Hello, my name is Harm op den Akker and I’m a long time fan of Warhammer and Fantasy in particular. I discovered Warhammer around 1996 and spent a lot of my teenage years painting and playing at my local Games Workshop. When my university years started, I slowly faded out of the hobby around the year 2001. Then, like so many others, during the COVID-19 pandemic, I picked up the brush and fell in love with the hobby again.
As someone who started playing Warhammer in the 90s, I’m very nostalgic for that colourful ‘Eavy Metal style of miniatures painting that dominated each and every White Dwarf magazine released around those years. But I’m also nostalgic for the feeling of a lively gaming store, with ongoing war games and shelves full of awesome miniatures. The combination of these two nostalgia-fueled passions lead me to focusing my hobby time on building armies for the new Warhammer: The Old World game, using colour schemes and techniques that aim to recreate the 90s ‘Eavy Metal style.
Finally, this website is my way of trying to give something back to the community that has brought me so much joy, in the past and present. I hope you find something useful or enjoyable here!
Privacy
When visiting this site, you are not being watched, and you are not being tracked!
The only information that I collect is basically “counting visitors”. I do this using a self-hosted version of Matomo, an open-source platform designed to measure website visitor statistics in a privacy-preserving manner. In the case of this website, it is set up in the following way:
- No cookies – so I cannot tell if two “views” at different times come from the same person.
- No data sharing – all data is stored on my hosting provider with servers in Portugal, and it is not shared with anyone.
When you visit this site, I can see that someone from your general geographic area has visited the site, and I can see how this visitor has arrived (direct entry, via some social media platform, or through a search engine). I can also see how this visitor is traversing through the different pages of the site (e.g. home -> tutorials -> about -> exit). I use this data to look at it and feel slightly better out myself if people look at my tutorials. That’s it.
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Contact
If you like what you’re seeing here and want to reach out, feel free to leave a comment on any of my posts (as long as you’re not trying to promote dubious websites, I’ll approve any comment as quickly as possible!). You can also provide general feedback, ideas, suggestions, or criticisms about the site by sending an email to harm@harmsworkshop.com. You can also help spread the word (and stay up to date) by following me on BlueSky, or Instagram.
Support
Finally, if you want to help me cover my costs, you can make a donation via www.ko-fi.com/harmsworkshop.
Disclaimer: As I want to keep all my content free for everyone to enjoy, donating, or subscribing doesn’t give you any extra benefits other than my sincere appreciation!