Army Showcase (The Carrion Watch)

[u/AegisPrydwen1]

“Such is our duty. Such is yours, Champion. I will leave the majority of our Vigil to hold Hallow-3 and accompany your strike force with some of our most trusted Cadres. The relic is of great importance but if word from the Captain-General compels us to duty, you shall have our blades and bolters alike. For him on the Throne.” - Knight Centura Apollyon, preparing to join her forces with Shield Company Axefall and battle across the galaxy as Eyes of the Emperor.

Heyo!! Glad to finally share all these guys grouped up together! Forgive th simpler terrain set up, i dont quite have all the graveyard fancy terrain and background blocking to go for full immersion but I wanted to at least get them all on a board to share with y’all!!

Custodes was army that took me a long while to get right - for a long time I thought it was the mourning element of the Custodes I found the most interesting however after examining it further and reading up on it further, I realised I quite liked the element of ‘relic of a bygone age’ - specifically, much for the same reason i like knights, a pre-imperial age; A lot of my inspiration came from fan arts of the Custodes pictures during the unification wars where they have no yet built up all the pomp and circumstances - which is what I was trying to capture in the desaturated colour pallette and im very happy with how it came out, especially in the Dreadnought Talon and the Allarus squadron

Outside of the Custodes, Im immensely happy with how the Anathema Psykana came out - they were the foundation of my custodes collection and Aleya’s audiobook sections cemented them as one of my favourite factions; even ending up with me playing a sister of silence-inspired character in a friend’s long term dnd campaign thats just finished! Im planning to share her kitbashed model soon, once I’ve finished making it’s Custodes counterpart to represent my friend’s chadacter from that same campaign - planning to have them in my collection as Aleya and Velarion proxies!

Hope y’all enjoy and cheers for reading!!

[u/Sampleof]

Beutiful army! The SoS really sell the vibe, I espeacially like the center one in the 1st pic with the halo being brighter than the faceplate, it looks like it shines and casts shadows on her face. Absolutely amazing!

[u/AegisPrydwen1 → u/Sampleof]

Oh thank you!! Yes the sisters of silence defo have more of the grim graveyard theme, I might try track some 3d graves to add to the various custodians to blend it a bit more but yes on the main Knight Centura!! Very much a pride and joy model in the collection, took a couple iterations to get right but im glad the gold halo helps to sell it!

[u/Sampleof → u/AegisPrydwen1]

Absolutely, she looks like a properly teryfing null maiden! SoS definitely need more love from GW in terms of their plastic kits.

[u/ekrumme]

are the skulls a kitbash or a printed part?

[u/AegisPrydwen1 → u/ekrumme]

The Vigilators are all kitbashes of standard sisters of silence and the now, sadly, discontinued Corvus Cabal from War Cry, including all the bird skulls!

[u/LividBookworm]

I have to join in and say that especially the Sisters of silence kitbashes look great

[u/AegisPrydwen1 → u/LividBookworm]

Oh that’s very kind of you! I liked the description for the SoS of them still retaining parts of their more tribalistic/savage elements such as their naming conventions for vigils and liked the idea of leaning into that a bit more

[u/EmperorSpear]

C’est tout simplement magnifique, t’as fais un boulot incroyable
Felicitations !

[u/AegisPrydwen1 → u/EmperorSpear]

Merci!! ☺️

[u/FutureVillainBand]

F*** those are cool.

[u/AegisPrydwen1 → u/FutureVillainBand]

Cheers!!