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I am thinking of starting a small Custodes army, but rather than doing gold-and-red I want to paint them in a cold bronze and black-blue colour scheme reminiscent of the LotR High Elves and the royal guards from Forbidden Kingdom. To do that of course, I need cloth on all the minis - and I plain prefer the Wardens! Would people be confused by Warden bodies being used as Custodian Guard, potentially with sword-and-board? I wouldn't have any actual Warden units with spears if I did this.

https://www.battle-report.com/2018/03/05/thousand-sons-vs-death-korps-of-krieg-adeptus-custodes/ How not to run the Sons... Cheers, Thoth

Hey everyone! Since Adeptus Custodes do not have an HQ choice in 8th ed. I'm thinking about using my Ixion Hale model as the HQ choice. I'm running the force as "Imperium" faction but I'm having difficulties finding an HQ that will work. Looking for something with a similar stat-line to to the Adeptus Custodes or better. Anyone have any ideas on what I can use for a "Counts As" for Ixion Hale?

Following up my artwork thread about Grey Knights, here's a thread for this forum sparked by the art for the back-then-combined factions of Codex: Daemonhunters and Codex: Witch Hunters. Feel free to post any artwork of the Imperium's Agents you know of or find, be it official or fanart, but remember to upload these pictures to your gallery to avoid hotlinking.

Hey they! This is mostly a repost i've done on another forum but with infero landing, hopefully you can find some use for it! You could probably do a few base and just cast them but i'm way too lazy for that http://heresy30k.invisionzone.com/public/style_emoticons/default/sleep.png you'll need: some milliput a cutter clipper ruler pencile rolling pin cork sheet vallejo dark earth (or something similar) super glue and white glue Optionnal: some juweela bricks (i'm using size 1/35 and 1/48) some sands, differents size some bits and pieces from your favorite enemy (*ies) Some leftover from milliput tiles tamiya scrapper 1. you need to mix the milliput and flatten it quickly with your hand. Now put it between to sheets of baking paper to avoid having it stick to your workplace and flatten it to the thickness you like with a rolling pine, to have smoother finish (i use two plastic guide on each side to have the thickness i want). http://i.imgur.com/rIEdyzQ.jpg 2. Then it's time to mark your tiles with a ruler and a pencil, i'm doing 1cm tiles. Then with the backside of your cutter (mind your finger!), mark the line, if you use the normal side you'll just cut through. Don't push to hard, it's better to go a few time lightly than marking it to much or cutting through. http://i.imgur.com/OyXDPyh.jpg 3. Now take a piece of cork, and rip it to the size of your mini (or the size you like), in this case, a tartaros termite. When your satisfied with the placing, just glue it down with superglue (or white glue but it will take longer). http://i.imgur.com/LNvGJWW.jpg 4. Take your milliput tiles and with your clipper cut it roughly to the size of your cork, don't forget to choose the orientation of your tile to go with your mini!. (if you break with your finger, there's a strong chance the crack will follow your tiles markings). When your happy with it glue it down with milliput. http://i.imgur.com/BNR1p3O.jpg 5. Now it's time for wear and tear the tiles to properly fit the cork. With a clipper, a pince and cutter clip some piece, or just tear them away until you have something your satisfied with, you can use the cutter to cut properly some piece of just cut away the first layer of the milliput. You can also draw some cracks in the middle with a cutter or a metal pointer. http://i.imgur.com/ztvTMnR.jpg 6. Use the vallejo dark earth to fill the all base, you can create some volume with this paste to make it more interesting, otherwise you can just use sand but you'll have finish a bit flat. http://i.imgur.com/dxI0tiO.jpg 7. When you dark earth is still wet, push in some broken bricks, broken tiles, somes bits and pieces from your favorite enemy to break the monoty of the sand and make it more interesting. You don't have to do this step but i add quite a lot of depth to your mini and represent well the idea of a battlefield. http://i.imgur.com/NJXvK4Y.jpg 8. Optionnal: To finish it, i put some white glue on a few spot around the dark earth on the base and sprinkle some differents sized sands (the dark earth is to uniform for my taste). Second part on how to paint it http://i.imgur.com/bp9Mlwj.jpg 1. Primer black, light white primer on top, to go faster since i had a few bases layings around, i've done the tiles with an airbrush with an off white, in this case Scalecolor Nacar http://i.imgur.com/Ep8Nim4.jpg 2. I then black the line between the tiles with Armypainter strong tone, and i make a heavy wash with gw Rhinox hide on the soil http://i.imgur.com/H9TYhlz.jpg 3. I blackened some more the lines between tiles with rhinox hide mixed with black (still quite diluted), then drybrush the soil with a lighter brown (Sc Dubai brown) http://i.imgur.com/gLi36L4.jpg 4. I've made three more drybrush on the soil with Sc Walnut first then Sc Thar brown to finish with Sc White sand, going lighter and lighter (you could probably have less color i'm not sure the first on is really needed..) http://i.imgur.com/DweWVY0.jpg 5. Then i start defining the tiles, to do this i shade the back of the tiles with AP strong tone diluted (agrax earthshade), you don't need to blend everything we'll come back on that latter, i've also blackened the rime in a few diluted coat. http://i.imgur.com/6DsDVUf.jpg 6. I do the same with my previous mix of rhinox hide and black but very lightly http://i.imgur.com/QMy0GXj.jpg 7. I drawning the marbles effect with Vallejo dark sea blue (amazeball color!) heavily diluted, since i have some dark sea blue, i also add a few "patch" of this mix on random spot on the soil to make it more interesting and tie it with my mini (same colour i use for the black). http://i.imgur.com/X9PJUvN.jpg 8.It's time to tie everything together! I glaze my base color which is Nacar on the tile to blend the shade and the marble effect and make it lighter and more subtle. I've also continued making some "spot" on the soil with the red is use on the eye, Sc mayhem red and some with violet ink. http://i.imgur.com/8E2e407.jpg 9. I lighten the tiles with nacar and primacryl titanium white as glaze just on the front part of the tiles, and still make some spot on the soil with Sc kalamari orange which is my rust colour. I also redefine the cracks and separation on the tiles with my black and rhinox hide mix. http://i.imgur.com/JZbf5nd.jpg 10. I finish the finish the tiles by edge highlightint the front part with pure white and the bottom part of the cracks. Sometimes i also really lightly drybrush some white sand on the sand to retrieve the top highlight if i've been to heavy on the glaze Enjoy!

https://www.battle-report.com/2018/02/12/death-korps-of-krieg-adeptus-custodes-vs-thousand-sons/ You boys came down to Prospero that one time, eh? Cheers, Thoth

Interestingly there are reports on FB that the fluff section mentions Custodes of both genders as does the name generator. Though its not been mentioned by anyone im confident has the book. I know a few of those folk read this forum and might be able to confirm? =][= ADMINISTRATOR NOTE =][= Note that this topic was originally about the possibility of females now being included in the Adeptus Custodes. A similar topic was started in the News, Rumors, and Board Announcements forum. The topics were merged and the title changed, reflecting the definite nature of the change.

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https://youtu.be/DUaR2Kiemu8 Cheers, Thoth

Hi, I'm RikuEru, I have mostly been a lurker and like-thrower in this subforum, mostly just posting in the Space Wolves Sub-forum. But... I want to do more than "just" Space Wolves, with the collection of 'other' (sub-)factions' minis "slowly" growing. So this'll be my little WIP thread, so I can keep track of my own work for once and get some magnificent feedback from the best people on B&C (that's you!) without being confined to a single sub-forum. I dare keep this first post as a "one day maybe" Register for various project posts I can link to within this thread, if the Mods allow me to do so!? (Someone smite me with his favourite Power-weapon if I ever forget to update this...)

You may have expected Valdor to be wearing his usual golden armor. But not this time! We were asked to get him painted for use both as a showcase piece, and as a member of a Shadowkeepers force in Warhammer 40k. That's one of the reasons why his display base is removable, so he can be used in tabletop battles. See the additional photos to see the base removed and the model without the base, as well as additional angles and views on the model. And if you wonder about the blue and red lighting effects on the model, here's the explanation: After researching a bit about Shadowkeepers, Ańa decided to use two kinds and sources of light on the model. Red light coming from below, represented the demonic enemies. Valdor being in charge of troops keeping them in check would counter them with purity of Adeptus Custodes. This is the blue light coming from inside the collar of his armor and shining onto his face. This would also match some details of his armor and the force halberd. Hope it makes sense now And oh, somebody during the Warhammer Community Hobby Roundup mentioned how he reminds of Abaddon. Totally unexpected, but it turned out to be true! You can check it by yourselves. If you want to see more photos, they can bee seen here.

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Just a disclaimer before I pose the question: I am a Dark Angel player with little experience how they play in 9th. The fact that the faction is so broken at the moment is the fact I don't play them. This could probably be a question posted in the Dark Angel forum, but this is more from the perspective of the Custodes. See above question. How would you go about designing a list to counter them? I got two lists where I'm running hurricane bolters on the bikes, lastrum storm bolters on the aquillon, a 5m allarus squad, etc etc. So quantity over quality. The other list is a full on high AP, high Damage list (so meltas, dreadspears, adrathic destructors). Which list would have the best chance of success? The other side of the equation is this: How would you play the mission if you were playing against a Dark Angel in a tournament? Would you charge them? Play the objective sorely? What secondaries would you choose. I'm legitimately stumped on what to do. Context: In my meta (which is competitive), there is a Dark Angel friend who plays a full Deathwing army. Custodes from my experience/understanding counter marines pretty well - I had nothing but success countering Blood Angels, Ultramarines, and the Chaos Space Marines with something close to a 80% winrate. But I seem to run into problems with Dark Angels and their bonkers transhuman rule. Most of my lists (provided below), run Aquillon with adrathic destructors, Achillus Dreadnoughts, Vertus Praetors. So things that have a lot of AP and D attached to them as a general rule. However when I tried that list against the Dark Angel player and in the tournament, I barely killed two models per turn, with something close to 40 attacks from the allarus, Achillus, and the shield captain. Which leaves me with the other 20 or so Deathwing Terminators to deal with, not that I can do anything about that, because after I attack, I'm dead. List ideas: Quantity > Quality list: Quality > Quantity list: Balanced list

1) Is it possible to take this requisition multiple times? 2) Is it possible to take one Stratagem multiple times? This may be stupid questions. I want to be sure though. Specifically I want to know if I can set up a Custodes crusade force with two Shield-Captains that each have "Victor of the blood games"/"Captain Commander" stratagem.

I am everything the Emperor dreamed Humanity could be. There is no greater blessing, and no greater burden, to be His perfection made manifest. I have no peers in the arts of war, philosophy, politics or poetry. Every fibre of my being is a tribute to His greatest works, and his vision for Mankind. I am Adeptus Custodes. I am Charlemagne Aurveskar, Prefect of the Aquillan Host. And I am His finest creation. Hi everyone, Decided to finally paint the Emperor's favourite golden boys from my BoP set. Hoping to expand out into a kill team and maybe more - just have to see if I have the patience to do all those highlights all over again.... Anyways, hope you enjoy...

Hello All, Considering the fact im jumping from 4 armies ( Deathwatch, Blood Angels, Astra Militarum and Custodes) along with random building of models. I have decided to start a WIP thread. Started with Deathwatch in March since a long hiatus ( I think i was 14 in 3rd of 4th edition ) I have accumulated nothing but grey models since i love building more than anything. Recently acquired an airbrush that has sparked my desire to paint. So from now on I will pretty much be updating from here then maybe in the other forums. Either way enough jibber jabbing. Here is some of my works in progress.... these in line to be painted however I am currently working on DW troops as of now. Hopefully you enjoy. You can check out my kitbashed work on other threads or Instagram @mad.hattenstein. Appreciate your time of reading this introduction of a thread that i hope to build up. My Pride and Joy // Primaris Scaled Yaujta Watchmaster (Trophy Hunter Predator Concept) Captain Smash ( His Hammer Handle Has Since Been Adjusted ) Most Intimidate Model Shield Captain Counts As On Dawn Eagle Jet Bike ( I Still Have Work To Do On Him, And Will Save Him For Last To Paint ) Shield Captain In Allarus Terminator Armor aka Lord Chunky ( The Misses Nicknamed Him, Blu Tac's Was Cut Away Once Noticed Lol) Other Models Once Had But I Sold Them Captain With Relic Blade and Stormbolter Captain Smash Feel like that is enough of one post, just wanted an introduction and somewhere to start. Either way hope you like, stay tune, and please feel free to comment, suggest things, I will be asking from you guys and appreciate it all. Thanks, dx_ob

So Custodes are rubbish competitively at the moment. We all know it. But more than that they feel weak compared to the power creep, and not really how they are depicted in fluff etc. Now we know of course that rules do not reflect the fluff (see space marine vs Imperial Guard stats ofc), however I believe that there is a lot that could be done to change up the way Custodes play in order to make them feel more Custodes. Thoughts - all units in army can cap objectives - all units take a massive points hike. yes up. - T6 and S6 baseline. 4++ baseline Ld 10 baseline, WS and BS 2+ - better negative modifiers to hit from range on Vexilla to provide some negation of instant wounds Roll SoS in as cheap troops and to act as Psyker cover with their null field Redefine them as each individual warrior being a lot harder to kill and a lot "killier" thoughts ? would it work? How would you make it work?