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How to paint Legio Custodes

Every Legio Custodes unit, and the colour schemes and paint lists other painters have published for them.

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Legio Custodes colour palette

The paints a Legio Custodes force is built from, by area and by role — base, shade, layer and highlight. A starting point for every unit below.

Every paint below links to its equivalents in other brands.

Legio Custodes signature colours

Beginner · 4 areas

Burnished auramite gold over a black undersuit with deep crimson cloth, the Ten Thousand as they stood on Terra, on the gold the 40K palette keeps.

Auramite armour

Crimson cloth

Black undersuit and weapons

Base

Units

Constantin Valdor Warlord Contemptor-Galatus Dreadnought War-engine Tribune High Command Aquilon Terminator Sodality Heavy Assault Custodian Guard Sodality Troops Caladius Grav-Tank Armour Shield Captain Command Contemptor-Achillus Dreadnought War-engine Telemon Heavy Dreadnought War-engine Sentinel Guard Sodality Troops Venatari Sodality Recon Pallas Grav-Attack Fast Attack Gyrfalcon Jetbike Sodality Fast Attack Coronus Grav-Carrier Heavy Transport Orion Assault Dropship Lord of War Ares Gunship Lord of War Adrasite Guard Sodality Elites Legio Tactica Army Configuration Pyrithite Guard Sodality Elites Sagittarum Guard Sodality Support Castellax Battle Maniple Support - Castellax Battle Maniple Only Castellax Destructor Maniple Heavy Assault - Castellax Destructor Maniple only Domitar Battle Maniple Elites - Domitar Battle Maniple Only Thanatar Siege Maniple War Engine - Thanatar Siege Maniple only Vorax Attack Maniple Recon - Vorax Attack Maniple Only Vultarax Stratos Squadron Fast Attack - Vultarax Stratos Squadron Only Adjutorum Sodality Retinue

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