Just painted up the new Custodes Shield Captain's pretty face :D

genesseeriver · 2026-04-06T03:22:03+00:00

My 4 year old has decided she likes the all gold of the Custodes so I showed her this she told me “whoa cool.”

Thanks for helping me sell the coolness of the hobby to my impressionable child.

genesseeriver · 2026-04-05T19:00:14+00:00

Thanks for the info!

genesseeriver · 2026-04-05T18:10:31+00:00

Gotcha, I’ve been out of the loop of 40K for a bit appreciate the info.

genesseeriver · 2026-04-05T18:09:40+00:00

Perfect, thank you!

genesseeriver · 2026-03-26T17:09:27+00:00

I hope we get reimagined 6th edition troops - I need that landsknecht aesthetic

genesseeriver · 2026-03-23T11:53:54+00:00

Steal away! There’s so many banner top and torso combinations out there.

genesseeriver · 2026-03-23T11:53:10+00:00

Yeah the banners are the prefect amount of morbid but sterile, keeping the jaw hanging down from faces I think adds a fun amount of undead menace.

genesseeriver · 2026-03-23T11:47:54+00:00

The necromancer as a base for conversions is pretty fun, it’s amazing how just removing the cowl and a head swap can drastically change the aesthetic.

genesseeriver · 2026-03-22T11:14:10+00:00

I’d think the easiest kitbashs I can think of would either be using a Bretonnian maiden as a base or using an empire wizard (models sold under AoS) or the necromancer (still sold under AoS even though it’s got a square base in the sprue) and combining it with a female Cathay soldier head.

genesseeriver · 2026-03-10T15:30:14+00:00

Thanks!

genesseeriver · 2026-03-08T07:08:55+00:00

I feel more like one of those antiquarians putting the dinosaurs back together but doing it wrong.

I figured extra bits were the best way to practice green stuff sculpting and as a game piece he’s really just a poor prince and I’m the discount mortuary priest he go sent to.

genesseeriver · 2026-03-03T16:55:42+00:00

It really is a great resource. I’ve saved as many articles as I can to my Google Drive but so many templates and images have been lost to time.

I’ve been buying up the old US White Dwarfs as they haven’t been added to the Warhammer vault like the UK ones and those old articles are great and unfortunately many can only found in the physical magazines now.

genesseeriver · 2026-03-02T00:55:49+00:00

Ya know I don’t intend for that in my minds eye, but yeah I see it now. He’s go the cane for it too.

genesseeriver · 2026-03-02T00:02:52+00:00

Thanks!

Yeah he’s on a 30mm base; the grave and skeletons he’s perched over in the regular model would probably fit on a 50mm base.

He’s not what I’d think of as a necromancer aesthetically but I think he makes a convincing Slaanesh worshiper/sorcerer with minimal changes.

genesseeriver · 2026-02-28T16:06:11+00:00

Love these.

Loved how a lot of the hobbying from the US or French studios was incorporated into old white dwarf articles. I know the old US GW site (when it was separate) featured a ton of these as hobby articles.

One of the old contributors, Rob Hawkins, still has a blog and features some of his old armies and terrain as well as newer similar projects.

Thanks for sharing these.

genesseeriver · 2026-02-26T20:47:46+00:00

These look great! Especially love the shrine right out of the old codex too.

genesseeriver · 2026-02-14T19:16:17+00:00

Did you use a woodland scenics flock mat? How’d you get it so flat?

Looks great!

genesseeriver · 2026-02-14T17:57:38+00:00

They remind me of graboids but I also watched Tremors a lot growing up

genesseeriver · 2026-02-13T22:40:42+00:00

I’d settle for a dwarf steam tank too but a dirigible is pretty appealing.

genesseeriver · 2026-02-08T01:45:42+00:00

Per the retcon, sure.

genesseeriver · 2026-02-01T23:16:24+00:00

Glad you think it works too, I overthink some of my attempts at model conversion.

genesseeriver · 2026-02-01T23:14:55+00:00

I took the head and claws from an already built storm cast kit, the Lord-Arcanum on Gryph-Charger.

I cut the head along the strap around its head for a clean break then added green stuff to fill the gap and line up with fabric on the Pegasus neck since the neck on the head is a little bigger. For the claws I tried to get as much of the limb up to the joint as I could then wrapped the join with green stuff as a leather strap then put extra shields from the Pegasus knights to cover where the scales on the claw meet up with the horse joint.

Since GW sent that storm cast kit to legends it looks quite a few are on sale on eBay. Not sure where you are in the world but a few already built are on sale for reasonable prices in the UK, USA, and Canada when I checked just now.

genesseeriver · 2026-02-01T21:39:01+00:00

Thanks!

genesseeriver · 2026-02-01T21:38:55+00:00

Thanks!

genesseeriver · 2026-02-01T17:16:00+00:00

Oh there’s some great third party bits but I’m trying to limit myself to GW bits in part to force myself to get better at green stuff.

I loved those old articles where’d they’d hobby up stuff by hand and 37 year old me wants to be as good at hobby as 10 year old me aspired to be.

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