Just wanted to see if anyone else had any other hobbies besides the plastic addiction? If so what?


For me I love to garden and grow bonsai trees. It's hard to juggle all three and do each successfully!

There are actually quite a lot of things beside my plastic addiction...

I play the trumpet in one of our universities orchestras, make electronic music myself, play around with electronics (trying to build my own instruments), and some times paint on flat surface , both with just pencil and try to learn to paint with oil on canvas.

And then of course I should have time to study for my electronics engineering degree... But now it's summer holiday so I have time to write on big A!

Woodworking is my Other big one............. (which lends itself to making bases as well)

I fly RC aircraft.

I fly R/C, fiddle with the guitar, and collect militaria.

My 'main' other current hobby reading...

While reading has been a pastime of mine since, well, the day I learnt to read I used to fence (epee), and I've spent quite a bit of time researching the family history. That was of course mostly all before I got married... now my hobby is mostly entertaining SWMBO

I've also just started a Diploma of Business Analysis, and with the evening classes, business case studies and functional specifications, it doesn't leave room for much else...

Rudi

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Salt water fish tanks for me, I'm setting up a 100 gallon reef system right now. Once it's up and running I'm going to setup and use a computer to monitor, using this "Lab View" program I use at work.

Hobbies other than my rather overwheming plastic addiction ? Lets see, Reading, mosly true history, archaeology research reports.
One of my biggest hobbies other than the plastics, is a research project I started while still in collage. Trying to dicover who the first modern humans were in North America. Sorry folks no matter what your school teacher may have told you it was not Chris Columbus. Along those lines I'm currently studying the works of Charles C. Mann, and his book "1491 New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus "
Other than that I spend the rest of my time right here playing on the net.

Harry

In my case its our kennel of wonderful Golden Retrievers!! We have been showing and breeding them for 20 yrs now. Its lots of work, but you just can't beat the joy of lying on the floor/ground and being "mauled" by a heard of happy golden puppies!!! We also have two horses, and 30 acres of property that always needs some work. Oh and of working as a police officer so that I can afford these other hobbies ) I wouldn't change any of it for the world!!!

Darryl

I also paint miniatures and play wargames with some of them, I've played guitar for about 20 years, I like to read, mostly sci-fi, fantasy and horror, and I like to cook, much to my wife's pleasure.

Other than model making:
reading (especially on the internet), cooking.

I used to hike, tie flies, fish, canoe, wood work (mostly boxes, cabinets, shelving and bookcases with some carving and chip carving) and home- landscape improvement- remodeling.

I’d like to get a woodshop going again and learn- try sailing

I build electric guitars, effects pedals/stompboxes/footswitches, and amplfiers. I woodwork. And I model railroad.

airwarrior you can't fiddle a guitar. You can fiddle a fiddle though!

Other than modeling, I like to read - history & sci-fi (especially Star Wars Expanded Universe). I try to find time to play games on my XBox 360.

I've been playing guitar a good bit lately and learning to record on the PC using Sonar 6 Studio and a couple of amp sims (Amplitube 2, Guitar Rig 2) and drum loops. Fun stuff!

I'd like to get back into paintball, but that's an expensive animal in its own right.

- Frank

I run a home for wayward cheerleaders.

I like retro hot rods and kustoms. Heavily into US railroads, MILW, GN, NP and SP just to mention but a few, and it's steam to 99% and 1st and 2nd generation dielsels up '76. Reading is also an interest that I have, history and good old mysteries. There's alot more but there's no room....

Microsoft Flight Simulator and the odd "shoot 'em up" for me.

I enjoy collecting imperial Roman coinage, knife collecting, and building longbows.

That is all really impressive! I wonder why there are so many musicians and woodworkers? I wonder what lends itself to both hobbies to work so well. I thought my "little trees" would be the most interesting but man was I wrong!

reading / collecting Dean Koontz books and shooting /collecting guns. I just bought the new P-229 elite from sig sauer!!! I am excited to make it to the range!!!!

Mine are a little bit of Rudi's (reading) and a lot more of Rob's (PC gaming). Lately it's Company of Heroes.

Cheers,
Jim

I like to dabble in the world of art, mostly lead and ink. I did some tattooing a few years back in a shop for fun.

Photography and traditional darkroom printing. In fact the darkroom has lately helped create a lonely little near-finished Centurion problem in the model room.

I like to buy/sell at my local flea market. It gets me a few extra bucks, unless I am buying and you can find some interesting thigns if you look hard enough.

Coins and stamps are another area I like to spend some time messing around with. They both have a side benifit, they are small and take up very little space.


Also help my wife with her hobby/second profession, pottery. She makes a wide varity of different pieces and is attracting a decent following.

MIne other hobbies include movies and the old Xbox 360. Somedays its hard to chose weither to model or game.