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Another type of philatelic treasure are from the Kingdom of Hawaii.  Some of the most rarest stamps and covers are the Missionary variety.  Although I wish I had such funds to purchase these treasures of which I would donate to the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, here are just some examples. 

Do any other members have another hobby they would like to share?  Please feel free to post your interest here on this thread, we would all like to hear of them!

Your friend's, Toshi & Ezra

Hi,

I guess I have a couple other hobbies.  Many years ago I bought a 1951 Buick Special Deluxe that I enjoyed taking to local old car get togethers.  Unfortunately as I have gotten older, I haven't been able to keep the car up and running consistantly and now may have to sell him

Other than that I enjoy playing board games, both wargames and non-wargames.  The wargames kind of tie into my interest in WWI, interwar and early WWII armor as well as Pre-Dreadnought warships.

And finally, professionally, I am employed as a Naval Architect.  As part of my jo I have collected alot of information on ship design and over time I have been working to put some of that into a useful form of spreadsheets or programs that students and others can use to play around with ship design ideas that they may have.

Regards

Pat

http://www.mnvdet.com/

http://www.mnvdet.com/MNVDET-CV.html

The kids are both grown, on their own and doing well, the house is paid for, and we lost both dogs this year - so were both enjoying life a bit. I call myself semi-employed now doing consulting after 50+ years in academia, phamaceutical and healthcare strategy.

I'm part owner and instructor at a karate studio teaching three times a week and doing some work for our world association. I also run and care for a number of Model A's, T's, early V-8, and a Willys MB.

Our whole family does WWII Living History together. My nickname at the karate studio is "Doc" so of course I had to get a picture of my Jeep and me in front of Doc a couple years ago at Readings WWII Weekend.

Hi, Toshi -

Glad to see you back on the forums, we all missed hearing from you and seeing what young Master Ezra was up to. Your visiting authorization at the hospitals is revoked, you stay the heck out of them. Get better and stay well.

My first hobby interest is building models, both plastic and scale balsa free flight. A bit over 70 years building, I hope one day to be good at it (:>)

Next is photography, 35mm, medium and large format. Equipment is Leica M-6 TTL, several Rolleiflex's and Hasselblad, Wisner Classic Field 4X5. Getting film processed and printed is now very difficult here, so I use a custom lab in Seattle, they do both color and black and white.

Duck stamps are a fun hobby, my brother in law got me started some time ago. The art work is just fascinating.

I'm sure glad to see you back here, I missed your frequent visits and photos. Best of everything for you, Mrs. Toshi and all of your family.

Patrick

I haven't done stamp collecting in years, but I still have my collection.  Great hobby for winter.

Here's a couple I shared with Toshi that this group might like:

I have a lot of other hobbies in addition to scale models. I cycle through them periodically - currently focused on scale models again.

1:1 cars - some track time

Fishing

Music & Fish (don't eat these ones)

R/C Anything

There's more like boating, camping, skiing, shooting... but not doing much in those areas anymore.

I like woodworking.  My father - now long-retired - was a joiner (carpenter) & taught me the basics when I was young.  I just took the knowledge for granted, and didn't do anything with it for decades.  Then I met the now Mrs 6390, who had 2 small grandsons.  I made them a toy fort like the one my dad had made me when I was that age, and I thoroughly enjoyed doing it.  Project followed project (coat racks, spice racks, garden planters, a fire surround, coffee tables), and more & more tools were collected - I've had a joiner's workshop in some shape or form ever since.  Last year my dad & I built my new tool cabinet together.  Its made of MDF & a few bits of plywood, but to me it's priceless.  I think he mostly showed me the sheer pleasure of making things - guess who a four-year old me built (i.e. smothered in glue!) his first kits with!

Hi. I used to collect stamps when I was younger, but lost interest. I still have the albums and my wife was a very serious collector for many years. I have dallied with various things and would love to start a train set but have  no room. My main hobbies these days are vegetable gardening, fishing, collecting militaria, (of which I have a fairly extensive collection), and scale models of course. But then I brought an old wooden boat, 30 feet worth of work and toil, but I love her and so do the grandkids.

Well, lets see. I started building at the age of 6 (1946) thanks to 2 uncles that kept me supplied until I was old enough to buy everything myself. Started target shooting in high school. Got on the rifle team and in senior year we won the League Championship. Started drag racing after high school. Six years later I quit cause you can't drive your race car to work every day and race competitively with it on weekends. Went hunting with friends for the next 25 years. During that time I also raced R/Ccars and sailboats. Flew R/C planes and also indoor microfilm planes. During all those years I still built models. 

Have had great times and met loads of great people. Now, at almost 80, I volunteer at Joanna Furnace, an historical site, and I restore WWII models for the Berks Military History Museum. And I still build models for myself. I guess I'm just an old plasticaholic that can't be cured. 

Jim 

Stay Safe.

My other hobby, well, passion really, is something I have been into pretty much all my life.  In fact, my avatar sort of shows that.  I'm the little guy in the pic.  So, here are a couple of pics of my other hobby.  Oh, and yes, it's expensive, but not nearly as much as you probably think...

PFJN

Hi,

I guess I have a couple other hobbies.  Many years ago I bought a 1951 Buick Special Deluxe that I enjoyed taking to local old car get togethers.  Unfortunately as I have gotten older, I haven't been able to keep the car up and running consistantly and now may have to sell him

Other than that I enjoy playing board games, both wargames and non-wargames.  The wargames kind of tie into my interest in WWI, interwar and early WWII armor as well as Pre-Dreadnought warships.

And finally, professionally, I am employed as a Naval Architect.  As part of my jo I have collected alot of information on ship design and over time I have been working to put some of that into a useful form of spreadsheets or programs that students and others can use to play around with ship design ideas that they may have.

Regards

Pat

 

http://www.mnvdet.com/

http://www.mnvdet.com/MNVDET-CV.html

 

Your friend's, Toshi & Ezra

WillysMB

The kids are both grown, on their own and doing well, the house is paid for, and we lost both dogs this year - so were both enjoying life a bit. I call myself semi-employed now doing consulting after 50+ years in academia, phamaceutical and healthcare strategy.

I'm part owner and instructor at a karate studio teaching three times a week and doing some work for our world association. I also run and care for a number of Model A's, T's, early V-8, and a Willys MB.

Our whole family does WWII Living History together. My nickname at the karate studio is "Doc" so of course I had to get a picture of my Jeep and me in front of Doc a couple years ago at Readings WWII Weekend.

 

 

Your friend's, Toshi & Ezra

patrick206

Hi, Toshi -

Glad to see you back on the forums, we all missed hearing from you and seeing what young Master Ezra was up to. Your visiting authorization at the hospitals is revoked, you stay the heck out of them. Get better and stay well.

My first hobby interest is building models, both plastic and scale balsa free flight. A bit over 70 years building, I hope one day to be good at it (:>)

Next is photography, 35mm, medium and large format. Equipment is Leica M-6 TTL, several Rolleiflex's and Hasselblad, Wisner Classic Field 4X5. Getting film processed and printed is now very difficult here, so I use a custom lab in Seattle, they do both color and black and white.

Duck stamps are a fun hobby, my brother in law got me started some time ago. The art work is just fascinating.

I'm sure glad to see you back here, I missed your frequent visits and photos. Best of everything for you, Mrs. Toshi and all of your family.

Patrick

 

Your friend's, Toshi & Ezra

Two come to mind.  Gold prospecting and metal detecting.

Have half ownership in 3 claims here and looking at filing on another if the owner screws up his paperwork.  Have a dredge, high banker, sluice boxes and fine recovery equipment, as well as the normal assortment of gold pans.  Belong to 3 local clubs that also have claims available, and am the claims and outing director in one of them

Belong to a detecting club and now have 3 machines for different conditions, the latest one is waterproof to 100 feet.

The best part is my lady is involved in both pastimes..in fact going mining for 10 days on our claims and another we have access to.  Motorhome will be base camp now that it's almost back to normal.

keavdog

I haven't done stamp collecting in years, but I still have my collection.  Great hobby for winter.

Here's a couple I shared with Toshi that this group might like:

I have a lot of other hobbies in addition to scale models. I cycle through them periodically - currently focused on scale models again.

1:1 cars - some track time

Fishing

Music & Fish (don't eat these ones)

R/C Anything

There's more like boating, camping, skiing, shooting... but not doing much in those areas anymore.

 

 

 

Your friend's, Toshi & Ezra

Some WWII examples:

Third Reich

Hutch6390

I like woodworking.  My father - now long-retired - was a joiner (carpenter) & taught me the basics when I was young.  I just took the knowledge for granted, and didn't do anything with it for decades.  Then I met the now Mrs 6390, who had 2 small grandsons.  I made them a toy fort like the one my dad had made me when I was that age, and I thoroughly enjoyed doing it.  Project followed project (coat racks, spice racks, garden planters, a fire surround, coffee tables), and more & more tools were collected - I've had a joiner's workshop in some shape or form ever since.  Last year my dad & I built my new tool cabinet together.  Its made of MDF & a few bits of plywood, but to me it's priceless.  I think he mostly showed me the sheer pleasure of making things - guess who a four-year old me built (i.e. smothered in glue!) his first kits with!

 

 Your friend's, Toshi & Ezra

Dodgy

Hi. I used to collect stamps when I was younger, but lost interest. I still have the albums and my wife was a very serious collector for many years. I have dallied with various things and would love to start a train set but have  no room. My main hobbies these days are vegetable gardening, fishing, collecting militaria, (of which I have a fairly extensive collection), and scale models of course. But then I brought an old wooden boat, 30 feet worth of work and toil, but I love her and so do the grandkids.

 

Your Friend's, Toshi & Ezra

fox

Well, lets see. I started building at the age of 6 (1946) thanks to 2 uncles that kept me supplied until I was old enough to buy everything myself. Started target shooting in high school. Got on the rifle team and in senior year we won the League Championship. Started drag racing after high school. Six years later I quit cause you can't drive your race car to work every day and race competitively with it on weekends. Went hunting with friends for the next 25 years. During that time I also raced R/Ccars and sailboats. Flew R/C planes and also indoor microfilm planes. During all those years I still built models. 

Have had great times and met loads of great people. Now, at almost 80, I volunteer at Joanna Furnace, an historical site, and I restore WWII models for the Berks Military History Museum. And I still build models for myself. I guess I'm just an old plasticaholic that can't be cured. 

Jim 

Stay Safe.

 

Your friend's, Toshi & Ezra

RickS

My other hobby, well, passion really, is something I have been into pretty much all my life.  In fact, my avatar sort of shows that.  I'm the little guy in the pic.  So, here are a couple of pics of my other hobby.  Oh, and yes, it's expensive, but not nearly as much as you probably think...

 

Your friend's, Toshi & Ezra

goldhammer

Two come to mind.  Gold prospecting and metal detecting.

Have half ownership in 3 claims here and looking at filing on another if the owner screws up his paperwork.  Have a dredge, high banker, sluice boxes and fine recovery equipment, as well as the normal assortment of gold pans.  Belong to 3 local clubs that also have claims available, and am the claims and outing director in one of them

Belong to a detecting club and now have 3 machines for different conditions, the latest one is waterproof to 100 feet.

The best part is my lady is involved in both pastimes..in fact going mining for 10 days on our claims and another we have access to.  Motorhome will be base camp now that it's almost back to normal.

 

Your friend's, Toshi & Ezra

Never been around one.  Though supposedly some were found in the Chico/Oroville area of CA ( close to where I grew up ) back in the day when they were using the big water monitors to hydraulic mine the area, but think they weren't true diamonds.

Yep! We all have em. Boats may not be as expensive as a horse or an aeroplane, but don't bet on it!!

Great looking boat!  Is that a fisher/crabber?  

She's an old cray boat built in Strahan, Tasmania in late 40's early 50's. Initialy she had a cabin the size of an outdoor dunny, (sorry, Aussie slang for toilet), and a 'well' uo forward. I had her stripped down to the hull and she looked like a viking longboat because she's double ended. We called her the J P Corio after my wifes father who was a Royal Marine in WWII. She is 30 feet long, made of Kauri pine and I've installed a Volvo Penta 75hp turbo. She has a small galley, heads with a shower and can sleep 4.

I write icons.

Good to see you all with multiple talents.

Bill

Beautiful boat.  I'm a bit jealous.

Hey Keavdog, any time you're in OZ, you and anybody else from the forums has somewhere to stay in Lakes Entrance and as much fishing time as you want. I had the honour of meeting some of your firefighters who were working here after the fires last Christmas. One of them was from Florida and I met him at our local pub. I was wearing a T that had "shut up and fish" on it in very large letters. Anyway this bloke loved it, so I took it off and gave it to him and he was stoked. So you could say I have given the shirt off my back to your firefighters.