Any excuse is a good one to paint Adeptus Custodes, and painting them in a scheme that is not all gold is a pretty good one!

The Shadowkeeper scheme is pretty fun because it breaks the usual metallic as a main color that is on most Custodes armies.

This army also has a few custom helmets like the one on Trajann Valoris or on the Venatari Soladity. No bare heads ’round these parts.

This was my first time with the new plastic Caladius Grav-Tank… It is much more user friendly than the brick of resin that it used the be!

The Allarus terminators were the easiest ones to paint as that was the unit on the reference picture that the client sent me for the scheme. They are also my favorite of this range of Custodes (the new plastic ones are quite something!)

To complete the infantry units of this force, a unit of Custodian Guards and a unit of Custodian Wardens. The guard unit turned out looking really great with the big bold gold shields and very little red.

The Contemptor-Galatus Dreadnought was another first in the new plastic model. It is easier to put together than the Forge World one was, but the poses seemed more limited without some creative hobby knifing.

Sisters of Silence are always a dilemma… do you paint them in the classic bronze scheme, or in the same scheme as the army. They turned out pretty amazing in shadowkeepers colors.

To round out this project, a unit of Vertus Praetors. This is probably the only unit that I will miss once it is replaced with the Horus Heresy version… I like the boxy shape and the big eagle crest.

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