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[Tah Kazak Rik]

Well, I was thinking, that its nice that we introduce ourselves, share who we are, and we share so much of our passion for warhammer together, but we dont really ever see each others faces.

So I propose a more proper introduction, one that gives us an image of who we are.

Here is an example of what I am talking about:

(Include a Photo of Yourself, so we can put a face to the words)



Hello my name is Brad, otherwise known as TKR.

I live in Farmington Hills, Michigan, in the United States.

I am 23 years old, and I am married to a beautiful 20 year old woman named Karly, seen here:



I have been playing warhammer since my friends introduced me to it in 2000.

I own 3 dwarf armies, 1 Empire/Dark Elf Army, 1 Empire Army, and 1 Undead Army.

My Wife, owns 1 Orc and Goblins Army, and 1 Wood Elf Army.

And then My brother owns Lizardmen.

I love nearly every one of the Black Library fantasy books, even if they arnt literary master pieces, they provide fluff and inspiration.

I love Gotrek and Felix, but I want the series to end.

I prefer my beer black, thick, and my food roasted and falling off the bone.

I have a associates in Liberal Arts, and I hope to eventually obtain a PhD in Religious studies, focusing on the Bible, the Quran, and the Torah. I also hope to get a Masters in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies.

And I really enjoy long walks in the park, and watching ducks (Im serious about this)

________________________________________________________________________

And then what ever else you would like to include.

This way we can feel like more of a personal connection to each other, and can develop close bonds.

[Forsak3n_Slay3r]

I guess I'll introduce myself as well, My Name is Andrew im 20, about to be 21(which is the LEGAL drinking age here in the states for those who are in other continents and may not know that) and im from Houson, Texas in the United States.

This is me, my girlfriend Jessica, and our 6 month old Boston Terrier Hercules in our apartment


And when im not selling appliances, spending time with my little family or playing warhammer im doing this

playing bass guitar! this is me playing for a Red Hot Chili Peppers cover band back in '08(people who are fans of them might get why i written FUNK on my chest)

but on to the important stuff,
I started Warhammer about 8 years ago, i had a pretty large(2-3k) Lizardmen army and a Warhammer 40k Ork army. Due to Sports, music, and life i had to give up the hobby and ended up selling off everything about 2 years later. Just recently got back into Warhammer after the release of 8th edition and picked up a few BFSP sets and a 8th edition mini rulebook(i played against my girlfriend to get used to the rules again and the changes of going from 6th to 8th).

I've always been interested in the style and army fluff of the dwarfs(and O&G were rumored to be redone) so i've begun my journey into becoming a dwarven general. Aiming to create a unique army and backstory while learning how to properly paint.
-and on a side note: i actually used to have a beard that when stretched out was 12inches long(took 2 years to grow) but shaved it off in a hung-over haze(i regret it)

thats it

[Tah Kazak Rik]

Thanks Forsak3n_Slay3r for posting!

Nice to see your a person!

Cheers!



Thread has been un-pinned so more people might post their own profile.

[Giladis]

My name is Marko and I am 24. I live in Zagreb, Croatia. Some of you might have seen me at the ETC. I have bachelors in History, Geography and Archaeology and am currently doing Masters in Medieval and Ancient Archaelogy. I work at the Archaelogical musem in Zagreb and enjoj runing, swiming and all sorts of sports with balls and girls.


This is the most recent I have and I am probably one of the few people on the planet that should wear glases without dipotry while modeling and painting xD



I started Warhammer in 1998 by buying a blister of Hobgoblin Command. I still remember I had to save up for 4 fonths before I could aford it. At the time 1 pound was worth 16 kuna and my monthy allowance was 30 kuna. Twelve years later I have all three elven armies, as well as Tomb Kings, Vampire counts and Daemons. I had more before but decided to get rid of it since my room is way to small to fit everything 180x220x350cm(the last number is hight). I have started collecting Dwarfs once more and I feel great about it. I also have lots of 40K stuff but that is just for estetic reasons. I tried geting back into the game but the atmosphere among the youngsters is horrible.




P.S. I have never tasted Alchocol in my life

[Tah Kazak Rik]

Giladis you inspired me to add my own educational history into my profile, even though it is very miniscule in comparision.

Gosh, you are an extremely accomplished guy for being only 24! Three bachelors degrees Wow!

[Giladis]

Gosh, you are an extremely accomplished guy for being only 24! Three bachelors degrees Wow!

Education was a bit different here in Croatia when I started University. There was no batchlors back then only graduation at university followed by masters which was way more difficult than now. I did History and Geography simunataniously for three years what could be translated as Bachelors in western education, I have 11 exam left for that to complete the old "univeristy graduation" which has been equaled with the new masters degree. For the past three years I have also been doing Archaeology and got a real Batchelors this summer and am now doing Masters in it. Education reform occuring while being at the univeristy is not a fun thing to experience. I am actually hoping to do a masters in Bilogy to complement my studies of Archaeology once I get a permanent job and settle down.

[Tah Kazak Rik]

Education was a bit different here in Croatia when I started University. There was no batchlors back then only graduation at university followed by masters which was way more difficult than now. I did History and Geography simunataniously for three years what could be translated as Bachelors in western education, I have 11 exam left for that to complete the old "univeristy graduation" which has been equaled with the new masters degree. For the past three years I have also been doing Archaeology and got a real Batchelors this summer and am now doing Masters in it. Education reform occuring while being at the univeristy is not a fun thing to experience. I am actually hoping to do a masters in Bilogy to complement my studies of Archaeology once I get a permanent job and settle down.

Oh, that explains alot, but your accomplishments are still amazing!

[Fanai Glimmerclaw]

May name is Ian and I am a very old Dwarf


and my lovely wife who I have been married to for 26years (yes she must have been a child bride


this is me dancing with my daughter at her wedding



and this is my son who loves swords and belongs to a spanish style fencing school



I have been gaming since in shorts and blame men like Grant, Featherstones etc for their books in the local library
Started fantsy when Brother bought first ed Warhammer using the cardboard pieces - started my first army -Dwarves of course in 1987 and WD 152
Have over 100 Dwarves
I also sculpt my own pieces


pieces


more a painter - have worn the Red shirt for about 1 year and mainly game no historical 20mm ww1,ww2 and 15mm ACW SYW and Nap war
Have 2 whole companies of painted Space marines
160 Squats, 160 Guardsmen, and 200 Orks
am currently working on a O/G army and also own a large empire army - painted my son his Chaos army for his 21st he also has skaven ,demonand lizzy army
Other interests are avid Road cyclist,figure painter,and am involved with a Christian Church

Edited by Fanai, 26 January 2011 - 03:27 AM.

[Drong The Baker]

Hey all, my name is Jon Baker. I obviously get my usename from a more dwarfen version of the name Jon.



I'm In my early-mid twenties and live within an hours drive north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

My main army is the classy dwarfs, with my secondary army being High elfs, thirdly Lizardmen, and I've recently acquired (but have little interest in) my friends old Warriors of Chaos.

I run a small club in my basement, with my brother playing O&G and skaven, with a few other people playing warriors of chaos, empire and dark elfs.



And yes, that is a Doctor Who scarf.

Edited by Drong The Baker, 14 December 2011 - 11:35 PM.

[Squergi]

Well met, lads!

And hello to you too! My name is Anton and I'm 21. I'm from Finland and I have very little good pictures of myself but here we go:



Anyways I'm an English major student and I'm the hugest Warhammer slacker ever. I've been collecting nearly all possible races since I was 13 and I have never settler on an army for longer than a year. The biggest achievements would be, erm

around 2-3k Empire, same DoW, 2k Dwarfs (earlier), 2k Ogres, 3-4k OnG, 6k Chaos, 2k Skaven, 3k Lizardmen and loaaaads of smaller armies (many which I've forgotten I ever owned)...

What are the results? Not a single painted army to date. BUT I'm making a better man of myself: a dwarf! And I'm collecting Dwarfs for the final time and I'm not excusing myself from painting duties this time! :D

So I hope to have a good time here with you guys building up our Dwarfiness together!

Edited by Squergi, 26 January 2011 - 11:18 AM.

[Tah Kazak Rik]

Its nice to see so many people taking a interest in this thread!

Thanks guys for sharing!

Hopefully we will get more!

PS.

Fanai you have a great looking family, congrats!

[Grabgold Thunderbeard]

Well I guess it's time for me to introduce myself.
You guys know me as Grabgold but in the boring real world I'm Mike, a builder from New Zealand.


This is me with my wonderful wife Katie. I guess she's got red eyes in this photo because she collects Skaven.



This is me with my young son Ash (named for Ash Williams, Demon hunter from the Evil Dead movie series, my wife and I love those movies. Actually we love all old school zombie movies).
When he was born we spent a month in hospital with him because he has heart problems. He actually had heart surgery when he was 1 day old and again when he was 12 days old.



And here I am with Ash again when he was 8 months old, he had to have more open heart surgery.



And then Ash had more open heart surgery recently when he had just turned two.

He is going strong now though. He's a little terror so we plan for him to collect Demons of Chaos cos he is a little demon. LOL

My other son Kaspar has just turned 11. He collects Night Goblins, and so gives my mighty Dwarfs someone to battle (my wife doesn't really get much time to play games with her Skaven, she really just collects them.)



Well about me:

I love beer. LOVE it. It's yum. (I guess that's partially why I am drawn to Dwarfs.)
I make my own homebrew and am quite good at it, if I may say so myself.

Let's see, what else... we live in the country with lots of dairy farms around us so it's nice and quiet, with lots of open space to play. We also have a big bush out the back of our house, with a creek running through it, which is fun for me and Kaspar to play around in.

I always loved Warhammer when I was younger and collected WD magazine for a long time, but never actually collected any models except for a copy of Space Crusade (great old game, wish I still had it but it went missing somewhere over the years...)
So about two years ago I bit the bullet and started collecting Dwarfs, and now there's no stopping me!
I originally went with Dwarfs because we got a copy of BfSP and my son wanted the Night Goblins. I have since fallen in love with the little beardos, and wouldn't consider collecting any other army (except for Halflings which I consider to be somewhat kin of Dwarfs.)


Here's a few photo's I recently rediscovered of my youth spent in the NZ Army, where I learned the Dwarf pastime of drinking beer:


With my squad getting ready to go out into the field. (I'm kneeling front left, with the C9)




And with my squad out in the field. (Kneeling front left again, this time with a Steyr assault rifle)




Me in the gun pit manning the C9 machine gun. You don't know the meaning of the word loud until you have fired one of those things in an enclosed space!




And here I am in the gun pit (which took ages to dig) where I slept underground like a Dwarf for a week. I got used to dirt falling into my dinner LOL.
I actually look more like a goblin than a dwarf here.




Here is my beautiful wife, who is an artist:



She also manages an artist promotional website and produces an art magazine. Any budding artists out there feel free to check it out at www.pinknoise.co.nz. You can also see my wife's paintings at her personal website www.katierobinson.co.nz.


Here's my little night goblin, Kaspar! Great fun to play against.



And finally here's Ash in his Christmas elf hat, photo taken a month ago.



Well that's enough from me, pleased to meet you all!

Edited by Grabgold Thunderbeard, 13 August 2011 - 01:46 AM.

[Tah Kazak Rik]

Thanks Grab for sharing so many pictures and so much about your life, its really great, thanks!

[Grabgold Thunderbeard]

Thanks Grab for sharing so many pictures and so much about your life, its really great, thanks!

Hey that's fine, it's great to get to know you all!
Thanks for starting this thread TKR it's good to put some faces to names, and I hope some other people are brave enough to post about themselves in here too (I think you should re-pin this thread for new-comers and others to easily find it and add themselves if they want.)

[Bonecrusher]

Well thought it was about time I posted about myself on here. I'm Stephen, Steve, Ste (I respond to most variations) an engineer (or least trying to be) from merry old England.

Hopefully this picture will work. If it does this is what I look like, and no I don't work with cannons unfortunatly. Don't seem to have many pictures of me at the moment due to my hard drive completly dying recently so most of my pictures are without my goatee beard.

This is my fiancee Alisa, who dispite my efforts has yet to get into wargaming, though I did get her to start painting a model, hopefully get her to finish it one day.

About me:

Well first off I'm 24[25 in July] and the youngest in a family of six children, though most of my friends call it a clan because due to nephews and neices at christmas where its my parents, brother and sisters, and their children we are numbering in the twenties. Currently living just outside of Greater Manchester, though hopefully this will soon change and we can move into a more country area as I prefer the space rather than the cramped city life.

I have been gaming since I was 7 after moving from Loughborough so since around 1993 where due to the starting box being High Elves vs Goblins, my first army was High Elves, which I played for 3/4 years until I started on Dwarfs. Since then I've continued collecting Dwarfs though I have indulged myself in buying a few empire miniatures as well, so my throng now stands at slightly over 12,000pts at last count. I did collect Wolfen in Rackhem's Confrontation before they went to pre-painted plastics, so mixed with some Celtos miniatures looking to maybe make a beastmen army.

Aside from gaming, I have always had an interest in history, mainly fixing on Celtic/Viking/Saxon times, though sometimes being drawn into the medieval era, mostly though due to the weaponary. I consider myself a traditionalist in some areas, and don't really like guns, not even the old matchstick/flintlock ones. I do like cannons though as you may have guessed from my pictures.

This is me with my battle axe in a barbarien esc outfit, yes the fur and axe are real.

I also practice archery, and have been doing so regularly for just over a year. I don't go fancy with a compound or a modern recurve, I shoot with a longbow, my personal goal is to build up my muscles and skill enough to use a proper warbow (draw weight is in excess of 100lbs). I can make my own longbows but due to time and space constrants the past two bows I have bought, but I do make my own arrows and have made some of my equipment too, like my quiver and vambrace, as well as making a few things for other people too.

I do keep an archery blog (see sig for link) for those interested.

I do make a few other things from leather My business page for those of you on facebook. Even if your not interested might be worth a look for the photos of my stuff alone.

I think that is more or less it, knowing me I'll have forgotten something so feel free to ask, might even come back and edit this once I remember something. Ok the photos aren't working, seems I'm not allowed to link them off facebook, so will have to wait for photos.



Don't let the bow fool you, I'm a dwarf at heart, and fyi I have models of warhammer dwarfs with bows so there.

Edited by Bonecrusher, 21 July 2011 - 02:10 PM.

[Drong The Baker]

I thought I'd give an update.



This is my WAR group, arranged by best victory to loss ratio to worst, left to right.

From left to right:

Me (Dwarf and High Elf), Empire, Orcs and Goblins(and soon to be skaven as well), Dark elf (and a girl. They apparantly DO exist in our hobby), and Warriors of Chaos.

Edited by Drong The Baker, 23 February 2011 - 10:48 PM.

[Skull Krusher]

I posted my picture on my profile page


Pictures of my armies and terrain pieces are on photobucket =>

http://s39.photobuck...ms/e154/hcd834/

Edited by Skull Krusher, 28 February 2011 - 01:46 AM.

[Runnik]

My name is Brian Baker, married (21 yrs), 2 kids, and live on Camano Island, WA (since '07, lived in Kentucky before that). I have been an avid gamer since '79 (AD&D is still my first love ). I go into Warhammer in '86 and have loved it ever since. The dwarves have always been my favorite race whether its just the mini's, fluff, or a combination of both.

I have posted my picture in my gallery.

[ThaneWill]

Yello, my real name is Willem, lots of my friends cal me Will becose its shorter and i seem to always respond on it.

I play Dwarves, wood elves and skaven, i go to De Dobbelsteen (local shop) to play on wednesday's
I am living in Waalwijk, The Netherlands near to S'hertogenbosch / Den Bosch
this is how i look.


Yes i am a Dogg sitting in front of the computer whole day.




No i am just kidding guys, but i am not ganno post pictures of myself on the internet.I am serious if i say i trust most of you guys, but there al always nasty folks on the internett.

Edited by ThaneWill, 22 May 2011 - 04:54 PM.

[Kallstrom]

My name is Sebastian and I'm 18 years old. This is how I look early in the morning, inside and out.


Not the happiest of faces I can admit, but then again I'm not a morning person.
I don't have many pictures of me, that's the only one that is recent. The rest are several years old.


Edit: Cmon ThaneWill, we want to see you!
Second edit: You could always paint half the face the way I did. That way it won't be all of you in the picture.
I decided not to post my whole picture becuase if I would have posted it as it was then it would look like I was a really grumpy person. My happyface would not show, which would not give you guys the picture of the real me. Well, at least a lil happier me'

Edited by Kallstrom, 22 May 2011 - 05:38 PM.