I choose to interpret my title as Shield Captain literally.

Themistius Kalden, Custodes Shield Captain

Allow me to present Themistius Kalden, Shield Captain of the Shadowkeepers Shield Host of the Adeptus Custodes. This miniature and its LED effects have been specially commissioned by the team at Green Stuff World to show off some of their 3D printed accessories and LED kits.

The 3D printed Energy Shields kit was one of several I was commissioned to demonstrate. My first thoughts were a space marine with a storm shield, but after a bit more musing, I thought a Custodian with a shield might be more interesting.

Modelling

As part of the commission I filmed all the stages of the build process, which you can see in the video below.

A full PDF tutorial will be released via Green Stuff World soon. When it is, I’ll add it here and link to it from my tutorial section. In the meantime, to get you started here’s a list of all the components and consumables I used. The miniature is from the Custodian Wardens kit.

• 1 x 3D printed Energy Shields
• 1 x Lighting Set
• 1 x Warm White LEDs (1mm, pack of 10)
• 1 x Conductive Paint
• 1 x Splash Gel – Water Effect
• 1 x Milliput (standard yellow grey)

Painting

For the paint scheme, I followed a similar recipe to my previous Custodian Shadowkeeper. The only difference was I used true metallic rather than NMM, just because NMM is very time consuming and I wanted to meet my deadline. For the face, I used my normal Pale Skin recipe. The energy shield was given a red glaze and very watered down highlight to the edges, just to help give it a bit more definition without impacting the transparency.

That’s all for today. I’ll be back again soon with more LED miniatures, including more collaborations with Green Stuff World. Thanks very much for reading, and please remember you can also find me sharing my work on Instagram, Threads, Twitter/X, Bluesky and Mastodon.