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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 5, 2003 2:20 PM
I like reading anything I can get my hands on...playing computer games, genalogy, warhammer and playing with my 2 girls.


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Posted by chopperfan on Friday, December 5, 2003 1:51 PM
Hunting, fishing, rolling my own ammo, NASCAR dicast and other NASCAR related items (I have an extensive Dale Earnhardt collection. Forever the Man!), camping, irritating the wife and I TOO have a teddy bear collection. Although, most of mine are NASCAR related.

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Posted by caine on Friday, December 5, 2003 1:36 PM
Photography and astronomy ... okay video games too.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 5, 2003 9:23 AM
im also into RC..on-road and off-road!!
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 5, 2003 8:55 AM
i like RC, messing with my computer, playing ultimate, and being a comedian Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by shrikes on Thursday, December 4, 2003 11:32 AM
Don't know why i didn't spot this thread sooner. Well, like littlemoe and Captain Caveman, i collect Zippos (only have 4 so far, 2 are off for repair because of a failed attempt at holy volly...), but that's not really the hobby. I love to do tricks with them. All sorts of things you can do to open a zippo and get it lit. Any of you guys see the Zippotricks website before it closed?

Uh, i play magic the gathering (not really into warhammer, though. i figure i don't need another hobby to siphon money from my bank account). I like to perforate my friends with electronic bullets at the local internet cafe, read (mostly the starwars expanded universe stuff and Military history), Play PC games (for as long as it isn't doesn't need strategy, and it isn't an RPG. the only exeption is "Medeval Total War")...

Movies in the philippines are really cheap about US$3-5, so i collect movies and stay up late to watch them... (i must have something like 200++ titles). can't think of anything else, so there. Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 1, 2003 8:35 PM
Love hoops,watch my WOEFUL Niners, watch my daughter play her sports and race my little Civic on weekends at the Auto-X events.Smile [:)] (and that's why I haven't built in ages!)
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 1, 2003 3:16 PM
I have several, of course fishing is one. Here are the others. NASCAR and NASCAR collectibles, my two youngest are bit with this bug also, with D.E. being the focal point. Photography, aircraft and airshows, car shows, auto races, aviation/military museums,and ships (past and present). It's all about the reference material. I collect coins and stamps with an aviation, military and vehicle theme. I read alot, fiction and non-fiction. Mr King should finish the Dark Tower series! Last but not least are my 87 Vette and the wifes' 68 Camaro RS/SS.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 1, 2003 2:45 PM
Other Hobbies include in order of importance:
Family
Chen Xiao Jia Taijiquan
Reading
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 1, 2003 1:21 PM
I have lots of other hobbies, check out my profile. I especialy enjoy the sport of paintball, and I love doing video/audio stuff at school (we have a radio station, school TV network, and I run light/sound for local plays and events) and I enjoy almost anyhting outdoors like hiking, camping, ect. I also love flying, large and small. Ride the big ones, fly the small ones.:) I especialy love flying old WWII aircraft. We have an airfield near my home were a friend works that is a WWII aircraft restoration base were sometimes I can go up in small recon planes or an old Cessna (its a private airfield too)
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Posted by MikeV on Wednesday, November 26, 2003 9:52 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by cnstrwkr

I bounce in and out of hobbies. Currently, I play the 5 string banjo for fun. I am always tinkering with my 1965 442 and I am serioulsy considering getting back into NHRA racing for the 4th time.


Tommy,

I used to play the 5-string myself. I still have my Ibanez Artist banjo too. Big Smile [:D]

Mike

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
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Posted by MikeV on Wednesday, November 26, 2003 9:30 AM
I have several that I switch between:

Airbrushing, Bass Fishing, Computers, and Gardening.
Also Biblical studies (mostly apologetics and theology), but I wouldn't consider that a hobby really.
Other's that I don't do much any more are: Bowling, and shooting guns.
I bought a used Beeman Kodiak .25 cal air rifle recently that I like to play with once in a while too.
I also built and flew R/C gliders years ago and collected comic books.
Hey Woody, I have Iron Man #1 in VF condition and #2 in NM. My favorite comic was Thor and I still have over 300 of them. Big Smile [:D]

Mike

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 26, 2003 8:51 AM
I collect things from my deployments, but I'm usually spending ( wife says wasteing ) money at the bike shops for my mountain bike on BMX. Same goes for my snowboards!
I also have a lot of those 12 in. tall army figure from dragon and 21st century.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 25, 2003 2:52 PM
Well, I can almost quote Visionism's thread exactly!!! wierd. so much for being unique!! LOL!!!

I play guitar in a heavy metal/harcore band, Build (and hack) PC's , play every WWII PC game and do recording/mixing and mastering out of a few studios. I just returned to modeling after about 18 years. Somewhere in between I sleep, eat and go to work.

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Posted by goldenturtle02 on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 6:37 PM
My other hobbies? oh my, I also Have a collection of teddy bears ( mostly Steiff) Photography, Bowling, Air shows, my Cruiser, Reading (Rainbow Six was great! read it 3 times!) strip clubs Oops, dont know if I'm allowed to say that!!!LOL
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:30 PM
I design, build/, and fly high power rockets. I collect minerals and fossils and at one time, military bolt-action rifles from the pre-1900's to WWII. I read a lot of military history books, especially WWII - Pacific theater, and have about 700 reference books that give me a lot of data for building models. My wife completely supports all my hobbies; though she does wonder why I buy all these kits at the Squadron open house!

Pat Patterson
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Posted by shermanfreak on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:28 AM
Noticed it's your first post clockworks ...... welcome to FSM Sign - Welcome [#welcome].

See you around the Armour Forum !!!

Happy Modelling and God Bless Robert
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8:10 AM
I collect and restore antique clocks. I also collect Ferrari F40s (only models, can't afford a real one) and old wristwatches.
I used to build 1/43 scale resin car kits, but, now I am getting back into modelling, I am having a go at WW2 armour.

Cheers
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 17, 2003 8:09 PM
Golf and PC games. Especially strategic type games. Right now I am stuck on Railroad Tycoon II which has been out for about 5 years now but I still find myself coming back to it. I wish that someone would make a good airline sim, not flight sim, but run an airline sim. Kind of like Railroad Tycoon but with aircraft.

Steve
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 17, 2003 7:53 PM
coin & stamp collecting, metal detecting ,fishing, hunting,boating Just all kinds I stay busy that way
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 17, 2003 7:20 PM
snorkiling,and i like to look up wwII battles
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Posted by tigerman on Sunday, November 16, 2003 12:40 AM
During the spring I run a company softball team. I used to like to ski, but don't really do it anymore. I occasionally hit the links and like to bowl, which is one thing I'm decent at. Mostly, there just isn't enough time to do it all. Sad [:(]

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Posted by mark956 on Saturday, November 15, 2003 9:55 AM
I have a coin collection and I also collect cookie jars. I have 47 displayed in my house, but I ran out of room.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 15, 2003 8:03 AM
Reading Sci-Fi, firearms, re-loading, bullet casting, IPSC competition. The bullet casting pays for my models as I sell the cast pistol bullets to other shooters. so far this month, the bullets paid for 6 model kits, with enough stash left over to pay for 4 more kits on order at my local hobby shop.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 14, 2003 11:34 AM
R/C planes, coin collecting, metal detecting, 5-string (bluegrass) banjo.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:14 AM
Love to read-historical fiction, the classics, philosophy, fiction. Love football, I'm from Texas so this is like our religion! High school, college, NFL. Play flight sims. Re-finish funiture. Do some cooking.

Over and out.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 10, 2003 7:52 PM
As good a way to say hi as any I guess :)

I play guitar (badly) build high performance PC systems and tweak the dickens out of them, restore old video game machines (haven't done one in a while) play stacks of PC Games (Just finished Call of Duty. If WWII is your thing you GOTTA get this!) and now I'm coming back to modeling after a whopping 16 year absence. I obviously have way too much time on my hands (which will probably not be the case now I've started building models again)
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 10, 2003 2:38 PM
Converting target drones into flaming scrap metal.....

Wait a minute..

That's not a hobby, that's my day job!

Woo Hoo!

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Posted by djmodels1999 on Monday, November 10, 2003 1:28 AM
This is one of the things that make this series of Forums great, Dave. You start knowing people a little bit more than just through our common hobby.
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