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We’ve reached 100,000 Facebook fans! That’s a veritable legion of people who love Warhammer 40,000.
As you well know by now, faith is worthy of reward - so we’ve got a very special reveal to show you all. We know that loads of you have been crying out for an HQ option to lead your Adeptus Custodes in battle, and now, your wish has been granted!

Captain-General Trajann Valoris is master of the ten-thousand strong forces of the Adeptus Custodes. We think he’ll make a great leader for any Imperium army, whether you’re looking to field a force purely made up of the Emperor’s personal guard or a mixed collection of agents, assassins and more besides.

This legendary champion will be available soon - in the meantime, stay tuned right here on the Warhammer 40,000 Facebook page for all the latest news, and keep sharing your models, strategies and thoughts with us! It’s been a great journey so far - let’s see if we can get to 200,000. Just imagine what we’ll reveal then....

So this is GW plastic right?

it seems

I like him. I definitely want him to have a helmet instead of bare head, but otherwise he looks great. 10/10 will buy.

Wow that bird sure look similar to one rumour, but apparently it's not, does that mean we might get more custode in the future?

Nice. Though just as I had converted myself one Ah well. At least different equipments so both have their uses!

Not a fan of 'feathers' but the rest looks great.

I'm curious if there will be rules to go with the mini.

I really like it.. besides I rather had one with Helmet and no feathers.. I guess the feathers should be easy to remove though.

Chopstick wrote:
Wow that bird sure look similar to one rumour, but apparently it's not, does that mean we might get more custode in the future?

Could still be on his right hand Pauldron?

I want.

Hope it will be available soon.

Ooh... Custodes HQ! I have wanted to convert my own, and now we will get rules, though this official model is bloody excellent too!

The singular of “custodes” is “custodian”

I hope that the chest is complete without that tilt shield and it's oversized feathers on.

Probably a separated piece just like any terminator kit, The shoulder pad and gauntlet might be missing some part to glue that shield on.

I need this.

Looks very similar to the FW-event only Custodian...

At first I thought it was a kitbash, using some 3rd party legs and different heard

Pretty cool looking model though. If the head is a separate piece, generic Custodian helmet might fit in there too!

I like him. I like his beardy face.

They confirmed on Facebook that he's plastic.

Very nice mini.

I'm not sure this is what we were 'Crying out for', but it's a nice gesture of support to a very underwealming army in 40k, that noteably didn't get touched by Chapter approved.

Perhaps there's some help for Imperial Agents yet..

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

Chopstick wrote:
Wow that bird sure look similar to one rumour, but apparently it's not, does that mean we might get more custode in the future?

Could still be on his right hand Pauldron?

It could be his chestplate in profile?

AdmiralHalsey wrote:
I'm not sure this is what we were 'Crying out for', but it's a nice gesture of support to a very underwealming army in 40k, that noteably didn't get touched by Chapter approved.

Perhaps there's some help for Imperial Agents yet..

It was a very frequent request on the Facebook user posts for the Warhammer 40,000 page. This is a pretty big thing for a lot of people.

I know I am thrilled. This guy is absolutely something I have wanted for a long time. Even if he does not come with a helmet (I strongly suspect he does), I would still use this guy. I love the halberd. Hopefully this guy is given some pretty great rules.

 casvalremdeikun wrote:

AdmiralHalsey wrote:
I'm not sure this is what we were 'Crying out for', but it's a nice gesture of support to a very underwealming army in 40k, that noteably didn't get touched by Chapter approved.

Perhaps there's some help for Imperial Agents yet..

It was a very frequent request on the Facebook user posts for the Warhammer 40,000 page. This is a pretty big thing for a lot of people.

I know I am thrilled. This guy is absolutely something I have wanted for a long time. Even if he does not come with a helmet (I strongly suspect he does), I would still use this guy. I love the halberd. Hopefully this guy is given some pretty great rules.

Seeing I can't even make legal army without HQ for them HQ model is rather welcome!

Its not the chest plate, the feathers on the rumor picture are much more defined.
It might be the shoulderpad, as it does seem to have an eagle on the right side. ( you can sort of see the bottom of one)
That being said, the rumor picture eagle seems to be thrust too far forward for a shoulder pad. He would look pretty lopsided and from a conceptual standpoint would look much better on his left.
Thats my take on it anyway.

tneva82 wrote:

 casvalremdeikun wrote:

AdmiralHalsey wrote:
I'm not sure this is what we were 'Crying out for', but it's a nice gesture of support to a very underwealming army in 40k, that noteably didn't get touched by Chapter approved.

Perhaps there's some help for Imperial Agents yet..

It was a very frequent request on the Facebook user posts for the Warhammer 40,000 page. This is a pretty big thing for a lot of people.

I know I am thrilled. This guy is absolutely something I have wanted for a long time. Even if he does not come with a helmet (I strongly suspect he does), I would still use this guy. I love the halberd. Hopefully this guy is given some pretty great rules.

Seeing I can't even make legal army without HQ for them HQ model is rather welcome!

Yup. Now I might need to get a few more squads of Custodes too. A couple Squads with swords and Shields and a squad with Spears.

It is a very nice mini. Since it is in plastic, and that rumour image is very similar but not this mini, it is either part if a triumvirate or part a larger range of custodes minis. My guess is that Rogal Dorn will be the next primarch but he will be commanding the custodes and not the imperial fists. I think this ties into something Sad Panda said ages ago about primarchs returning at the head of surprising armies.

Chikout wrote:
It is a very nice mini. Since it is in plastic, and that rumour image is very similar but not this mini, it is either part if a triumvirate or part a larger range of custodes minis. My guess is that Rogal Dorn will be the next primarch but he will be commanding the custodes and not the imperial fists. I think this ties into something Sad Panda said ages ago about primarchs returning at the head of surprising armies.

Or it's just a bird for a model in Age of Sigmar and has nothing to do with 40k?

Worth mentioning that Wanderers are still sitting on a lot of hero models in Finecast/metal and they've been given a warlord trait and a relic both that grant a character with no ranged attack(which in this case means just the Spellsinger) a bird that gives a ranged attack instead. And that the bird in question looks markedly similar to that which the Nomad Prince has perched on his arm.

This is fantastic - my Custodes no longer need to abduct Celestine or Primaris Psykers to lead them to battle.

 Kanluwen wrote:

Chikout wrote:
It is a very nice mini. Since it is in plastic, and that rumour image is very similar but not this mini, it is either part if a triumvirate or part a larger range of custodes minis. My guess is that Rogal Dorn will be the next primarch but he will be commanding the custodes and not the imperial fists. I think this ties into something Sad Panda said ages ago about primarchs returning at the head of surprising armies.

Or it's just a bird for a model in Age of Sigmar and has nothing to do with 40k?

Worth mentioning that Wanderers are still sitting on a lot of hero models in Finecast/metal and they've been given a warlord trait and a relic both that grant a character with no ranged attack(which in this case means just the Spellsinger) a bird that gives a ranged attack instead. And that the bird in question looks markedly similar to that which the Nomad Prince has perched on his arm.

In the rumour article, they said they were particularly excited to show that model. That suggests something primarch level.

 Hollow wrote:
I like him. I like his beardy face.

Also male-pattern baldness Presumably takes centuries/millennia for Custodes, rather than decades.