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Hello everybody! ("Hi, Dr. Nick!")

Long time lurker Niilo Timantti here, I finally got around to registering into the great, great miniatures wargaming community that is Dakka Dakka.

"It's about time I joined...", I thought today as me and my two wargaming buddies were sitting in my kitchen, drinking coffee and painting our respective armies.
About time, indeed, as I'm the one who practically dragged my friends into the hobby (well, with all the cool miniatures around nowadays, I didn't really have to drag 'em now did I?) and they've already registered to Dakka some time ago.

So, as this is my first post, I guess I'll tell a bit about myself and how I got into the hobby, as if anyone's interested



I'm a 1982 vintage, sound engineer living and working in Helsinki, Finland. Been driving my better half nuts with 40k orks lying around and about our kitchen since September 6, 2008

But my history with orks goes beyond AOBR, into the dark ages that was the late 1990's when Gorkamorka came out. Me and a friend from school stumbled onto Gorkamorka on the net and after some time obsessing over it we ordered a starter box by mail which we split in two. For some reason we never got around to playing the game though

But, I never got rid of the miniatures. And later, much later, when I had moved to Helsinki I noticed there was a local Games Workshop store in the city center. I then remembered my old Gorkamorka miniatures and started to wonder if anyone still played GM. So one day I walked in the store to ask about GM only to find myself trying out a game of 40k with a member of the staff and absolutely loving the action. As it happened, the release of Assault on Black Reach was around the corner and the staff asked if I wanted to reserve a copy.

I didn't reserve a copy right there and then, but it didn't take too long for me to get myself hyped about orks and going back to the GW store to reserve my copy.


So, from then on I've been collecting all things orky.

"But wait, your thread's subject says world's slowest painter, what's up with that?"

Well, the fact is that I started the hobby some 18 months ago and to this day I have managed to paint only:

9 Slugga boyz
3 Nobz
and 4 Gretchin

Ok, so obviously I have also been doing something else than painting in my spare time but this is just ridiculous


So, today, the thought "It's about time I joined..." was quickly followed by "...and start a project log so that I'd keep a record of what I am doing and when it takes too long for me to paint stuff people would tell me to stop loitering and get back to painting my orks."


If you've read this far, I thank you, and I hope you'll have me among you as a fellow Dakkaite

- Niilo Timantti, over and out, 'cause it's 2:21AM in Helsinki and way past my bedtime

Welcome to dak dak¡

Welcome to dakka

Welcome to Dakka!

Hi there and I find painting gets easier when you assembly line the colors. Dakka is FULL of good painting threads.

Hey
Welcome to Dakka!

Welcome to dakka. I think I may have to challange you to a slow paint off

Welcome to Dakka Dakka

I might have you beat out for that title...

Welcome to Dakka Dakka!

Welcome

Hey everyone, thanks for the warm welcomes!

SilverMK2 and Alpharius, I'll gladly have a slow-paint-off with you guys

Hyvaa Paiva!!

Mitty34 wrote:Hyvaa Paiva!!

And a good day to you Mitty34! Finnish friends?

Hey , welcome . Dont worry I am a pretty slow painter also

haii Niilo~!
I'm a slow painter, too. I started working on my Tyranid Venomthrope like two months ago and have only gotten around to painting the first two layers of it ;x
..I'll get it done sooner or later XD;;

welcome to the Dakka :3

~ [<3]

NiiloTimantti wrote:

Mitty34 wrote:Hyvaa Paiva!!

And a good day to you Mitty34! Finnish friends?

Actually, I took finnish in high school. Im most likely one of the only american Finnish speakers in the world!!

Welcome to dakka dakka orky orky

Welcome to Dakka.