Blog The Golden Boys and Other Hobby Stuff

Here are my 19/20 Vertus Preators - the riders aren't glued onto the bikes yet. I had accidentally glued their control panels upside down on the first ten so they are ready to get custom blades I had to cut off their hands as the arms on that side are meant to be on the control panel. Also I wasn't fully aware of unit set ups so left one guy without arms or his head incase I needed a captain but the captains on jetbikes are like separate units so I'll work on a showcase leader for each of these 10/10 units. When I can afford another box .

 

19/19 All have heads and arms and lances apart from the top right guy - I will need a new lance I've used one for a conversion that isn't even done yet and might not even be used. I'm almost tempted to get another unit of 10 of these they're pretty epic figures imo. Imagine these boys flying overhead of combat.

 

Just a wordy follow up on how I've glued the lances close to the bikes on most models as a conscious choice. I feel they would be risk of snapping if they were upright or catching on things so to protect them I've tried to keep most as close to the rider as possible.

 

Wow that is a healthy collection of custodes bikes! Enough to make a White Scars player jealous

Any plans for a color scheme or are you keeping it gold?

 

I have plans I don't know whether I should reveal them just yet though. I'm not doing gold though, I did spray some with 151 gold poundland spray and its actually a really nice shinny gold would have made a decent looking army I think - however I'm gonna scrub the gold off and go with my new theme. However I'm collecting bits for bases etc still and then will reveal my master plan

 

Lol, you have my bike collection beat, I think I only have around 9-12 max. It is definitely the datasheet I am most excited to see (hopefully next week)!

Well done getting them together, I lost one of the fins when I was assembling mine so I had to (I just had to) replace it with some Seraphon Feathers.

 

Awh no losing parts is annoying, sounds like a unique fix though - that's always good to get some unique aspects to your army. I've been fortunate in winning an auction at a great price for what was in it, I had 10 bikes and didn't want more but the auction had 3 boxes so nine more and I just went with it. The sad thing is I want more to my army and I'm already at over 10k points if you check my list on my signature you can see where I am at so far I need to properly recalculate the gear points but the models alone come int at around 8-9k points.

I want at least one Telemon but probably a pair, right now I'm sourcing basing materials I actually need to ask the community for help I'll do a follow up post after this and hopefully someone can help me.

 

Looking for HELP! Pics for attention. I so to give away my theme for my Adeptus Custodes - the grand scheme is going to be awakened statues! To bring a bit of life color and potentially some movement to them I'm looking to source terrain windows - church style Gothic ones hopefully. For my bikes and Ventari flyers to be crashing through, then I can scatter shards from stained glassed windows onto my mele units below. If you know any model scenery sources I'd prefer to avoid 3D prints in terms of pla unless I can find a resin printer at cheap enough prices.

I only have green and red shards so far, I need more red, for the life of me I got them years ago and can't think where I got them from. Will have to source more shards too Church colors more orange/yellow etc I think but whatever I can get I'll be happy with.

 

The shame of a golden boi who needs scrubbing for scale, started gluing my big robot together needs a lot of clean up but gonna be nice if I can put it together. All printed on ender 3 I think they were budget printer not the best quality but cheaper than a grand .

 

Titan thingy is coming along slowly, whatever becomes of this it's just a personal project I wanted to come together so I'm happy .

 

This thing is gonna be bigger than me not sure how the legs are gonna support the weight it's heavy. May have to end up as a terrain piece. I'm gonna have to think

 

That is quite a project!

 

Oh yeah I'm already over invested. Covered in plastic shavings ATM trying to force parts to fit

 

"Beep boop thou hast fallen an can't get up"
Kinda looks like a turtle

 

Arms ain't glued in just wanted a picture and the sockets rotate.

 

Okay none of these load outs are glued or magnetised yet. Just showing a load out selection. Probably gonna order some magnets next. Afew more parts to glue still but I printed them so long ago didn't notice the mid section was squashed so gonna have to do some thinking since my printers are out of action I can't rustle up a new one just yet.

 

Back to assembling custodes, I've taken the heads from the forgeworld upgrade kit for my guards. As always Ive varied their poses by messing around with arm positions.

 

That is an impressive amount of 3D printing!

 

It was done afew years ago I recall some of the bits taking 24-48hrs each and sometimes I'd go down to a failed print