Hello, my name is Abaddon

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**Abaddon1**

Hi all, let me introduce myself. My name is Abaddon. Yes, that is my real name. I have yet to despoil anything.

I took a really keen interest in W40K in my early teens. In the end, before I moved out of home and it all got sold off by my folks, I had a squad of space marines, a few of which were painted the colour scheme of a chapter I created, a dreadnought, a 2 person speeder, and a couple of assassins.

I had only 8 or 10 paints, no internet and no real way of knowing what I was doing, but I had been a pretty good art student all through school so gave it my best shot. I mixed up the colours myself, spent hours and hours looking through a magnifying glass attached to a little base with 2 pincer clips either side of it, trying to get the black between the white armour plates and the eyes just right. The fading on the edges, the flame in the crest. I had more successes than failures.

I painted up exactly three of my space marines to my satisfaction. By that time I was closer to 15 and suddenly didn't give a rolling toss about space marines and kids games. I was suddenly only interested in girls.

Now I am 41. And, after living about half of a good life doing grownup stuff, I am keen once more to play with plastic miniatures. I say play, even though I've never actually played the game. I've always just been into the figures. Though I am considering learning how to and entering a game some time soon, if I can find one locally.

In the mean time, I am slowly building my company. It's going to be a ragtag, rainbow group of squads. I am part-way through most of them (Tor Garadon just arrived today so am undercoating him right now) but the most finished pieces are the Dark Angels. I also have squads of Ultramarines, soon to be Imperial Fists, and a squad of space marines in Mark III armour I have decided to paint in homage to my own chapter, the Chernobog.

Tips and tricks are welcome and I will be trawling the boards in due course for ideas on how to get mine looking as good as the examples I see in here!

TTFN
Abs

EDIT: I added some pics of the last remaining two of the Chernobog, version I, from 1994. They are standing atop the bunker, which is the first decent looking thing I have painted since that same year.