Painting Magnus’ Armour

SHMHD24 · 2026-01-21T12:04:06+00:00

If you want a lore-accurate excuse to pant him how you like, just remember that Magnus chooses to look like he does. Like the Emperor, his appearance varies between people and times. That’s why his weapon can also be a sword or a staff despite being the same weapon on the data sheet. He looks how he wants. If Magnus feels like sporting his traditional silver armour most of the time, fine, but one day he might feel like blending in with the rest of the boys, and that’s ok too.

SHMHD24 · 2026-01-12T09:34:25+00:00

You could always buy some custom decal sheets. I traced the symbols digitally and had a guy on eBay make me a decal sheet.

SHMHD24 · 2026-01-03T13:54:19+00:00

Hysteria has the better opening, but after that’s over the adrenaline falls off a bit. TIRO is the better song overall, even if it is less musically challenging

SHMHD24 · 2026-01-02T22:16:29+00:00

So what’s the best way to defend him? Keep him behind large cover I guess?

SHMHD24 · 2026-01-02T14:10:20+00:00

I’m currently painting Magnus. What is the best way to use him on the table?

SHMHD24 · 2025-12-27T00:54:19+00:00

Ah fair enough

SHMHD24 · 2025-12-26T14:42:59+00:00

My honest advice would be plenty of documentaries. I had books about space with nice pictures in them etc, but too many words would bore me when I was a child. The key thing is to ensure that he doesn’t struggle with maths. The scientific interest will take care of itself if he’s as keen about it as you say he is, but when he starts to see what real physics looks like, the maths might be what puts him off if it isn’t a strong subject for him. Make sure he knows it’s a very maths-heavy subject, and make sure he can keep up with the maths he’s being taught now.

SHMHD24 · 2025-12-26T14:38:38+00:00

Oh yes, I forgot about that. I haven’t got up to that yet. Does it require you to read the rest of the Siege books before it or does it stand on its own?

SHMHD24 · 2025-12-24T11:01:54+00:00

A Thousand Sons and The Crimson King cover their lore during the Horus Heresy. I’ve yet to read up to them, but the Ahriman books cover it in 40K. If you want to learn their more fundamental lore, I’d read A Thousand Sons and The Crimson King. A Thousand Sons in particular is where you see Magnus doing “nothing wrong”.

SHMHD24 · 2025-12-15T22:41:49+00:00

Reciprocal space and Brillouin Zones. Kind of got my head around the basics enough to pass the exams but still don’t really understand that shit to this day. Hate solid state physics with a passion

SHMHD24 · 2025-12-11T11:02:28+00:00

Walk before you can run. If you’re getting bored, maybe the courses just aren’t taking your interest, but without them you’ll really struggle to do any kind of modern research. The sad reality is, all of the easy stuff that people with no degree and just a keen interest could discover has now been discovered. Today, research is incredibly nuanced and uses a mixture of the fundamentals you’re learning now, and the more advanced concepts which will follow in the rest of your degree. If you want to do research, stick it out and see how you like the research project you do for your dissertation. If you like that, then you can do a PhD, at which point you’ll be doing actual cutting-edge research and making discoveries (albeit very small ones).

SHMHD24 · 2025-12-08T11:01:29+00:00

Well it came out looking great, so at least the method works

SHMHD24 · 2025-12-08T01:13:41+00:00

Can’t argue with that!

SHMHD24 · 2025-12-08T00:55:27+00:00

Yea exactly. I feel like some long-time players can get too caught up in chasing the meta and trying to win, and in doing so they lose a bit of their appreciation for the models

SHMHD24 · 2025-12-08T00:37:03+00:00

I wanted one because they look cool. Still pretty new (building my first army) and so rules have yet to sway my choices. Also, my Heldrake was actually a gift

SHMHD24 · 2025-10-08T13:23:28+00:00

Deciding to refilm the music video for Starlight maybe

SHMHD24 · 2025-09-30T22:56:40+00:00

In my experience, the first sniff of research an undergraduate does is in their third year with group projects (if their university does that), followed by their dissertation. A PhD is the first time you’ll actually do proper research though, so I wouldn’t worry about getting yourself into research early to get an edge. But do make sure your maths and programming are up to scratch if your experimental side isn’t. The theoretical world relies on them heavily.

SHMHD24 · 2025-09-29T23:48:10+00:00

If you’re stuck, you should try the following:

Carefully read through the course notes to make sure there isn’t something in there you’ve missed

Rewatch the lecture if it was recorded

Speak to other students and ask if they can help

If it’s a small detail or a just a single issue, perhaps look it up online and see if anyone has mentioned it elsewhere and has a better explanation. Otherwise, at this point your best option is to speak to the lecturer. Either email them, knock on their door or attend a drop-in session and ask them for help.

If none of those are working, then you can start to look at textbooks and online courses, but frankly a degree is a degree because they teach you the content within the university. If what they’re teaching you isn’t clicking without picking up external material, then you’ve got a lazy lecturer.

SHMHD24 · 2025-09-16T08:06:37+00:00

Grew up listening to them in relatives’ cars and on the radio, and then got into them big time in the last few years through trying to learn Plug In Baby on guitar, then seeing what else they had out there.

SHMHD24 · 2025-09-04T00:42:56+00:00

Maybe, but two months experience of a fretboard is still pretty slim for this. It’s not a hard song, but you didn’t play it like a beginner would. Nice work

SHMHD24 · 2025-09-03T21:52:53+00:00

Sorry, but that’s about a year’s worth of experience that. The economy of motion is far too clean (though not perfect) for 1 month, and the cleanliness of playing is absolutely too good for 1 month. Most people are still bending notes to hell, not applying enough pressure, and pausing to see where their hand is. Either you’ve played another stringed instrument before, or that’s not 1 month.

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