Quick Advice on my Shield-Captain

[General Strike]

Any advice on how to make them stand out beyond the cape?

Edited February 27, 2018 by HCMistborn

[Lord Marshal]

Fancy base?

 

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/40k-hero-bases-2016

Edited February 27, 2018 by Lord Marshal

[librisrouge]

You could always paint him in some fancy way, such as adding more gol...oh, nevermind.

[FlamingDeth]

It might sound counterintuitive, but...LESS gold?

[Prot]

It might sound counterintuitive, but...LESS gold?

 

What?! You can't have less gold! Go more gold... Gold cape, gold skin... ;)

 

Seriously though the base is huge. I find the new shield captain models are fantastic. The bare head adds a lot too. I loved doing Valoris and the cape was definitely a big part of that... I was thinking about decaling, or script work, but really as you said, aside from the cape it's tough to individualize. I did look at some cape decals myself, but left it alone.

[Honda]

Any advice on how to make them stand out beyond the cape?

 

 

Put lots of severed heads rolling around on the base.

 

<currently reading "The First Heretic"...again. heads on the floor seems to be the typical result of messing with Custodians.>

[Kinstryfe]

Differing color or pattern on the plume. Mine are white, but some SC are getting a red strand to callback to the traditional colours. Get creative with bitz to make them pop a little bit more than normal. One of mine uses the leaping Stormcast legs held up by scrollwork for a traditional leaping into action pose to make it obvious that he means business. You kind of need to go overboard. It's sort of like having any army of space marine captains. Everyone is already so overboard that the only good option left is to go waaaaay overboard.

[Guiltysparc]

I gave mine of the half helm skull masks from the reiver kit...it looks quite badass in the Allarus body. Edited February 28, 2018 by Guiltysparc

[librisrouge]

A guy at my FLGS painted his in silver to make it stand out.

[TURBULENCE]

One thing I'm doing is having the misericord of my shield captain's be unique 'signature weapons'

 

The first one I converted has a greatsword for example. When I move on to a terminator captain, he'll get twin shortswords

[CombatVet]

So what size heads fit the Shield Captains?

 

Terminators, Primaris.

[General Strike]

I gave mine of the half helm skull masks from the reiver kit...it looks quite badass in the Allarus body.

That's a great idea, I have like four boxes of ETB reivers that I impulse bought.

[Ezr91aeL]

I've seen in a battle-report on Youtube an Allarus Shield Cpt with the Sanguinary Guard wings on the back and it looked GOURGEOUS!

[Stoic Raptor]

Would you happen to recall which one?  I'd love to have a look at that.

[Emissary]

I run my characters without helms and my regular guys with helms.  Quick and easy.

[kombatwombat]

A different colour plume and cape works well for me, but that’s because every single infantry model has a cape and plume. The plumes and capes are red, with the Captains/Hetaeron/Wardens purple.

[Scurvydog]

I keep it subtle, just using heads without helm to make them stand out on bikes, both wardens and allarus got the option for a captain with cape/ornate shoulderplates.

 

I feel that is enough, as fluff wise these guys are not far removed from other custodes, compared to characters and infantry in other armies.

[General Strike]

I ended up taking a Hip Shield and putting it over their leather loincloth thing, my guardian captain has no cape but different plume too, and my sentinel captain has a cape, plume, and shield. For my allarus and bikes I will probably use my reiver heads.

[Prot]

I've seen in a battle-report on Youtube an Allarus Shield Cpt with the Sanguinary Guard wings on the back and it looked GOURGEOUS!

Would you happen to have a link for that? Sounds cool.

[Spiritual Liege]

I'm just going for the FW version as I quite like the model.