Sorry to be a pain. I redid all the avatars. There are new User Titles and Member Types as well as new icons that will denote the year joined.

User Levels:
250 - Model Member
500 - Elite Member
750 - Epic Member
1000- Auld Member
2000- Paper Mafia
3000- Denny's Club
4000- Honorary Staff
5000- Auncient One

That was what I cobbled together from the list that were sent out. That's my story and I'm sticking with it.

Year Joined:
King-2003
Knight-2004
Bishop-2005
Rook-2006 (If the world doesn't blow up)

I uploaded all the art that I had previous, plus some new ones.... and they are in 2 galleries (members & Staff, so I could test that part of the CF code for my brother)

Robby, DNA, and Barbarosa all have the Master Builder title to reflect their appearing on the front page (I am going to do a grfc for that also, time permitting)

Robby there is a blank one in there for you to animate.

Ghenghis_Ska finally has a couple of makeshift avatars, pending his approval.

If you have the wrong title, icon, whatever... IM so I can fix it as soon as possible.

So far, my brother is not complaining about space, so send me your ideas for new avatars, people who don't have them yet get preferential treatment, but I am really liking this position, so I want to stay busy (and Shatterdragon is already in the testing mode for new art for himself)


Without further ado:

Thanks for all the hard work Phatz. It just goes to show how much of a cool frood you really are

I would recommend against Paper "Mafia", as that carries some fairly negative connotations.

Phatz,
As usual your work is flawless and too generous!


Robby,

The Highlander chick - Hey I thought that was a given! See looked much better in Highlander than in C.H. (I guess that Highlander was made years before!!)


And Grump is right - There should have only been one, plus some cool computer games, read head lopping fun.

Talking about headlopping for those that love computer games and have a machine that will run it - look for the demo!

Lord Abaddon of Wormwood

And I uploaded JohnnyGS some action too... In case he's watching the boards in morbid anticipation....

Hmmm, Barbarosa has gotten his new status! The first Master Builder that I have seen! Congrats!

And Robby has gotten his wish as well.

The Auld Grump

If any of the avatars I test are too racey, or offensive, I will be glad to hear any critisisms, and remove any offending ones. I will be changing them regularily tonight, and sending Phatz my favorite choices for him to play with. Otherwise, enjoy the slideshow !

Edit: the slideshow is over. I have e-mailed Phatz my choices, we'll see what he can do with them (I narrowed it down to ten at least )!

Ah, well - it was fun while it lasted.

I never truly believed I deserved the elite tag so soon!

I haven't been here five minutes for God's sake! lol

MAGSMAN

PS: Believe it or not - and some won't! - before now I was going to argue against myself and say 200 was way too low for Elite. Elite is... Elite so I'm just as happy I still have to get there. It seemed a bit too easy somehow. Nothing worth having is easily gained. That's my philosopy anyway.

But I don't agree with the Auld tag. There should be only one and its the Grump. Also, a top level, say 'Almost Staff' should be for posts over say 3000 but not be distributed simply according to post-numbers. A committee of Denny & Co plus Admin, plus Mods should meet quarterly and discuss who should be awarded the most coveted title. This would cover all aspects: posting content and - most important of all - the model-builders! After all, although some guys like me might behave otherwise this is not a talking shop but a forum for WW users, and the Users are the guys who build and photograph their models. As a new guy I've taken a great deal of my pleasure from examining the pics by the guys - we all know who they are - and they are the real achievers in this forum IMHO.

And while I'm making my mouth go - there's a surprise! - how about an annual award, again decided by committee, to the top guy overall, regardless of posting numbers, for contribution to the forum. Or, better perhaps, this could be by annual membership vote?

PPS: My wife calls me 'the bishop' - but I'm not telling you why!

*edit* OK, I take back what I said about Auld. It looks good on the Grump. I misunderstood. I thought it was going to be appended onto the member-name: viz: Auld Magsman - and that would be pants!

MAGS

Oh Spiffy !!

Robby, check the last three of the staff gallery...
There is a blank amongst them...

Hey Phatz ... Thanks, Yo!

DNA, that was actually my fave of the ones I did for you.... That and Darth Maul South Park style...

Glad you finally got into the gallery...