Adeptus Custodes Shield-Captain + Battleforce + Codex

[beefeb]

1 hour ago, Chapter Master Valrak said:

Am I the only one that loves it? 

 

 

Pretty much yes.  Theres a couple of other mad guys like you. but def seems a minority.  Do you like them so much cos fists and custards are wall bros from terra? 

[Borbarad]

This one looks like early 2010s mini in both art direction and execution. I do not like it.

[Marshal Valkenhayn]

Big pass. But Custodes being able to take shields and spears in 40K would be interesting. Mostly I'm just vibing and waiting to see if axes get fixed in the book. All my terminators have axes and I love the models, but god are they piss poor currently.

[DemonGSides]

9 minutes ago, Marshal Valkenhayn said:

Big pass. But Custodes being able to take shields and spears in 40K would be interesting. Mostly I'm just vibing and waiting to see if axes get fixed in the book. All my terminators have axes and I love the models, but god are they piss poor currently.

Same.

 

If the new big box they're throwing this guy into had 10 wardens and 3 jetbikes id buy two. Now I'm not even sure if I'm gonna buy one. Big disappoint. 

[FarFromSam]

Man new 40k is cool.

[Chapter Master Valrak]

33 minutes ago, beefeb said:

 

 

Pretty much yes.  Theres a couple of other mad guys like you. but def seems a minority.  Do you like them so much cos fists and custards are wall bros from terra? 

 

For me its the shield and he kinds of reminds me of Gotrex with his mohawk xD

[LemartestheLost]

Not gonna harp on the model too much as we’ve all established that DAT BOY IS WIDE. The shield itself is perfect in my opinion, though.  Regardless, the most atrocious part of this release is that uninspired codex cover, yuck! The 9th Ed. book didn’t look great but this one makes me want to gag.

[ZeroWolf]

I don't hate it but I was never in the market for a custodes army and this isn't going to change that. I do wonder if this was another one of the models that GW had sitting there (like the Desolation Marines) and just decided to release to get some money from it. 

[Interrogator Stobz]

Come on, guys, he's great.

I mean, for the first mini designed by the website interrns, he's great.

They obviously finished making such a wonderful webstore and got sent to the studio to help there.

 

 

 

[tinpact]

Each edition it seems like they know less and less what to do with Custodes, to say nothing of SoS. And the codex cover is just...ick.

 

The perspective seems slightly off, the spear is cropped awkwardly, and there's something about the rendering that's throwing me. Just doesn't mesh right, especially compared to the Ork one, which looks pretty good.

 

And they still haven't gotten the gold-on-blue scheme from the 9th codex to look right, either (it's a curse, some say).

[Nephaston]

4 hours ago, Zoatibix said:

And maybe it’s the angle but is he losing almost half of his blade? Or are we going for a shootin’ while a’ stabbin’ vibe? 

The sharp bit starts once it's past the barrel, and eith how large everything is in regards to custodes that still probably half a meter of power sword, enough to bisect just about any infantry target.

 

Overall he's fine imo, can't really stand out as a paragon of the Imperium if the whole army is paragons of the Imperium. Now to wait and see if the general fix of a bit of greenstuff in the midriff applies to this one as well.

[OttoVonAwesome]

The worst part of this model is that with the way 10th rules work everyone is gonna wanna use this guy. But anyway it seems to me this guy was meant to be an alternate blade champion and they just decided to make him a captain cuase well look at him. Yes that spear is as smartly designed as the redemptor and aggressors power fists that can't punch without destroying the gun component someone on the design staff really needs to think about thier work before calling it finished.

[Scribe]

I've got a handful of Custodes, and...man does the whole range ever bug me in terms of scale/proportion. Really wish they had this all nailed down better, as things just look off to me.

[happyslugger]

Yeah, I can't see myself picking this up for my custodes. 

[Doobles57]

I kind of like the concept on paper. Shield and spear, more Greek influence. But the execution is questionable at best. Not convinced at all.

 

Also it was frustrating enough locking special characters to combat patrols (Farsight etc) but locking him to a massive battle force size box is kinda insulting. Especially with Custodes. The range is so small that there's only so many more bikes and terminators existing players are likely to need. The range needs unit variety and plastic dreads/tanks not another shield captain.

[Matcap86]

Amused they thought this was a good promotional picture.

 

[The Spitehorde]

Urgh. I like that about as much as I like the Blade Champion. Neither hit the mark as far as i'm concerned.

[ThaneOfTas]

4 hours ago, Chapter Master Valrak said:

 

For me its the shield and he kinds of reminds me of Gotrex with his mohawk xD

Yeeeah... Being reminded of a dwarf, even the coolest of them, is not the reaction a Custodes character should give.

[Imprudent Decision]

Spear looks bad-old design is mich better.  Why move the gun to the bottom when the rest it’s on top.  The back crest also looks stupid. They are a bad trend in modern GW figures.  I personally always remove them.  With the weird back crest he also is missing the signature Custodes hair tuft.

[Triszin]

Not a fan of it atm

[MaximusTL]

when the custodian guard first came out, back before primaris, they were massive and cool. now, they feel almost shrimpy in comparison to new marines (its insane how much larger gravis marines are than allarus terminators.) i've felt for a while now that custodians need their legs/torso to be scaled up by 20%, and this shield captain desperately needs it. he also feels less detailed than previous custodes as well, at least to my eye. blade champion was far superior, as even though he was a departure from the ususual custodian design, his somewhat cut-down armor suited the idea of a lightning fast swordmaster. this captain feels like some aristocrat wearing too-big armor to give himself a sense of importance. do like the spear and shield tho.

Edited March 2 by MaximusTL

[Wispy]

mostly his squattiness is perspective from the front. 

[painting.for.my.sanity]

I don't know what's wrong with the photos, but having spent a good while looking at the actual mini at WHW today, he looks much more normal.

[The Praetorian of Inwit]

It looks okay as just another Custodes model. But for the prices GW charge merely okay isn't good enough. It also doesn't look special enough to stand out as a Shield-Captain. Just another Custodes. And yeah the proportions are...unique. 

[skylerboodie]

Shield looks more like a basket to me.