What Other Hobbies Do N Scalers Have?

Craig Martyn Oct 30, 2001

  1. Christopher Lee

    Christopher Lee TrainBoard Member

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    I forgot about the Tacoma (n)(y) DSC_2106_1200X800.JPG
     
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  2. Christopher Lee

    Christopher Lee TrainBoard Member

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    Photo Jan 05, 5 00 33 PM.jpg Photo Jan 05, 5 27 02 PM.jpg

    Live on the e-bike during summer - highly recommend em if you live in an area where you want to run quick trips or errands on a bike. Just going out for coffee is fun too.
     
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  3. Dogwood

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    A hobby that doesn't cost money is not a hobby. It's absolutely crazy but great. Please more guys.
     
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  4. Shortround

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    Can't show you what is enjoyable and doesn't cost money.
     
  5. Christopher Lee

    Christopher Lee TrainBoard Member

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    Photography - been shooting since 1998. Surfing, Skateboarding, documenting murals and graffiti when I travel, some landscape, european cars/bikes.

    First one is from Wyoming, I saw this train stopped outside my hotel when I woke up and had the shot lined up in my mind. The other 2 are from Tampa Heights, Tampa from News Years 2022. DSC_6465_copy.jpg DSC_2798_1200x800.JPG DSC_2826.JPG

    IG handle: @Christopher_128BPM
     
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  6. Jim Wiggin

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    @Christopher Lee I did the Marketing on a few of those Top Flite model planes back in the day. Interesting time in my life. I still dabble in RC but the full-scale toys took over. In fact, if someone wanted to trade all my RC planes that are taking up way too much space in my garage for some old Ford or Jeep, I would.
     
  7. LifeTrekker_

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    RC planes is one of my old hobbies as well. I sold all my glow fuel stuff a few years ago, and kept a handful of electrics, but haven't flown in a number of years.

    I am what I would call a serial hobbiest. I do something for a few years (usually 5 - 7), then get bored and move on to something new. But sometimes I repeat a hobby after a few years off. I've done RC airplanes twice, and am now starting my second round of model railroading. Who knows, it may hold my interest until I die. Or maybe not...

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  8. Shortround

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    Mostly photography, race cars and motorcyles. The models trains were a little sideline until the past 10 years of retirement.
    Of course I am still single at 72. :cool:
     
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  9. Kisatchie

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  10. Grey One

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    Since Childhood
    Trains - With my father
    Hiking - By myself or anyone
    Cooking - Initailly with my mother or father
    War Gaming - With friends either one to one or with Air Fix soldiers

    Teen Years
    All of the above Plus
    Reading - Sci Fi / Fantacy

    20s, 30s, 40s
    Reading - Sci Fi / Fantacy
    Gaming - Table Top
    Cooking - On a budget
    Hiking - Throughout Boston and White Mountains of NH
    Not much else

    50s - Present
    All of the above in one way or the other
    Gaming - Solo Digital turn based 4X games
    Hiking Boston and New England
     
  11. BigJake

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    Past hobbies include:
    • Astronomy & telescope making (not including mirror grinding & polishing, but optical tube and mounting construction)
      • I built an 8" Newtonian just in time to see the comet fragments' impacts on Jupiter's surface. I still have that 'scope, but it hasn't seen light in decades...
    • 35mm photography, back in the day
    • Woodworking
    • And of course watching my kids' activities and sports, and helping coach them while they were in school!
    I still dabble in woodworking...
     
  12. CSX Robert

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    • Running
    • Cycling (though not as much as I used to with all the idiots on the roads nowadays)
    • Astronomy
    • Hiking
    • Used to do a lot of camping when my boys were young but haven't gone in a few years
    • Railfanning, of course
     

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