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[Mbloes]

On my model train forum of choice, this was a topic that really surprised me with the responses, so I thought I would start it here. I'll go first.

My N scale Japanese train layout (not worked on in a couple of years):





Bicycles:





There are more photos HEREif you are interested.

[idare2bdul]

Radio control planes. I may be healthy enough to get back on a bike, I guess I'll find that out soon. I'm retiring so I may find more time for other pursuits but I enjoy both slot road racing and slot drag racing and there are more tracks in North Carolina where I'm going.

[Mark Wampler]

Bicycles!

[stumbley]

Music. Guitar and keyboards. Writing.

[Tim Neja]

I do a bit of R/C car racing - and R/C plane racing as well as slot cars!! I'm a true hobby NUT!! Love to play with toys!!

[JohnnySlotcar]

Raising English Setters, growing Bhut Jolokia Ghost peppers, and an airsoft outdoor war games shooting gallery.

[Mbloes]

Wow - all California replies so far! And SoCal at that! (Sorry - posted before brassrodman).

[TSR]

TOYS, MORE TOYS, and even MORE TOYS.

[Steve McCready]

Building and launching high power (really big) ROCKETS.

LINK

[NY Nick]

Now I do not feel so bad, my other hobbies are model cars and film cameras.

[don.siegel]

I also play competitive ping-pong.

Don

[Bruce Wayne]

After racing slot cars and building models as a teen, I soon discovered the world of air cooled Hot Rod VWs. Still into them after all these years as that hobby in SoCal is still very active.

This is my Sunday car...

[Mark H]

Bicycles: fixed gear like the second bike posted by mbloes
Motorcycles: dirt bikes (been riding since I was 5) and my street bike.
R/C: short course trucks.

[Duffy]

Rocky Russo and I both did free-flight rubber models for some years, and were kinda famous model-airframe engineers on our own and in collaboration. I got sidetracked by slots, and he doesn't do either anymore, to my knowledge. But it was fun there for a while.



BTW both the models shown are airframes we drew.



Duffy

[Tim Neja]

Yeah - I also play with "full size" toys, too!! A few of my muscle cars in the collection!! I still drive each of these a few times per month!! Fun to take down to Donuts and Derelicts!! CYA there on Saturdays when I'm not racing at BPR - or Pebblestone - or the Hillside Raceway!!

T

[Mbloes]

See, already people are posting a bunch of great stuff like that rocket stuff - I didn't even know that existed!

And it's great to see some more cyclists - I think slot car guys (like model train guys) get a bad rap as just a bunch of fat dudes (apologies in advance if you really are a fat dude).

[Johnny]

Here's what I'm doing in my spare time, making sterling silver jewelry.
This is my work at the moment. It's made to be a pendant, but it might be a bit top heavy. If so, I'll make it into a brooch.

[Duffy]

(apologies in advance if you really are a fat dude).

I'm a semi-fat dude who was 180 at age 54, cycling 200 miles a week and a century twice a month; 'til I slid halfway down Gate Hill Road one day... other changes occurred in my life and I sorta stopped everything, and the last four years of hi-stress job and no time saw me going up to 2freakin'50 on Apr. 25, when a fellow worker managed to blow out my back. Now, home and in control of my time/food intake, I'm 234 and targeting for 200, and that's gonna make a difference to my poor arthritic bones, too.

Oh yah: and, after Duck Dunn died this weekend, I tho't to myself, "- Well, so your fingers hurt; you're still moving, y' got no excuse." And I picked up my bass guitar again, and I don't plan on putting it down.

How's that for thread drift?

... And, hey, Mike of three posts: does this mean your 'other hobby' is slot racing? Show pics!

Duffy

[Mbloes]

Sorry, Mike, I started to post a bit on OWH, but I'm enjoying this crew a bit more as this forum is a bit more focused.

A link to some of my slot stuff:



PS: I don't really like how this link is coming up but I'm not going to work on it now!

[Tom Eatherly]

High-powered rifle competition, usually out to 500 yards, till the eyes just wouldn't make it happen any longer. Still shoot rifles and handguns often, just no longer in competition. Also, make my own ammunition.

And lets not forget trout fishing in the Sierras!

[Dr. Gamma]

When my body would no longer let me ride my motorcycles without suffering major amounts of pain. I parked them, and started to look for some else to spend money on. I started off with buying only Dan Gurney, and Michael Schumacher diecast. Then I had to have the GT40 MK IIs, then the McLaren Can-Am cars, then the 917s, and then the 1/8 Gurney Eagle, and than more and more!!! I have them stuffed in closets, on top of dressers, and in any other place I had room to stash them. I just ran out of room to buy much more. I rotate my display about three times a year!!!

Then I got back into slot cars, I threw out my dining table and chairs to make room for my HO track. I wanted a eight-lane 1/24 commercial track. But I would had to tear a wall down between the living room, and a bedroom to have enough room for one. I was happy with just the HO track.

Between the diecast, the HO track, and my firearms, they take all the money, time, and space I have right now. It keeps me broke most of the time anyway, but we are having fun!!!

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[Tim Neja]

Bass guitar, Duffy?? Very cool - love the F1 Euro cars especially Mike - and that little HO Track is SIC!! Nice!!!

[James Grandi]

Small collection of 1/24 NASCAR diecast, and I spend time working on my father's project car, a 1983 Jaguar XJS with a smallblock 350 conversion.

[Duffy]

Sorry Mike, I started to post a bit on OWH, but I'm enjoying this crew a bit more as this forum is a bit more focused.

OhhhhhMan... you may come to rue that statement. "Focus" - well, it's a yin/yang gig at best. Welcome to the circus, in any case. I sorta like it here, too.
NICE Rides! And the slideshow's working fine for me.

Bass guitar, Duffy?? Very cool.

My slots career (like, Yuh-) lost out to music in '65; played bari sax in big-band jazz '71-'72, blues harp in various hotshot bands '69-'72 (Eric McCarty, Johnny Mars, on John Lee Hooker's payroll but never did a date) and did really my best blues/R&B in '88-'95, on harp and guitar.
In the 'Oughts I returned to classical, becoming part of the Renaissance band Loose Canon (yah, blame me for the name) and playing bass in a local club band - until my hands started protesting. Arthritis. At a concert in '08, a priceless vintage basset recorder slipped right through my fingers and clattered across the stage right in the middle of the Josquin des Prez, and I retired.

Well, like I say - I'm still moving. And the music's still coming from those fingers.

So, that's the rest of the long story.

And I used to build boats, too. 'Nuff o' that.

Who's next?

Duf

[Noose]

Well, it's golf. Not as much as I did before I got back into slots and my handicap shows it. LOL. I also like to do some cooking. Some of the guys in RE have had a taste of some of the stuff I whip up.