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)
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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?