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Hi guys!

I'm glad to finally be ready to join you all in this wildly entertaining hobby. It's been long overdue for me.

Long time ago when I was buying my first 2nd edition DnD books (a game I continued to play up into 3.4) at a game store in a visit to the city I took notice of the miniature TT games. I've even got to read some book in the past that other people had but unfortunately I didn't have that kind of money as a young teen nor did I hold any confidence that I could paint them. I could only stare slack jawed at some of the beautiful examples and marvel at the many options as scanned the store walls.

Time passed, college came and went, worked all about and moved to many places. It's fair to say that my preoccupations kept me busy and this game had slipped my mind. I'm in my mid-thirties now and live in an isolated community in Northern Ontario. Fair to decent chance I'm settling here, the virgin nature is beautiful here and not a single smoke stack for hundreds of kms. Still a Canadian winter is long and brutal and I'm just coming to the end of a particularly rough season. Back in January I decided it's time to pick up a hobby to fill in my less occupied to time and my old memory of miniature TT games came to mind.

So I googled and researched and read. During this period this was one of the sites I've come across and used as a source ( Seems to be a popular mention in youtube videos in the comments section below). By March I had not only decided on Warhammer 40k but I'm also going to make an Ork army. Since March I've bought the 3 book core pack with the rules, the glorious fluff, and some amazing examples of painted models. I also bought the Ork Codex and Ghazghkull Ork Supplement. Love the fluff. I'm an Orc/Ork fan in all settings but wow these guys are quite unique. I've seen them in some games, I chuckled and laughed at the delivery of their style of comic relief and I instantly fell in love with their unique fluff in the books. These boyz are gonna be my boyz.

Here I am now at this stage with my books already bought and my first order of paints and every paintbrush coming in the mail. I figured it's time I stopped lurking and join up with the community. It's all you folks out there on the ground playing this game, applying the rules, doing the painting and talking about it that is giving me all the best info I need, not the pages of a salesman. With the amount of information I've absorbed since January and with so much more to come I hope to also be able to contribute to the info that will be a source for someone else in the future. I'm notorious for making walls of text so expect more to come.

tl:dr
Thanks for having me,
ProwlerPC
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!

P.S. I'll make learning Ork Garble one of my first priorities, this community seems to have plenty of creative examples.

Welcome,.. err, did you post in the Intro? Anyways. All the best, Welcome to the world of Plastic Crak, (used to be Pewter) Ahh,.. back when tsr was in White Dwarf... Judge Dread, and Chainsaw warrior,.. (Went off topic for a min.) May the green tide flow.

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