be given to you and/or include the URL of your website for any reuse.

Wow that's awesome. I've never seen the other versions. As someone who has a growing collection of Doom related stuff, I've thought about buying some of those reaper miniatures off ebay several times but the price always stops me.

compy286 said:

Wow that's awesome. I've never seen the other versions. As someone who has a growing collection of Doom related stuff, I've thought about buying some of those reaper miniatures off ebay several times but the price always stops me.

just paid $1150 for a full 96 set myself.
outrageously pricey they are.

Buckshot said:

just paid $1150 for a full 96 set myself.
outrageously pricey they are.

You can buy full sets of Doom Monsters??

Now that's something I need to look into.

Buckshot said:

just paid $1150 for a full 96 set myself.
outrageously pricey they are.

Geez, I sold my partial set to Dusty back in... 2006?... for, like, $350. Maybe I should have held on to them longer...

Linguica said:

Geez, I sold my partial set to Dusty back in... 2006?... for, like, $350. Maybe I should have held on to them longer...

Ah, he was being exceptionally generous in his asking price. Not uncommon to see a full 96 set (this does not apply to the re-release sets) for $1800+

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Doom-Reaper-Miniatures-Cyberdemon-Prototype-1996-id-Software-Bethesda/192843193503

Another prototype cyberdemon has popped up on eBay. Check it out.