I was 15 in 1999 lol. I started painting and war gaming around the same age and have been on and off. I stopped when I went to uni and started partying and when I met my wife I settled down and about 5 years about I started taking painting a lot more seriously. Every man needs an escape from real life although I find painting mentally challenging when I'm putting my all into it.
In September that year I was flying across the Atlantic in my arms my dragon box for 24 hours until I arrived at my bed in Breakfast in Stratford upon avon where I stayed for one full week waiting for the Games day in Birmingham, awesome week, actually dream week, only thing missing was my wife, I should of insisting she comes anyway...I visited Warwick Castle, Oxford, and I when to Nottingham for the Pictures for the last day. I will never forget how the ppl where warm and welcoming and how i loved the train rides in the countryside. The VIP tour of the complex is just mind blowing, got to chat with legends there.
This is the piece that put my name up there, My sword in the USA in 97 is something ok but this is what I am known for. This is me as crazy as this.
With my Gold demon they also gave me this.
More official
This is what I was fighting for, that sword right there, and you can see my head in the lower left corner just behind Jacob Neilsen's arm, can you see the expression I am In a state of shame over my failure LOL That's me that's ole Teronus right there!!!!!
But look at that no sword but half of a page in white dwarf.
Plus almost a whole page in the Chaos Codex of 2002 or something, so every guy who played codex knows who I am, that is my most Honorable accomplishment my name is set in stone no matter what.
I am happy to share this story with you.
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