Adeptus Custodes shoulder pads on Adeptus Astartes minis?

[Ahistorian]

Hello all,

 

I am building a small but ornate army of Imperial Fists, and I was wondering if Custodes shoulderpads would sit well on Marine shoulders. I was hoping to use them to well mark out my HQs and other leaders.

 

Any help, particularly with pictures, would be appreciated.

 

Thanks!

[hushrong]

I want to say they are going to be big. I do not have my custodes but they are quite large compared to power armor marines if I am not mistaken. I do not know how they would fit on a terminator or primaris.

[Ahistorian]

Thanks! I love your AL lord conversion with the hammer btw - it just sent me down the ebay rabbit hole!

[Stormxlr]

They are terminator sized, they are really quite big for normal marines. Also they got Custodes iconography. How would you feel if your Imperial Fists had Dark Angel shoulder pads?

[Ahistorian]

A bit odd, unless it was squad/company heraldry.

 

Aren't there any with just eagles, like the SoS?

[hushrong]

Thanks for the comment about the AL lord. He was fun and I did finally put that mini to use.

 

As for the iconography I think the custodes' eagle could pass for looking simply imperial. The eagle is the symbol of the Imperium. The actual symbol of the custodes is a one headed eagle with a skull over the chest, right? Regardless I think you could make it work. I do not think its that drastic of a difference between a balled fist and a winged sword.

[Grotsmasha]

I would suggest bitz sites and getting a mix of Stern and Vanguard shoulder pads, they're suitably ornate and generic :tu:

[Ahistorian]

I have the Sternguard box, but I was thinking of getting Custodes weapons for another project, and was weighing up whether it's worth getting the set instead of bitz.

[hushrong]

If you aren’t going to use the bodies of the custodes I’d say get the bits.

[Crizza]

You need a picture? I can shot one tomorrow, got a MkIII breacher marine without shoulder pads and the pads of Custodes flying around.

[Ahistorian]

Hi Crizza, that would be great please!

[Crizza]

Well, since I have problems uploading to B&Cs gallery... I'll have three links to my DA.

Note how the pad covers everything?

Hope this is a help somehow.
If these pictures are to big or if I'm going against some rules, jst notify me and I'll just post links.
All in all I think Custodes Shoulderpads are to huge.
The Guardian Spear of my Preatore looks way to oversized for example :D

[Ahistorian]

I think that might work on mine - they're truescale, so the pauldrons will look proportionately less huge. Ooh, excitable excitement!

 

IMMEDIATE EDIT: And thank you very much for the pics!

Edited December 13, 2017 by inventedregiment

[Paradogmatic]

Those might look nice on Primaris scale stuff -- need to take a look at that

[Kinstryfe]

Has anyone seen a comparison of the pads on terminators/Terminator arms? I wonder if they'd fit as Custodes are even larger than termies.

[Crizza]

I doubt it.
Custodes shoulder pads fit to Marine shoulders, meaning they both share the same shoulder.
Terminator pads fit to bigger shoulders, so while you could stick them to a Custodes, their pads are too small to use on Terminators.

[hushrong]

I doubt it.

Custodes shoulder pads fit to Marine shoulders, meaning they both share the same shoulder.

Terminator pads fit to bigger shoulders, so while you could stick them to a Custodes, their pads are too small to use on Terminators.

You could always cut it to fit. Just cut and file away at the terminator shoulder and pop on the pad.

[Kinstryfe]

Thanks for answering :)