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I've been away from forums for a long 'ole time now. I've just been plugging away slowly but surely at what I do.

At the moment I'm part way through a big custom Legio Custodes project for a friend, consisting of fully sculpted Custodes - based 100% off the artwork, as much as we can anyway.

I'm making them in a kind of sprue fashion so that I can build and customise as many as I want without having to chop and change limbs as you would if it were just a normal set of Space Marines legs, for example.

As it stands, I've only got one shoulder pad, a little bit on the groin, two kneecaps, petruges (possibly), arms and the Guardian Spear to go...though when you put it like that it sounds like a lot of work...drat.

Anyway, tonight's offering is the completed left shoulder pad. I'll pop the torso on tomorrow, if I remember.







It's built up from a standard marine shoulder pad, I think it's roughly Terminator size now - God knows what they'll end up like if I'm asked to do Terminators...

So that's complete, unless anybody has any suggestions/can pick out any flaws.

Who knows, in a month or two when it's all done and cast, there may even be some paint on this thread :O

Looking promising, can't see any flaws to speak off. Always loved custodes forces. Never seen anyone do it from the ground up though, nice idea to make a spree, you could think about releasing them if they go well i greatly anticipate the progress of this thread!

 stonned_astartes wrote:
Looking promising, can't see any flaws to speak off. Always loved custodes forces. Never seen anyone do it from the ground up though, nice idea to make a spree, you could think about releasing them if they go well i greatly anticipate the progress of this thread!

Thanks Some more for you tonight as well! As much as I'd love to be able to release them when they're eventually made, I don't fancy a lawsuit Any that I do are going either into my own stuff, or the friend I'm doing these for. I'm being paid in beer and food essentially when I'm around his house lol.

There's more, for once it appears I'm keeping to a schedule (ish)!

Here is the completed plate/torso for the Custodes:

(photo dump warning)



We veered away from the traditional Crosses that are on the gorgets of most of the artwork. For one they're a massive pain to do, squares and curves and symmetry all add up to a nightmare for poor old me.








For the back I've tried to make it look a bit like a Terminator's but on a smaller scale as if the armour itself is far more advanced, as one would expect of the Emperor's bodyguard. There was also the practical element - capes will be a lot easier for me to do without a power armour-esqe backpack.




Hope you like it, I know my mate's quite please so far

As ever, any comments/suggestions/criticism is more than welcome.

Looking good, keeping a schedule is always difficult, well done
I might say add some script like that on grey nights armour but it certainly looks the part with the high neck guard and termie style back.