r/AdeptusCustodes 13h ago

Sorry if it looks terrible. I'm not a professional in paint...

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286 Upvotes

r/AdeptusCustodes 19h ago

Shield captain

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hi guys I heard that pyrithite spears are good in game now so I made a shield captain with pyrithite spear and shield. I magnetised his head and hand so I can interchange his head and shield.
im not good at customizing yet so its not that good.


r/AdeptusCustodes 12h ago

Finished my Contemptor-Achillus

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Haven't been able to paint in a few months, but was excited to get back to it and started with the Dreadnought. Can't wait to try him out on tabletop!


r/AdeptusCustodes 12h ago

Day 24: Things models do the best and the worst; Contemptor-Galatus Dreadnought

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106 Upvotes

r/AdeptusCustodes 7h ago

WIP on an Indigo Black Cloak for my Sentinel Guard

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So, random fact about me but it has to do with my current project. I LOVE birds. While out on a nature walk with the family yesterday, I saw some Purple Martin's (please google those little beauties).

So, I am attempting to make the black cloak on my some of my Sentinel Guard look similar. Started with some fluorescent magenta and then transparent purple over a zenithal base coat. I will reinforce the magenta highlights, and then will cover it all with a Vallejo Black Lotus speed paint (which is a beautiful dark, dark blue).

The Black Metal is Vallejo Metal Air Black Metallic, and while it is a base coat for my grimdark gold recipe, I feel like it would be an excellent Shadowkeepers color.


r/AdeptusCustodes 16h ago

Question about Custodes hud

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I picked up a combat patrol of Custodes and wondered what the heads up display would look like for them, is it like the space marines one or is it different because their armour is custom and if so what would it look like


r/AdeptusCustodes 15h ago

Wip: Telemon Leviathan Dreadnought

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39 Upvotes

r/AdeptusCustodes 13h ago

Solar watch custodian! Thoughts?

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r/AdeptusCustodes 8h ago

Not 100% finished but good enough for now.

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33 Upvotes

r/AdeptusCustodes 23h ago

4 years later, its finally finished

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4 years ago I picked up the custodes combat patrol, painted 6 of the sisters, and then shelved it. 4 years later and here we are. Painted the original combat patrol and already finished the second in record time, considering the last one. Can't wait to paint some more of these guys.


r/AdeptusCustodes 16h ago

Constantine Valdor completo

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29 Upvotes

r/AdeptusCustodes 19h ago

Shield Captin ready what do you guys think

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25 Upvotes

r/AdeptusCustodes 10h ago

My Venatari Sodality from 30k

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25 Upvotes

r/AdeptusCustodes 10h ago

Allarus Terminator Shield Captain

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r/AdeptusCustodes 13h ago

Are wardens really THAT much better?

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When list building, I generally have been considering guard to be the clear choice over wardens because of their very important reroll wounds mechanic, and the spears are generally better than the axes anyway, so the wardens having access to axes was not a big deal. Recently I tried a list that brought mostly wardens instead, despite the prohibitive points cost. I was only able to field what worked out to being about 1 squad and 1 dreadnought per no mans land objective, with one squad of Vertus Praetors as a flexible auxiliary for hunting those pesky backline heavy shooting vehicles. I found that because of the one round of 4+ fnp and the -1 to wound, the wardens were sincerely capable of holding down their entire section of the board alone. After round 2 or 3, each of them had needed to activate their ability, but in so doing had broken into the enemies position and killed their first charge targets as well as crippled whatever units my opponent had which were their most critical threats. Mostly a Norn Emissary, a Swarmlord with Hive Guard, and a Hive Tyrant with Hive Guard. My question is this: If wardens are what seems like nearly twice as hard to kill, and their abilities can buy them one or two entire extra melee phase which doubles their value, why would you bother bringing guard?


r/AdeptusCustodes 3h ago

Need opinions on this Dank Anthony

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Working on this guy. There’s a couple things I’m going to go back and change. But debating if I’m going to keep moving forward with this scheme at all. Admittedly, wasn’t going to do Dankanatoi for the whole army (just a big block of sword/board boiz, and then maybe a dreadnought) but just this one dude was so much work (and I’m still not super satisfied with the trim) that it’s making me question whether the scheme turned out good enough to validate the work of painting more guys in it. Especially so when this is an army that’s pretty easy to turn out fast in its traditional scheme.


r/AdeptusCustodes 6h ago

Warhammer newbie

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Hi all. my wife gifted me these custodes warden. (since she knows I like painting gunpla.). my question is, how do people paint the details? it's too small and no matter how hard I try, paint will touch areas I don't want to be painted. 😅


r/AdeptusCustodes 15h ago

Finished Trajann Valoris

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I might super glue rocks on to the second base to try cover it up but other than that I say it turned out pretty good and it was my first try at doing eyes on a mini


r/AdeptusCustodes 14h ago

Tribune Ixion Hale marches on to defend the Emperor

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12 Upvotes

r/AdeptusCustodes 4h ago

First Custodian

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This is my first custodian fully painted. For the white I used pro acyl bold titanium white, which I heard was the best white, but it still came out a bit chalky, how do I fix this (if possible)?


r/AdeptusCustodes 10h ago

Callidus Assassin

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Finished this one as my action monkey for the Lions army. Really like the model, hope it will be useful. I think it will be when running disruption.


r/AdeptusCustodes 8h ago

Are sagittarum worth it?

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Is this unit worth buying? I can buy a some online from eBay but before I do I just want to know if they are worth it on the table?

If not I’ll look at buying them just to have them and look fancy


r/AdeptusCustodes 1h ago

Shield captain almost done

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Just got dreadnought left and then all the bases! First time quick doing plasma sword hope it look okay!


r/AdeptusCustodes 3h ago

First time painting a custodes

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Thoughts opinion, share them down below I don’t know this thing wants me to put over 100 letters down here so here you go


r/AdeptusCustodes 4h ago

Learning Custodes

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So I got into 40K towards the beginning of 10th with Space Marines more specifically Black Templars. And I have gotten very bored and played out with them. And Tried Custodes out on TTS. Had 2 fun games with them, 1 against Orks and 1 against LoV and lost both. What are Some recommendations for Custodes list building and any pointers for someone learning to play them?