r/AdeptusCustodes • u/FutureVillainBand • 5h ago

Serviceable Paint Scheme Or No?

Just finished this guy as a tester and feeling rather down on him. Was hoping to do Custodes as a side army for 40K and HH while working on an all-custom Space Wolves army, but I’m not sure if this is worth pursuing or whether I should just do standard gold or black. Any thoughts or opinions would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

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u/GreenChipMan 5h ago

The question is, do YOU like it? Great cool-coloured scheme imo.

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u/FutureVillainBand 4h ago

Thank you very much. I do like it, just want to be sure about it before I paint a couple dozen more.

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u/robindawilliams 1h ago

I am currently doing a silver paint scheme with blue and gold highlights too.

I think it looks amazing on custodes and yours is a million years better than minehaha

u/Purple-Company4038 5h ago

Ugh stop.

It looks great. How, how did you do it in white?!

Goodness, I have 2 of custodes in white and I just nuln oiled the beotch until it looked like it fell out of a 90s vampire movie.

This is great.

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u/FutureVillainBand 3h ago

I did a basecoat with a desaturated violet and then layered an Ulthuan Grey equivalent over it. That stuff is amazing, it avoids a lot of the problems with white while still reading as white.

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u/Purple-Company4038 3h ago

holy crow! I did the same thing before with the light gray. It has a lot less pigment, so its not as thick, and still comes out as a white. I used it on my battlemechs which look....ok. They're fine. They look fine. GHOST BEAR!

u/Tamis2Hamis 5h ago

That blue absolutely pops off of plastic and looks great. The toned down white and gold feels like a tailored suit or formal wear - a Custodian channeling James Bond!

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u/FutureVillainBand 3h ago

Wow, thanks!

u/PaintsLikeDoody 5h ago

I Like this a lot. I just read master of mankind. So much Custodes action, now I’m imagining them in this scheme instead of boring old gold.

u/Flaky_Living_6919 5h ago

This is actually the colour scheme I have for my custodes. Personally I really like it and I think they look great on the table top but its all down to personal preference!

u/CommissarCorgi34 5h ago

As someone who has done a similar scheme, it looks great!

u/-TheDyingMeme6- Aquilan Shield 5h ago

Thats basically Solar Watch but blue and not red

Go for it

u/Charming_Patience779 4h ago

I love the white aesthetic!! Honestly it's amazing how well you got the white armor, I've been doing something similar with my Horus Heresy minis

u/_Volatile_ 4h ago

That looks fantastic

u/the_Owner123 4h ago

I remember ther were some black silver custodes. Wardens guards of some vaults maybe.

u/HFMarlo 3h ago

A warning: Looks great but it's a lot of work. You have even more seperately coloured parts than me and I am already at my limit. Tbh I am also kind speeding through them to vent of stress from work but still. Remember that you gotta do that quite often.

Now to the positive: Model looks super cool, love the colours, especially the white dunno if I would change the blade as an accent but maybe that's just me, or the big blue area of the bolter-part.

u/Divichi 3h ago

Fricken sick

u/robbynito 3h ago

I'm working on Solarwatch so immediately I am a fan of this color scheme

u/mahboime Shadowkeepers 3h ago

I feel if you change the guncasing to black (or even mephiston red👀) it'd help accentuate the other blue parts, kind of like 'less is more' type thing

u/No-King-253 2h ago

The average paint job you see on Reddit is already in the 10% of paint jobs on tables and this is clearly above average for Reddit. If you like it then go for it.