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Other hobbies that are not ship model building
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I hope your cooking is conducive to body building for a 38 year old.
I can make a mean salad and hit the gym every day, but have found that a round of golf in the morning and a crawfish boil and slice of pecan pie with vanilla ice cream for dinner goes down nicely at 78.
You'll see..........What is your favorite dinner recipe (or two or three?)
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That does happen.My Admiral also enjoys cooking delicious meals as a hobby, after which I engage in bodybuilding and have already gained quite a bit of body mass.
I also have slot cars as a hobby. I'm currently building a racetrack out of wood.
Jose
Jose
Looks great. Lovely detailed car, how big is it ?
it is scale 1:32
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Super! seen youtube video's about the technics behind it. I see you make the takeover mechanics in it. There is a sub forum here where you can make a buildlog of it. I think more people here with extra spare room in the house gonna like it. When you see how racing on a track like this goes, it's fun. Hope you will show us more.
Super! seen youtube video's about the technics behind it. I see you make the takeover mechanics in it. There is a sub forum here where you can make a buildlog of it. I think more people here with extra spare room in the house gonna like it. When you see how racing on a track like this goes, it's fun. Hope you will show us more.
A very interesting thread of activities. Some of my hobbies I havn't seen here: For over 40 year my wife and I go dancing every sunday. And also not seen here and shown on some pictures: Some friends and I do some coloured paper and I use them for cardboard boxes of very different designs and shapes. Futhermore I do sculptures with soapstone and last but not least Orimoto (this is origami with books). Enjoy!
Hi Viper,
I have built model cars most of my life. Here are a few of my models. The last is a 37 Ford truck that I am working on now.
Bill
I have built model cars most of my life. Here are a few of my models. The last is a 37 Ford truck that I am working on now.
Bill
Really nice work, Bill. I can see paying attention to details help with ship building.
I used to do model cars way back as a kid and decided to try it again. I saw these two at an estate sale and had to get them being a Green Hornet fan from the TV show way back when. One is by AMT 1;25 scale that's really detailed and the other is by Polar Lights 1:32 scale that has a lot less parts.
I used to do model cars way back as a kid and decided to try it again. I saw these two at an estate sale and had to get them being a Green Hornet fan from the TV show way back when. One is by AMT 1;25 scale that's really detailed and the other is by Polar Lights 1:32 scale that has a lot less parts.
I have never seen either of the Green Hornet cars built. looks like they could make for an interesting build. I see that the Polar Lights car is 1:32 scale.
Bill
Bill
Kurt Konrath
Kurt Konrath
Room for upgrades, maybe LED lighting for headlights and taillights and green inside, and a smoke generator for the back.....
Hobbies, huh?
I have more hobbies than I can afford.
To keep it short. . .
In 1975, I was introduced to Civil War reenacting and Board Wargaming
During the Bicentennial of the American Revolution I portrayed a sailor at various events, such as the Penobscot Expedition and while crew on the Pride of Baltimore at the Siege of Yorktown.
Most of my reenacting for 40 years was in the American Civil War, and most of that with the 1st Maine Cavalry, though I fell in with friends doing artillery or infantry now and then.
left 2 pics; Penobscot Expedition Maine 1979, Pride of Baltimore 1981, Loudoun County Virginia 2009
I don't know if it's a hobby but I've been drawing since I can recall. Mostly doodling, sometimes it had to do with work, like putting Donald Duck on a sail, or sketching because I couldn't afford film for my camera, when I had one. When I wanted to work on the boats, books and drawing were the only way I had to learn; drawing and modeling were how I supplemented that, until I could finally get hands-on experience.
An offshoot of drawing was 3D modeling, which I got into by making new models for a World War I computer flight simulator/game, I was partial to Nieuports.
Here' some of my model as seen in the game: Gotha G.III, Handley-Page 0400, Nieuport 10, Nieuport 12 & 11
If you check out the Thingiverse link in my signature, you'll see how my 3D modeling hobby morphed into a 3D Printing hobby.
I've always been a stargazer and a follower of the Space Program, so I list astronomy as a hobby; though all my life, if there's some event to see in the sky, 90% of the time, it's cloudy where I am. I never managed to do any astro-photography, so there's no cool pictures to post-sorry.
The scope on the left I no longer have, sold it in 2012, The more tripod than scope I saw Halley through in 1985, and still have it. The red one's a 10 inch Dobsonian, and the newest is a 12 inch Dobsonian I just got in 2024.
Wargaming is the other hobby I got into in the '70s and that I still do; though the games have gotten SO expensive, I took to making my own.
Oh, and sailing, for fun, I guess that's a hobby. It was a career for a while
Here's my daysailer, Lydia, I've had since 1978. The girl in the boat is also Lydia, she drives tugboats in Galveston Texas.
I have more hobbies than I can afford.
To keep it short. . .
In 1975, I was introduced to Civil War reenacting and Board Wargaming
During the Bicentennial of the American Revolution I portrayed a sailor at various events, such as the Penobscot Expedition and while crew on the Pride of Baltimore at the Siege of Yorktown.
Most of my reenacting for 40 years was in the American Civil War, and most of that with the 1st Maine Cavalry, though I fell in with friends doing artillery or infantry now and then.
left 2 pics; Penobscot Expedition Maine 1979, Pride of Baltimore 1981, Loudoun County Virginia 2009
I don't know if it's a hobby but I've been drawing since I can recall. Mostly doodling, sometimes it had to do with work, like putting Donald Duck on a sail, or sketching because I couldn't afford film for my camera, when I had one. When I wanted to work on the boats, books and drawing were the only way I had to learn; drawing and modeling were how I supplemented that, until I could finally get hands-on experience.
An offshoot of drawing was 3D modeling, which I got into by making new models for a World War I computer flight simulator/game, I was partial to Nieuports.
Here' some of my model as seen in the game: Gotha G.III, Handley-Page 0400, Nieuport 10, Nieuport 12 & 11
If you check out the Thingiverse link in my signature, you'll see how my 3D modeling hobby morphed into a 3D Printing hobby.
I've always been a stargazer and a follower of the Space Program, so I list astronomy as a hobby; though all my life, if there's some event to see in the sky, 90% of the time, it's cloudy where I am. I never managed to do any astro-photography, so there's no cool pictures to post-sorry.
The scope on the left I no longer have, sold it in 2012, The more tripod than scope I saw Halley through in 1985, and still have it. The red one's a 10 inch Dobsonian, and the newest is a 12 inch Dobsonian I just got in 2024.
Wargaming is the other hobby I got into in the '70s and that I still do; though the games have gotten SO expensive, I took to making my own.
Oh, and sailing, for fun, I guess that's a hobby. It was a career for a while
Here's my daysailer, Lydia, I've had since 1978. The girl in the boat is also Lydia, she drives tugboats in Galveston Texas.
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Drawing, When the spirit moves me is also one of my hobbies. 
Wow! everyone's other hobbies blows me out of the water. Excellent gentlemen.
Yes Bill, the Polar Lights kit is 1:32 scale. Doing some research guys have used this kit to build 1:32 scale cars for slot car track racing since they like the Black Beauty.
I'm going to start with that kit to get my feet wet again in model car building.
Oh, and Kurt, someone did the green and red LED lights on the larger 1:25 AMT kit. It's on YouTube and a great job was done.
Yes Bill, the Polar Lights kit is 1:32 scale. Doing some research guys have used this kit to build 1:32 scale cars for slot car track racing since they like the Black Beauty.
I'm going to start with that kit to get my feet wet again in model car building.
Oh, and Kurt, someone did the green and red LED lights on the larger 1:25 AMT kit. It's on YouTube and a great job was done.
I just showed my wife your drawings, she loves them, as do I. Beautiful work Danno.