Hello DakkaDakka,
I've been a bit of a ghost here since I joined, I've read a lot but said little. So in what hopefully will be the start of more involvement with the community I've decided to start a P&M thread.
Just a little of background, I've been a scale modeller all my life but have only come to table top games in the last couple of years. It's been a really enjoyable learning curve as despite having experience with models I'd never built or painted anything organic (all previous experience was aircraft, ships, etc). Another aspect I have really enjoyed is the creativity of table top models as scale modelling tends to be quite prescriptive with regards as to how build and paint.
My current project involves converting the free models Games Workshop is currently giving away every month into
40K celebration characters. The idea first came to me when I picked up the Plague Marine in December last year. I had no need of a Plague Marine but I liked the idea of a
40K Christmas decoration and it seemed to fit in with the gifts of Nurgle thing the Death Guard have going on.
Papa Christmas - Plague Marine - Christmas