Topic: Hobbiezzz

[beingthehero]

Do you all have any hobbies?
I collect and build scale models, which take up a reasonable amount of time. Unless you're fantastically talented, it can take a bit of a learning curve, but there's a ton of articles dispensing advice and tips.

It's actually kind of a huge hobby with its own sub-groups and communities. For example, I stick with WWII armored fighting vehicles, which is pretty common, and Soviet/Russian jet fighters, which is a little more niche. But I have no idea what those who build model ships or cars do, and those are kind of huge in terms of communities.

Sorry about the photo quality, I used my droid's camera to take these.













Figures, like these, can be prohibitive to build. A lot of people who do wonders with scale models absolutely loathe figures, because they can be very tricky to do. Soft, rubber 1/72 figures like these are even harder, because the material they're made out of can't hold paint all that well and tend to flake. So you have to prime and re-coat them with a lacquer cote or use future wax.















(I have even more in the to-do pile. You find yourself investing a little too much money in stashes of models)
(lol)

Anyways, like this forum, you have sub-communities. You know, here we have those who frankly love the PS1 to DS era and loathe Lords, and vice versa. There are those who care for neither but love the older games, or those dedicated to just the handhelds, or to Lament, CV64 etc.

In the scale model AFV/ jet fighter community, you have casual people like me who like building detailed models, but aren't sticklers for extreme detail or perfect historical accuracy. There are also those who won't even look at a model unless it's an absolute perfect replica of the vehicle it represents, and judge the final model's quality by how much aftermarket resin and photo-etch accurizing sets that's went into it. We call these people 'assholes', but they're out there.

In the nerd level thread I also posted some of my figure collections. I collect 1:6 (GI JOE-scale) troops from 21st-Century Toys and Dragon Models Limited. I was actually shocked to find out some of the stuff I've had for years is actually worth quite a bit of coin on Ebay whereas they weren't all that terribly expensive to buy back in '02 and '03, but I have no intention of parting with them.

Anyways, what are your all's hobbies? Are you part of any hobby community?

[X]

A hobby that I haven't done in a while is also model-building. The last one i did was the R.M.S. Titanic and before that the U.S.S. Enterprise-C...or it could've been the other way around. I can't remember.

[Gunlord]

I used to build wh40k models...was never very good, though. ;-;

Nowadays my hobbies, aside from prunyuu~ing, consist of playing vidyagaems and helping fansub anime. xD

[Aridale]

I sew costumes and stuff for halloween or make coats (I make a coat or 2 a year for cold weather) I also try to do game design and programmin when I feel like it. Bein a programmer all day at works makes it hard to get excited to look at code when I get home

[Dark Nemesis]

My hobbies are, mountain climbing:




and gym:

[JR]

Hmm...besides the obligatory games/movies/CV collecting/comics/etc...

I like to lift weights. And I like to procrastinate lifting weights. More strength training than bodybuilding or anything, though.

I also love to watch mixed martial arts. UFC, old Pride fights, Bellator, you name it.

I also love metal. It's about all I listen to, and just about every metal sub-genre you can think of.



...I'm not a meathead, I swear!!



...and I'm not completely sure if anything I listed counts as a true hobby, or just an interest in something. 

[Gunlord]

Man Nemesis, u beefy *_*

[TheouAegis]

I like to eat pizza and sleep all day.
...
OK, I don't like to eat pizza, but it's just something I do.
And I don't really want to sleep all day; again, it's just something I do.

[Dark Nemesis]

I like to eat pizza and sleep all day.
...
OK, I don't like to eat pizza, but it's just something I do.
And I don't really want to sleep all day; again, it's just something I do.

  I think we have a winner here. Maybe you should change your name to michelangelo....

[beingthehero]

My arsenal

[X]

Nice collection beingthehero! But I don't see the CF-105 AVRO Arrow 

[beingthehero]

W-well, I do have a CF-18 in my stash of models. On the other hand, the kit is kind of complex to build so I've been putting it off. I have like a dozen of these in various unfinished states. 

[X]

W-well, I do have a CF-18 in my stash of models.

Well the CF-18 is nothing more then a repainted and renamed American F-18 which owes it's designs to the AVRO Arrow since both planes were designed by the same group of people (the US bought out all the A.V. RO scientists to build the next generation of American aircraft. A sad time in history). And interestingly enough the Arrow was 20 years ahead of it's time. So until around 1978 or '79 no military aircraft anywhere in the world could match the arrow's capabilities. It was and is still an amazing aircraft.

[beingthehero]

whoaaarrgggh modellin' time










Azerbaijan MiG-25P

up next: Venezuelan Su-30

[Abnormal Freak]

Not sure if you can define anything I do as hobbies, but I do obsess over movies and lately anime, and I used to obsess over music, and sometimes I get into obsessive gaming modes.

I kinda...don't do much else. Besides swimming and biking in the summer, but those are pastimes.