Thanks for the mentioning @evilstu . This brings me directly to my hobby pledge: finish the f*****g challenge. Yesterday evening I was asking myself how I could commit to such a thing. But now I am actually in a good mood. I am back at the painting table and hit the brushes in the next few minutes. To quote my special Angela: Wir schaffen das! (We can do it!)

40k-Speedpainting-Challenge: A Battalion of Kasrkin in one Weekend ***NOW LIVE***

First music I ever liked of the bat: That’s a tough one. I started listening to music very early and have only a few memories of that. Like with 3 years or so. But I have an older sister and was heavily influenced by that. Mostly to the point that if I changed the music she beat the crap out of me. But when I had my own stereo the first thing I really loved and played all day long was:

Jerry Lee Lewis – Great Balls of Fire

I should have been 7 or 8 years old. Didn’t understand the lyrics as we only started to learn English in 5th grade at that time (10-11 years old), but I still loved it. Drove my entire family crazy with it. Still love the song today.

Best hobby advice ever? Keep painting! I don’t care how crappy your skills are or how bad your minis look. Keep painting. Everything (and yes I mean everything, even those pink Terminators the 5 year old daughter of a friend painted) look better than plastic grey. Actually the first tabletop group I was part of was really hateful of my painting skills. We all were about 11 years old and yeah I painted really really bad. But all the hate and mockery was really hurtful and I nearly dropped the hobby. Actually it was my mom who kept me going as she saw it as an ideal opportunity to get me away from the PC and the SNES. Much later at about 15 I joined another group containing a few in the same age and a few older guys including @andre77 . Suddenly nobody had a problem with my painting anymore and everybody was encouraging and going like “Keep painting. You’ll get better!” And thou I’m not considering myself a great painter even today my painting has improved lightyears from were I was more than 20 years ago.

So now I am going to listen to that advice and get back the Kasrkin. And listening to the weekender. Happy weekend everybody!

Edit: how do I include videos in here?