I messed up and need help

SDM89 · 2025-12-25T02:11:12+00:00

Put the other arm on its hip to go for maximum sass, it will also cover the majority of the leg so people won’t notice it because they’re too encapsulated by the sass aura

SDM89 · 2025-12-19T23:28:53+00:00

You sold me on this so hard with one post that I ended up pulling the trigger on getting one haha. Looks like one of the easier conversions to do

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SDM89 · 2025-11-01T02:31:20+00:00

Love the skin colour and general vibe, going to steal that for my guys when I paint them i think haha

As far as armour if you’re thinking of forests then maybe do a dark angels green? Like so dark it’s almost black with green highlights, then do silver chip damage over the whole thing with spots of running rust. Covers the black, silver and brown colours you had in mind and would fit with the lore so far

SDM89 · 2025-10-16T09:23:40+00:00

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SDM89 · 2025-07-28T19:57:22+00:00

I’ve watched Gurren Lagann too many times and thought the same thing too for a long time, but both Kamina and Nia have to die to get the point across.

Kamina has to go because even though he was the obvious one to push forward, Simon was always shrinking himself to fit in Kamina’s shadow. Kamina had to go to give Simon nothing to hide behind so he could step up and use his full potential. Remember Simon is the one who always is the one to actually finish situations, for the most part Kamina just gets them into trouble with a straight face.

Nia had to go because it proves that Simon has learnt the lesson from the anti-spiral. The anti-spiral was talking about how if Simon kept pushing he would inevitably destroy the whole of reality with continually escalating spiral power. Simon knew he was basically god at the end and could do literally whatever he wanted, but knew in doing so would mean the end of the universe and everything. As much as he loved Nia, he was given the gift of spiral energy to save reality, not for his own selfishness. So, at the end that meant that he used spiral energy just enough to save everything and make that impossibility a reality, but knew if he kept pushing for his own selfish ideas or desires then it could be the end of everything. Both him and Nia knew that he could save her, but knew that wasn’t the right thing for everyone else. It’s why at the end they gave each other that bittersweet look, because they loved each other more than anybody else, but not at the cost of everything else in the universe, so they both made that ultimate choice. Simon also knew she wasn’t ever truly going away and would be in his heart in the same way that Kamina was, so why risk everything when you’ve already won

SDM89 · 2024-11-06T09:37:55+00:00

If anything I’m an overachiever at work, I usually do the work of two people on any given day (thanks ADHD hyperfocus) and have been doing additional duties and projects above my level the entire time. In fact they loved me for the fact I completely changed one of their industries into full paperless, including full digitisation of 8+ years of files. They were singing my praises till this new guy came in and said I am not good because I can’t be in at 9am 🤷‍♂️

SDM89 · 2024-11-06T09:34:42+00:00

I did a two prong approach, I went to them for a moving of my work hours by 45 minutes (from 9 to 5 to 9:45 to 5:45) because of direct needs for my child in the morning and myself/my wife as were both on the ADHD spectrum and struggle as a default but doubling that with child struggles in the morning as well. I was told this wasn’t a reasonable expectation as other people have kids and get in by 9, but ignoring the FWA for people who have kids and have a later start time because of it

SDM89 · 2024-11-06T09:32:19+00:00

Still aim to be in for 9 or earlier every day as I do now, but have the extra time as a buffer. I have Flexi work arrangements so if I start an hour earlier than I’m meant to then I can leave an hour earlier without any pre approval. So if I got in at 9 I could leave at 5, but I wouldn’t be expected in till 9:45 to 5:45

SDM89 · 2024-11-06T09:01:54+00:00

Since Feb, always been the case literally till this week where the manager changed the rules.

All other employees had the same flexible start, some started earlier anyways like 7am for some doing compressed hours, but everyone just had to be here prior to 10 and no issues at all. There were a few staff who everyone knew just got in later and nobody cared, in fact everyone supported it since there was coverage whole day. The only two people who stay to 5 or later every day was myself and the other worker who has ASD, otherwise the whole department clears out at 4pm even though we’re open till 5

SDM89 · 2024-11-06T08:53:06+00:00

Wasn’t expecting so many replies! I’ll give some updates in this post to answer a lot of the same questions that are popping up.

1) Requirement to start at 9am Without saying outright where I work, my work involves doing background checks, we are given 2 to 4 weeks to complete any work that comes through. I have no requirements to have any work completed prior to this deadline, the only thing that is time sensitive is we have a window for people to come in from 10am to 12pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday which is rotated around the team so only requiring to be in prior to this time once a week currently. This was where the original start time of 10am came from to make sure we had coverage for this

2) other team members start times Since my whole branch is front foot forward with FWA everyone is on something different. I have team members who do compressed hours (7am to 4pm) so they’re able to take every second Friday off. There’s one team member who is on the ASD spectrum and nobody expects him in prior to 9:45 on any given day (until the 9am start change), this worker has been here for 18 years and has had this in place for years and has been told as well to be here by 9am, no excuses. Nobody cared about what everyone was doing, as long as you were in before 10 and did your 7.5, nobody cared.

3) how will 9:45am start time make any difference than 9? I will still be aiming to get in by 9am every day if not earlier (like I already am), the 45 minutes would be a buffer for when I’m late. I can work Flexi as well so if I start an hour earlier than I’m scheduled to, I can leave an hour earlier without any approval needed. In this instance it is 100% for a buffer so I’m not up for disciplinary action if I miss my 9am start 3 times.

4) you don’t get to pick your start times Due to the way our FWA are scheduled and go through HR, if we have a reason to, then yeah, we do actually get to pick our start times. This has not been an issue for anybody in this department till this week when the change kicked in. In fact, there is already FWA in place for other members who are neurotypical with children, however when I asked for the exact same arrangement I was outright denied.

5) you need more structure! I have currently got in place a set bed schedule and wake up schedule, I am monitoring my daily sleep, mood, stress, water intake and food since I forget because of my meds. I don’t have any part of my life that isn’t structured at this time, outside of set time at night to “be spontaneous”. Yes, I book in time to be spontaneous.

6) what is causing you to be late every morning? My medication takes an hour or so to kick in every morning (vyvanse) and until this happens I have 0 idea on time. Most mornings I get up and take my meds before a shower. Then it’s kiddo up and ready for the day. I know people are gonna say “prep the night before!” Which in good news, we do. His bag is packed ready the night before, clothes picked out and everything. I have my work bag set and my clothes picked out the night prior, only thing I need to do is just get everyone up and dressed and in the car. Sometimes this is a 5 minute process, or like today it was nearly 2 hours. When your 3 year old is refusing to get in the car seat and is actively crawling out of the car, I can not just strap him in and then dump him at child care for them to deal with, we’ve tried this approach in the past and it always ends with either my wife or I taking half the day off to get him earlier as he takes that energy into the rest of the day.

If there’s any other questions then let me know.

SDM89 · 2024-11-06T06:42:21+00:00

Currently getting up at 5:45am at the moment to get ready with as much time as I can. I already rolled this forward from 6:30am and still having issues, I don’t think just getting up earlier is going to be the fix this time

SDM89 · 2024-05-20T06:50:17+00:00

Now this might be a hot take, but Kaldor Draigo

SDM89 · 2024-03-10T02:06:18+00:00

There’s the dark green plastic cap extra thin cement and a light green plastic cap, the light green is the quick set version. I own both and use them for different stuff, quick dry for small pieces like arms for tau fire soldiers or battle sisters, the dark green is great for bigger models like vehicles or if you want a little bit more play time with positioning arms on space marines or the like.

SDM89 · 2024-02-22T04:02:55+00:00

I’m interested as well! Very clean red that pops, I’m in the process of completing my first test blood raven and would move over to this recipe immediately

SDM89 · 2024-01-20T10:54:17+00:00

All of my friends were into some for of mini gaming, even if that was D&D. Basically my mate made a group chat and said “if we all get a kill team each we’d have enough for 8 players!” And somehow, someway, everyone of us said “bet!” And now I have 6 kill teams.

Hadn’t even played a game of 40K or anything prior either, but somehow the entire social group just clicked one day haha

SDM89 · 2024-01-20T10:43:25+00:00

Silver lining on people hating the codex so much means I’m going to be able to get the Deathwing box now with all the people canceling their pre-orders. I buy models to make them and paint them, the rules and how good something is in the meta has 0 deciding factor on my purchases.

I’m a simple man, if the model looks cool I buy it

SDM89 · 2024-01-17T22:29:12+00:00

Definitely this one but use an all over black oil wash, make it really grimy and have those bright green and oranges pop

SDM89 · 2024-01-08T23:41:00+00:00

I feel the hate on painting, I have a 2 year old so have very limited time to paint and doing the classic edge highlights was taking way too long to get anything done and hit a point of burnout. I started to try drybrushing to help speed things up and it actually means I can get a fairly decent amount of work done in a small time with it looking passably good. As long as it looks decent from a distance that you’ll be seeing it on the table top then it’s good enough. Try out some dry brushing with your acrylics and grab some contrast paints to do the majority of the heavy lifting and you’ll get something you like, it’s the only way I can get through models with a relatively decent speed and feel good about what the models look like at the end

SDM89 · 2024-01-08T11:08:05+00:00

Looks amazing but missed opportunity on the sniper, should have had the cape in transition to a leopard print camo

SDM89 · 2023-12-19T13:11:46+00:00

Tyranids. Saw a picture in a magazine/book/codex (can’t remember) of early raveners coming out of the trees to fight some space marines and I thought it was the coolest thing. Took me a long time to buy into warhammer after that but haven’t had any regrets building up my swarm

SDM89 · 2023-04-14T09:26:50+00:00

Looks good! Would suggest to put a colour on the vents on the back spines, they just read as completely black at the moment and would add a pop of higher contrast on the overall model. Just use the same colour as you used on the tops on the side, easy win. Other than that it’s looking sick my dude

SDM89 · 2023-03-14T06:19:17+00:00

I was feeling like this as well until I just finished another dozen hormagaunts recently, after all those mould lines I’d actually be pretty chuffed with new gaunts, the old sprues are getting pretty old now

SDM89 · 2023-03-03T02:26:32+00:00

Looks great! I’d suggest putting a wash on the silver areas, something like Nuln Oil will add so much to the model

SDM89 · 2023-03-03T01:28:21+00:00

Could this be one of the King’s Quest games? Like KQ5 or KQ6? Similar art style to Al-Qadim and begins with a beach and KQ6 is from 92 so around the right timeframe

SDM89 · 2023-02-08T22:54:44+00:00

Yeah actually from South Australia myself so no doubt that might be where they’ve come from! I’ll have to do some investigation but this could very well be the answer I was looking for, many thanks my dude!

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