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Kurnost wrote:

I tried to go for a victorious pose, but I may have messed it up so it looks like he is saluting the sky

I know your pain! I tried to have a double power fist dread doing a two-handed smash, looked like he was doing the Dark Souls praise the sun

Seriously cool dreadnought that, interested to see how the black marble turns out

But praising the sun is a gloriously incandescent thing to do

evildrcheese wrote:Those Custodian dreads with the Sword and shield are sooo cool!

EDC

They really are, I can't wait to get my hands on the spear one

angelofvengeance wrote:Love me some custodes dreadnought

And especially when they are gold

Got some priming painting and washing done today on the dread. I put a bit more work into the shoulder pad and shield as they will get the clear paint tomorrrow for the metallic red, I hope to have this guy done by 25th for the painting competition.

Great Clean looking gold on that custodes contemptor! looks awesome

Looking good man, I probably should have waited until after painting for the Shield as well. Oh well, maybe if I get a second.

That's some great gold! I'm excited to see your take on metallic red, as IDK how to make that color yet.

Guardians Eternal wrote:Great Clean looking gold on that custodes contemptor! looks awesome

I did like the more dull gold that forgeworld uses, instead of the yellow that you get from the GW gold progression chart. But I forgot to buy the forgeworld gold paint so oh well

VictorVonTzeentch wrote:Looking good man, I probably should have waited until after painting for the Shield as well. Oh well, maybe if I get a second.

I knew I was going to clear paint it so I left it off, but it doesn't get too much in the way so not really a problem more of an annoyance

JustaerinAtTheWall wrote:That's some great gold! I'm excited to see your take on metallic red, as IDK how to make that color yet.

It is super simple, you just do the normal gw gold progression making the contrast between the golds really obvious as the red blends them together well. Heavily wash the edges with nuln oil and then do several light coats of clear paint from an airbrush.


Well the dread is mostly finished, well the body is but I am not 100 percent happy with the base as the black marble didn't quite turn out. I may just paint it a normal stone at this point and give it some moss to show a long abandoned area. Also if anyone ways I can provide more close ups of the shield and shoulder pad since they are a nice metallic red color now.

Nice work buddy . Love me some Custodes blingtastic dreads

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Nice work buddy . Love me some Custodes blingtastic dreads

Nothing better than a blinged out custodes dread

Well another adepticon has come and gone and another year where I forgot to sign up for events (I was writing a paper and forgot ). But I did get to spend the saturday wandering the vendor hall playing a few games and talking to friends. I was able to get some nice stuff as well including the Custodes spear dreadnought, a custodes t shirt, the new custode bolter arms and a custode transfer sheet! I also did a kitbash of Valdor on friday using the event only custodes model and the plastic spear and mohawk head (I still think he has a mohawk from the old fluff pictures not the new shaved head). I will be using the bolter axe for one of the hetaeron models to show their eliteness and I gave the walrus mustache head to one of the hetaeron models as well.

So many beautiful things!

Nice progress on the sword and board dread too.

EDC

 evildrcheese wrote:
So many beautiful things!

Nice progress on the sword and board dread too.

EDC

Thanks man! I really like the shirt and it's conspicuous enough that I won't out myself for being a giant nerd if I wear it on campus

I would not mind that t-shirt either, reckon you could get away with it as a band t-shirt. The Adepticon exclusive model looks really interesting, hopefully I'll see it at a few UK events.

 Ustrello wrote:
Well another adepticon has come and gone and another year where I forgot to sign up for events (I was writing a paper and forgot ). But I did get to spend the saturday wandering the vendor hall playing a few games and talking to friends. I was able to get some nice stuff as well including the Custodes spear dreadnought, a custodes t shirt, the new custode bolter arms and a custode transfer sheet! I also did a kitbash of Valdor on friday using the event only custodes model and the plastic spear and mohawk head (I still think he has a mohawk from the old fluff pictures not the new shaved head). I will be using the bolter axe for one of the hetaeron models to show their eliteness and I gave the walrus mustache head to one of the hetaeron models as well.

I need everyone of those things.

Also cant wait to see Valdor and the Spearnaught done up.

The red on the shield and shoulder pad is especially nice.

Good job!

VictorVonTzeentch wrote:

 Ustrello wrote:
Well another adepticon has come and gone and another year where I forgot to sign up for events (I was writing a paper and forgot ). But I did get to spend the saturday wandering the vendor hall playing a few games and talking to friends. I was able to get some nice stuff as well including the Custodes spear dreadnought, a custodes t shirt, the new custode bolter arms and a custode transfer sheet! I also did a kitbash of Valdor on friday using the event only custodes model and the plastic spear and mohawk head (I still think he has a mohawk from the old fluff pictures not the new shaved head). I will be using the bolter axe for one of the hetaeron models to show their eliteness and I gave the walrus mustache head to one of the hetaeron models as well.

I need everyone of those things.

Also cant wait to see Valdor and the Spearnaught done up.

The shirt is pretty damn cool and I am thinking I may hold off on valdor til the middle so I can get the technique for the cloaks and gold down before I give him a whirl

WarbossDakka wrote:I would not mind that t-shirt either, reckon you could get away with it as a band t-shirt. The Adepticon exclusive model looks really interesting, hopefully I'll see it at a few UK events.

It is actually a WHW exclusive model, so any event or at WHW they will have it!

kronk wrote:The red on the shield and shoulder pad is especially nice.

Good job!

Thanks Kronk! I am really happy how it turned out

 Ustrello wrote:


The shirt is pretty damn cool and I am thinking I may hold off on valdor til the middle so I can get the technique for the cloaks and gold down before I give him a whirl

I may have to pick one up at the end of April. That would make sense, what sort of color do you have planed for the Cloak? I was thinking Purple for mine.

 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:

 Ustrello wrote:


The shirt is pretty damn cool and I am thinking I may hold off on valdor til the middle so I can get the technique for the cloaks and gold down before I give him a whirl

I may have to pick one up at the end of April. That would make sense, what sort of color do you have planed for the Cloak? I was thinking Purple for mine.

I was thinking purple as well to play up the bodyguard for an emperor theme, but in the one picture of Valdor where he has a mohawk it is red but I feel like with the leather and helmet plume that would be too much red

 Ustrello wrote:

 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:

 Ustrello wrote:


The shirt is pretty damn cool and I am thinking I may hold off on valdor til the middle so I can get the technique for the cloaks and gold down before I give him a whirl

I may have to pick one up at the end of April. That would make sense, what sort of color do you have planed for the Cloak? I was thinking Purple for mine.

I was thinking purple as well to play up the bodyguard for an emperor theme, but in the one picture of Valdor where he has a mohawk it is red but I feel like with the leather and helmet plume that would be too much red

Yeah that would be just a bit much Red. Go for purple.

Some cool loot, ustrello! Both equally ornate, I look forward to their painting, Valdor especially.

VictorVonTzeentch wrote:

 Ustrello wrote:

 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:

 Ustrello wrote:


The shirt is pretty damn cool and I am thinking I may hold off on valdor til the middle so I can get the technique for the cloaks and gold down before I give him a whirl

I may have to pick one up at the end of April. That would make sense, what sort of color do you have planed for the Cloak? I was thinking Purple for mine.

I was thinking purple as well to play up the bodyguard for an emperor theme, but in the one picture of Valdor where he has a mohawk it is red but I feel like with the leather and helmet plume that would be too much red

Yeah that would be just a bit much Red. Go for purple.

I was thinking of purple but I was watching Jan's twitch stream and he was doing a beautiful dark red and I asked him about it and he suggested that over purple so we will see (I have to get the scheme down first )

JustaerinAtTheWall wrote:Some cool loot, ustrello! Both equally ornate, I look forward to their painting, Valdor especially.

Same man, though like I said above he will probably be more towards the middle of the custodes so I can get the scheme down first

Might have to find an image of that, I can picture dark red looking really good.

Well I am back from school for the summer so you all know what that means, an absolute flurry of painting and building. But I will be going to Germany for 3 weeks next week so you all won't see me too much til June. So as is customary for my return from school posts I will start it off with washing resin. This time around it is not a mountain as it has been in the past, but rather a grav tank for my custodes, along with the spear dread, and the upgrade kit for the shooty custodes. Along with a mournfang for my new deathrattle army! I hope to start building tomorrow and just finish building the rest of the custodes before I leave so then I can at least get them primed and based gold so I can get a game in with them.

Then the general plan will be to finish as much of the blackshields as I can, then build and prime the deathrattle army.

Good lord, that's a lot of Custodes! Can't wait to see the grav tank and spear dread built.

Also, I think you meant Mourngul :-P

Enjoy your trip in Germany buddy

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Good lord, that's a lot of Custodes! Can't wait to see the grav tank and spear dread built.

Also, I think you meant Mourngul :-P

Enjoy your trip in Germany buddy

Yep it is! Not to mention the 25 plus dudes I got to do as well . And you are right it is the mourngul I was just kinda tired when I was writing the post last night

Alright so productive day, I was able to build the grav tank (which was a nice kit and needed less fiddling around with than I expected), the mourngul and the spear dread. I had to change my original pose for the spear dread cause it was a bitch to do plus I like this pose a bit better with the futility of a marine trying to fight a custodes dread and him just calmly gunning the marine down and moving on. Also I was able to magnetize the grav tank turret so it can still spin because it is too beautiful of a kit to glue it down. The mourngul was not that bad for such an old kit beyond the gaps that come with the older models. Up next is probably building more custodes since I leave for germany in 6 days then painting for 2 months solid

Though as I think about it I may go in and saw the gun arm off of the dread and glue it back on so it points a bit more down towards the marine. Tell me what you all think

Feel the power of the Kragle! Hot damn that Custodes tank is awesome .

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Feel the power of the Kragle! Hot damn that Custodes tank is awesome .

Krazy glue has been the best superglue I have every used actually . But yeah the tank is huge it dwarfs the knight base, and the grav carrier is even bigger

My last night's work before I head to Germany. Putting some transfers down on the custodes dread (they are amazing by the way) and working on the last 3 terminators for my blackshields getting most of the base colors down and finishing the face on the Sgt, why I hated painting faces I will never know. So I will hopefully see you all on this thread in about a month or so and for the rest of the summer it will be a race to see if I can't finish the blackshields before school starts. And with that a hearty Auf Wiedersehen

Dreadstodes is looking great, the transfer really sets the shield off!

 Paradigm wrote:
Dreadstodes is looking great, the transfer really sets the shield off!

Yeah I was really surprised how much one little transfer could make the shield that much better!