Avatars/screen names what about yours?

DeafPanzer,

Welcome to the forums. Even though you could not serve because of your disability I appreciate your desire to serve your country. Twenty years is too long to go without glueing some plastic. Take it slow, take it easy, but build something. I left the hobby for almost twenty years and regret every minute.

Always, Welcome.

Brian

I am deaf and I am into German armory... I chose this picture cause I thought it was so funny!  I bet my parents have done this on me to make sure if I was really deaf... 

I bet it was not that hard figuring out why I came up with my screen name.  I was born deaf and I always wanted to serve in the armed forces but my mother told me I couldn't when I was very young.  Boy, I was so upset!    So I have been into military history and building models but it has been more than 20 years since I built a model. 

This is my first post... I have been reading the forum for months and I have been LOVING it!

Mine's from a nickname I had as a student; I studied languages in college, majoring in German (I'm half German), lived over there for a while, and I taught it at the high school level in a Catholic high school (Holy Cross, Delran, NJ, whoo!).  For metal figures and toy solders, two of my favorite periods are the Imperial German Army, and the Seven Years War and our Revolutionary War.

My avatar is a shot of the Franklin Mint's figure of Baron von Steuben, from their old Yorktown series.  So I wouldn't have to worry about picking a new one, I use that avatar/screen name in pretty much every Website I belong to.

Mine is a derivitive of "Troy"... my name... I wanted, "T-rex"... but settled for "trexx" since "T-rex" was taken!

My avatar is seriously cool because it may very well document the VERY FIRST airplane combat in human history! From the Mexican Revolution, not that Turkish affair on the other side of the world! The dates are extremely CLOSE! Anywho, it's a photo of some Americans and a European or two and an airplane that flew in the Mexican Revolution.

Here's a tid bit on that:

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9E06E5D91F3AE633A2575BC0A9639C946296D6CF

My screen name is the unit and it's call sign when I was Vietnam. The avatar is the VN service ribbon with 1st Cav and 2/20 ARA patches, plus the blue max medal(I painted a simplified verson of this on the flight control fairing on our first cobra).

Jim

Screen name is pretty simple.  Add a "Y" to the end and there's the family name.

My avtar is the crest of 421 'Red Indian' Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force.  My uncle was a 'Red Indian'.  He was the first Canadian aviator to die on the continent of Europe after the end of WWII when his Sabre, a Mark II, flamed out on final approach to RCAF Station Grostenquin on 09 June 1953.  He was at 1000 feet when the flame out happended.  He tried to bail out but the safe minimum altitude for ejection in those days was 3,000 feet.  Searchers found him, still strapped in his ejection seat, in a wheat field about 12 miles out from the base.

Both my screen name and my avatar have deep personal connections to me.

My Screen Name "Gamewarden5" was my call sign when I last served in Iraq. I was the platoon sergeant for 4th Platoon, Small Craft Company, Headquarters Battalion, 2d Marine Division.
Generally the call sign anything "5" is reserved for the executive officer of a command. Since our company did not have an XO I inherited the moniker Gamewarden 5.                                

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 side note- My brother flew with VMFA(AW)-332 Moonlighters (f-18d, he's the G.I.B.) in support of 2d Marine Div. They had the 2d badge painted on the tail(to score points with the high brass) (july 05-feb.06)

 Anyway, Fermis was given to me by a girlfriend. Fermis is a unit of measurement equivilant to 1 quadrillionth of a meter. Kinda like calling a BIG, FAT, MONSTEROUSLY HUGE, man ...Tiny!!!!    (Sorry for the over-indulgence there), but I've got a                                                     BIG, FAT,MONSTEROUSLY HUGE........fish! (northern pike)I caught last fall on a salmon trip to the Manistee rv. north west-ish Michigan. The fish now holds the all time camp record by 3 ounces. My grandfather held the previous record for almost 30 years,(sorry Opa!)He, btw, flew TBFs during the war, my dad- hueys, my bro-F-18, me...cessna!

 EDIT/ new avatar...ROCKSTAR!!!

Pretty simple...first two initials followed by the last name.

As for the avatar...my nickname among friends is Silverback. Don't ask me why I didn't use it here at FSM, because I have no idea why. My callsign over at ARC is Mr. Silverback.

Thanks guys. ~Sprue

 Welcome back, Sprue!

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A long time reader, I was once registered with this forum through a subscription to FSM. This time around I decided to sign up independently of a sub and went with Sprue. I thought such an obvious screen name would surely already be taken but to my surprise it wasn't. So there you have it. ~Sprue

MaxSheridan wrote:

...I got the"formula" for my "porn name" from my favorite morning radio show....Bob & Brian- 102.9Milwaukee. Quite a few years ago, they came up with the simple but ingenius formula: porn name= first name--the name of your first pet that was the same sex as you + last name-- the name of the first named street you lived on. In my case--- Max the mutt + Sheridan Rd. = MaxSheridan...

I guess I inadvertantly used half of the porn formula...lol...Cassius was the name of my first pet. My parents had come up with the name so I didn't know its significance until I got older and learned of the ancient Roman ties (Cassius was a conspirator and arguably the leader of the assissins that killed Julius Caesar) which I thought was cool, so I've used it on all manner of sites for years. The jumbled capitalization arose when my teenage sons informed me that only newbies used conventional spelling/capitalization rules...(lol - 'cuz I was one of course)...so it ended up the way its shown (no intentional ties to the Nazi SS - I didn't even think of that until long after the fact).

The avatar is the latest evolution of cool canines...(which is really quite ironic; the original Cassius was a cat!...)...it started off as a bull dog that looked like he had a bad attitude to the current black wolf with the glowing eyes. It gets updated every couple of years I guess.

It's just as well I only used half the porn formula...caSSius Spadina (Crescent) wouldn't have made sense, even to me...

the Baron wrote:

plastickjunkie wrote: Baron My memory records must be failing. I have no idea where I found my girls but I've had them for a while. Where did you find them? After a number of searches with "octoberfest", "girls", "beer", "dirndl" and "three", in various combinations, I remembered that they were drinking Spaten, so the winning search was "spaten girls".  The first link that came back in the results was the nugget: http://www.collegeslackers.com/pictures/spaten_girls I see that picture every Sunday night on WALN's Happy Jack Polka show, and I always thought it would make great wallpaper.  The girl in front has such pretty....eyes! And you're right, that picture has everything I loved about living in Munich-lots of folk festivals, with pretty girls in Dirndlkleider, and excellent beer! Now I'm getting nostalgic for my Athen an der Isar....

For a lark I tried to find it myself. I used "beer drinking girls" that pic was #2 and 3 on the list.

Baron

Thanks for the link. I had a Spaten beer glass that somehow 'found its way' to my house when I visited the Hoffbrau in Munich back in the late 70's. A couple of years ago, my wife stuck it in the dishwasher and I guess the heat faded the Spaten logo.

plastickjunkie wrote:

Baron My memory records must be failing. I have no idea where I found my girls but I've had them for a while. Where did you find them?

After a number of searches with "octoberfest", "girls", "beer", "dirndl" and "three", in various combinations, I remembered that they were drinking Spaten, so the winning search was "spaten girls".  The first link that came back in the results was the nugget:

http://www.collegeslackers.com/pictures/spaten_girls

I see that picture every Sunday night on WALN's Happy Jack Polka show, and I always thought it would make great wallpaper.  The girl in front has such pretty....eyes!

And you're right, that picture has everything I loved about living in Munich-lots of folk festivals, with pretty girls in Dirndlkleider, and excellent beer!

Now I'm getting nostalgic for my Athen an der Isar....

Mine is simple.  USMC - United States Marine Corps, 1371 was my Military Occupational Speciality of Combat Engineer.  I served from 1991 to 1999.  When I was a kid in the early '80s, the only thing I played with was GI Joe.  My avatar is the GI Joe character Gung-Ho, a Marine.  Believe it or not, GI Joe had a huge impact on my life and actually led to my joining the military.

Jesse

Baron

My memory records must be failing. I have no idea where I found my girls but I've had them for a while. Where did you find them?

I studied German, lived in Munich, taught German, and am admirer of various barons:  Baron von Steuben, Baron von Munchausen, the Beer Baron, the Beef Baron.  So it became my screen name and avatar on a bunch of sites.

Plastickjunkie, where did you get that photo?  We have a cable radio station that plays polka music Sunday nights, and they use it as background for the ads they show during the songs.

My screen name is because I'm kind of addicted to plastic models. My first model was a DC-3 that my mother got me when I was 9. I'm 53 and till addicted to plastic models.

"Resistance is futile"

The avatar is the logo from the progressive rock ban YES. I've been a fan for years.

The screen name was inspired by my wife. Every time she sees my son and I on the forum she calls it geeks are us (lovingly of course).

Tom

Hans von Hammer wrote:

HawkeyeHobbies wrote: I just updated mine. I was able to get a picture of an otherwise camera shy Redtailed Hawk the other day while running a few errands. I always figured you were either a M*A*S*H fan, or that the only book you ever read was "Last of the Mohicans"...

Big time M*A*S*H fan! But no it came from seeing things before others...last night in the din of the moonlight I spotted a Fox sauntering through our yard. 

My screen name is my name, Mike Van Buskirk and my avatar is to honor my son who is a Marine with the 1st Marines, 1st LAR Delta Co. "Diablos" (0341) out of Camp Pendleton and currently on his second deployment to Iraq.

Their Bn. badge is in my signature.

My dad was also a Marine from 1944-1946 and crew chief on Curtis SB2C Helldivers at El Toro, CA before going to the Pacific Theater. 

Gamewarden5 wrote:

Both my screen name and my avatar have deep personal connections to me. My Screen Name "Gamewarden5" was my call sign when I last served in Iraq. I was the platoon sergeant for 4th Platoon, Small Craft Company, Headquarters Battalion, 2d Marine Division. Generally the call sign anything "5" is reserved for the executive officer of a command. Since our company did not have an XO I inherited the moniker Gamewarden 5. The term Gamewarden stems from the connection our company had with the Gamewardens of Vietnam. These hard core warriors were the riverine task force that ran the rivers in the Mekong Delta. Since our company was a riverine force we adopted the callsign "Gamewarden"  My Avatar: The purple heart medal. On January 1, 2005 I was wounded in action in Haditha, Iraq. Without getting into all of the details, I will say that it was a savage firefight that resulted in the death of one of my Marines L/Cpl Brian P. Parrello, and the wounding of myself and three other Marines and my Doc Juan Rubio (awarded the Silver Star for heroic action in this fight) So my avatar is a silent memory to these Marines and Sailor so that their sacrafice will never be forgotten. Also it is my tip of my hat to all those who have served in all branches of the Military who have shed blood in our nations defense. Brian Vinciguerra

Semper Fi and Oorah Marine!