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**BrassScorpion**

"How did you decide on your username?"

In August 2007 before Apocalypse was released in October, I built a Brass Scorpion based on a photo of the datasheet previewed at Chicago Games Day. I built in within 24 hours of the photo making it online and showed it off to friends at the Maryland Battle Bunker/HQ that Monday evening. The Bunker was short-handed at the time and asked me to do a builder's clinic for Brass Scorpions after hearing some of my many construction ideas for them. After doing the clinics and creating a written guide on how to build them my material was also used on the GW US website in an article about building Brass Scorpions. That article appeared for the first 6 months of 2008 till the UK took over all website functions and the material was lost. In any case, when I joined the online community I figured that was the project I was most proud of and best known for at the time so I chose BrassScorpion for my user name.

**shingouki**

Akuma (in Japanese, "devil") known in Japan as Gouki (豪鬼, Gōki?), is a video game character from the Street Fighter series of fighting games. Akuma made his debut in Super Street Fighter II Turbo as a secret character and hidden boss. In the storyline of the Street Fighter video games, he is the younger brother of Gouken, Ryu and Ken's sensei. In some games he also has an enhanced version named Shin Akuma, or Shin Gouki (真・豪鬼?, the "true Gouki") in Japanese.
thanks wikipedia.

**Tri**

BrassScorpion wrote: That article appeared for the first 6 months of 2008 till the UK took over all website functions and the material was lost.

... on the internet nothing is ever completely lost ...
http://web.archive.org/web/20071215080323/us.games-workshop.com/games/40k/apocalypse/painting/brassscorpion/default.htm ... shame there's no pictures

one question are you really called Bob?

**BrassScorpion**

Tri wrote:
BrassScorpion wrote: That article appeared for the first 6 months of 2008 till the UK took over all website functions and the material was lost.
... on the internet nothing is ever completely lost ...
http://web.archive.org/web/20071215080323/us.games-workshop.com/games/40k/apocalypse/painting/brassscorpion/default.htm ... shame there's no pictures

one question are you really called Bob?

Man, I've been trying to find a cache for those files since the article first got taken down and never had any luck. Thanks for that! And indeed, some call me...Bob. GW uses my name all the time on What's New Today. I've been on there eight times since my first one last March, including this week.

**Tri**

BrassScorpion wrote: Man, I've been trying to find a cache for those files since the article first got taken down and never had any luck. Thanks for that! And indeed, some call me...Bob. GW uses my name all the time on What's New Today. I've been on there eight times since my first one last March, including this week.

Glad to help.

**Malice**

Mine are always anything I think sound cool

**Bloodfever**

It's the title of my favorite song by my favorite zombie-themed punk-metal band 'Send More Paramedics'.

**wee-dub**

mine is a small VW

**Mr Meatballs**

I like Italian food.

**bdix**

B- first letter of my name
Dix- first half of my last name

**NashVentress**

IRL name. Well, middle and last anyway

I have family in Nashville, TN and Ventress, LA, so I'm basically a walking placemarker.

**Vandil**

The name of my German Shepherd bravest man or beast I've known.

**Broadside**

A few months after getting into Warhammer 40k (tau) I created an xbox 360 live account called Broadside and it just kinda stuck.

**Azure**

Favorite color has always been blue, but having just a plain color username sounded boring to me. Gem names like Sapphire and Emerald also seemed dull, so when I did some searching for some off-names of colors I was delighted to find Azure.

**BladeHunter**

I hunt blades

**tantan628**

tantan was a nickname, my name's tanis (odd I know) and somehow it got to tantan. As for the number that is because my mind is so simple it's amazed by how much 628 said as separate numbers (six two eight) sounds like 68 said as one number (sixty-eight).

**crimsonfist832**

My username came from my love of crimson fists when I joined Dakka Dakka but obviously, being myself, since then ive went from the fists to SW, to DIY, then BA, then BA DIY, then ordinary DIY again, then GK, and now FINALLY, GK. The 832 was just a random number I chose.

**Kasrkai**

Kasr- as in Kasrkin, the names for Cadian cities
Kai- various origins, promenently meaning "keeper of keys"

So Kasrkai roughly means "keeper of the cities keys" or "keeper of the keys of cities".

**Potato_God**

I thought of a stupid name for my Live account, and came up with this. It wasn't until after my friend (who frequently poked fun at my Irish heritage) asked my screen name (and the resulting facepalm as I realized the now obvious connection) did i start using it on all the forums I frequent.

**Swiftblade**

One of my characters name from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I used it for the Bethesda Fours, and it just kinda became my normal forum name?

**biccat**

I have a cat. His name is bic.

**TheMuffinMan98**

Well I like muffins. So, the Muffin Man. Pun both intended and not.

**Micromegas**

I love reading Voltaire.

**Swordwind**

I took the alternate name for the Biel-Tan craftworld. Why? I liked it.

**Your Friend Doctor Robert**

Mine's a reference to a song by The Beatles

**roman87**

My username is my name and the date of my birthday. Not so witty.

**thedude**

Was watching the big lebowski and my regular forum name was taken

**DeusImperator**

It's latin for "God Emperor". Fall to your knees, peons.

**DarkDrgon**

My favorite video game of all time is breath of fire, an old SNES jrpg. The games translation was..... not good. My name is a referance to the evil clan of dragon people, and a little bit of an inside joke to those in the fandom.

Its pronounce Dark Dur-guh-in, by the way.

**Hasharii**

This is a Hasharin: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1090085&rootCatGameStyle=

And Hasharii is the plural of Hasharin.

I call myself Hasharii on almost all fora.