I started my love affair in early 2001, when my band class took a school trip to the Grapevine Mills mall, and I visted the Games Workshop, not knowing what the hell it was, just that the tables they had set up looked AWESOME! I harbored my wanting of plastic space men for years, until in 2006 our game store Realms of War (RIP) had opened and a friend invited me over for a game of yu-gi-oh (I know, how sad I was a dweeb). I saw people playing 40K in the corner, and was reminded of the models I had seen. That next week, I spent my ENTIRE paycheck on some Necrons, then bought some Imperial Guard, the Dark Eldar, then Eldar, then back to Imperial Guard, then to Space Marines, then to Tyranids, so on and so forth. The orks I recently started have been a constant love affair, but i have been scared to start them. Now I am going full in, and working on some Fantasy Warriors of Chaos.
If anyone has any pointers for WoC, please let me know, I would love to hear 'em.