Introductions Forum

[Frustrated Father]

Wyrd Miniatures is a growing community and for some time now folks have been after me to make an introductions section for the new folks coming in and joining our little community and to tell a bit about themselves and to break the ice so to speak.

Stop in, introduce yourself and let us know a little about yourself. You'll find that you probably know quite a few people from other forums, or meet some new folks that you've never really interacted with, but all the same, you are very welcome here at Wyrd. Let us know a bit about you, your hobbies and your likes.

Welcome to the Wyrd!

-
Nathan Caroland

[supervike]

hello, my name is supervike, and I am a miniature-o-holic.

My real name is Jim, I've been married for 17 years, am 38 years old, and have two daughters.

I work in the 'telecommunications' industry, with the title of Central Office Technician, but I'm not sure what that even means. I take care of lots of computers, phone circuits, and general telephony issues.

Miniature speaking, I really have a broad taste. I prefer a bit more off the wall and character minis to super scuplted, yet somehow boring things. I like Sci Fi minis, Pulp, ALT WW2, just to name a few.

I'm the moderator here on Wyrd (although when they find out that I really don't do much, I'm sure they are going to take my washroom key back) and also a moderator on Cool Mini Or Not.

I feel I am an average painter with much better ideas that what I can execute.

Lastly, I would rather be remembered by the on line community as just a really nice guy over anything else...

[Malebolgia]

Hi,

I am Malebolgia and I am 26 years old. My real name is Marijn. I live in the Netherlands and I (still) am a student. I am studying 'Science Communication' in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands and I hope to FINALLY receive my Master's degree this year. After this I may open a games store here in Groningen...I'm still looking into that; a store with space to actually play games...something we don't have here yet...and that in a city of 160.000 people of whom 40.000 are students!

Gaming-wise I am addicted to WARMACHINE. I started buying the stuff 2 years ago and I was hooked immediately. The game is very balanced and basically a blast. I liked it so much that I applied for Press Ganger a year ago. I have been doing demoes and tournaments all over the country since then (long live the students card with which you can travel for free with public transport in the weekends).
Other games I play are: Full Thrust, Legends of the Wild West, Warhammer, Warzone, Confrontation and Supersystem.
Other games I own: Warhammer, Warhammer 40.000, necromunda, Mordheim, Gorka Morka, Bommerz over da Sulfer River, Warzone, Chronopia, Void, Celtos, Fearless, Warlord, Mage Knight, Heroclix, Mechwarrior, Stargrunt 2, Dirtside 2, HORDES, Combat Zone, Shockforce, Lord of the Rings, Urban War, Chainmail...and some I am bound to forget.

I also enjoy painting a lot. I am not a very fast painter. Because I love and play so many games my painting tend to get diverted to all kinds of miniatures. This means that I only own one painted Full Thrust fleet. The rest of my armies aren't fully painted. Luckily my friends have the same problem and we are't anal about playing with unpainted lead. Recently I have become a Painter of Doom (painting miniatures for Heresy) and I am working on some miniatures for Andy now. I really like I can help Andy out as he is a great guy and makes some of the coolest miniatures around.

I have joined Wyrd Miniatures almost a year ago...I think. I believe I joined the forum when I ordered the first 4 releases....of which none are painted...:ahhhhh: . Hopefully the current contest will change this.

Cheers,

Marijn

[Illustrange]

@Marijn , I miss my OV kaart (free transport thing.), also for as far as I know the only playing space in rotterdam is GW owned... wich is a shame really.

well then let me properly introduce myself

Hi,
Im Melvin, Illustrange is the name of my site. Im 25 years old and live since half a year in rotterdam, the netherlands. Ive been a proffesional pixel and concept artist for videogames since my 18th (doing artschool in between.), always intending it to be a "vessel"to become an illustrator, designer and eventually sculptor for miniature games, however I would never achieve my goals trough that industry, so I decided a few months back to spend time to brush up my illustration skills and slowly move towards making the dive into that world. I currently have done art for alphaforgegames Star mogul ruleset and will be working with them on further SM supplements & the new Dark tribes game.

miniatures and me :
the last time I played a miniature game was age 16, Ive played warhammer, heroquest, star quest, dark world (schwarsche augen boardgame.), legend of zagore (talking boardgame.), epic and a dozen of selfcreated games I played with my brothers.
of all "miniature" games I actually enjoy chess the most.. yep thats right, from what Ive played chess is far superior rulewise, but star quest is a good follow up to that followed by dark world in all its simplicity.
skirmish games fascinate me but I have yet to play one, from what Ive seen Confrontation (especially DoW.)and Hordes have the biggest attraction on me, recently joined by Hell Dorado, Infinity and Anima. hell dorado reminds me of a miniature game Ive seen when younger, it had a zombie wild west theme, dont know the name tough.
the attraction is even higher with miniature boardgames tough. Hybrid, Cadwallon and blood bowl... I wish there were more board based miniature games these days.

so were does wyrd miniatures come in, Ive had my eye on them for a while (tough in all honestly, Ive yet to buy a mini from them.) and liked there unique miniatures, especially the steampunk ones, if I had money Id contract them for one of my gamedesigns ;))
so thats it.. I think
a bit long, but thats me

[Ritual]

My name is Anders, I'm 31 and live in Stockholm, Sweden. I've been painting minis since I was 10 or so... with a few pauses. I've never got into gaming because I never manage to complete the minis needed even for smaller games. I guess the real reason is that I simply don't have enough interest in gaming and, thus, fail to keep up the discipline to paint the minis I need and not any other.

I work at a company producing electronic books for blind and visually impaired students. I'm sort of an production manager at the company. Painting is my biggest hobby and a way to relax and forget about real life, but I also do some professional work, from time to time, Wyrd being the biggest "customer"! :D

I got in touch with Wyrd through the competitions Nathan arrange and as I have had some success in them, Nathan contacted me to do some promoting for him when he was launching the miniature line. That ended up with me being one of the regular studio painters, for which I'm really happy. :)

Not much else to say about me! :)

Cheers,
Anders

[witchfire]

Witchfire here !

i'm a 40 yrs old french canadian , i work in a comic book store & am an impulsive mini buyer
and a lousy painter

i play warmachine/hordes , Darkage & reaper warlords

i'm also a trecky

[rodnik]

Hi folks!
I'm Kevin.
I work as a security architect at a financial services firm---my background is electrical engineering with an expertise in programmable logic controllers. I have some degree of expertise in all things IT---SME level at networking and tcp/ip, along with advanced oop coding and database expertise. I also own a small real estate investing company----and I go to school part time at night in an attempt to finish my undergrad/MBA

I'm 39, been married for 8 years to a very lovely (and very patient) woman and have one daughter.

I picked up my first paintbrush about 2 1/2 years ago, and haven't been able to put it down since. My main focus with my painting right now is to win at a Games Day-----we'll see how that goes.

As far as hobbies----if it can be done without getting arrested, I've probably tried it.

Cheers,
Kev

[Sergeant_Crunch]

Copied from my birthday thread a few weeks ago...

Let's see, my life story....It wasn't easy growing up a...no, wait, that's a movie. Long long ago in a galaxy far far away..., nope, another movie.

Umm let's see, well, as the birthday thingy at the bottom of the page says I'm 31. I really am a sergeant, been in the US Army 'bout 12.5 years. Originally from northwest Ohio, currently live in the middle of Texas. Married for 10 years to a woman who also enjoys gaming (though not obsessed as I am) and have 4 boys from 9 yrs old to 3 weeks.

Started out in my teenage years playing D&D and Battletech though I had no idea there were miniatures for either (I grew up in a small town). Joined the Army at 18 and kept playing and added Shadowrun to the gaming line up as well as a brief stint in CCGs. Stopped playing Battletech becuase I wanted to play big games, and they take to dang long in that game. Stopped playing RPGs because most of our sessions ended up turning into exercises in small unit tactics. So I decided about four or five years ago to start miniature wargaming. Starting with 40k like many people but have given up on that game. Too expensive and I hate having to buy so many revisions of the same books. Picked up CAV from Reaper and love that game. Just need to convince the folks around here to play it. Personal preference is sci-fi games and minis, but if theres a cool lookin' mini I'll pick it up and paint for joy of painting.

Went to my first convention this spring (ReaperCon, they're relatively close and I made friends on those boards), took a few classes and decided to try to improve my mini painting to beyond tabletop, so I entered my first contest (TTII, the pink gladiator). Now my poor wife can't have a conversation with me without it tying into miniatures or wargames in some way.

I'm planning on opening a game store (with online sales) when I retire from the Army or sometime thereafter.

That's pretty much me in a nutshell.

[tzor]

My real name is Christopher Beattie. I am 45 years old which according to my theory of the association of vinyl record speeds and man is a very important year. (According to Tzor’s theory the ages of man can be divided based on the ancient vinyl record speeds. They are 17 ½ , 33 1/3, 45 and 78.)

I started playing AD&D in college in 1980 and as a result started to collect and paint minis. I didn’t photograph them at this stage, but I did have some fun with them in a holography lab. Actually they were called figures or figs back in 1980. Anyway all of this ended after college, even though I returned to role playing back in 1990.

http://pic9.picturetrail.com/VOL291/1756382/3378185/41444165.jpg

So let’s fast forward to a few years ago when S.K. Reynolds had an angel mini painting contest online. “Why not,” I asked and so I did. With that mini, armed with a web camera I started the process to where I am today.

http://pic9.picturetrail.com/VOL291/1756382/3378185/45888752.jpg
http://pic9.picturetrail.com/VOL291/1756382/3378185/46384569.jpg

And where am I today? I live on Long Island, New York, United States, Earth, Sol, etc. I am a computer programmer by trade, a barbershop harmony singer by hobby, and a Knight of Columbus. I’ve recently been on a business trip to Bangalore India. I just came back from Gen Con in Indy.

[wiccanpony]

Greetings my fellow mini maniacs, I am the Wiccanpony.....

In the glaring light of reality (where are my sunglasses?) I’m Donna a 58 year old mild mannered witch who was heading out to my local Magic-R-Us shoppe to buy some voodoo dolls. Darn!! the store was closed do to a demon infestion.

But fortunate for me, a store selling miniatures and other geeky stuff was across the street and as they say, “the rest is history”. ;)

I’m very lucky to be of an age that I was in on the start of D & D, gaming, miniatures, computer and the internet. Whoo Hoo!! can’t wait to see what the next 20 years hold.

I also hang out at the “Freak Bar” on CMON and would call myself a middle of the road painter...not the best, not the worse.

I’m single and retired in Southern California with 3 sisters, 2 nieces, 1 dog, 1 cat and lots of lead people.

Oh! and as long as I buy the wonderful “Wyrd” goodies, Nathan allows me hang around here. ;)

[EricJ]

sooooooo, are we supposed to introduce ourselves here, or start new threads for ourselves? That seems more welcoming to new people to let them have their very own thread :)

I also want to start my own...it's an ego thing ;)

[Frustrated Father]

Start your own, or post it here. :D

I'll be posting my own thread here soon enough.

[red]

Hi just joined, so bear with me. I like to paint minis

[Frustrated Father]

Welcome!

[red]

Thanks, I'm an old one so I'm having trouble navigating this site at the mo, i'll get used to it

[Maestro]

Hi!

I'm new to this site (well, I've browsed it a few times, but that doesn't count..).
My name is John Thompson and I've been off the alcohol for about 2 days... Oh wait, different forum.

I live in the Netherlands and was born on th 70's (1979). My sign is Pisces, for those who care.

John

Oh, been smearing paint on mini's for about 7-8 years now..

[Frustrated Father]

Welcome to the Wyrd John.

Another one from the Netherlands, that seems to be a regular hotspot for painters over in that part of the world, or I just seem to run into the few of you that are there. :)

[Maestro]

Nah, it's not that there's soo many painters here in Holland.. We're just so cool, people seem to remember us..!

I don't think anyone's gonna beleave this.. :)

John

[gi6ers]

Been here a while but here goes,

real name Matt, I'm 32 and live in Herts. Got into painting as a way to relax. I really enjoy the hobby but spend a LOT more time posting on the FOD, here etc than I ever do painting stuff.

I've got pretty broad tastes in minis and will paint anything that takes my fancy.

[LadyEyes]

Hi folks. Figured I'd finally join here. Been meaning to, but I've been busy since Gen Con Indy. :tongue1:

I'm an okay-ish painter. I play sometimes, but I've got a lot of things going on most of the time so it's limited.

[supervike]

hiya Ladyeyes!! Good to have you here. What kind of stuff do you paint?

[EricJ]

welcome :)

[Frustrated Father]

Welcome to the Wyrd!

[LadyEyes]

@supervike - It was mostly gaming minis (gw, pp, co), but now I end up painting fun, non-gaming minis more and more. (Working on Halloween stuff at the moment.) And I'm starting to look at a few historicals in larger scale, too.

@EricJ - How was Las Vegas after GCI?

@Frustrated - See? I finally showed up. Told you I wouldn't forget completely. :)

[demonherald]

Hi there just wanted to introduce myself..
Just registered for this site .
I recognise a few names from CMON where I've been a member for about 8 months.

Learning a lot from the communities out there which is helping get my painting back to display standard.

Known in my area (Leeds UK) as a bit of a speed painter regularly painting units of 20+ to a good standard in an evening.
Slowing down a bit now (could be the age) and concentrating on refining my techniques.

getting back into the competitive painting to help push my skills. Biggest success was back in 2001 when I got A silver Demon. Worked forGW for 5 years then so couldn't enter but back with a passion now and ready to conquer all. Hee.hee...sory Mwahh ahhh aahh aah ahhh....

cheers and good luck....

Rob

[supervike]

There goes the neighborhood!


Just kidding....its already gone..LOL

Welcome Rob!

[Frustrated Father]

Welcome to the Wyrd. Pop on into some of the contests here, either the Wyrd or the Iron Painter's if you are interested in a bit of competitive painting.

Looking forward to seeing some of your work.

[Djudja]

I want to inroduce myself.

I'm Nik. I'm 22 years old student.
I live in Ukraine, former USSR.

I play wargames for about a year, thus I own only Hordes and WM made by PrivateerPress. I have a number of boardgames, wich I play with friends not involved in our hobby.

I recently was introduced to Wyrd miniaturesby a friend of mine. He said only one word: "Wyrd"! So, here I am. I have only on miniature- Sibertooth cerberus, but I'm very interested ib world of Milifaux and I'm waiting for my monthly scholarship to buy some new.

I'm not experienced painter. But I'll seek and shift my skills.
And last thing to say: I've neve tried GW stuff :ciao:

[Jabberwocky]

Welcome to the forum, Djudja! You'll fine most everyone friendly and helpful here. I look forward to seeing your work!

[waghorn41]

Been a member here since Feb but only just found this forum - must be senility.

Name's Ian and I'm 54, married for 25 years with 5 kids (not kids anymore 4 of them!). Been painting since age 7ish starting with the Airfix HO/OO figure sets. Moved on to metals, ACW and Napoleonics, then took a break for a few years while I was in the RAF. Discovered GW through my sons back in '97 and recently inherited all their stuff which they bought faster than I could paint. Don't get much opportunity for gaming though I do run a club for youngsters in my home town. I paint to relax and the sheer enjoyment and fun of it. Moved on from GW, still with a 5-6 hundred backlog, and look around for anything that takes my fancy. Wyrd, Warmachine, Fenryll, Darkage etc are now filling my workbench.

What do I do? Oh yes, work for a bank now but previously was in publicity design and production.

Painting standard - mediocre, though I did win a couple of competitions in the local GW store (doesn't say much for the standard). Entered FFIII and IP5 for fun and have put a range of minis in my gallery for criticism.

What else? Founder member of Northampton Science Fiction Writer's Group (chairman is internationally acclaimed author Ian Watson). Can I plug our convention Newcon4 here?
www.newcon4.com (http://www.newcon4.com/)

Hope y'all don't mind an old 'un joining the fun.

[Duende]

:welcome:

[Frustrated Father]

Welcome to Wyrd!

[RogerB]

*taps microphone* <squeel!> Ouch! Testing, testing, one, two, three.

Hello. I thought it was about time I joined up. My name's Roger (in case you couldn't guess). I'm a regular on cmon so a few of you will know me from there.

I started painting and gaming during the mid-eighties and continued with what I thought was good progress, until the early nineties, although the gaming had taken up more time than the painting by then.

Some 14 years passed and I evetually got back in to the hobby. It started with what I iknew (and what I could get locally) which was GW (there used to be an independant shop years ago but alas that is no more) but this time with the internet about I soon found lots more companies and communities.

And so, now I have hundreds more minis, mostly for armies, but now the stuff just to paint is growing rapidly. I'm a really, really slow painter but I enjoy it anyway.

Cheers!

Roger.

[supervike]

*I'm a regular on cmon so a few of you will know me from there.




Hey, I'm regular too!


Good to see you over on this side of the tracks Roger!

[Frustrated Father]

Welcome to Wyrd!

[RogerB]

Hey, I'm regular too!


Good to see you over on this side of the tracks Roger!


Being regular is definately a good thing.

Glad to be here.

[Cee]

Ummm... hello? Is this thing on? It is? Oh, good....


Um, Cee, easier than typing "Charlie" all the time.
Geographically located in the eastern US of A.
41, no wife, no kids...
I used to play AD&D, but I haven't actually gamed since high school. Oddly, I've gotten more into miniatures since the last game got just too lame to bear. Now what to do with the darn things? Oh that's right: look at the old ones, decide they aren't good enough and either hide 'em or strip them to the bare metal/resin and start over. Basically, I'm here to see what everyone is doing and appropriate those tricks and techniques that impress me.

There's a lot here to steal, uh, learn...

[Frustrated Father]

Welcome to Wyrd!

There are more than a few folks around here that you can mug for their secrets and most of them won't put up near as much fight as you would think.

:D

Looking forward to seeing your works and you jumping into any of our many contests.

[Hinton]

Welcome to the forums!

[RogerB]

Wlcome to the forums, Cee.

[Jabberwocky]

Welcome to Wyrd!

[demonherald]

welcome aboard Cee ... nothing secret on here except............................................ ...................

[Springbok]

Hi,
I'm Sias, 26 years old and from Southampton in the UK.
I was born in South Africa, but was moved to the UK when I was still very young. I've been around for a while on CMON, but registered on Wyrd to take part in TT, and I've got to say that I've enjoyed the site a lot ever since!

I don't paint very often unfortunately, but I'm trying to rectify that. I work as a sign maker atm, and will hopefully join the fire service in December.
Apart from that, I've got 2 Jack russel terriers, and I try not to get killed when I play rugby at the weekends.

Cheers!

[demonherald]

Welcome aboard Sias...The british contingent is really beginning to fill up round here.. Go guys and Gals....

[Frustrated Father]

Welcome to Wyrd Springbok!

Good luck with the fire department and certainly with the rugby. They've got a saying over here that I'm sure ya'll do as well ... 'Give Blood, Play Rugby!'.

[Hinton]

Welcome to the forums!

[TheBugKing]

I'm really sick of the message telling me to make my first post so this is me making it go away!
Yay!

About me:
I'm a theatrical construction rigger / estimator / master rigger mechanic / IT support.

What that all means is this:
I build playhouse theaters, theme park rides, estimate jobs and help keep my company’s computer system running.
I constantly feel like I have multiple personality syndrome with work as there are always several different departments clamoring for my time. It's nice to be wanted I guess.

I do concert rigging on the side when time presents itself. (Which is very uncommon as I am usually working 70+ hours a week and periodically work 100 to 110 hours in a week. Oh and I am a salaried employee. Yay slave labor!)
Last year I got to work the Superbowl. I have also worked for Shakira, Barbara Streisand, and frequently work the Latino Billboard Awards.

Hobby wise I am much more of a terrain builder. I actually like painting miniatures the least out of all the aspects of this hobby. Unfortunately I am half way decent at it. Nothing like the level of some of the folks here but above the 50% mark I would guess.

Yay! No more "Please please please post" message!

[Hinton]

Welcome to the forums! Definitely sounds like a hectic schedule.

[Frustrated Father]

Welcome to Wyrd - now to just crank up that annoyance message to ten posts.

:D

[TheBugKing]

Welcome to Wyrd - now to just crank up that annoyance message to ten posts.

:D

It's not hard to find out where you live you know.... :firedevil
Of course you would have to keep up somehow as I will soon reach 10 posts. What's next? 25? 50? 1700?

We will all have to use your avatar then!

[Night Hunter]

Partially to stop the reminder, but mostly to say hello to some friends I see here from elsewhere in this small geek world of miniature gaming...
My name is Aaron and I have been doing mini gaming way too long. I work by day as a lawyer and by night as a dad- sneaking painting and game/campaign design in by candlelight when I can. I have just moved to NW Wisconsin and am looking for others to game with in this area (Eau Claire, Superior, Twin Cities). I play Confrontation, AT43, 40k and Dark Age to name a few.
I noticed the Wyrd booth at GenCon this year and was instantly drawn to the amazing line of minis and look forward to the Malifaux game. My hope is to get involved in playtesting and game mechanics for this new system!
Hello to all of you and keep up the excellent work!

[Hinton]

Welcome to the forums! Always nice to see new people showing up and joining the community here.

[EricJ]

welcome :D

[Frustrated Father]

... and people say annoying messages don't work!

:D

Welcome to Wyrd!

[Nightshade]

Hey there everyone. Just wanted to say HI. I am a paint chemist by trade and a mini gamer by night. You could if you wanted call me "Mr. Paintminion" as I am her husband. I really liked the mini game at Gen Con and picked up some figs. So now that I am on I am going to have to join in Iron Painter next round just as long as I dont have to go up against my wife. ;) Now to go and look at the other sections.

[Hinton]

Welcome to the forums!

You know, if you were to be matched up against her in the IP, you would have an advantage as you could mess with her entry while she's away.

:vb_devil:

[Duende]

:welcome:

[TheBugKing]

Heh.
Or simply mess with her time set aside to paint.
Welcome to the Wyrdness
The water is fine

[Frustrated Father]

Hey Art, welcome to Wyrd!

[PaintMinion]

You guys do know I can hear you, right?

[Wren]

They're guys, they're not so well known for thinking things through. ;->

Welcome Nightshade!

[demonherald]

They're guys, they're not so well known for thinking things through. ;->

Welcome Nightshade!

now now no need for that kind of talk .... bloody sexist if you ask me....
I have it on good authority that Skya cannot paint for tofee and it is in fact Mr Minion who does all her work period .....:tongue2:
welcome to the boards man that would be one great IP match up and a different explanation in the divorce courts...

"well your honour , we were in this competition online ,,, we were paired up against each other and well.. we're usually not competitive but he messed around with my entry the day before the deadline so I shoved his entry where the sun don't shine...Then it got nasty............."

[EricJ]

welcome to wyrd!

(and I'm not even going to touch that post Rob...)

[Skya]

now now no need for that kind of talk .... bloody sexist if you ask me....
I have it on good authority that Skya cannot paint for tofee and it is in fact Mr Minion who does all her work period .....:tongue2:
welcome to the boards man that would be one great IP match up and a different explanation in the divorce courts...

"well your honour , we were in this competition online ,,, we were paired up against each other and well.. we're usually not competitive but he messed around with my entry the day before the deadline so I shoved his entry where the sun don't shine...Then it got nasty............."

Well of course I cant paint for tofee, tofee is sticky and makes the paint consitency go wierd. Now, why I would go all the way out to the middle of nowhere :P and have Sue's minions paint for me when I have my own perfectly good minions at home I have no idea.

*cracks the whip at the two cats chained to the desk, being forced paint miniatures with their tails*

[eastman]

... when I have my own perfectly good minions at home I have no idea.

*cracks the whip at the two cats chained to the desk, being forced paint miniatures with their tails*

I thought you were still keeping that secret until they finished your commission backlog?

[DeafNala]

Ah, a fellow sufferer of Imminent Senility. WELCOME TO WYRD[ness]! Enjoy your stay! :star:

[PaintMinion]

Skya...a Battle of the Minions...mine vs yours!

And hold on....Nightshade might just paint for toffee...it's his favorite!

Now this week's topics of conversation have been...

"so...what are you painting for Wyrd?"
"Ummm, not sure, what are YOU painting for Wyrd?"

...and classics like...

"Hey, that's MY Perdita! What are you doing?!"
"I could have sworn this one is mine, see, I'm halfway done with the mold lines."
"No, yours is in the blister still, over there in front of the bookcase...or was that one in the cabinet? I can't remember where I put it..."

But seriously, it will soon be 18 years of marriage. We can weather anything. But the price of taking his photos and uploading them just got much much higher. :D