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So I am back from Germany and (mostly) over the jetlag, so what better way to celebrate than to start to paint models. I wanted to work out the test scheme for the custodes with my own twist. I will be painting the face plates white like in master of mankind and have the shoulder pads done in metallic red in certain places. So far I am really liking the models, but I still have to finish the base along with the spear and the eye lenses. So tell me what you all think!





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Im liking the white face plates, looking at the plume on yours reminds me I should probably put another wash on mine to make the threads stand out more.
   
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 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
Im liking the white face plates, looking at the plume on yours reminds me I should probably put another wash on mine to make the threads stand out more.


I thought I would hate the plumes but they are growing on me.


Well another WIP post, this time it is for a 5 man squad of custodes (mainly being painted for my local GW competition), I wanted to do a minimum squad size but with the new edition the custodes squads are now 5 man squads instead of 3. So this squad/WIP will consist of 3 guardians, 1 sentinel and 1 hetaeron (who will be getting a cape so he can pass off as a shield captain for 40k).

I hope to have these guys done before the weekend is out.




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Looking good there man. Did you manage to get them done over the weekend?
   
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 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
Looking good there man. Did you manage to get them done over the weekend?


Actually I finished painting the cape about 15 minutes ago (I had to wait for a color to come from amazon before I could start it). I should be gluing it on tomorrow and taking better pictures then.



Also this was my first time using this sorta wet blending technique that I learned from Jan and his stream (thanks again buddy) but I don't think I got it as good as he did but I tried








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They look really cool, I love the red on the shoulder pads and lots of the other great little touches.

   
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Nice job on the Custodians. Love the white faceplate. Really wish i'd done that with mine

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Heretic Tom wrote:They look really cool, I love the red on the shoulder pads and lots of the other great little touches.


Thanks! The red is actually the FW clear red paint to give it a metallic red look. I have used it on other models and I really like it

evildrcheese wrote:Nice job on the Custodians. Love the white faceplate. Really wish i'd done that with mine

EDC


Thanks man! I have to say I got the idea from master of mankind so the idea is not original

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 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
Looking good there man. Did you manage to get them done over the weekend?


Actually I finished painting the cape about 15 minutes ago (I had to wait for a color to come from amazon before I could start it). I should be gluing it on tomorrow and taking better pictures then.



Also this was my first time using this sorta wet blending technique that I learned from Jan and his stream (thanks again buddy) but I don't think I got it as good as he did but I tried









Damn man looking good.
   
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 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
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 Ustrello wrote:
 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
Looking good there man. Did you manage to get them done over the weekend?


Actually I finished painting the cape about 15 minutes ago (I had to wait for a color to come from amazon before I could start it). I should be gluing it on tomorrow and taking better pictures then.



Also this was my first time using this sorta wet blending technique that I learned from Jan and his stream (thanks again buddy) but I don't think I got it as good as he did but I tried









Damn man looking good.


Thanks man!


Well as promised I finally got around to taking proper pictures of my custodes and for those that have followed this thread for a while I think I finally got the lightbox picture set up down right with this set of pictures. Not shown in this collage is the sentinel as he didn't really fit in with the layout. But up next I plan on trying to finish my blackshields or maybe I should just finish my custodes I don't know right now . Tell me what you all think I should work on next!




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Nicely done! great bold gold you've got, I also like the back of the cloak the lightest little highlight on the top parts and prominent fold, it adds enough for your eye to follow the softer blending while using almost an edge highlight, all in all the force looks great ! :-)

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 nerdfest09 wrote:
Nicely done! great bold gold you've got, I also like the back of the cloak the lightest little highlight on the top parts and prominent fold, it adds enough for your eye to follow the softer blending while using almost an edge highlight, all in all the force looks great ! :-)


Thanks man! I am really happy with the cape, but I was lucky to learn the paint recipe from a much more talented painter than myself

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Well done on the gold. It is very easy to much up the shading on gold, but you seem to have got the shadow and light on it perfectly. Well done.

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 WarbossDakka wrote:
Well done on the gold. It is very easy to much up the shading on gold, but you seem to have got the shadow and light on it perfectly. Well done.


Thanks man! I am really happy with them and I am even considering putting the blackshields to the side to finish the army before summer break is over

Well today was a slow day and I only really washed the custodes pallas and the blackshields javelin landspeeder, along with building another hetaeron custodes using the left over event only custodes weapon. I also started to paint the marine for the spear dreads base and once again am doing a sons of horus marine. I was able to cut the shooting arm on the dread and re position it facing more downwards so it looks like the dread has killed the marine in his last ditch effort to slow down or destroy the dread.












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Slow day today, mainly consisted of building. But I was able to at least build the javelin speeder for my blackshields, along with building and priming the custodes pallas for my 30k army. I also was able to stop off at my local GW and get the new 8th ed rulebook along with index imperium 1 and 2 and I have decided that my army for 8th ed will be a custodes and primaris marine mix so that I can actually field an army fairly quickly . I was also able to get one of the new demo models and I primed and sprayed him with leadbelcher to prep him to become a test model for my ultramarine scheme for the future primaris army.

Also I found one of my old BaC dreadnoughts that I had just basecoated black, I am thinking of just getting it off of its base and re purposing it for my 40k custodes since they only can take venerable contemptor dreads and none of the other cool toys they had from 30k.









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The speeder has really got a dynamic look to it, I'm excited to see it painted.

   
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 Heretic Tom wrote:
The speeder has really got a dynamic look to it, I'm excited to see it painted.


I really want to get some paint on it as well! Though that action shot was more the result of my putting stuff together without looking at the instructions than my dynamic posing prowess

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Hey man great blog. I've just blasted through this in a week and wowzers, you got some nice armies there.

Love the mechanicus but have to say those custodes are just amazeballs. They're just great, simple as. Subbed and looking forward to more

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 boundless08 wrote:
Hey man great blog. I've just blasted through this in a week and wowzers, you got some nice armies there.

Love the mechanicus but have to say those custodes are just amazeballs. They're just great, simple as. Subbed and looking forward to more


Thank you very much for the kind words! I do have a problem with never finishing armies though

Well today was kinda slow day, I was only able to really wash the next 4 custodes models (two sentinels, one hetaeron and Valdor) then paint the face of valdor and his cape along with the hetaerons plus start to layer the gold. But I was looking at my models and what I have and I can feasibly finish this army before july is out if I do it right.




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Looking good. Keep plugging away. Looking forward to seeing what you do with the Custodian hover tank.

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Custard Marines are looking fantastic Ustrello. Great job. White faceplates is an excellent touch. Cant wait to see the grav tank getting some painty love

   
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evildrcheese wrote:Looking good. Keep plugging away. Looking forward to seeing what you do with the Custodian hover tank.

EDC


Thanks EDC! I hope to have it done in a month or less to be honest

Januine wrote:Custard Marines are looking fantastic Ustrello. Great job. White faceplates is an excellent touch. Cant wait to see the grav tank getting some painty love


Thanks jan! I am glad you like the face plates, I feel like they give the model some more character than the silver ones. Also same here but I keep on buying more custodes stuff and I need to stop

Well as the title states I got some reinforcements today. Specifically a grav carrier for my 30k custodes and it is a large model like spartan large so hopefully it isn't as bad of a kit that my fire raptor was. I also started to make my primaris marines (bonus points to anyone who can guess what chapter they will be and a hint they won't be black power armor ) and when making my 2k list (a primaris/custodes elite list) I found myself left with 150ish points so I decided I will add a 40 man conscript squad with a commissar. What will the commissar model be? The DKoK quartermaster model, which I will be stripping and giving him a power sword and a bolt pistol.

Fluffwise my idea will be that the custodes/primaris strike force got a distress call from a guard training planet where they go to assist and make sure that the regiments can still be trained. But they are being trained by DKoK members after the successful trails that were conducted in the book "Dead men walking" by Steve Lyons.













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Alright so today was another building day, but it should be one of the last for a bit. So first up was the last bit of the dark imperium primaris marines, building the 2 LTs, captain, ancient, 5 intercessors and 5 hellblasters all of which were very nice and easy models to put together.

Lastly was the custodes grav carrier which is a large model (spartan sized) and the cast wasn't so good so it required some hot water and creative cutting to fix but it still looks pretty damn good. I put one of the primaris marines next to it for scale. So what is next you ask? I will go about finishing the rest of the custodes and then start my work on the primaris marines. I did do some testing to see, and a bolt pistol on the DkoK model looks massive, probably due to the fact that the DKoK models were true scaled compared to the regular plastic IG so IG weapons look huge on them. So what do you all think, should I cut away the las pistol and add a bolt pistol or leave it.




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LOVE that DKOK commisar!! awesome

   
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angelofvengeance wrote:What chapter are you going for then, Ustrello?


The greatest of them all, the ultramarines

Januine wrote:LOVE that DKOK commisar!! awesome


I really like him a lot as well, I am glad I got him for cheap cause the scalpers on ebay ask for quite a bit for him.

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Just gonna toss a little more praise the commissar's way. Great model.
   
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 youwashock wrote:
Just gonna toss a little more praise the commissar's way. Great model.


Thanks man, though I plan on stripping him soon

Today was a bit of a slow day, but I got some more work done on this next batch of custodes. They should only have one more session of painting, then a few days for the water effects. After these guys I will probably finish up the remaining hetaerons and sentinals then build some more guardians for the 40k portion of the army (plus they work well in 30k).


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Just about done with these guys, all that is left is for me to do is to paint the rims of the bases, clean up any mistakes and put in the second application of water effects. After that I will paint one more Hetaeron to round out the custodes to 10. Because of the recent edition change and FW leaving 30k hanging for now I am putting all 30k on the back burner until that is all cleared up. So with that I have to make sure my 40k list is at least playable, and to do that I need to have 10 spear custodes. So far I have 3 and then Valdor which will stand in for a shield captain. After that I will use my Hetaeron to supplement the other custodes putting me at 8 spears total meaning I will make another 3 man guardian squad for 30k and just use it in 40k for now along with making one of the standard bearer guys.

Also I was able to find some land raiders cheaper than what GW was selling them for so I have to make sure I complete those as well to round out the custodes portion of the army. After that I have the primaris marines and the krieg conscripts. Looking at it I can have this army done before I leave for school and the gaming scene there is more 40k anyways so it would be better to have a 40k army.



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As promised here is another 3 of my custodes, this time 2 sentinels and 1 more hetaeron. My original plan for the rest of my summer break stands, but I believe I will try and add a armies on parade board so I have less to worry about when the new semester starts.


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