Show us your "other" hobbies in pictures!

[bbbass]

Thanks for all the info! Hope you are healed up! I have a pastor friend that moved to La Grande from Spokane last year...they are really liking it I think.

That's great! Send me a PM of their names and where the ministry is???

 

[Unicykle]

 

[2thdrglock]

Track days or racer?

 

[Unicykle]

I used to race both FF in scca and cascade and bikes with omrra but i just track day now as i run my own business and cant afford to get hurt so now its just for fun. I picked up a supermoto and im going to try out the mac track this year.

 

[bbbass]

You'll be sorry you asked!!

 

[UnderFire]

Gonna be taking some of my Toyota money to get into firearms and shooting.

My 02 Tacoma out in the snow a couple weeks back, my current 97 4Runner a $500 derelict I'm bringing back to life, and a 98 4Runner that's just about ready to be sold.

 

[2Wheels4Ever]

Made a Sheridan style wrap for my ear pros. Carving that took forever.

 

[SteveInAshland]

I'm really not much of a cigar or Bourbon afficianado. I have a few drinks and cigars that I stick to, and that's about it. A lot are gifts from friends. I can enjoy one, but couldn't tell you much about it.

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WHISKEY TRIBE >>> on YouTube....cheers and "winks"

 

[2Wheels4Ever]

Everyone loves fresh jerky done right.

 

[ATRust1958]

Boy, ill say, rare indeed

 

[Ops]

is watching Porn considered a hobby?

 

[Spad]

Wow, Stealth something!!

 

[Blindranger]

Similar, yet so different

 

[Spad]

Bringings tears to my eyes. Bought a new International Scout in 1979, color like in the picture. Picked it up in New Jersey, drove the family around to historical sites about the Revolution as the kids were going back to school taking US History. Took it to Panama where I was working, ran it around in the jungle, was a great 4 wheel drive. Better then Jimmys and Fords, they were to wide and big.The problem was it started to rust badly, even though I had it rust proofed in the states. Learned later that was the last year of production, the workers were on strike. Didn't know it at the time, being O'seas when I ordered it. Last I saw of it was going strong, patches with lot of metal strops welded on and braces. Loved that truck, was good in the jungle, following WW2 jeep trails or just 4 wheelin, want to cry, ha,ha..Fond memories, thanks...

 

[sobo]

Besides guns and shooting (obviously), I love rock, ice, and alpine climbing and mountaineering; cooking, fine dining/eating, and drinking; hiking, backpacking, and some fishing; and a host of other "adventure sports" that I never seem to have enough time to enjoy regularly, a few of which are shown here.

























Yours Truly on the right...







And for my parting shot, three pics from our "Half Dome Adventure" in Yosemite National Park, in the middle of the Ferguson Fire of July-August 2018.


Milo forgot the team shirt in his luggage, so we stuck him in the back of the post-summit celebration photo. Dufus...

That oughta do it... for now.

 

[Ura-Ki]

Besides Airplanes, ( real and Models) I got a thing for scale model Tugs. I have been avoiding Warships as I find them tedious and time consuming, especially with the potential of thousands of parts, BUT, I decided to take the leap out of my comfort zone and am starting my first Man-O-War, and not just any one, but THE ship my Uncle served on from October 1940 through September 1947, the one and only BB-40, the Mighty New Mexico! And, I decided that because there are no "Kits" I would be free to build in a size and complexity I can deal with, it's going to be roughly 1/70th scale, approximately 7 feet long!

I have already started the hull, as I have a metric ton of fiberglass and foamular, and I have done the lofting drawings of the hull formers, so it's just a matter of lofting to scale and printing for cutting templates and then going nuts with the build! I'm going to do it up in the late war configuration after all the upgrades that she had done ( the early lattice masts would be pure hell to model) and with the 3D printer, it should be doable, and turn out really nice!
I hope to be able to have this done right and displayed in a place of honor in a nice hardwood and glass case on the mantel in my ranch house in Co, along with the scrap books and ships notes and his personal effects from his time aboard her during the war!

 

[FourFront]

Little of this, little of that.

 

[Diamondback]

Geez, @Ura-Ki , maybe I should ask if you'd be up for trying to 3d-print some correction kits for a few of my Napoleonic three-deckers...

 

[Ura-Ki]

Don't know about that, as good as my ABS prints are, they are only good down to a certain size before you need to be printing in epoxy, and i'm not investing in one of those printers until the costs come down a bunch!

 

[Diamondback]

Fair 'nuff, amigo. We're talking 200' ships in 1/1000 scale, and by "conversion kit" I had been meaning "entire hull with no masts"--think I posted pics a few dozen pages back.

The real nightmare is gonna be turning drawings that were old even when our country was young into 3d models... though I have pretty good scans to start from.

EDIT: Also, you might look to the Pennsylvania-class BB's as your start point for New Mexico, the biggest engineering change was grafting on a clipper bow. The Tennessees were an improved version worth a look too; since we never got them in 1/1800 Axis & Allies WWII miniatures I just used extras of Tennessee/California for the New Mexicos.