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Hello everyone!
How do you write an about-me?!

I'm about the noobiest of noobs going, 37 years old and just started getting into Warhammer 40,000 with a close friend. I'm a father of four and live on the Isle of Wight (South England) with my fiancee and three of my kids (the eldest, 13, living with her mum.) I like music, movies and games - at the moment I am glued to Ultimate Apocalypse, which is a mod for Dawn of War. However, with four children I don't get too much time to myself.
I was a care worker for 12 years but I developed osteoarthritis of the spine and had a 6 hr operation last year that has helped a lot, but left me extremely limited on what I can do. Still, it's better than it was!
I have a lot of pets - five ferrets, three cats, two rats and a dog! Which is absolute MAYHEM!

I liked Citadel when I was a kid, but only really played Space Hulk.

I am wanting to use Chaos Space Marines, as I love the units and the whole daemonic side of things, being a bit of an occultist myself!
Any advice would be much appreciated!

Hi,

Welcome to Dakka

Hi Knightly, thank you very much!

G'day weasel, welcome to Dakka. Sounds like you've been though a bit of a rough time lately, hope you're doing alright.
Chaos is a great place to start! Are you more interested in the gaming or painting/modelling side of things? Or equally excited about both?!

Hey bud, same age as me... When I got back into wh40k, I made a point of scouring ebay, preloved, gumtree etc for older metal minis, the sort I remembered from yesteryear.

I then took my time and painted them as best I could, remembering my poor efforts the first time round. I then bulk things up with standard, modern minis. Works nicely, and I have some really characterful leaders.

Perhaps that's helped a bit?