Dave Walker is CHANGING THE WORLD with Warhammer, Puppets, Paints, Passion and YouTube

Ever flirted with the idea of turning your favourite hobby, passion or side-hustle into your career? 

Dave Walker knows a thing or two about it and, as anyone who has bravely ditched the grind to pursue the glory of a passion led career would know, it doesn't always pan out exactly how you'd envisaged...

“You just chew it out in three hours, they don’t like it, so you do another one. I was like… ‘I think I might be dead inside?!’”

More than a little obsessed with collecting 90s nostalgia memorabilia, Dave is the kind of dude who imports entire seasons of obscure-sci-fi-dramas-on-lazer-disk-from Japan. 

As American rapper ‘Dom Kennedy’ would affirm: “This is My Type of Party”… 

His endless love for the table top game; Warhammer 40,000, or 40K to the less-filthy casual, is the primary subject matter for his wildly entertaining and unexpected hit YouTube channel: MS_Paints which I happened to stumbled across one Sunday whilst DEEP down a lockdown DIY margarita session/YouTube algorithm fuelled content rabbit hole. 

As it would turn out the show’s title had far heavier connotations than just a tongue-in-cheek reference to a Microsoft painting tool; The main impetus behind Dave creating the channel being his unexpected diagnosis of b*****d degenerative autoimmune disease: Multiple Sclerosis or M.S. 

MS_Paints is his way of dealing with that particular S-O-A-B whilst also championing positive values in a ofttimes male-toxic wargaming community, changing the perception of disabilities and the pursuit of hobbies that require fine motor skills, with a disability.

EPIC.

Show notes:

• The MS_Paints YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaUQbazFa3BDEu_6I84s1Zg
• Dave’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=30912887
• Dave’s Insta (where you can see some of the MS_Paints characters incl. ‘Health and Safety’ Frog and his miniature-hungry cat): https://www.instagram.com/ms_paints_/

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