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The Golden Legion has received reinforcements in the form of the Custodian Wardens. They stand as immovable giants in service to the Emperor!
These are your elite option for the Adeptus Custodes, and they are absolute monsters. Having made secret oaths after a year of contemplation, the determination to never break such vows make them immovable and wavering warriors. Our very own Rob Baer has the Wardens kit on the paint bench to review and assemble. Let’s dive in and see what you will find in this kit.
For our complete review, be sure to scroll down and press play on the full video below.
The Custodian Wardens kit retails for $60 and comes with 2 sprues. The kit comes with several customization and squad configuration options. The detail is present in the ornate armor, weapons, and vexilla. When assembling this multi-part kit, remember that specific models will come with specific poses. The hip armor comes as a separate piece for customization. The Shield Captain’s cape is a piece that will attach to the shoulder pads first before being placed on the torso.
This kit did not take too long to assemble and with very few issues. The only thing you may have to do is use some Vallejo Plastic Putty on the gaps where the front torso cape meets that the back torso cape. The great thing about this kit is if you have extra bits from a Custodian Guard kit, you can assemble an extra Vexilus or two if you do not need a Shield Captain.
Also, you may not want to glue on the combat knives until you paint the robes.
Rob talks about the Wardens’ rules and more in his full review video below.
Custodian Wardens: $60
Custodian Wardens are known amongst their comrades as level-headed and endlessly patient watchmen. Upon accepting the robes that mark their station they swear binding oaths to fight as immovable sentinels, a living fortress of auramite and sinew that no foe will ever breach. Each Warden’s oaths are personal, written by the Custodian himself after a full year’s contemplation in meditation upon the precipitous ledges of the Gallowtower. To break these vows would be worse than death to these warriors, and their determination to uphold them bolsters their already formidable wills to something of truly frightening intensity.
This multi-part plastic kit contains the components necessary to assemble a squad of 5 Custodian Wardens. Easily recognised by the ceremonial robes they wear over their auramite armour, they’re typically splendid to behold – as with all Adeptus Custodes, every surface of their armour is absolutely covered in beautiful sculpted details, with gemstones, eagles, lightning bolts and filigree wherever you look. Each is armed with a choice of either guardian spear or castellan axe, with 5 of each supplied in the kit. The helmets, helmet plumes and thigh plates in the kit are interchangeable, allowing your Wardens to be unique.
The kit can optionally build a Shield-Captain, who has a choice of 2 bare heads, a unique chest plate, unique shoulder pads and his own set of ceremonial robes – he is armed with the choice of castellan axe and guardian spear, and holds a misericordia. As well as this, 1 model can be assembled as a Vexilus Praetor – along with the standard weapon choices he carries a splendid ornate Vexilla.
This kit comes as 78 components, and is supplied with 5 Citadel 40mm Round bases.
The Custodian Wardens are available now online and in local Games Workshop stores. Be sure to press play on our quick and dirty review video below for the full product breakdown.
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