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    I paint miniature figures, mainly Warhammer 40k ones. I don't do any wargames, I just like painting them up in the Blood Angels colour scheme (it's the army I used to collect twenty years ago when I did play). I think there's some examples of my work lurking in a dark corner of the forum somewhere.

    I also write Star Trek: Disavowed that in the Off Topic Forum somewhere. It's still a WIP, I've just been lazy and haven't posted anything up in a while.
    i miss painting warhammer i should see about getting back into it. also loveing the paint schemes you have used on the eldar. Smile
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    One of my main hobbies at the moment is purchasing or taking curio and relic firearms and restoring them to their original firing condition. I also restore weapons for customers that buy a C&R, but don't have the time to do the work on it. I got interested in restoration a long time ago when I got my first C&R license from the ATF, but my interest really became piqued after I saw how video games like Battlefield 1 and 5 have started to have negative effects on WW1 and WW2 era weapons, their markets, and pricing. Due to these unfortunate set of side effects, I have made it a mission to take as many off the market as possible for preservation purposes. Many weapons of those historic eras are being bought up by 18-24 year olds and literally being ruined in the process. I have had several hundred in that age range come to me asking for my restoration services, which includes rebluing metal, refinishing stocks due to careless handling, removal of rust and patina due to improper care, and bore restoration due to improper post-shooting care and cleaning. Granted, these things happen across all age groups, but it's very prevalent at the aforementioned. Quite a few have just asked me to buy the gun or keep it once they hear that proper restoration will cost almost what they paid for it. So I've made quite a few acquisitions this way, as well as going to auctions of collections on the weekend, or strictly consigning large private collections. I keep all prime/excellent grade weapons for my own collection, but I have built up quite the collection of for sale fully restored weapons, all of which I sell to private collectors and qualified buyers. Currently I have about 125 WW1 and WW2 rifles for sale that I house in my basement workshop, including a rather large collection of Kar98 German Mausers and Swiss K11/K31 carbines that I ran across a few months ago at a private consignment.

    Here is a photo of the current curio weapons from my personal collection that I have in my upstairs closet rack. I rotate parts of my collection every few weeks so they can be fired, cleaned, then put away to make way for a new batch that need test firing and cleaning. I usually rotate my entire collection once every 6 months, so the next batch I put in the rack will have not been serviced or fired since October. Currently in the rack from left to right: 1943 Kar98k German Mauser (byf stamp), 1952 M48A Yugoslavian Mauser, 1928 Swiss K11 Carbine, 1933 Swiss K31 Carbine (458th ever produced), 1942 Japanese Arisaka Type 99 (Nagoya 5th Series with Mum), 1922 Russian Mosin Nagant (ex-Dragoon drop-in), and a 1930 and 1942 Russian Mosin Nagant.

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    #18
    Gaming, web design, software development, and music production are my main hobbies.
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    Communicator I love to act, I recently rejoined a theatre company and shall be appearing on stage in November in my very own Starfleet uniform, it was suggested I get a TWOK uniform for it, I am half also considering another uniform but from The Original Series, still trying to decide, but I am creating my own Star Trek persona to portray at comic cons, any ideas? Communicator
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    #20
    im a huge sci fi nerd, i also watch anime time to time if it has a good story. im just a typical gamer tho lol
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    #21
    I love to dance Hip Hop and Breakdance that's why I go to a dancing school.
    Aside from dancing, I love to write stories... I wrote a lot of stories about Knight Rider, Star Trek and I'm currently working on a Supernatural story Smile

    Learning New languages is also wonderful. In school, I learn spanish (and english) and at home I'm teaching myself polish. Big Grin
    History is also really fascinating to me 😃
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    #22
    Learning New languages is also wonderful. In school, I learn spanish (and english) and at home I'm teaching myself polish. Big Grin
    History is also really fascinating to me 😃
    That's pretty cool - just curious, why Polish? (My mother is Polish, and as added coincidence, she speaks about 12 languages...)

    Oh, as for history - any particular areas? My favorite period used to be the Roman era, but now it's ancient Egypt... The Egyptian exhibit at the British museum is just amazing. Seeing items that were used by everyday people who lived longer before the start of the count of our years as we are _after_ it, is really something.
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    #23
    That's pretty cool - just curious, why Polish? (My mother is Polish, and as added coincidence, she speaks about 12 languages...)

    Oh, as for history - any particular areas? My favorite period used to be the Roman era, but now it's ancient Egypt... The Egyptian exhibit at the British museum is just amazing. Seeing items that were used by everyday people who lived longer before the start of the count of our years as we are _after_ it, is really something.
    My grandparents are from Poland and I wanna speak their native language although they speak perfectly German nowadays.

    I really live the ancient Egypt aswell.. The mummies are really fascinating but also scary. The middle ages are also interesting (diseases, witch hunts, torture instruments)
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