I deviated only a little, following the red leather arm pieces and piping detailed on the Forge World web site.

Painting-wise, these guys are a piece of cake, like the rest of the Custodes, and I followed the Prospero painting guide as before (still a must-by for anything Horus Heresy related). Serving as a part of the Tharanatoi caste that served the Custodes as heavy shock troops, the Sagittarum Guard utilised potent portable firepower, whose weapons included those few dark. I had also recently picked up the Sagittarum Guard upgrade for the Custodes, which basically gives a squad of Custodian Guard new helmets, arms, and the Adrastus Bolt Caliver, which is kind of a Heavy Bolter on serious steroids. A Sagittarum Guard Squad was a less-common formation utilised by the Legio Custodes, the elite bodyguard of the Emperor of Mankind, during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy in the 30th and 31st Millennia. I really was not going to go heavily into the Legio Custodes (and am avoiding the Adeptus Custodes altogether), but a(nother) purchase of the Prospero box set put a third squad in my hands, and there is scope in the Prospero campaign for some reasonably sized engagements with the Emperor’s bodyguard.

Legio custodes sagittarum guard