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PolarBearSama
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[2006-11-24 00:02:15 +0000 UTC]
"Wilt Chamberlain"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 431; Deviations: 121; Watchers: 9
Watching: 19; Pageviews: 5951; Comments Made: 86; Friends: 19
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Chris WaltonFavorite movies: Kung-Fu Panda
Favorite TV shows: Community, The Universe
Favorite bands / musical artists: Primus
Favorite writers: Douglas Adams
Favorite games: Warmachine
Favorite gaming platform: PS2
Tools of the Trade: GW paints and a brush
Other Interests: Gaming... and more Gaming
# About me
I've been playing various forms of games for over a decade now. It all started in middle school when a friend of mine introduced me to "Magic: The Gathering." It all went quickly downhill from there. I've played quite a few different CCGs along the years, but it was that one fateful day at The Fantasy Shop, St. Charles, where my friend and I had been feeding our Magic habit, when we tried the demo of Warhammer 40k that'd been set up when my fate was terminally tied to minis gaming.I mostly switched from CCGs to minis games. It started with 40k (2nd edition, mind you), playing various armies there. Then for a while it was the "pre-painted plastics" of Mechwarrior: Dark Age, then on to Star Wars minis and so forth.
Then a friend walked in one day with this copy of a new rulebook I'd never seen. "Prime" was written across the cover and it showed giant robots beating each other up with this guy with a giant goddamned axe going to town on it as well. I flipped through the book, finally coming to the "Doomreaver" page and I was hooked. Originally I picked up Warmachine as a "cute, other, little game to play when not playing 40k" but it's since grown into really the only hobby I've got; all other games having gone by the wayside in some form or another, either through them being discontinued or the rules straying away from what originally got me involved in them.
I like to think I'm a good painter. I'm not going to get a call from any major game company and be offered a giant deal to be their studio painter, but I'm not just randomly throwing paint around, either. At least, not anymore. I gloat about having every Warmachine figure I own 100% assembled and painted. It's something I'm rather smug about, especially since I don't care if my opponent uses painted figs or not. There's nothing like joining a conversation about how "people should paint all their figs before they use them" and lord it over those haughty bastards that I've got all my stuff done. Why haven't they?
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the (crappy) pictures I've taken of my stuff. I really need to get around to taking more someday. A lot of those are really out of date. I've got so much more painted now it's not really even funny.
Favourite genre of music: Umm... Primus
Favourite style of art: Baroque
Favourite cartoon character: Dr. John Zoidberg
Personal Quote: I was born at a very young age. I plan on living forever. So far, So good.
# Comments
Comments: 28
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No problem. I'm a sucker for a good photo of nature, in particular rivers and forests.
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No problem. Love your photography.
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Thank you. Somedecade I need to do my Menoth and Khador stuff.
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same here
Though, I can finally say I'm doing good work on my khador right now 
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Are you the same PolarBearSama that used to hang out on the StarWars Minis Forum?
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Yeah. I used to play SWM and I've still got my SWM Starship Battles figs around as well.
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I sold off my Miniatures for a bit of a profit (which is nice), but I'm holding onto my Starships.
Good to see you painting
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It'd be nice if they actually did something with the Starships line, whether it be release more ships with the current rules (a ruleset I actually like, mind you) or get a whole new set of rules and start over.
As for painting, I've been doing so for quite a long time. I played 40k long before I picked up anything Pre-painted. I'm still working on getting better, though.
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I agree with you on the ships. The rules for the most part are good (there are some range rules I think could be tweaked). But I'd love to see some additional ships. The only drawback to that is powercreep. New releases are NEVER balanced well with the old releases.
I also don't have anyone locally that plays 
I've been painting for less than a year, and I've never played an actual GAME of 40k (SWM was my first tabletop game), but I'm keen to learn once I get a squad or so together.
I'm almost done with my first Tactical squad of Royal Venom Marines, but I'll have to pop in to a game store on their training day.
Even if I don't like the game, I'll still probably paint
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Well, it's all your fault for making awesome arts.
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I do my best keep doing it.
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Well, I figure I see posts for your stuff on the PP forums enough, I might as well watch you on my account over here. Not that I have any artwork myself to post. I can't art my way out of a paper bag.
*hands over a cookie and a lifesize Drago plushie* ^_^
PB
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*munches cookie and wonders if Drago plushie tastes any good as well*
Hey, if you're gonna be at Gencon this year, stop by the Ram Wed night for a beer with the crew.
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