Warhammer 40k - My hobby

A number of people have been asking me about my hobby, my miniatures, and my figurines. Now it gets my nerd-on firing when someone asks but I suddenly hesitate to answer in full because I realized that I can talk about my hobby but he/she won't be able to relate due to the fact that they don't know the background or lore of the hobby. I might just bore them. All I can tell them is that I paint little plastic toys and play with them in a massive battle of measuring tape, dice, and wit. Now that's less exciting huh?

SO WHAT IS WARHAMMER 40K?

To delve into the background and tell you everything would take almost a day of proper explaining, especially for those who know that I tend to get side-tracked with all the stories in my head - time that either my friends and I don't have in med school. I recommend that you watch this video as this guy gets the setting or background in a nut-shell, under two minutes. The other videos would be 3-6 minutes as well so if you have a break, go and watch to learn something new.

And for the game itself..

And for some inspiring Space Marines in action!

For other sources, you can read the following links. These contain a lot of info regarding specific parts of the lore or universe of warhammer 40k.

Warhammer 40k Lexicanum - Wikipedia based resource for Warhammer 40k

Warhammer 40k by 1d4chan - If you want comedy to go with knowing what 40k is, this is the place



Trivia
1. There are a lot of factions in Warhammer 40k and I play the Space Wolves faction
2. You may know Warcraft 3 and the like. That is based off of this (basically a rip-off as some would say), only less grimdark and more popular.
3. There is some notion that only fat, sweaty, middle-aged guys play them. I'll tell you that a portion of that is true but the majority are not and the number of young players is steadily increasing.
4. You can make your own faction. That is the beauty of this hobby!
5. You still need to assemble the models and paint them.