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The Ten Thousand, Guardians of the Emperor, each wrought by his own hand. Each of them a work of art, never to be repeated. There are those of their number who stand watch in the dark cells, others who safeguard those of import to the Imperium. Then there is the Adamantine Guard. They do not stand watch, they do not ward the Imperium from the safety of the Imperial palace. They actively seek the enemies of the Imperium, warding those who defend the Imperium in warzones uncounted, since the days of the Great Crusade. Clad in their armor of dark steel and gold, they strike with swiftness and brutality. They are the embodiment of the ancient Merican adage "The best defense, is a strong offense". A great number of them are Ephranoi, tasked with carrying out the most dire of Imperial sanction. They mete out death to all who would oppose the will of the Emperor and the Imperium of man. Though they are Ephranoi, they carry out their duties with a variety of wargear, from the Humble Adrathic Bolt Caliver to the massive Aquilon Terminator warplate. Among their number, the other chambers are represented, with many being from the Tharanatoi. It is the Sentinels of the few Hykanatoi who are most frequently seen by forces of the Imperium who are blessed by their appearance. The Venatari and Saggitarum move swiftly into positions to make optimal use of their skills, while Aquilon Terminator Sodalities will frequently strike deep in the heart of the enemy forces, or utilize the Coronus Grav-Carrier to drive deep into enemy formations before disembarking to eviscerate the enemy. They are an awesome force to behold, but due to their small number they are not a common sight. As a Shield Host they only number as one hundred warriors. They are the most aggressive of the Adeptus Custodes, each of them a veteran of Horus Heresy, from where their attitude originates. They are led by a Tribune, Theodosius Cato, who has commanded the Host for the last ten millennia. As their temperament makes them ill suited for defensive duties, they have occasionally been given leave to turn the tides of battle, but have most often served as most Ephranoi do, testing the defenses of the Imperial palace, but they have also been allowed to deploy to perform that function against critical garrisons, to ensure that the Defenders of the Imperium are up to snuff.

Evening all, It has been generations I would assume since I have been to this site with college and life taking my time I have had very little time to do anything with models...well that time is over and now I am turning my gaze upon the new prospects of conversion mining! My current project is to reposing and overhauling (somewhat) of the 40k Guilliman model, I wasn't exactly happy with many of its elements and think that it could have used a personal touch. So here I am! The updates may be few and far inbetween as I go back to doing college work and then focusing on the conversion, down the line I will be making a Custodes Strike Force with a Solar Auxilia force that has an attachment of Sisters and finally a primary detachment of Dark Angels when Book 8: Angelus is released. So to show a little off here is the base for the Guilliman conversion, will hopefully have some WIP's of the actual model within a week or two and inbetween that time I will have some Custodes. Enjoy for the time being!

This will be updated as often as I can. This will be my second Horus Heresy army, posse to fight along side my Alpha Legion but also independently. I don't think it's going to be a particularly large force but it will be a distraction from painting all that blue. I was one of the fortunate ones at the Open Day a couple of weeks ago to get one of these and have had a lot of fun painting it so far. Still a way to go but I thought I would share it anyway. I should be getting some more BoP Custodes from a friend in a week or so to add to my force. Cheers Vogon

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!

So, I've been doing a lot of work on my Death Guard this year, and in really happy with them. But I always like to have a couple of projects on the go and I do like the idea of an opposed force for my army. I'm a huge fan of Chris Wraight, possibly my favourite BL author at present, and I've been enjoying the White Scars story. Always been drawn to them, but I feel like they havnt had as much love over the years. Anyways, following the fighting between those two Legions on the battle ravaged Prospero, I thought they were a perfect choice. Havnt come up with any fluff or such for them as of yet, and it's dry much going to be a project I do a good job on, so I'm not going to rush painting 3k of models in 2 months again! It is a bit of a daunting prospect, mind; there aren't many White Scars armies on here, and One-Eye's are particularly excellent (to the point I was a little out off starting my guys!). Anyways, here's my tester model, a sergeant for one of my Veteran Tactical squads. I love the changes made to the WS symbol, and that masking has been begging to be put on a White Scar ever since I saw the Autilon Skorr mini. I know some have mentioned before when I started a small Imperial Fists project I tend to over weather, but I like the idea of a mid-battle/campaign army. That and it detracts from the stark white. I'm really pleased with him (though I need to tidy up a few bits like the Legion symbol etc) so I decided after I would use my actual Autilon Skorr model to make a Delegatus/Legion Champion. I'm going to give all my guys Tulwars instead of chainswords, which is just a case of heating the charnabal sabres and bending then around till done. Next step is painting him and building the next 4 guys for the Veteran Tactical squad. Also need to figure out how I'm going to base my Scars. Hope you like! (Apologies for the duff pictures, my camera will be updated one of these days) http://i1372.photobucket.com/albums/ag332/liam_harrison2/Mobile%20Uploads/559CDC84-C4DB-491F-ADCA-666EE105B547_zpsgwplo1yz.jpg http://i1372.photobucket.com/albums/ag332/liam_harrison2/Mobile%20Uploads/1FAA5854-BB42-4771-8162-1A04D095F5E6_zps1ag3osjq.jpg http://i1372.photobucket.com/albums/ag332/liam_harrison2/Mobile%20Uploads/5932B766-E1E3-42C1-99A1-B51A1A2D6D74_zpsjdvvm07l.jpg http://i1372.photobucket.com/albums/ag332/liam_harrison2/Mobile%20Uploads/D1BEFEED-E549-4CA2-B7D8-7E3BECF2BDF2_zpsttqkuqqi.jpg http://i1372.photobucket.com/albums/ag332/liam_harrison2/Mobile%20Uploads/5471535E-8160-4AD0-A321-2FD3CEDE558D_zps12c1jzhj.jpg http://i1372.photobucket.com/albums/ag332/liam_harrison2/Mobile%20Uploads/749A8B37-14E3-4445-94A3-F39CB2FAF9A8_zpserxd97nl.jpg http://i1372.photobucket.com/albums/ag332/liam_harrison2/Mobile%20Uploads/2D1C9059-B720-4D9B-A036-5816E81D6BE1_zpsnoczcskk.jpg http://i1372.photobucket.com/albums/ag332/liam_harrison2/Mobile%20Uploads/43FDFD8B-A354-414E-9B76-488FB9A09D9D_zpses9agg2l.jpg