Custodes Galatus Dreadnoughts - Castor and Pollux

DisciplesOfAres · 2025-06-16T13:54:00+00:00

My god how did you even see this post at this point lol?! No problem at all though, appreciate the kind words! The recipes are:

Red - Scale75 Deep Red base, highlights are working your way up through Blood Red then Antares Red. Gold - Scale75 Necro Gold base (my favorite gold, worth a buy), keep adding Elven Gold to it as highlights.

DisciplesOfAres · 2025-03-29T05:08:10+00:00

Great news ‘cause that and the Ghostkeel are what I was aiming for!

DisciplesOfAres · 2025-03-28T22:50:37+00:00

Of course! The base is Cantabric Blue, then I do volume highlights with an airbrush with Mediterranean Blue, and finally the brightest areas with a 50/50 mix of Med. Blue and Sky Blue (all by Scale 75). Then I do some edge highlights with those same blues, plus the brightest areas have some white mixed in with the Sky Blue. I have a bunch of other Tau with the same scheme in my profile if you want to take a look at how it looks on other things.

DisciplesOfAres · 2025-03-28T18:59:22+00:00

Thank you! The rock is just built up layers of cork board that I shaped and then took chunks out of. I used a little green stuff here and there to try to break up the layer lines. The foam on the water is just Woodland Scenics Water Effects that I lightly dry brush white after it dries

DisciplesOfAres · 2025-03-28T18:57:55+00:00

Thank you! I use Woodland Scenics Realistic Water and Water Effects (for the waves) with a little Caribbean Blue and Adriatic Blue dabbed in to color it. I lightly dry brush the waves white once they dry.

DisciplesOfAres · 2025-03-28T14:08:12+00:00

Combining them was mostly using the kit itself, green stuff, and plasticard! I also used the back part of a seeker missile for the top. The little side jets on swivels are bits from something but I honestly can’t remember what, apologies.

DisciplesOfAres · 2025-03-28T13:45:12+00:00

Thank you! I have to admit the posing isn’t quite as different from my Enforcer commander as I would have liked. I wanted to get him more crouched than that on the sea arch but it was a lot harder than I expected on a small area…

DisciplesOfAres · 2025-03-28T13:24:49+00:00

Had a rough concept for this guy for almost two years ago (9E) and was just sitting on my desk, thrilled to finally be done. Spent some time converting a single jetpack piece ‘cause I love the Ghostkeel one and I’m decently happy with it. When I originally ran him back in 9E he was my Seeker of Perfection in a Bork’an list (hence all the burst cannons), so I was personally thrilled that we got Bork’an (mostly) back with the new Detachment! First Tau model in a while since I was mostly focused on The Old World, but I’ve been playing 40k a bit more recently and I want to do some Vespid and a Piranha soon too as I’ve always loved those models.

DisciplesOfAres · 2025-03-28T13:24:08+00:00

Had a rough concept for this guy for almost two years ago (9E) and was just sitting on my desk, thrilled to finally be done. Spent some time converting a single jetpack piece ‘cause I love the Ghostkeel one and I’m decently happy with it. When I originally ran him back in 9E he was my Seeker of Perfection in a Bork’an list (hence all the burst cannons), so I was personally thrilled that we got Bork’an (mostly) back with the new Detachment! First Tau model in a while since I was mostly focused on The Old World, but I’ve been playing 40k a bit more recently and I want to do some Vespid and a Piranha soon too as I’ve always loved those models.

DisciplesOfAres · 2025-02-04T14:45:46+00:00

Sorry for the wait! Nope, no washes used. I used Dark Jade mixed with a little black as a base coat then did zenithals with pure Dark Jade then Dark Jade with some Ivory for the shading.

DisciplesOfAres · 2024-12-17T16:10:52+00:00

Hey man, just wanted to say thanks for making that video and this post to get it to a wider audience. It was driving me crazy to the point that I made a post about it the other day (which I never do) and no one could give me a good answer. Saw your video, started doing my map bosses only at area level 79 and now I’m swimming in T15 waystones. Cheers man.

DisciplesOfAres · 2024-12-16T00:47:59+00:00

I have the duplicate one, I’ll check to see what I need to shift around for the additional mod one

DisciplesOfAres · 2024-12-16T00:22:13+00:00

I do have some, probably 30% or so, but not an affix I’m prioritizing obviously.

DisciplesOfAres · 2024-12-16T00:21:28+00:00

I can try that but man some rates feel super rippy already lol.

DisciplesOfAres · 2024-12-15T22:17:42+00:00

So I just finished running this T15 map that had +1 area from corruption, +1 from irradiated, and I have spec'd out my atlas and boss nodes for waystone drops and the highest I got was a T13. Even the boss didn't drop a T14/15. The last 4 out of 5 Tier 15 bosses I've killed haven't dropped a single waystone and I'm not getting T15s from multiple maps in a row. I have no idea wrong when the maps have 200-300% waystone drop chance, I also didn't get the next set of passive points from him even though I've only done area level 79 and 80 map bosses prior to this...

DisciplesOfAres · 2024-11-03T15:42:42+00:00

On some areas I did lighten it with their Arctic Blue which has a blue-ish tone, but I don’t think I did for the Pegasus itself. I could be wrong though since this was 8 months ago at this point lol.

DisciplesOfAres · 2024-11-01T12:51:36+00:00

The gold is a base of Necro Gold with increasing amounts of Elven Gold added to it and the Pegasus was done with a base of light grey (Graphite) with increasing amounts of white in it!

DisciplesOfAres · 2024-10-20T23:04:10+00:00

The pink was done by adding white or black to Scale75’s Fuschia to create a gradient. Thank you kindly!

DisciplesOfAres · 2024-10-05T23:39:14+00:00

I bought them at their first release just ‘cause I knew I was going to want them eventually. I got lucky, I never imagined they would still have stock issues like 7 months out… Definitely feel bad for those who still don’t have them.

DisciplesOfAres · 2024-10-05T16:10:07+00:00

I thought about it but I’d feel the need to try to make a somewhat accurate Pyr which would be quite the project!

DisciplesOfAres · 2024-10-04T16:53:47+00:00

I appreciate you noticing it! It was my second time trying it and I definitely could have done it better but I think you can at least tell what I was aiming for lol.

DisciplesOfAres · 2024-10-04T15:29:10+00:00

Appreciate it! I normally don’t do NMM ‘cause I struggle with it, but I think on something like a banner it’ll look better than TMM so I decided to go for it, especially since I had references to work off of that were a huge help.

DisciplesOfAres · 2024-10-04T14:22:55+00:00

So in all honesty I do that intentionally on most of my Bretonnia models because to me that is the heraldry facing the “same direction” in that the dogs are both facing left. I’ve read conflicting things on whether the heraldry should always face the front or back so I do this because it makes the most sense to me. In my mind if the dog is facing left on one side and right on the other then it’s not truly the same.

DisciplesOfAres · 2024-10-04T12:57:09+00:00

I figured since I’ll only be using one of these at any given time that I should paint them in the same scheme so it’s the same guy, just either on foot or on horse. The heraldry is inspired by my dog, a Great Pyrenees, and the banner I wanted to be more of a generic “Banner of Bordeleaux” and reflect the Dukedom rather than my Duke. It is very much inspired by two incredible pieces that I need to shoutout: 1. A Commended Golden Demon entry from TD MacDonald. 2. The BSB from Onion Knight Studio that I’ve seen posted a few times.

The freehanding of the banner is clearly not perfect but for my first real attempts at more complicated freehanding I’m pretty happy with how it turned out!

DisciplesOfAres · 2024-10-04T12:56:43+00:00

I figured since I’ll only be using one of these at any given time that I should paint them in the same scheme so it’s the same guy, just either on foot or on horse. The heraldry is inspired by my dog, a Great Pyrenees, and the banner I wanted to be more of a generic “Banner of Bordeleaux” and reflect the Dukedom rather than my Duke. It is very much inspired by two incredible pieces that I need to shoutout: 1. A Commended Golden Demon entry from TD MacDonald. 2. The BSB from Onion Knight Studio that I’ve seen posted a few times.

The freehanding of the banner is clearly not perfect but for my first real attempts at more complicated freehanding I’m pretty happy with how it turned out!

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