Reply To: Hobby Weekender 31/01/2019 – Let's All Down with the Sickness

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Lightning, thunder….

Now, questions and maybe answers

1. What hobby progress can be done when it is just too hot to paint (totally not asking for myself… it’s for a friend of a friend of a friend…). Conversely, what hobby progress can be done when t’s too cold?

Things that don’t really need paint. So planing, cutting foam, building, taking pictures and last (but not least) PLAY! Too hot or too cold is *the* excuse to stay indoors and play with little plastic men and monsters 😉 Planing events, look for new shiny stuff to add to the pile/closet/room/mountain of shame 😉

2. In this day and age of OH&S and ergonomic enlightenment, do you prefer to sit or stand when doing hobby? Does this vary depending on the activity you are undertaking?

While building and painting I usually prefer to sit. That being said, my desk is elevated so that I don’t “hunker down” to paint but can sit rather upright. When using powertools I generally stand. Just to have much more control over my tools. At work I switch between sitting at the PC and standing. Other than that I go swimming with my wife and daughter but only now and then.

3. Give us all a rundown on an innovative (or at least slightly unusual) basing technique that you have used before or would like to try.

Uh, since I’m rather… um… simple with basing (mostly to avoid having a snow base on my mini when playing on a lava map and such things). But @avernos finger-stirred-untill-good method really intrigued me. Only, my inner Monk won’t allow to mix those nicely divided grass, tuffs and other things… so, monochrom it is for me 😉

4. Would you ever consider skydiving? How about SCUBA diving?

Nope. I’m a little control freak and when plummeting towards earth there is very little control. And SCUBA diving takes a lot of time and practice. At least if you want to do it really well. Nope, not my cup of coffee. For those things we build drones, submarines and the likes. But I’d like to sit a race car or super sports car and be driven around by someone who can really drive.

BONUSQUESTION for everybody

What is the first thing you can remember, that brought you to the hobby?

For me it was: *drumroll* Boredom. It was Spetember 1997 and I was doing my time in the Bundeswehr. (I was wearing uniform for 4 years) I was on guard duty but on my off time and had nothing to to. I bought a funny looking magazine from the shop on our base. It was called: White Dwarf. I saw pictures of Epic 40.000, Orks and much more… I was hooked.

The rest is history.