Warding Eyes

This multi-part kit includes the supported files to print a unit of Warding Eyes, weathered veterans of the Weeping Crusade faction. These models are intended to be printed in resin for 28mm scale tabletop wargaming, and 40mm round bases are recommended for them (available for free in my store).

Parts:
- 3 leg poses.
- 3 bare torsos with or without cloaks.
- 2 polearms being held by two arms (one of each bionic).
- 1 polearm being held by one arm.
- 1 arm holding a revolver speedloader.
- 2 revolver spear tips, open and closed.
- 2 revolver halberd tips, open and closed.
- 3 pauldrons.
- 3 heads with or without a hood. One is also available with or without a beard.

Pauldrons, hoods and cloaks are all optional depending on how much bare skin you want the model to show.

The torsos and arms have slots for 3x2mm magnets so weapons can be exchanged.

The kit is designed to be very compatible with similarly-sized models of the Weeping Crusade, particularly the arms, shoulder and waist sizes being the same, to the point the legs and pauldrons are from the Custodian Knights kit.

The heads of these models are a bit larger than others from the Weeping Crusade, to be more in line with mainstream brands, so I'd recommend scaling them down if you want to kitbash them with other units, or scaling other's up if you want to use them for the Warding Eyes. As an example one of the renders above is shown with a greyed-out head from the Custodian Helmets kit, which was scaled to 110% of its original size. Some extra trimming might be necessary for a better fit.

Lore excerpt:
A custodian's body is enhanced by alchemical means of such extreme quality that they can theoretically live for several millennia without barely suffering the passage of time. As a result, most end up finding a violent demise instead, the consequence of an existence dedicated exclusively to war and violence. However, in some extremely rare circumstances, some custodians do live long enough to notice the effects of their age. For a normal human, it would be all but imperceptible but, for the godly praetorians of humanity, feeling their reflexes delayed by even one thousand of a millisecond is utterly unacceptable, their duty too crucial to allow any room for error. So when a custodian starts to feel the toll of their unnaturally long lifespan, they immediately give up their armour and weapons so a younger candidate can replace them. Afterwards, they scatter across the stars, and use their superior intellect combined with the wisdom acquired through countless years to become spies and informants, so they can report back to Earth with information about any threats they uncover.

However, for someone that has sacrificed so much in the name of the human empire, it is often unbearable to be presented with the tough reality of the universe first-hand, besieged by foes from within and from without, no matter how much effort is put to stop them. As beings of immense power, retired custodians often feel impotent to not be able to face against the enemy any longer and many yearn for the war that once defined them. Whenever the Weeping Crusade finds these frustrated veterans, it is rarely difficult to sway them to their cause, promising them a place in the frontline once again, where their immense experience and combat prowess can prove to be invaluable, even if their physical condition is not as impeccable as it once was. Still stripped of their full suit auric heavy armour, the so-called Warding Eyes fight with lighter half-plates, often needing servo-harnesses and bionics to keep up, but making up for it with sheer expertise and the accumulated hatred against the horrors they've witnessed.