My nick was created about a decade ago as I recall, when I've been keen on playing text RPG games on the Russian Star Wars fanclub forum. I've used to have a smugler character back then, who, not without the influence of my childish maximalism and attraction to plagiarism was different from Han Solo a little to not at all. His name was Kellard Solander - I don't remember how did I come with Kellard, but Solander is a combination from Solo and Rendar. The nickname sticked to me since these times, so, well this is it. With the release of a book "A girl with a dragon tatoo" it started to cause some questions however, since Solander is a more or less common Swedish surename, and the main character of the book is called the same. But I'm pretty sure that the stir around the book would soon calm down, but I will be remembered ;D ;D ;D
The userpic is a painting of Yury Gagarin holding Layka (one of the first dogs sent into a space flight during the development of a first human mission) on his hands. This situation has never happened in reality, and those two had never met - it is a complete imagination of the artist. However, I've found this picture a kind of touchy, and thought it would be cool to use this pic as an avatar, since in scale modeling I've been always obsessed with sci-fi, and this picture can be called my small tribute to one of the greatest steps in making humanity's dreams of other stars coming true.