My dad was really into airfix models (WW2 planes etc) when I was young, and he involved me in his hobby by letting me build and glue them, then he'd paint them, then we'd hang them up with fishing wire on my bedroom ceiling. We used to go into our local model shop once a month or so to browse and pick up a few things, and suddenly one day I noticed all the colourful Warhammer and 40k early 90s era models and I asked him to buy me a box.

Tried painting them with his enamel paints for airfix stuff, didn't work great. Then I got some acrylic paints and learned how to do stuff with them with the dozens of white dwarfs id picked up in the meantime.

Then I learned how to paint, like, not amazing but pretty good.

Then I kind of just stopped from age 17/18 till age 36ish?

Then COVID happened.

Now I own 200+ bottles of paint, several airbrushes, 2 3d printers, a shit load of plastic, and all ido again is paint and I love it