Hi Community, Why Did You Pick Your Nickname and Personalize Your Vehicles the Way You Did?

We often get on here and argue about what vehicle is best and Why? For instance, I never did well in P51s in props but I do very good in Me 109s, both boom and zoomers. Since playing from Beta, I know that everyone has a unique flying style.
However, there is one indisputable fact in Warthunder, you picked your “Avatar” and you personalize your vehicles for a certain reason.
Often, when Im cruising into battle, waiting for the Battle to develop, I sometimes look at my mates avatars and wonder why they chose that? This is why I chose Racer X
In “Speed Racer,” Racer X is portrayed as a mysterious, masked figure who often helps Speed by subtly interfering in races to protect him from dangerous opponents, usually placing second while ensuring Speed wins; this is because Racer X is actually Speed’s older brother, Rex, who faked his death to protect his family and the sport of racing, thus explaining his hidden identity and seemingly selfless actions on the track.

Key points about Racer X:

  • Secret identity:

Racer X is revealed to be Speed’s brother, Rex, who underwent plastic surgery to change his appearance after faking his death.

  • Protective motives:

His primary goal is to safeguard Speed from the corrupt racing world, even if it means sacrificing his own victories.

  • Mysterious persona:

The mask and hidden identity contribute to the intrigue surrounding Racer X, making him a shadowy figure who operates in the background.
LOL but I cannot figure out how to upload my skins…tell me how to do that Community!
Why did you pick your skins and Avatar? I used to put the emblem of Saburo Sakai on my planes because I admired the way he fought off 40 Hellcats across a Pacific battle that lasted for 800 miles, but then I decided to develop my own identity.

Why did you pick your skins and Identity mates? Its interesting to me why the various mates in the Community does this.
I have an X on my plane and number #9 to go along with some beautiful skins…how do I upload those?



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i like the twins

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I chose the profile picture because the French pilot giving a thumbs up was getting a little stale.

I chose my username because it is vaguely related to an old one and looks like bot username, so it’s funny to see people call me a bot in this game and in others.

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Brit main = British naval profile. its the law :P

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Didn’t had any profile picture for my faveorite nation (It’s a shame subtrees won’t get one) So this seemingly handsome italian guy it is.

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I paid 1000 GE for a pilot with J-20 in the background

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Just look at her

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I have no idea why i picked this one tbh.

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Simple reason: I like fluffy hats

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Because I’m an American and Creighton Abrams is a legend

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My PFP I chose because it’s one of the few because it’s one of the few female tanker pfps.

My name is something me and an old friend came up with a decade ago when trying to come up with deliberately bad bandnames, it’s a bad use of the old middle English/Latin term ablation/ablatio which means “to take away” or “remove”, so essentially means to takeaway kittens, I ended up using it cause I needed a username and had been baby sitting my cats in a new house where they kept trying to eat the literally cabinets, so I was doing a lot of removing kittens at the time lmao.

Customisation wise I like to add clutter, make my vehicles look lived in, usually by using the bears, and other similar objects tucked into stowage baskets or in other sensible places.

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This one stood out to me back in the day because he’s just so happy. He isn’t trying to look somber or badass, he just looks delighted to be out flying.

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A respectable payment

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I’m studying to be an Astronaut, hence why I have Yurij as my avatar. I customize my vehicles to reflect my personality ig?

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I chose mine because of its prerequisites to unlock it lol

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P-51 is my favorite aircraft why not have it as my PfP

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I either run the British officer for the elegance and drip,
Atomic heart twin because that event was fun,
Strv 103 lady with dart to represent my favourite tank,
J-20/Tornado lady (1k GE pfps) if I am playing air for a long time

And a couple of others depending on mood, overall pretty random but my favourite is my current forum equipped one

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lol, youre the only one as yet to describe your vehicle, Thank You.

Profile picture:

Only female PfP I could find that had practical hair length and did not have too much make up.

Favourite aircraft:

F4U-4 because WW2 carrier based aircraft that isn’t very hard to fly (unlike F6F, which I struggle with).

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Butchered my Display port cable last night, so I’ll send a screenshot when my new one arrives lmao

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