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Almost finished a few more marines and will have some work on my land raider up later tonight.

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Would love to hear what you guys think. Thanks for looking

I think you got the purple just right, I think they'll all be awsome. However I'd like to echo the sentiments that the thunderfire cannon needs some kind of cowling. You mentioned that you hated the look of the real model, but I think the cowling is what ties it in with other space marine weapons. Take a look at the twinlinked heavy bolters on razorbacks and land raiders for example, they all have some kind of cowling.

 

Of course it doesn't have to cover all of the weapon, just afford that easy signature look, if you know what I mean :)

  • 5 weeks later...

So finally some land raider work.

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Also some work on a custodes that will count as a grey knight in game terms.

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I want to model the bases as if the Custodes are fighting in the imperial palace. This is still a WIP and I plan on adding more materials like shell casings to give it a more "fought-in" look.

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Would love to hear what you guys think.

 

Thanks for looking.

  • 3 months later...

For the first in a series of several updates to follow we have a shiny new Adeptus Custodes.

 

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This is the first of a planned squad of five that will count in game as a grey knight grand master and his terminator bodyguard.

 

The trickiest parts were getting his arms to look right while holding the spear. I repositioned a bolt pistol arm and a tactical arm but if anyone has any better ideas for the arms it would help out a lot.

 

The only things left to finish are adding some sort of counter weight to the end of his guardian spear(when the right bit is found) and painting the bolter casing black.

 

Would love to hear what you guys think of him. Especially if i missed any areas or you think of anyway he could be improved upon.

 

Thanks for looking. look for another update in 2-3 days.

Good work on the Emperor's Children. The custodes is fabulous!

 

Excellent work on the Emperor's Children so far and an especially good looking spear. It actually looks like a usable weapon the way you have modeled

it. I am very impressed with your work.

Thanks for the comments guys. I appreciate the feedback.

 

Loken86: The paint is smooth for a couple of reasons depending which models. For the tanks and the vehicle below it is from airbrushing the warlock purple and also airbrushing the leviathan purple wash on the model. Everything comes out nice and smooth. :( For the custode it was a thin layer of mithril silver over a black undercoat followed by a few thin layers of burnished gold, followed with a wash of devlan mud and another thin layer of burnished gold on the raised areas. I feel that wash makes all the difference because before that the armor on the custode did not look smooth at all.

 

So here's another update.

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I know the dread isn't pre-heresy, but I wanted him to fit in with the rest of my army on the table top. He originally looked like this.

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He will never be a true part of my pre-heresy force, but at least he is now wearing the same colors.

 

The only things left to finish on him are a few silver highlights on the gold and the purity seal.

 

Would love to hear what you guys think.

 

Thanks for looking.

Great work here man

 

Can I just ask, where is the head for your custode from?

 

 

Keep up the good work

 

Cheers

Cpt X

 

Looks like Fantasy High Elves to me...

 

Love the Custode, he looks like he'll fit very well with your force ;)

 

Arenis

Wow thanks for all the comments guys.

 

I'll see if I can get a tutorial for the base up when I paint my next custode. I'll try to get him started next week and do a step by step with him.

 

The parts for the custodes are as follows:

1- Dark angles veteran box for the legs.

2- MK. 8 chest plate from the tactical box- I had these lying around since I don't use them on my tacticals

3- Space marine arms- again from tactical box

4- High elf chariot heads- Got the 4 heads I'll be using for around four or five bucks

5- Tomb kings weapons- got the four i need for about 4-5 bucks. It was on ebay about 6 months ago so I don't really remember

6- Shoulder pads were left overs from the captain box and command squad box

 

I would wager you could make a unit of five for around forty bucks if you got creative and scrounged your bits boxes. I'm going to be using them as grey knight terminators so they will end up costing slightly less then buying the GW box.

 

Here is another update. I caved and bought space hulk. Have only played a few games but its tons of fun. Wanted to be able to use the terminators with my pre-heresy army if I ever geared up for Apoc, so they will be painted like my EC. They aren't pre-heresy but they are such lovely models I couldn't resist.

 

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Magnetized the base so he could function in 40k and space hulk.

 

Would love to hear what you guys think. Thanks for looking. If you have any questions I'll be happy to help, but I may not get back to you right away due to a big test on friday.

Land raider finally got finished.

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Would love to hear what you think. Up next will be working on the terminators to ride in it.

 

Thanks for looking.

First reaction: :jaw:

Second reaction: :drool:

 

Those are so sweet! i love them!

Good work! keep it up!

 

BBL

 

Edit: The only thing i don't really like (maybe because i can't see it that well) is the Librarians face. Not enough detail like on the rest of the model. The face gives the model character IMO. Maybe if you would show a close-up of the face, it would be better. Thanks.

  • 3 weeks later...

Terminators ready for some paint. Hopefully will get some more work done on them tomorrow.

 

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Thanks for looking, let me know what you think.

Nice Land Raider, and nice Termy! Have you thought about looking on the Tempus Fugitives website? They have neat rules for Pre Heresy, Mid Heresy and (Currently) The Siege of Terra. The Custodes rules are sweet, and extremely effective (What's that? Can't be affected by psychic powers? Yes random sentence, that's right) but the bling tends to make them incredibly costly. However, like I said, the most effective things there. Any Pre Heresy player uses these if they have the time and modelling skills, which you, my brother, do have :rolleyes:

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