The shoulder pad uses almost as many colors as the rest of the model – the Green is Warboss Green washed with Biel-Tan and then highlighted with Warboss Green and Skarsnik Green. The tongue is Pink Horror highlighted with Emperor’s Children. The horns are Rakarth Flesh washed with Agrax Earthshade and then highlighted with Reaper Polished Bone. And the eye is just a dot of Reaper Pure White. I miss those old metal shoulder pads – they had so much detail and they looked great. Jokaero Orange– A bright, vibrant shade of orange that would pair well with Thousand Sons Blue. Orange is a warm, energetic blush that can add vibrancy and excitement to a color scheme, and it would help to offset the cool, dark tones of Thousand Sons Blue. Jokaero Orange would be great for adding contrast to areas painted with Thousand Sons Blue. Whether you’re looking to add a touch of otherworldly beauty to your tabletop army or just want to bring your models to life, the Thousand Sons Blue paint is sure to cast a hypnotic spell on your opponent. What armies to paint with Thousand Sons Blue? I do my Night Lords’ guns red and so that means they’re painted Mephiston Red with a wash of Carroburg Crimson and edge highlighted with Evil Sunz Scarlet. The purple tuft is Naggaroth Night shaded with Druchii Violet and Nuln Oil then highlighted with Naggaroth and mixes of white to get lighter shades. The steel bits are Leadbelcher washed with Nuln Oil and the bone bits are Rakarth Flesh washed with Agrax Earthshade, though for something more era-appropriate you can use Seraphim Sepia instead. M31 — The Battle of Yarant; Legion elements ally with Traitor forces in an attempt to exterminate the Space Wolves; defeated. [34]

The first thing that sets the Thousand Sons apart is their Cabbalistic Rituals. Every turn, during your Psychic Phase, you will generate Cabal Points for each of your units that still live and exist on the battlefield. These must be spent during the Psychic Phase they’re generated in, and you can spend them in a variety of ways. These range from making a psychic power immune to being denied, through to inflicting extra mortal wounds on top of a damage-dealing spell like Smite. Ouch.

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The next step is the real secret sauce. I created a reasonably dilute wash with a mix of Golden High Flow Acrylics Sepia (pretty much a more concentrated Agrax Earthshade), Golden High Flow Acrylics Dioxazine Purple, and the product formerly known as Future Floor Polish (Now Pledge Floor Care Finish, unless they’ve changed it again.) I wash the entire model in this color, removing excess where it pools too much. If you are working with Games Workshop paints, a mix of Druchii Violet, Agrax Earthshade and water/lahmian medium will work just fine. You will, however, be spending a lot more money to wash an entire army of Custodes using this method. At this point the gold is complete. It’s simple, but has a nice rich depth and purplish warmth to it. On the tabletop, the Thousand Sons share many similarities with normal Chaos Space Marines – indeed, there’s much crossover in terms of the models available to them – but they remain unique enough to warrant their own rules and Codex. There’s more to painting the Adeptus Custodes than just spraying your models down with Retributor Armor spray – though that’s certainly an option if you want to save time. We’ll look at several different methods for painting them here. Crab-Stuffed Mushroom’s Method As with many Warhammer 40k Chaos factions, we’d better start at the beginning with Thousand Sons lore – you’ve got to understand how it started before we see how it’s going… Blood Games by Dan Abnett is a short story set within the Emperor’s Palace and what Custodes do when they’re not fighting.

Do you like gold? The Adeptus Custodes are the Emperor’s personal bodyguard and his greatest warriors. Each Custodian is a demigod in golden armor, wielding the Imperium’s most finely-wrought weapons, surpassing even the Space Marines in martial prowess and tactical acumen. Simply put: These guys are the best, of the best (of the best). Don’t let Space Marine or Grey Knight players tell you different!Pendulin’s Shadowkeepers scheme can be found in a separate article – How to Paint Everything: Adeptus Custodes Shadowkeepers.

Scions of the Great Architect, Sect of the Red Echo, Sectai Prosperine, Seth's Chosen — the warband of Seth the Gatekeeper [30], Silver Sons, Silvered Sons, Six-Cursed, Sons of the Cyclops [40e] The Achaemenid Empire, the legion's first recruiting ground on Terra, is a reference to the historical Achaemenid Empire, i.e. the Persian Empire at the time of Classical Greece. When Ahriman cast his infamous Rubric, the Thousand Sons were cured of the Flesh-change at a stroke, albeit with a heavy price paid - those Legionaries with little to no psychic ability were reduced to dust and sealed within their power armor, little more than automata; while those Thousand Sons with greater psychic ability had their power greatly amplified. It was noted by one of Ahriman's cabal however, that while the Rubric cured the Legion of the Fleshchange, it did not grant immunity to mutation, as Thousand Sons such as Ichneumon, who had pledged themselves to Tzeentch, often looked on the mutations granted by their patron god as a 'blessing'. [Needs Citation] Culture Leather is painted with Scorched Brown, then highlighted with Bleached Bone blended with the base color

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Coat D'Arms match the OLD citadel colours (pre-1992) so there might be some difference. Shining gold has the most noticeable difference, There are, of course, many other psychic powers that all have their uses depending on what your strategy is. With 18 to choose from, the Thousand Sons player will never be short of warp mischief to lob around the board. This 6-0 list shows us that Thousand Sons can in fact still take it to the house in the post-dataslate world. Luis put up wins against CSM, Sisters, Eldar, Custodes, and Dark Angels before beating Astra Militarum in the final round to claim the top spot.

Codex: Chaos Daemons (8th Edition), pgs. 16–17 — The Scintillating Legions: The Pyroclastic Conclave

Most P3 Paints do not match closely with the old GW range, but a detailed explanation of each paint can be found here: http://www.brushthralls.com/pre-painting-prep/color-theory-10p3.html Like the Death Guard, these were also based off the four-step method in the How to Paint Citadel Miniatures guide. They were a much bigger challenge however – with so many colors next to each other, they took several hours each to paint up. M41 — Garm — Attempted mass resurrection of deceased Thousand Sons; plan almost totally foiled by the actions of the Space Wolves. [10b]