My last name is Green and my username is just my first name and the first letter of my last name.

I change my avatar occasionally and my current one is of a wooly mammoth, presented as a gift from Empress Catherine of Russia to King George III. It's from a multi-format series called Faction Paradox which I'm a particular fan of, involving a time traveling voodoo cult acting in a universe tearing itself apart in an apocalyptic war which makes 40k look like a storm in a teacup by comparison. If any of you are curious one of the Faction Paradox novels - Newtons Sleep - is available for free as a pdf on the publishers website and I would recommend checking it out, it's one of my top few favourite books and a great introduction to the universe.

I try not to be... :-) Avatarwise, it brings me back to where it all started. A more fun and playful grimdark, where fluff was more obviously a result of random thefts of literature and alcohol.

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Nitpicks Knapsack (Scratchbuilding and 3D designing and printing and painting)

I realized I had no avatar, since the one I frequently used is lost with another computer, so I had to recreate my usual one. The guy with the wig in the picture is Carl Michael Bellman, a famous Swedish "singer/song writer" living in the 18th century. I had an intense period of listening to modern recordings of his poems/songs, bundled in collections of epistles. He was exceedingly liberal for his time, making the everyday people of nightlife Stockholm the main characters; officers, musicians, prostitutes, artisans etc. The songs themselves range from pastorals to descriptions of bawdy bacchanals to hangover-induced contemplations of life's misery in general with a bit of tuberculosis tossed in for good measure. His two main bodies of work are "Fredman's epistles", and "Fredman's songs", named after a watch maker (or a recorder of time).

Since my real name is Fredrik, my constant singing soon earned me the nickname Fredman. Most forums have a fredman, but no forums have members using the possessive case.

/Fredmans

The Bissler is something work colleagues did and sometimes do still call me. It's very close to my surname and I use it both because I was amused that colleagues came up with this moniker and that people who know me can find what I'm posting without me actually posting my own name.

The avatar is a character from 2000AD's Strontium Dog strip, Middenface McNulty. He is a Scottish bounty hunter who happens to be a mutant, hence the lumps on his head. Middenface typically speaks in Glaswegian slang and in my opinion is the funniest character ever to appear in 2000AD. Strontium Dog was written by John Wagner and Alan Grant, both of whom are Scottish so the reason Middenface is such an amusing character - particularly for Glaswegians such as myself - is because they know Glasgow and its inhabitants all too well.

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Clickable links for more Epic goodness:

Life of Die Channel including Epic Podcasts and Battle Reports

Epic 40K Players Page on Facebook
Net Epic Evolution Rules
Net Epic War! Campaign Rules

I'm an IT Architect by profession and a Software Developer by avocation, so I spend a lot of time talking to machines, trying to get them to see my point of view and doing as I'd like them to.

The name is from that, and the Larry Niven character 'Speaker-to-Animals', from the 'Ringworld' series of novels.

The avatar is a Techpriest I painted for my 28mm Imperial Guard army. I am, unsurprisingly, fond of all things Mechanicum.

Although Vanvlak sounds like a third rate WH Vampire Counts army character, it's actually the name I have one of my earliest characters in my Chaos forces, and it is actually based on the surname of the author of a textbook on materials science, Van Vlack. http://www.mse.engin.umich.edu/undergraduate/vvul/about

At least it's better than Dogretch, a long suffering Nurgle general of similar vintage....

The pic I use is a vehicle I converted for Land Ironclads, a VSF set of rules, and it obviously includes bits of Epic models. Although the base is just a table surface, it looks a bit like it's trundling along a desert region. I chose it because it's a conversion, and weird - which is typical for me.

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Back from oblivion (again)?

Karegak is Skagerrak backwards without the s and double r. It's the waterside of the coastline I've been living on the last ten years. When I joined TacCom I was game mastering a DnD campaign where all locations were named after Scandinavian place names spelled in reverse.

The avatar is just one of my Demolishers, will have to change it when I repaint it during the coming year.

"The Apocolocyntosis (divi) Claudii, literally The Gourdification of (the Divine) Claudius, is a political satire on the Roman emperor Claudius, probably written by Seneca the Younger. […] The title plays upon "apotheosis", the process by which dead Roman emperors were recognized as gods.
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The title Apokolokyntosis (Ἀποκολοκύντωσις, "Gourdification" - sometimes translated as "Pumpkinification") comes from the Roman historian Dio Cassius, who wrote in Greek." pasted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocolocyntosis

I read a lot of classics and classical lit and read the Apocolocyntosis for A level

Picture is a reaver i sculpted a few years ago. Before that I had a plasticard warlord mock-up with a smily face.

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AFK with real life, still checking PMs

Irisado came about as a result of my love of Spanish. It's one of my favourite words in the language. The irony is that it's an adjective, not a noun, so technically I'm being grammatically incorrect across all the forums where I use it (which is nearly every forum I'm a member of).

As for my avatar, well, got to keep you guessing about some things .

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Ha ! My mental image of Rastaman is ruined - had always imagined you with a paintbrush in one hand and a camberwell carrot in the other !

I had been a "guest" viewer on these boards for a year or two before i joined - during the twilight of my extended wargaming hiatus - looking on enviously at all those lovely 6mm armies i could only dream of as a kid. My friends and i had been boardgaming for a few years, and had recently dug out spacehulk around the time i joined taccoms and as anyone who has played SH knows, 'steeler blips like to lurk off boards ready to come on and eat terminators...

Just seemed to fit.

As time has gone on Blip also seems to fit both my erratic posting and also our little outpost of epic way down here at the very end of the old world, keeping the 6mm lights on...

Cool idea for a thread.

My name is... well, a play on "Homocidal Maniac", obviously, but, it comes from my intense and genuine hatred of Xenos I don't think I've ever played a non-human army in any of GW's pantheon of games. Chaos, fine. At least they're human. But those Xenos? Kill 'em all.

My avatar is my kitbashed Gabriel Seth, Chapter Master of the Flesh Tearers model. He's probably the model in my collection that I am most proud of. Took me a very long time to build and paint.

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Former Blood Angels Army Champion
Epic Gamers Los Angeles Chapter
Armies Played:
Blood Angels
Black Legion
Codex Marines
Imperial Fists

Dobbsy isn't terribly hard to work out as my nickname-ised surname and I prefer it to my original nickname from school which I will not divulge here And no, it's not "Floppy" (if anyone remembers the Nottinghill movie reference).

The avatar is one I knocked up because I'm both the Space Wolves AC and Thousand Sons acting-AC and because I'm putting the Epic:Nemesis supplement together with both of those forces featured.

I was a Sgt in the USMC and, at one point, crossed the equator on a ship, which entitles you to the "Shellback" title: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-crossing_ceremony

My avatar is The Thing from Fantastic Four. I just love his iconic look. This particular version of him was drawn by Seth Fisher, who did some really amazing work before a tragic early death.

http://ifanboy.com/articles/remembering ... th-fisher/

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Epic Gamers Los Angeles Chapter

Great thread!

My parents moved when I was 14 and I had to join a new school. Being a little nerdy (I know, a shock to most of you here!) I was given another guy in the class to show me around. Within a week, people were referring to me as 'shadow'. When I first signed up to the internet for some web space (Freeserve, around 2002) I found that 'shadow' was already taken in a hundred different ways. As I was then doing a PhD in Cybernetics..... CyberShadow just seemed to fit really well.

It is, however, often taken. In these times, my second handle is usually CyberSammael. I will let you work that one out.

I change my avatar rarely. Currently, it is Koenig VB-6 Monster from Macross Frontier. I am a huge Transformers and Macross (and transforming robot... and just robot) fan. The Koenig is one of my favourite mecha designs of all times, and kicks arse.

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https://www.cybershadow.ninja - A brief look into my twisted world, including wargames and beyond.
https://www.net-armageddon.org - The official NetEA (Epic Armageddon) site and resource.