Games workshop CAN'T Paint Custodes! Can I?

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[jimholmes]

I like that you left the custodes' balls different. Balls are a very personal, individual thing.

[Florkl]

The thing I like about the GW Custodes vs. the FW ones is that GW looks shiny but FW looks dingy. Gold vs. vintage brass. I feel Custodes should be shiny beacons of bright gold, because stealth and subtlety is for people who need an additional advantage, not mighty embodiments of the Emperor’s will.

[PelinalDidNothingWrong]

Hot take: The Solar Watch and Shadowkeepers have the best Custodes colour schemes. I personally painted mine as and play them as Shadowkeepers

[warherd_miniatures]

I've never in my life had an interest in painting up custodes.. my mind has been changed these are beautiful 😍

[chris.replay]

I'm doing my entire Custodes army as members of the 300 Hetaeron Guard, the personal guardians of the Emperor himself. Since they spend so much time in his direct proximity, their armor is almost burned by all the psychic energy from the Emperor. Dark, dark almost black gold with bright edge highlights, lots of contrast.

Went for a TMM working up from a black, dark silver, several different golds, to a gentle chrome edge highlight. They look SICK.

Then I did marble bases using broken imitation marble wall tiles to give their bases a bit of weight.

Loved your scheme, probably going to try the orange ink over silver approach on an unpainted Custode next!

[daili]

Now Jay has painted up a Custodes team, that means 100% guaranteed that the next Kill Team big box will have Custodes with a new bespoke team - with brand new minis no less.

[JMcMillen]

Next step... Sisters of Silence. Good for when you need extra bodies, even better when facing a psychic heavy opponent.

[davidstone-haigh]

That Greenstuff trick to add height/scale is a great idea. I've dithered on buying some Custodes because they look stumpy and mis proportioned. Definitely gonna reconsider now (from a 3rd party seller of course).

[Capzielios]

10:30 It's kind of funny that you decided to have the balls be what's different between each Custodes. Lore dictates that the best way to distinguish which squad or shield company someone belongs to is their matching balls lol. I love it though, models like these deserve to be different to each other.

[rossvolkmann]

I love the idea of putting a spacer under the heads to add height. I'm currently putting some custodes together and I think I'm doing to slice and contour some discs of plastic rod to do just that.

[LL-bhbt]

Those custodes on the webstore are, funnily enough, even more limited than the paint recipe used for the other custodes units. That's because those were released before retributor armour, liberator gold, or (I think but I might be wrong) Stormhost Silver were created so they look cold and sad compared to the other guys haha.

[Davidwentworthart]

i feel like the marble texture trick would work well on the power weapons, creating almost a static-like lightning effect if you paint the weapon white and then add the blue over top.

[gregmccormack]

Your comment about the individuality of custodes warriors gave me colored lightsaber vibes based on the person. They look great!

[ElCrims]

In the lore, gemstones (the balls) are standardized across shield-hosts, though I like giving my dudes a little more individuality too.

[odharrison]

Those custods look amazing!! I like your recipe for gold and marble bases. The milliput and breaking it really add a little extra to the base! I’ll have to try both methods!!! Thanks gents! Fantastic as always!!

[bigdrac]

Thank you so much for the tutorial. Used it and it is stunning. Used other accent colours but this is my go to gold now

[xds]

Psst hey. One thing you left the eyes that should be red but if every Custodian with different ball colour get the some hue of that balls on their eyes, also black orbs with black eyes... That would be Epic. Great job btw <3 (EDIT: There also is a little gem in every cross on Custodes armour but it's hard to paint as heck.)

[soopafamicom]

Years ago in WD one of the resident painters did a tutorial on how to paint Dante using Renaisance/Classical techniques and colours, browns and yellows that were used to create a gold effect in portraits.

[DIAzazel]

Waits for Jay to say "blue balls!" but it never happened

...I see what you did there

[aszargo]

Their scale should match the epic stories they have, so I also used greenstuff to make them higher and more menacing and it did wonders for them!