I thought I might tell folks why I origonaly joined this forum.
Ive been into
40k since i was 14, being a bit of a shy guy I never realy sought out other players, and at 30 its still somthing I realy have to do!
Anyway, I spent a long time practicing building and making custom stuff, I went through most of the armys of the time, not realy playing much but building and painting.
Crippled by shyness I never displayed any of my stuff to anyone, but my nearest and dearest, and at that, it was rather pensivley. I felt I was doing somthing right I just didnt feel like what I produced was any good.
It came to a point where I thought " what is the point! "so I sold everthing I had on Ebay! At that time I had a bits collection amassed over 12 years and an ork army well over 5000 points, all the vehicles at the very least had minor customisation to fully scratch built. (god I miss my bits box! it was a 2 metre long chest fully catagorised into races and vehicles) I sold it all, and instantly regretted the decision.
I remembered that I just loved the hobby, the lore, that it was a break from the grind of life and a somthing to do that wasnt drinking or smoking.
It wasnt long before I was back looking up ork stuff online, about a year
But the old thoughts kept coming back "whats the point" and " you are not that good" so I put it off, untill one day, when looking at some ork vehicles on google images, I spotted something very farmilliar!
There it was! one of the prides of my army, Da Big Stinga! A tank killing battle wagon. I had thought him and the deleted Ebay pics long gone.
I had drawn on every box in the bits chest to pull it together, a beast 12 years in the making, standing proud in pictures far superior to my Ebay ones.
It was good to see the old rust bucket again. I gleefuly clicked on the pic, happy to see someone had deemed him worthy to display online.
My heart sank! I felt robbed, cheated! some creatin had passed my work off as his own! there it was pages and pages of this guy being praised for my work! pages and pages of people telling him how skilled he was!..... Wait a minute they think its good, they have only good things to say! these people all gamers and painter and builders themselves think my work is good! my anger melted away.
Because the truth is, I never would have posted pics of my work, I would have shriveled at the thought of having other builders, painters, gamers judge my feeble attempts, however here they where, here they where content to say only good things about my work! So to you all! Painters, Gamers, Converters and my noble plagerist ~I thank you! from the bottom of my heart. Not only did you save me from deep depression, but the
40k work I have done over the past few years and other projects I became involved in have got me into a great college coarse, the only one of its type in the counrty (3D model making and prop design for TV and film) so again to mr plagerist and all you people and Dakka Dakka thankyou, you had the guts to do what I could not, thankyou!
DarkMistro 
