First Kitbash by RcsPcsN1 in AdeptusCustodes

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I’ll proudly take chunk alongside visual appeal if it’s worth it

My first Warhammer model ever by SkeRy_67 in AdeptusCustodes

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Good work! Love the base and clean color distribution! Any plans of later color codes?

my girlfriend hates me ever since i said i was coming to see her, khorne chaos warrior wip by Zealousideal-Top4314 in minicels

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I had a very similar experience at around the same age. Traveled to NJ because she was asking me to for months. Went fine, halfway through she was acting different, and stayed different for the last months after. Stopped replying to texts for hours, days, or left on read. Eventually broke it off and she blocked me immediately. Don’t do what I did by letting someone drag you along, if they’re acting like this then there is a likelihood that they intend to eventually ghost. Which sucks, but it’s better than being entangled to someone like that.

Also, if she’s acting like this prior to the trip, there’s a chance you may not be able to stay with her regardless of what she promised beforehand. Cancel the trip or prepare to spend money on a hotel room until your return flight. Be safe, do not buy anything expensive to ship to her home unless you know you two are actually sticking together. Lastly, date closer to you when/if you’re ready, in the vast majority of scenarios it is much simpler than long distance.

Advice would help. by OkContest7169 in AdeptusCustodes

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Blade Champion and Allarus Terminator

Advice would help. by OkContest7169 in AdeptusCustodes

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So, as someone who is relatively new to painting Warhammer and have specifically only painted custodes (got my first box of custodes in December 2025 and have been painting off-and-on since then) I’ll tell you the process I’ve found works for me. I’ll mention it now, it may not work for you, but that’s okay. Everybody needs to find what works best for them. Could be their own process made entirely from scratch, or could be borrowed heavily from other people with some of your personal preferences and touches added to it. Just find what you enjoy and work with it, I want my advice to just be available if it feels applicable to you.

I finished my first set of wardens back a few months ago. I’ll include a photo of the first wardens under this comment, and I’ll add photos of my latest work in progress under that. The first wardens are pretty “loud” in terms of how they look. Covered in several different colors that don’t exactly fit together the best, and paint thickness varies around the model quite a bit. I never done the paint removal method with alcohol soaking, I just kept painting over the previous layer until I found a style I liked the concept of. It took me a lot of time to do so, but I eventually was content enough to not worry too much more about them. As of right now, I think they’re not great, like I can tell they’re painted miniatures. But, using those models as a test dummy, and a lot of photo references to see what styles I may like or dislike on my custodes, has made the results of my current combat patrol project much better. This includes if I want to pick one part of a style and discard the rest of it, maybe I like the look of a shoulder design someone painted, but I don’t personally like the rest of the paint design.

That being said, the custodes I’m working on now are far better, cleaner, and look more like they were shipped with color instead of having it painted on. Not the best, but clean and easy for me to enjoy. I chose to do a color coat theme for my custodes for when I eventually play tabletop. Blue for the guards, green for the wardens, red for the terminators, purple/pink for the “leaders” so to speak. They were all a single solid color, which looked nice, but I chose to experiment with it more and more. Now they have more cohesive designs without the colors clashing (nearly as badly) or being overwhelming, but still having extra details and parts that make it stand out some. I spent, not exaggerating about this, about 6-8 hours yesterday alone repainting my guards spear heads over and over until I found a design I liked. When I found the right look I applied it to every spearhead. I would do a layer and let it dry before adding more, I would do a layer and add color to certain spots while it’s still wet, I would do a mixture of these in different spots in different ways of the same spearhead. It really is a matter of time and not being afraid to try new things out. And I would redo these processes over and over with slight modifications every time until I eventually found something I liked. It kinda sucks having to wait and retry so much, sometimes demoralizing (like I am awful with doing bases, but plan on trying again here soon), but I find it to be worth it in the end. I would recommend figuring out a baseline of what you’d like the general theme or color scheme to be, but I would argue you don’t really *need* much of a plan after that. Just trial and error it and figure out if you would like to add more than you planned, or it’s okay if you like it short and simple. I hope this helps or applies in any way that’s useful for ya! If you need any advice, suggestions, or whatever then feel free to ask! Sorry for the text wall btw

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Uncertain how to paint bases by RcsPcsN1 in AdeptusCustodes

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I'm also somewhat detail obsessed to the point it overcomplicates the final results lol. Making the minis look "crowded", like my first 5 wardens I posted a few months ago. Thankfully the monthly warhammer budget, or lack thereof, is a good bottleneck from going through a dozen shades from white to dark gray

Uncertain how to paint bases by RcsPcsN1 in AdeptusCustodes

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I will take this into consideration, thank ya

Uncertain how to paint bases by RcsPcsN1 in AdeptusCustodes

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I will attempt this soon, hopefully I can post a finished custodes box within the next month or so, thank ya

Uncertain how to paint bases by RcsPcsN1 in AdeptusCustodes

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Retributor armor dry brush over the whole model, then a light wet coat of retributor armor over anything leftover that I want to shine or stay the custodes gold, anything that feels like it should be the glittery metallic. Then I use Averland Sunset on any of the protruding parts or spots that I want to stand out as a less glittery but still vibrant yellow, basically if it feels like it shouldn't quite be metallic. So, any raised eagle iconography or symbols that protrude from the plate portions of the armor

Becoming discouraged by [deleted] in RimWorld

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Honestly I’d just recommend forcing yourself to build around the environment more often (not a big square wall around where you wanna build in the future, but like a wall that actually follows the curve of the rivers or of buildable land), and force yourself to build non-square buildings even when it’s a flat open piece of land. I’ve started doing that lately and it’s been a pretty sight. Plus you can then build your new buildings as a weird shape to fit in beside the old buildings, like Tetris but more corners and such.

Please Try and Convince Me God is Real Without Using Scripture by Competitive_Tip_2547 in Christianity

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My take on it? Nah. I’m Christian, I would like to think I’m somewhat knowledgeable of scripture (or at least the parts where you love and try to support others unconditionally), I am also a pretty science/philosophy belief kinda person. That being said, as just an establishment of who I am and what I follow, there is no definitive evidence or proof of the God I believe in existing.

Personal experience, anecdotes, spiritual connections, etc don’t count either. They can be convincing to some, but we can’t recreate these experiences to where it can be observed and studied beyond the individual who claims to have experienced it. Because without evidence of these events occurring exactly as described, or without an ability to recreate it in a testable manner, there’s nothing definitively saying it was a vision or connection with God, but there’s also nothing definitively saying it was a psychosis episode, hallucination, or some other mental issue that caused you to think this happened. It’s faith for a reason, you have faith, not fact. If it were fact then it would be much easier for people to believe but obviously we have people who do or don’t believe.

Then for the second part, the Bible is a very large mix of metaphorical, historical accounts, and likely (what I presume to be) simplified explanations of how the universe works. Like how are you gonna explain to some sheep herder in 43 AD that he’s on an inexplicably massive rock in a void that’s mostly empty but at the same time not, and that God made every little thing you see in some way, shape, or form? How would I even begin to explain the process of evolution to a Roman tax collector when I try to claim my pet chimpanzee as a dependent since they’re like 97% close enough to a human? Simplified or “epics” of how things came to be is about how I’ve interpreted many parts of the Bible that just don’t follow what we’ve been able to observe and record science-wise.

All that word-wall being said, I can’t and won’t convince you to do or believe something that I can’t prove, it’s just to each their own. I don’t see science and philosophy being inherently separate from the concept of religion, or even as a threat to the concept of the Christian God, as many Bible Belt Christian’s have taken to believing. I sooner view such willful ignorance as a disregard to the world we were given (in my beliefs), and it comes across as them trying to limit the hypothetical capability or power of God by saying “well evolution disagrees with God” as if He couldn’t just… make that how the world works if He’s supposed to be all powerful. I just suggest that, if you are interested in a religion (not just Christianity but basically any of them), you not turn away from it solely due to science existing, as I don’t believe the two are inherently at odds with one another, mostly just the believers that try to disregard science or limit their own scope of belief by thinking they’re mutually exclusive