Hello, thanks for dropping by. I have started to add some units to my fledgling Custodes Army, consisting of just 5
Exo-Armoured Squats (counts-as Custodian Guardians with Spears) at the moment, but plenty of Custodes plastics in the to-do pile and I love the look of Allarus Terminators and Dawneagle Jet Bikes so I will be getting some eventually. I also have Ixion Hale from FW who will make a great Shield Captain with Castellan Axe.
So, yes... A HUGE Dreadnought to start, a Telemon Heavy Dreadnought armed with two Arachnus Storm Cannons and a Spiculus Bolt Launcher, essentially two rapid firing Plasma Guns (Heavy 6 S7 -2AP or Beam Heavy 2 S8 -4AP) and re-rolling wounds against vehicles. The Bolt Launcher is just an anti infantry but fires twice in overwatch for 10 shots!
I love the look of the rotating barrel "plasma/lascannon" Arachnus Storm Cannon. Putting out 12 S7 shots is great damage potential against the toughest vehicles especially with the re-roll for wound. But this does come with a price, albeit a lot cheaper now than it was! (circa 280ish rather than 340!)
I've weathered the barrels with heat staining using blue/purple/sepia washes and a drybrush of Chaos Black at the muzzle. The gold is Retributor washed Reikland and drybrushed Auric Armour and the chest Aquila has a blue glaze over Ulthuan Grey.
I used a decal from the FW Custodes Transfers sheet, I think it looks superb.
And for the size comparison next to my relic Contemptor Mortis Dreadnought, this is when you realise the thing is huge, Armiger Warglaive sized rather than a Dreadnought!
The height on the base is used cork board covered with usual sand and PVA and some slate chips from the garden.
Just as an addition to the Custodes force, I added some more additional firepower to the Imperial
Knight Errant Freeblade in Custodes colours, a Stormspear Rocket Pod for the carapace.
That's it for now, working on some big-ish models at the moment, will have more Custodes soon. Cheers, Siph.
(5pts Dreadnought)
I like it very nice indeed.
ReplyDeleteCheers Phil
DeleteDamn that's gorgeous! I'm saving this as inspiration for my own Telemon dread.
ReplyDeleteThank you. Have a look at the stats and what you want it to do, there are other weapon options too.
DeleteThere will come a day when I succumb to Custodes. Of all the new GW stuff, I think they have one of the best looks going, and you're doing them more than justice here.
ReplyDeleteThanks. You don’t need many to make another fully fledged army... just saying.
Deletelooking good there! Great colours, beautiful transistion on the shoulders. You could recess shade that gorget grille to give the face more contrast, but I'm just being picky.
ReplyDeleteThanks mate, have now gone back over recesses on gorget with Agrax, I missed a few with Reikland and the others were Reikland, but now slightly darker. Cheers.
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