Hobby Thread - Aug 31, 2024 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the horde in this little corner of the interweb. As previewed last week, a spin of the Ace of Spades wheel of hobbies has come up with a theme of model building this week.

What do you build? What scale? How detailed to you get? Do you have stacks of boxes of unbuilt models? Did you build as a child? Do you built from kits or from scratch or both? Do you build dioramas? How do you display your finished work? Race cars? Road cars? Airplanes? Jets? Tanks? Ships? Space vehicles? Buildings? Do you have a dream project that you would like to tackle someday?

Looking for horde help to make this work. We're here to talk about model building. We are looking for models that you build, customize, repair and display. Models do not need to be elaborate. As usual, keep this thread limited to hobbies. Politics and current events can wait for other threads. Play nice. Do not be a troll and do not feed the trolls. Pants not required.

Special welcome to the lurkers or those catching up on the thread later. Nice to have your eyeballs. You're always welcome to join in. Post anytime or drop an email in the hobby thread email box.

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Horde hobbying - courtesy of InspiredHistoryMike: These are all 1/72 scale:

Thank you!

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Horde hobbying - courtesy of Patches: 1/72 Monogram F-4J in a VX-4 one-off paint scheme (darker color is not correct in photo), along with the ancient Monogram 1/48 OS2U Kingfisher done in the colorful training scheme. The workbench has a sampling of in-work projects - the mighty F-111 finds favor here along with a few car projects.

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Thank you!

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Homework photo from last week - models courtesy of Grateful. Bonus points if you can identify all of them without doing an interweb search:

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Tamiya Tours

Model makers know the name Tamiya. The Japanese company has made plastic models of cars, tanks, ships, jets and more for decades. Have you built Tamiya kits? What does their flagship factory store in Tokyo look like?

How about a tour of the museum at Tamiya HQ?

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I would ordinarily embed this Youtube video but not sure that it can be viewed outside of Youtube. Click - it is worth it. One man with a focus on making Ferrari F1 models from scratch. Crazy.

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24 Hour build:

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Learn from others - tips and tricks:

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The Mission to Restore the Original Starship Enterprise

From 2014 to 2016, conservators, curators, and experts collaborated to boldy restore the starship Enterprise NCC-1701 studio model from the original Star Trek series.

Original Star Trek Enterprise Model Resurfaces Decades After It Went Missing

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Michael Wilco makes amazing car garage dioramas with Volkswagens:

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Building models of broken tanks is impressive...

...and building a landscape for wrecked tanks based on a historical photo from the Falaise Pocket is impressive too.

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Bonus professional model-maker content - Behind the Scenes of model making for the original Star Wars movie. Lots of commentary from the makers themselves and lots of photos and video of the original concepts and evolution to the final form. Interesting if you are a model maker or a Star Wars fan or both. 58 minutes, so you might want to save for later:

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Where Roger That Really Comes From (hat tip: NorCal Sierra Foothills Lurker)

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Did you miss last week's hobby thread with a photography theme? The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.

Bonus content from the photography theme - The Flight Test Photographers Of Edwards Air Force Base

Notable comments from last week:

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Words of wisdom:

"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).

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If model building is not your thing and you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, hijack the thread for your hobbying as you see fit. We will feature a different hobby next time around. Send thoughts or suggestions to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do not sniff the glue.

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1 Welcome Hobbiests

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2024 05:30 PM (fwDg9)

2 Really wish Anna Puma would send a pic of all her models.

Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2024 05:33 PM (oaGWv)

3 Do I get bonus points if I can identify all the race car models without looking them up?

Posted by: Grateful at August 31, 2024 05:37 PM (IQ6Gq)

4 When I was a kid, I had some (slightly older) relatives who built fairly detailed model ships and planes. They moved out of the house and left behind the models. Nothing survived the following Fourth of July.

Posted by: PabloD at August 31, 2024 05:41 PM (qOxHQ)

5 My Tamiya extra thin cement just arrived in the mail today. So I'm starting on a 1/35 scale Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tank from WW2.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at August 31, 2024 05:44 PM (QyT5w)

6 I built models as a kid, but I mostly built the monster ones. I seem to recall the Cyclops giant from Lost in Space, but maybe that's someone else's memory leaking through.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 31, 2024 05:47 PM (CHHv1)

7 Oh, I was quite the modeler from age 8 or so on. First came the paint-by-number, snap-together Bachmann models of the Birds of the World (scarlet tanager, Baltimore oriole, parakeet, even a parrot). They came with their own paint palette, two for the big parrot kit, and thinner. There were animals too like the lion, collie, German shepherd, and Morgan horse.

Then came the Aurora monster models . . . (cont.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2024 05:47 PM (omVj0)

8 Husband and son are dismantling and packing up an electric drum set we got the oldest almost 10 years ago. I sold it to a coworker for her son. She got about an $1300 discount from new. Still works barely used.
So how much have others spent on music hobbies that died away?

Posted by: lin-duh at August 31, 2024 05:49 PM (VCgbV)

9 As a kid WWII tanks were my main interest, did some planes but only cars a few times.

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2024 05:49 PM (fwDg9)

10 (cont.) The Aurora kits of the old Universal monsters, Frankenstein's monster, the Wolf Man, Dracula, were all super-popular in their day. They required glue and more sophisticated paints like Pactra and Testors. Unfortunately, being nine, I used gloss paints on everything.

Aurora even had an interlocking pair of kits of Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin in 1966. I still have a second set, unbuilt in their boxes, I bought from a friend in 1972 or so. (cont.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2024 05:50 PM (omVj0)

11 Now my model painting is 15mm metal miniatures

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2024 05:51 PM (fwDg9)

12 The "F-111" is an F-4 Phantom. My dad designed the radar for that plane.

Thanks for the hobby thread. Always a treat.

Posted by: RS at August 31, 2024 05:53 PM (E7m29)

13 So how much have others spent on music hobbies that died away?

I still play but reckon that over the years I've spent WAY too much on guitars, amps and effects.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 31, 2024 05:54 PM (mH6SG)

14 1/72?? What a HO!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 31, 2024 05:54 PM (CEzQx)

15 Skip,

Would be nice to see a picture of your miniatures too.

Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2024 05:55 PM (oaGWv)

16 12 The "F-111" is an F-4 Phantom. My dad designed the radar for that plane.

Thanks for the hobby thread. Always a treat.

Posted by: RS at August 31, 2024 05:53 PM
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Thank you and thank you for the correction.

Posted by: TRex at August 31, 2024 05:55 PM (IQ6Gq)

17 (cont.) After the monsters and a few airplane kits, I came to cars: AMT's 1/25 scale issues of both current cars like the '63 Corvette Sting Ray and classics like the 1940 Ford. I moved on to Revell and their '41 Willys and the '56 Chevy Belair; I even did that latter one in a brilliant green metal flake. There were all sorts of customizing things you could buy, all in the same scale. My problem was with spray painting; I had to spray them out in the patio, and it was luck of the draw whether I ever got a smooth coat of paint laid down.

I did have big successes with the AMT '37 Cord, 1/12 scale, and the Revell Jaguar XKE 2+2 in 1/8. Used Revell cement on that one, and it lasted -- my mother kept it on a shelf in a closet, and I found it intact when she passed on 20 years after I'd built it. (cont.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2024 05:55 PM (omVj0)

18 15 Skip, Would be nice to see a picture of your miniatures too.

Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2024 05:55 PM (oaGWv)
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Skip - Happy to include on a future thread if you send me pics and some commentary.

Posted by: TRex at August 31, 2024 05:56 PM (IQ6Gq)

19 So how much have others spent on music hobbies that died away?

Bought my son the requisite electronic keyboard. He hardly ever touched it. I wonder how many keyboards have met a similar fate.

Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2024 05:57 PM (oaGWv)

20 Nothing survived the following Fourth of July.
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As young kids we called the Victoria Day holiday [Monday nearest May 24] "Firecracker Day" with the same results.

[Until firecrackers were banned.]

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 31, 2024 05:58 PM (CEzQx)

21 I have never built models, but it was one of Jesse's favorite hobbies (cars and planes). He built me a beautiful 1963 Galaxie, white with red interior, and had just started on my favorite classic car, a '66 GTO, when he had the stroke. The 1600 mile move from Wyo to SC was not kind to the Galaxie, despite my best packing attempt, and it needs a little repair.

My stepson and I divided up the built car models, and he took the bins and bins and bins of unbuilt models that were in the storage unit. (at least they were not heavy to load into the moving van)

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 31, 2024 05:59 PM (iZbyp)

22 (cont.) My last few models were after I discovered the value of matte paints to make the models look more real. I built several of the Revell sailing ships like Drake's Golden Hind, and then two Tamiya tanks which I consider the best I ever bought and the best jobs I ever did of painting and detailing.

I have a Pyro figure kit from 1959-60, The Cowpuncher (marketed as Gil Favor from Rawhide), a good-sized figure of a cowboy wearing chaps with his saddle over his shoulder. My mother had painted and assembled it with me when I was very small -- she painted the chaps white! -- and I'd like to do it again. I keep thinking, maybe I can modify it into a Matthew Quigley figure, despite the fact the hat is wrong and there is no rifle. And I'd have to give the figure a mustache and goatee!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2024 05:59 PM (omVj0)

23 I just had a two-week reprieve from my Covid-related shitty health issues that have severely impacted my ability to hobby (or do anything, really) the last several years. The last two weeks I’ve assembled and kitbashed (to avoid having identical copies of pieces) over half of the terrain from Warcry: Red Harvest.

https://i.___ur.com/pX4MvVM.jpg

After kitbashing the leg swaps on the second tower the other day (spent longer than a work day doing it non-stop, skipping lunch), I had a sense of achievement I’ve not had much opportunity to feel the last several years.

If my health holds up, I hope to get the rest of the set assembled and painted in September. But with the start of school, I fear my kids will bring home any little virus which will cause me a big setback. Covid seems to have destroyed my immune system; it took me over two months to recover from the last school bug they brought home.

Posted by: KSB at August 31, 2024 06:00 PM (h51qp)

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Really wish Anna Puma would send a pic of all her models.
Posted by: Tuna

That would probably blow the margins.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2024 06:01 PM (63Dwl)

25 TRex can do

tinyurl.com/3cywxcm2
This is 3 of many Russian limbers , artillery up until the last 100 years needed to be connected to something to move them.

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2024 06:02 PM (fwDg9)

26 Eh, it’s been too long since I’ve commented here. Forgot the need to do tiny urls.

My Warcry: Red Harvest terrain (mining sluices & towers):

https://tinyurl.com/5ct5bv76

Posted by: KSB at August 31, 2024 06:02 PM (h51qp)

27 We also have a keyboard. A viola. A few guitars....

Posted by: lin-duh at August 31, 2024 06:02 PM (VCgbV)

28 "Thank you and thank you for the correction."

I didn't mean to b pedantic, but my Dad taught me aircraft IDs when i was a little kid in the '60s. The F-4 was the first one I learned. We had F-4 totems all over the house, because it was "his" aircraft.

Posted by: RS at August 31, 2024 06:03 PM (E7m29)

29 Mr. Leggy says those sports cars are all World Endurance Championship Prototypes from the 80's probably. They would have raced at LeMans. Jaguar, three Porsches, and a Mercedes. He says he is too old to remember the model numbers and the years they raced without looking them up. He says it was his favorite era of endurance sports car racing.

Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at August 31, 2024 06:03 PM (Vf4Y7)

30 To clarify, the first pic of mine is the F-4J; the workbench photo has three F-111's - a mostly complete F-111A in a one off white paint scheme - the real tail number of that bird was rebuilt into an EF-111A (that flew in the Libyan strike and Desert Storm) - and what will be models of the first FB-111 and a RAAF F-111C. Yeah, I really do love the 'Vark . . .

Posted by: Patches at August 31, 2024 06:04 PM (V4rQC)

31 Some of the Aurora Universal Monster kits have been reissued over the years. I understand that the molds for a great many of them were destroyed in a train wreck in the early '70s, which is why we've not had reissues of the original kits. I'd love to redo Dracula and the Frankenstein monster with matte paints and proper highlight/weathering techniques.

Modern companies have picked up where Aurora left off. There are kits of Robin, the Penguin, Catwoman, and the Riddler as seen in the '66 TV series that you can purchase. They're not .98 or even 1.98 any more, though; it's not really a kid's hobby any longer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2024 06:06 PM (omVj0)

32 https://tinyurl.com/kjp6jhfp

For KSB's link as IMG in lower case is auto-changed due to potential hacker-type issues I believe.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 31, 2024 06:07 PM (CEzQx)

33 The 1600 mile move from Wyo to SC was not kind to the Galaxie, despite my best packing attempt, and it needs a little repair.
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sid, text me some photos of the Galaxy, and then bring it to TX. I can help you with those repairs.

Posted by: Grateful at August 31, 2024 06:07 PM (IQ6Gq)

34 This is 3 of many Russian limbers , artillery up until the last 100 years needed to be connected to something to move them.
Posted by: Skip

Thanks. You must have steady hands to do all that teeny detail work.

Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2024 06:09 PM (oaGWv)

35 I love the idea of doing dioramas with 1/25 or 1/24 scale cars in various stages of repair. But I have no place to do such a thing, or the cowpuncher figure. Can you imagine what my cats would do with a model-building table? When I was a boy, our cat Rusty was very good about getting on the table -- he would only climb up if there was almost nothing there but the lamp and me reading or doing homework. If newspaper was spread out for my model work, or if we were setting the table for dinner, he left the table alone.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2024 06:11 PM (omVj0)

36 I do need magnifiers these days

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2024 06:12 PM (fwDg9)

37 Covid seems to have destroyed my immune system; it took me over two months to recover from the last school bug they brought home.
Posted by: KSB

Prayers for your recovery and hope the kiddos don't bring anything home that will set you back.

Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2024 06:13 PM (oaGWv)

38 Modern companies have picked up where Aurora left off. There are kits of Robin, the Penguin, Catwoman, and the Riddler as seen in the '66 TV series that you can purchase. They're not .98 or even 1.98 any more, though; it's not really a kid's hobby any longer.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2024

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Aurora did have a Batman kit that coincided roughly with the TV series, but it was a dramatic setup and the figure did not look anything like Adam West. Oh, and they earlier had a kit of Superman smashing through a brick wall. The face looked much like the way Curt Swan depicted him in DC Comics then, and it even came molded in the proper blue for Superman's uniform.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2024 06:14 PM (omVj0)

39 62 Mrs. JTB and I did a lot of photography in the past ... One day we realized we had achieved everything we wanted in photography and sort of stopped ...
Posted by: JTB at August 24, 2024 06:42 PM (zudum)

Lovely thoughts, JTB. Thank you.

Posted by: m at August 31, 2024 06:16 PM (64Zez)

40 "I do need magnifiers these days"

No shame in that, Skip. I've got them stationed in every room of the house, one in the car, the garage...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 31, 2024 06:16 PM (MeG8a)

41 Don't know whether this counts as a hobby...collecting single male scotches...but someone suggested Balvenie so I bought a bottle last week. Just poured myself a little. Very smooth. Nice. Can see why it was recommended.

Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2024 06:16 PM (oaGWv)

42 I have to get another set of reading glasses for the truck, sometimes at work instructions are so small for me to read.

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2024 06:18 PM (fwDg9)

43 Pipe tobacco question:

How does the Match Victorian Pipe compare the Peterson Elizabethan?

Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2024 06:20 PM (rj6Yv)

44 Tuna, Balvenie is my favorite.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2024 06:21 PM (1k7z0)

45 Thanks, Tuna.
The last few years have been a real hell.
Even so, I’m doing a lot better than I was in 2021. Covid made me intolerant to a lot of common foods, and figuring that whole business out took a long time. And my gut microbiome got messed up by Covid, and the resulting pneumonia/antibiotics. So, my ‘baseline’ is better than it was a year or two ago, but the school bug/immune system issues seem to be the main thing holding me back, now. Only a few more years before my kids stop bringing home a new school illness every month… ☠️

Posted by: KSB at August 31, 2024 06:22 PM (h51qp)

46 My mother had painted and assembled it with me when I was very small -- she painted the chaps white! -- and I'd like to do it again.

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White chaps are proper before Labor Day, provided they are assless.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2024 06:23 PM (+o2mc)

47 41 single male scotches
Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2024 06:16 PM (oaGWv)

heh

Posted by: m at August 31, 2024 06:23 PM (64Zez)

48 As for a current hobby, JTB will appreciate this. I nipped out to the one decent pipe and cigar shop in town this morning, bought some Luxury Bullseye Flake pipe tobacco, and had an initial smoke of it in their lounge while chatting with a cigar-smoking fellow who is a landscape designer. He showed me pics of his cat and dog, and I came back with shots of my cats. Must have been funny to see two middle-aged (+) guys swapping pics of pets instead of kids.

Anyway, the LBF does not seem strong despite the perique in it. I got no real sense of "pepper" from it; I guess the perique is pretty light. It smoked much like Three Nuns to me. At $6.50/oz. it's not a bad price -- but I had to use one coin of it to fill even a modest bowl, so I suspect I won't get many smokes from one ounce.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2024 06:24 PM (omVj0)

49 White chaps are proper before Labor Day, provided they are assless.

Wait...eh...never mind.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 31, 2024 06:24 PM (mH6SG)

50 I see "My Warcry: Red Harvest" is a Warhammer franchise.

My 25mm/15mm historical wargaming group never did anything like that but we were looking at playing a Necromunda campaign as the 'gangs' aren't all that large.

One of the guys made a great terrain panel with chain link fence all around its perimeter for whatever building it was but his mom accidentally put something heavy on top of the large cardboard box it was stored in, inadvertently crushing it.

We never got around to the campaign though.

My gang, using spare 25mm 18th Century figures to be armed with e.g. blasters, slug-throwers and chainsaw swords from weapons packs, was going to have been a society of reenactors surviving the civilizational fall.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 31, 2024 06:25 PM (CEzQx)

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White chaps are proper before Labor Day, provided they are assless.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2024

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To paint the figure's rear and legs in "flesh color," that would have been an . . . *interesting* . . . choice for my mother.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2024 06:26 PM (omVj0)

52 Grateful, will do, thank you!

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 31, 2024 06:26 PM (iZbyp)

53 Just opened Ardbeg single malt. It cam recommended in a scotch review video and like it

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2024 06:26 PM (fwDg9)

54 Pipe tobacco question:

How does the Match Victorian Pipe compare the Peterson Elizabethan?
Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2024

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Haven't tried either. The Match blends I have explored were good tobaccos in their own right, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2024 06:27 PM (omVj0)

55 There's a couple of online stories about the model building for Star Trek TOS. Interesting stuff. The creativity back in the day with modeling is pretty cool.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2024 06:28 PM (Q4IgG)

56 OK. I love racing and Le Mans cars are sort of my thing so hopefully I get this right...

Back L-R Jaguar XJR-8 (It could be a 9 but I think the combination of the end plates on the rear wing and the headlights make this a later 8, early 8's had round lights- N.B I always preferred the less iconic Castrol livery)

Porsche 962? (Porsche 956s and 962s are visually very similar but the 956s were shorter than the 962s).

Porsche 956? (The 962 was the 956 modified for IMSA which meant a internal roll cage, crumple zones-meaning pedals moved behind wheels- and a different engine than the twin scroll 3 litre in the 956. The 956 has a longer swoopier nose)

Sauber C9 (distinctive bubble and central post rear wing)

Front- Porsche 956 (Joest were the last customer and the last winner with that car. Number 7 belonged to Ayrton Senna and I have built the Tamiya model of this car)

Posted by: stv at August 31, 2024 06:28 PM (P5JRd)

57 I do need magnifiers these days
Posted by: Skip

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Hobbyist related:

If you haven't bought a set of these, they're fantastic to have around. Multi-magnification headset (think loupe but I don't know if the term is proper for this), $20 or so:

https://tinyurl.com/3fbfh48h

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at August 31, 2024 06:28 PM (DTrt9)

58 The Porsches are 962s of various aero designs (short track vs LeMans longtails).

The Jaguar I believe is theXJ12, and the right hand car is a Sauber C9 although it did have Mercedes power.

Yup, I love racing cars. Group C was a classic era. Not quite the magic of the CanAm machines of 1966 -1974 which are my favorites.

I build slot cars in 1/32 scale courtesy of my 3D printer.

Posted by: Chappyman66 at August 31, 2024 06:29 PM (+9oLi)

59 I built plastic models as a kid, mainly tanks as Dad as a tanker. I used to inflict battle damage on them by heating up an ice pick and poking holes in them.

Dad would occasionally take me out to an old quarry and shoot his .45 and let me shoot a .22 rifle. I thought, what could be more realistic than a real bullet to simulate battle damage on a plastic tank. A 1911, .45cal bullet will take one right out of service.

Posted by: javems at August 31, 2024 06:29 PM (8I4hW)

60 I have my dulcimers but there's still hope I may pick that up again. I just bought a kalimba. I don't know how this will work out but it's a nice one. I can't do any wind instruments, so the penny whistle is out.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 31, 2024 06:33 PM (MpVUb)

61 There's a couple of online stories about the model building for Star Trek TOS. Interesting stuff. The creativity back in the day with modeling is pretty cool.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2024

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According to what I've read, the Constellation in "Doomsday Machine" was an AMT Enterprise kit, banged up and distressed. And they used another AMT model in "Tribbles" to show the Enterprise orbiting the space station.

Building that one several times myself, I learned not to always follow instructions to the letter. They told you to cement the two halves of the saucer together, then glue it to the neck. It was too heavy. So the second time I glued the lower half in place, reinforced the join with some strips of cloth, and let it all dry solidly before putting on the top half.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2024 06:33 PM (omVj0)

62 @PA Dutchman

Don't bother buying the Tamiya extra thin. Buy the Tamiya airbrush cleaner. It's the same stuff, same ingredients, but cheaper.

Posted by: stv at August 31, 2024 06:34 PM (P5JRd)

63 Haven't tried either. The Match blends I have explored were good tobaccos in their own right, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2024 06:27 PM (omVj0)

Reasonably priced, too.

Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2024 06:35 PM (rj6Yv)

64 Boron Cobbie might look into them

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2024 06:35 PM (fwDg9)

65 How does the Match Victorian Pipe compare the Peterson Elizabethan?
Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2024

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Haven't tried either. The Match blends I have explored were good tobaccos in their own right, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

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Thanks, and I will add these to my list of "need to try" when I make another order.

For anyone who might be interested in looking for a daily driver, I usually lean towards the stronger aromatics like Sutcliff's Vanilla Custard, but if anyone is looking to try something new this has become my recent go-to. It has subtle chocolate and vanilla tones and possesses that "Oh, this reminds me of what my grandfather smoked" quality even though it almost certainly isn't.

Boswell's Best:

https://tinyurl.com/259p2s27

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at August 31, 2024 06:37 PM (DTrt9)

66 KSB,

Try colostrum for the gut. I like goat colostrum but the beef works well and is cheaper.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 31, 2024 06:37 PM (MpVUb)

67 56 OK. I love racing and Le Mans cars are sort of my thing so hopefully I get this right...
Posted by: stv at August 31, 2024 06:28 PM (P5JRd)
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Outstanding! Official AoS hobby thread bonus points for you.

Rear-
Jaguar XJR-8
Porsche 956
Porsche 962
Sauber C9

Front- Porsche 956

Posted by: TRex at August 31, 2024 06:38 PM (IQ6Gq)

68 I can't tell you how many shops I've been in that look just like that VW diorama. The must have had a forklift to get that 911 engine up there.

Posted by: fd at August 31, 2024 06:38 PM (vFG9F)

69 As a teen, little bro and I built WW II warbirds. Don't rember the scale, but .22 bird shot looked pretty close to 20mm cannon damage.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at August 31, 2024 06:38 PM (8C7+r)

70 Haven't tried either. The Match blends I have explored were good tobaccos in their own right, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2024
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Reasonably priced, too.
Posted by: mrp at August 31, 2024

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That's part of it. Matches for Prince Albert and Carter Hall, which only come in $$ tubs now, cane be had for an ounce or several at a time for a lot less. Maybe my tobacco palate is blind to most taste/aroma nuances I read about, but if a blend smokes cool, dries well, and leaves me relaxed, that's the important thing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2024 06:38 PM (omVj0)

71 Boron Cobbie might look into them
Posted by: Skip

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I've needed 1.5x reading glasses for small print for a couple of years now, and I find I use those magnifiers for so many things hobby or repair related. They're as much a part of my tool chest as my socket set is.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at August 31, 2024 06:39 PM (DTrt9)

72 43 ... "How does the Match Victorian Pipe compare the Peterson Elizabethan?"

mrp,
Haven't tried the Match Victorian but it's on the radar. The reviews are excellent. If it is close to the Peterson Elizabethan blend, which I really like, it would be a good value when bought in bulk. I found the perique to be pretty mild so basically it seems to be a good Virginia blend.

Posted by: JTB at August 31, 2024 06:40 PM (zudum)

73 It has subtle chocolate and vanilla tones and possesses that "Oh, this reminds me of what my grandfather smoked" quality even though it almost certainly isn't.

Boswell's Best:

https://tinyurl.com/259p2s27
Posted by: Boron Cobbie at August 31, 2024

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Been meaning to try some Boswell's blends.

Recently I bought two ounces of something called "Cowboy Coffee" from the Country Squire shop in Jackson, MS. The stuff doesn't really smell like coffee grounds, but there's a hint of something like it, and the blend smokes quite well. A good blend for a wake-up smoke with your morning coffee.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2024 06:41 PM (omVj0)

74 67

Woohoo! Finally being a car nerd pays off!

Posted by: stv at August 31, 2024 06:41 PM (P5JRd)

75 Speaking of hobbies, every ham radio operator knew where "Roger" came from.

Posted by: Socratease at August 31, 2024 06:41 PM (t8Egx)

76 I put together a few models as a teen. A few ships from Star Trek TNG. The Enterprise, a Klingon Bird of Prey, a Romulan Warbird, maybe even a Klingon Battle cruiser. Didn't paint them or anything.

However, later I did get into painting Warhammer minis! Space Orks and Space Marines. Made up my own chapter, so I got to pick my own color scheme. No decals, I just tried to free-hand paint some symbols on the pauldrons. Plus painted all the trim lines with contrasting colors...

This was late 2nd edition/early 3rd edition, so there were some great Space Marine models. Very posable, very customizable, and you got lots of spare parts. I put together a few models that didn't quite have game-legal weapons sets. I took a bunch of extra daggers and turned them into bayonets for my command squad. I took more daggers and gave a Marneus Calgar model lightning-claws... Good times. Alas, I dropped the hobby when I moved to the mountains where there wasn't a gaming store for a hundred miles..

Posted by: Castle Guy at August 31, 2024 06:41 PM (0UoT+)

77 Recently I bought two ounces of something called "Cowboy Coffee" from the Country Squire shop in Jackson, MS

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Thanks, I'm a huge coffee drinker so I will definitely track that down.

FWIW I bought a half dozen ounces of different Boswell options and they're all very good, but the Best certainly is and I'll keep it on hand from now on.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at August 31, 2024 06:42 PM (DTrt9)

78 I'm naturally reluctant to try a $13-20 tin of some pipe blend I've never tried. (Haunted Bookshop smelled like a bad cigar and smoked hot. I gave it away.) Thus the Matches, and old standbys like Sir Walter Raleigh (which still can be had in a pouch), are my regulars.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2024 06:43 PM (omVj0)

79 My attempts at building models as a youth are captured perfectly by the first C and H cartoon. If I were to try again it would probably be a sailing ship, Revell level not the multi hundred dollar ones. Not sure I have the patience in old age. And the results might be 'interesting'.

Posted by: JTB at August 31, 2024 06:45 PM (zudum)

80 @andycanuck

I actually picked up the latest Necromunda release (Hive Secundus), but it’s my first toe-dip into that game.

Warcry is a skirmish game (as opposed to Warhammer’s normal big armies) with warbands of usually ~10 miniatures per team. Each mini moves on its own turn (no units moving in unison), and is a lot like Necromunda in that respect. The big Warcry boxes (like Red Harvest) even have narrative campaigns you can play, though I don’t think it’s anywhere as in-depth as Necromunda (you might have two alternate builds for each model; not buying load-outs for each crew member).

I come to hobby gaming from D&D, so Warcry is right up my alley, as the miniatures & terrain can find dual purpose for me. The Warcry ruleset is pretty good, too. Cinematic Tabletop is a YouTube channel that has some interesting Warcry battle reports, & give a good sense of the rules. Helped me learn when brain fog made everything hard.

Sorry your friend’s Necromunda board got crushed before you even got to use it. That would be soul crushing (no pun intended). There are lots of amazing Wargaming board build videos on YouTube, and the amount of work that goes into some of those is impressive.

Posted by: KSB at August 31, 2024 06:46 PM (h51qp)

81
Thanks, I'm a huge coffee drinker so I will definitely track that down.

FWIW I bought a half dozen ounces of different Boswell options and they're all very good, but the Best certainly is and I'll keep it on hand from now on.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie at August 31, 2024

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Country Squire has been around a long time, and are very accommodating people. On their website I kept seeing a sale price on their tobaccos even though they said they had no sale going. So they offered me free shipping. To get that I had to buy two ounces. No problem. But when I got the order, it was *three* ounces, same price. I made sure to thank them and put a good review on their site.

They have a lot of other aromatics and non-aromatics too. They are only four hours' drive from me; I ought to run up there some time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2024 06:46 PM (omVj0)

82 I can confirm that moron Washington Nearsider - not here today, presently? - is a masterful model builder.

Posted by: goatexchange at August 31, 2024 06:47 PM (hyS0X)

83 "Not quite the magic of the CanAm machines of 1966 -1974 which are my favorites"

One of my favorites too. Those were real raw race cars back then. The 917s were awesome.

Posted by: fd at August 31, 2024 06:48 PM (vFG9F)

84 Covid seems to have destroyed my immune system; it took me over two months to recover from the last school bug they brought home.
Posted by: KSB

Horse paste will fix ya

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 31, 2024 06:48 PM (Ydd86)

85 74 Woohoo! Finally being a car nerd pays off!

Posted by: stv at August 31, 2024 06:41 PM (P5JRd)
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People of the endurance racing persuasion will always have a home here.

Posted by: TRex at August 31, 2024 06:48 PM (IQ6Gq)

86 @Notsothoreau

I’ll look into beef colostrum. Thank you.

Posted by: KSB at August 31, 2024 06:49 PM (h51qp)

87 My attempts at building models as a youth are captured perfectly by the first C and H cartoon. If I were to try again it would probably be a sailing ship, Revell level not the multi hundred dollar ones. Not sure I have the patience in old age. And the results might be 'interesting'.
Posted by: JTB at August 31, 2024

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The smaller Revell kits like the Golden Hind and H.M.S. Bounty were a fun challenge. The latter kit was issued at the time of the remake film with Marlon Brando; but the Bligh and Christian figures they included in the kit looked like Charles Laughton and Clark Gable. So I kept 'em and painted them as well.

The big big Cutty Sark kit? That proved too much for me. The rigging was too elaborate.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2024 06:49 PM (omVj0)

88 So I have two charkhas now, the larger Indian box charkha and a smaller, elegant Bosworth book charkha. I am really enjoying this. I'd hoped to put a dent in my fiber stash but wound up buying a few things to try.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 31, 2024 06:51 PM (MpVUb)

89 Calvin certain;y made me chuckle with his patience. I'm a little better now that I've learned to walk away when I get to that point ... but I remembered a semi-truck model I has about 90% complete that really was annoying me. My wife rushed down the stairs when she heard the sounds of destruction. Unlike Calvin, I just used my fist. Glad I've mellowed in the 50 years since that episode.

Posted by: Wingnutt at August 31, 2024 06:52 PM (5B0Ge)

90 48 ... Hi Wolfus,

Love the image of the two middle-aged (+) guys comparing pet pix. I've had some interesting conversations in tobacco shops, from the history of Quebec City to the poetry of Coleridge. Oddly, politics and religion never come up.

The LBF is good. I assume it's the Stokkebye blend. I give the Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake slightly higher marks but that's just personal preference.

Posted by: JTB at August 31, 2024 06:53 PM (zudum)

91 Come to think of it, I have an unopened tin of Samuel Gawith Best Brown Flake. I've been waiting for a special occasion. Is a three-day weekend enough? Dunno.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2024 06:54 PM (omVj0)

92 I built an Enterprise model last year that #2 son gave me for Christmas a couple of years ago. It's pretty big, about 2 feet long. I should send a picture with a giant space cat attacking it.

Last Christmas he gave me an Opel GT model that I have not touched yet. Too busy with the full size projects. Maybe it will be a winter project.

Posted by: fd at August 31, 2024 06:54 PM (vFG9F)

93 Several years ago, I decided that Lego kits were pretty cool. Lego apparently thought so too, since they've jacked up their prices significantly. Think the London bus cost me $150. After adding up the kits I've completed, and the kits that are awaiting my attention, I've come to the conclusion I need to find a cheaper hobby.

Posted by: Wingnutt at August 31, 2024 06:57 PM (5B0Ge)

94 I'm not sure there are cheap hobbies.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 31, 2024 06:58 PM (MpVUb)

95 General statement about Sutliff Match blends. The ones I've tried so far have been damn good: Revelation, Cube Cut, Barking Dog, and few others. I hope they come up with a good Match for Granger, my favorite of the codger blends. Given the bulk prices, the Match blends are a great value.

Posted by: JTB at August 31, 2024 06:59 PM (zudum)

96 Come to think of it, I have an unopened tin of Samuel Gawith Best Brown Flake. I've been waiting for a special occasion. Is a three-day weekend enough? Dunno.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Go for it. Dive in. If the horde says it's a special occasion it's a special occasion.

Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2024 06:59 PM (oaGWv)

97 sid, I'll even send your Galaxy home encased in bubble wrap and a proper car box so it is safe and sound.

Posted by: Grateful at August 31, 2024 06:59 PM (IQ6Gq)

98 everal years ago, I decided that Lego kits were pretty cool. Lego apparently thought so too, since they've jacked up their prices significantly. Think the London bus cost me $150. After adding up the kits I've completed, and the kits that are awaiting my attention, I've come to the conclusion I need to find a cheaper hobby.
Posted by: Wingnutt at August 31, 2024

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Lego has come a long way from the early Sixties, when I first saw them at a W.T. Grant store. Pretty much just bricks of red, white, black, and clear; you could build blockhouses and not much beyond that. Now, they're amazing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 31, 2024 06:59 PM (omVj0)

99 93 Several years ago, I decided that Lego kits were pretty cool. Lego apparently thought so too, since they've jacked up their prices significantly. Think the London bus cost me $150. After adding up the kits I've completed, and the kits that are awaiting my attention, I've come to the conclusion I need to find a cheaper hobby.
Posted by: Wingnutt

My teenage granddaughter has been collecting and building the Lego flower kits. They are rather pretty.

Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2024 07:01 PM (oaGWv)

100 Reginald Denny (actor)
https://www.modelaircraft.org/
sites/default/files/files/
DennyReginaldLeigh.pdf

Old school hobby shop, many large scale and flying models strung from ceiling. Overwhelming to naught but a wee bairn.
Hollywood actors of the day had shops ie Bert Wheeler's (Woolsey and Wheeler) house of magic.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 31, 2024 07:01 PM (n3uHw)

101 I'm not sure there are cheap hobbies

sure there are. My wife paints rocks. Smaller ones that she drops on our RV travels. Large ones that she paints up as houses - elf or fairy sized. Actually, her hobby gives us exercise, tromping tge creek beds for interesting rocks.

Posted by: Wingnutt at August 31, 2024 07:01 PM (5B0Ge)

102 Lego is in the queue for a future hobby thread theme.

Posted by: TRex at August 31, 2024 07:01 PM (IQ6Gq)

103 Really wish Anna Puma would send a pic of all her models.
Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2024 05:33 PM (oaGWv)

I was just gonna say, "Where's her stuff?".

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 31, 2024 07:01 PM (/HDaX)

104 I use to get my nephew Lego kits and build them before giving them to him, I only had basic Lego

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2024 07:02 PM (fwDg9)

105 Of course, hobbies if done right can get you through times of no money. You just have to stock up when flush. I'm spinning cashmere today. Not sure where I got it but I did have a friend that raised his own cashmere goats. Could be from him.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 31, 2024 07:03 PM (MpVUb)

106 94 ... "I'm not sure there are cheap hobbies."

Agreed. It's just some hobbies aren't as expensive as others. None are cheap if pursued but you can make a game out of finding less expensive ways to do the hobby. Part of the appeal of traditional muzzleloading is making/improvising the gear. Sketching can be done on paper grocery bags and number 2 pencils or Bic Crystal pens.

Posted by: JTB at August 31, 2024 07:04 PM (zudum)

107 Warcry is a skirmish game (as opposed to Warhammer’s normal big armies) with warbands of usually ~10 miniatures per team.
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Ah, that does sound similar. And my buddies play D&D [and used to play WoW online] but I couldn't suspend my disbelief to enjoy it. [No snobbery meant.]

There are lots of amazing Wargaming board build videos on YouTube, and the amount of work that goes into some of those is impressive.
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I'm no terrain modeler, but I saved up a bunch of razor blade dispenser packs for it because they looked like stairs!

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 31, 2024 07:05 PM (CEzQx)

108 Bligh and Christian figures they included in the kit looked like Charles Laughton and Clark Gable.

Did the ears on the Gable figure allow it to glide if thrown?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 31, 2024 07:05 PM (n3uHw)

109 Just got back from dinner and shopping.

I'm currently working on the 1:48 scale Revell version of the B1 Lancer. Coming along reasonable well except for one of the main gear doors the movers managed to lose. I'm painting it the standard sort of vaguely olive/green. For the windshield, I'm going to try airbrushing a thin layer of a gold-colored paint to mimic the glare shielding on the real deal. And also make a bunch of those air guiding winglets you find around the fuselage directly underneath the horizontal stabilizers.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 31, 2024 07:05 PM (/HDaX)

110 Anna posted or linked once

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2024 07:08 PM (fwDg9)

111 TRex,

Thanks for another fun hobby thread. (The cartoons and links are fun.) Couldn't contribute much this time but there is always the next one.

Posted by: JTB at August 31, 2024 07:09 PM (zudum)

112 Used to build a lot of stuff from Revell, they had good quality and coverage. Just lost interest as I got older.

My "hobby" now is fly tying, mostly dries. I can't recall the last time I bought a fly now. In my gear is still an ancient Sunrise AA vise, the jaws still grab a hook just fine.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 31, 2024 07:09 PM (hKoQL)

113 Of course, hobbies if done right can get you through times of no money. You just have to stock up when flush. I'm spinning cashmere today. Not sure where I got it but I did have a friend that raised his own cashmere goats. Could be from him.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

It's nice you spin your own yarn. The price of really good yarn is sky high these days. If I was still knitting I'd probably go broke.

Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2024 07:10 PM (oaGWv)

114 Lego kits cost 10¢ per piece 20 years ago. Now they cost 11¢ per piece on average. After factoring in inflation over 20 years, today they cost 9¢ per piece in ~2004 dollars.

The thing that changed is the number of pieces per kit. Sometimes that’s impacted by needless hidden Easter eggs in builds, where they use twelve 1x1 dots instead of two 3x2 plates, but today’s kits are generally much more detailed than they used to be, as in the mid-2000’s Lego figured out that adults like Lego, too. And unlike a lot of kids, adults have money.

Posted by: KSB at August 31, 2024 07:10 PM (h51qp)

115 111 TRex, Thanks for another fun hobby thread. (The cartoons and links are fun.) Couldn't contribute much this time but there is always the next one.

Posted by: JTB at August 31, 2024 07:09 PM
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Thanks for being here. Next week's theme should be interesting, so y'all come back now, ya' hear?

Posted by: TRex at August 31, 2024 07:11 PM (IQ6Gq)

116 I wish I had the time and space to really delve into the Lego hobby: the building-your-own-creation side of it. I really want to build some massive castles, but I don't have enough room to spread out, and not enough time to just sit and build-from-scratch.

Posted by: Castle Guy at August 31, 2024 07:12 PM (0UoT+)

117 105 ... "Of course, hobbies if done right can get you through times of no money. You just have to stock up when flush."

Notsothoreau,

Oh yeah. In addition to the stuff I mentioned in comment 106, ammo reloaders look for every means to keep the costs down. Scavenging brass at the range, casting bullets, and definitely looking for bargains when the funds are available.

I don't know how well it worked but an acquaintance from many years ago bread Malamutes and turned the hair (they shed a LOT) into yarn. Never found out if it was effective.

Posted by: JTB at August 31, 2024 07:16 PM (zudum)

118 I'm no terrain modeler, but I saved up a bunch of razor blade dispenser packs for it because they looked like stairs!

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Oooo… that’s a great idea. Too bad I’m a bearded man who hates shaving. Haven’t bought a new pack of blades since… long before the pandemic.

Posted by: KSB at August 31, 2024 07:16 PM (h51qp)

119 Littleknits.com. They do a lot of closeouts. I was planning for retirement. I will grt bored knitting with commercial yarns and want to knit handspun for awhile.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 31, 2024 07:16 PM (MpVUb)

120 but I don't have enough room to spread out, and not enough time to just sit and build-from-scratch.
Posted by: Castle Guy a
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They re-released an updated castle or two from the 70s and 80s recently. I don't own them but had the originals when I was young. They were fantastic and I would absolutely buy at least one of the big sets if you're even slightly interested.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at August 31, 2024 07:17 PM (pvqEm)

121 116 I wish I had the time and space to really delve into the Lego hobby: the building-your-own-creation side of it. I really want to build some massive castles, but I don't have enough room to spread out, and not enough time to just sit and build-from-scratch.
Posted by: Castle Guy

I saw Lego has Lord of the Rings sets. The Mordor tower is almost $500.00. I looked it up and saw in the advertisement they show an adult building it.

Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2024 07:19 PM (oaGWv)

122 116

If all you want to do is build your own, eBay has many sellers that sell bulk ... I've seen 5, 10, and 15ll lots of mixed bricks. (I bought a 5 lb lot to have stuff on hand when I come across missing pieces.

Posted by: Wingnutt at August 31, 2024 07:20 PM (5B0Ge)

123 Some of the nicest dog hair yarn comes from Samoyeds and Collies. Some folks say it smells like dog when wet but I think there are ways you could clean it to prevent that. I had a friend that spun cat hair.

For me, when I had dogs that shed like that, the last thing I wanted to do was spin the hair!

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 31, 2024 07:20 PM (MpVUb)

124 I'll add that part of the joy of modern Lego builds is how they use unrelated pieces to represent things or how they make something work for mechanical movements or angles.

We built a Ferrari a few years ago and it was really neat to discover the flintlock pistols in the kit were for the engine manifold.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at August 31, 2024 07:20 PM (pvqEm)

125 Time to say good night before the movie thread takes the stage. As always, thanks for being here. New theme next week, so stay tuned. Keep hobbying!

Posted by: TRex at August 31, 2024 07:22 PM (IQ6Gq)

126 Oh, yeah, the black-box Lego sets are usually listed as Ages 16+. I would love to get the Rivendell set, and the Dune Ornithopter, but can’t spare the cash at the moment.
(Says the guy with too many unopened Warcry and Killteam boxes sitting on his shelf…

Posted by: KSB at August 31, 2024 07:23 PM (h51qp)

127 Thanks, TRex.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 31, 2024 07:25 PM (mH6SG)

128 I gave Moron Robbie about 40lbs of legos years ago. He just paid for shipping

Posted by: lin-duh at August 31, 2024 07:25 PM (VCgbV)

129 Re the racing car models...
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Laguna Seca has a "historics" weekend. I've been to about 5 or 6. Some of classic race cars that the owners will put on track are awesome.

A few years ago by a driver last named Putz (the irony is so fucking off the hook here) wrecked a F1 historic Ferrari.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2024 07:25 PM (Q4IgG)

130 Modern Tamiya aircraft kits are beautiful bits of engineering that go together well. But if you buy their 1/48 FRS 1 Sea Harrier or the 1/32 F-14 Tomcat, well my condolences.

I need a workbench as large as that one. As for the Vandy Phantom, nice to see someone do one not black Vandy One. If you can find the photos the Navy has plenty of experimental schemes to recreate. This dates back to before World War II. One Dauntless got a dark green paint job while two TBD Devastators got a Barclay scheme in water washable paint. Not to be left out, one USAAF P-51 Mustang got painted on the sides in a black/white splinter scheme.

As for that model of NCC-1701, the legal issues around it is deeper than Kirk being buried in Tribbles.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2024 07:26 PM (qOFls)

131 They re-released an updated castle or two from the 70s and 80s recently. I don't own them but had the originals when I was young. They were fantastic and I would absolutely buy at least one of the big sets if you're even slightly interested.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie at August 31, 2024 07:17 PM (pvqEm)

Lion Knights Castle. Own it, haven't built it yet. Which is funny because King's Castle (of the late 80s) was one of those grails that I never got. ...Because I was young and my parents didn't think I needed or would use a toy so big. Heh...

If I had the space to display things, I'd also already have the updated El Dorado's Fortress (an anti-pirate stronghold) and the updated Medeval Town Square. Especially because I did get the original of both of those.

Posted by: Castle Guy at August 31, 2024 07:26 PM (0UoT+)

132 Sprue Brothers is having a sale this weekend. For Aires and several other manufacturers, it is 20% off.

Squadron is having a 40% off sale on all ICM stuff.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2024 07:27 PM (qOFls)

133 126 Oh, yeah, the black-box Lego sets are usually listed as Ages 16+. I would love to get the Rivendell set, and the Dune Ornithopter, but can’t spare the cash at the moment.
(Says the guy with too many unopened Warcry and Killteam boxes sitting on his shelf…
Posted by: KSB

Yes, that Rivendell set is beautiful.. would definitely need a place of honor to display it once finished.

Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2024 07:29 PM (oaGWv)

134 I gave Moron Robbie about 40lbs of legos years ago. He just paid for shipping
Posted by: lin-duh

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They're still played with to this day BTW. And thank you again.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie at August 31, 2024 07:29 PM (DTrt9)

135 Yes, that Rivendell set is beautiful.. would definitely need a place of honor to display it once finished.
Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2024 07:29 PM (oaGWv)

Yeah, the Rivendell and Baradur sets are also things I would already own if I had more display space...

Posted by: Castle Guy at August 31, 2024 07:30 PM (0UoT+)

136 But if you want eye-watering paint schemes, search 8th Air Force formation ships.

Units would take war-weary bombers, strip out the guns, and then paint them in the most loud paint schemes so when the bombers going on the mission would have a plane to formate on.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2024 07:31 PM (qOFls)

137 I made model dinosaurs and prehistoric beasts (sabertooth tiger) with my dad when I was very little, like 4 or 5. I remember the Aurora triceratops model with sharp teeth on it

no skill to assemble (my part) but my dad painted them, and did a great job.

There were other kits as I got older, like the original Battlestar Galactic Colonial Viper, but the dinosaurs stayed with me more.

Posted by: acethepug at August 31, 2024 07:34 PM (aYyMD)

138 Units would take war-weary bombers, strip out the guns, and then paint them in the most loud paint schemes so when the bombers going on the mission would have a plane to formate on.
Posted by: Anna Puma

That's interesting. Had never read that before.

Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2024 07:36 PM (oaGWv)

139 I'm not sure there are cheap hobbies.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 31, 2024 06:58 PM (MpVUb)

They start that way

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 31, 2024 07:38 PM (WF/xn)

140 There is a video or website on those wild paint bombers

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2024 07:41 PM (fwDg9)

141 OT,
There's a new ad by the Kennedy campaign. (On X)

https://tinyurl.com/yc5jumbn

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 31, 2024 07:41 PM (MpVUb)

142 140 There is a video or website on those wild paint bombers

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2024 07:41 PM (fwDg9)
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It would blow their mind to know that modelers decades later scratched and struggled for reference material to faithfully replicate the paint jobs.

Posted by: TRex at August 31, 2024 07:44 PM (IQ6Gq)

143 My wargaming group hasn't reconstituted yet [members' family deaths years earlier and then the lockdowns] but one guy has retired recently and we've been playing Axis & Allies 1942 2nd Ed.

I'd never played it before but have enjoyed it enough that I've bought the newest reprint of the Spring 1941 Anniversary Edition for us to play next.

The Boardgame Geek website has sets that people have painted the pieces for and I hope [in my dreams!] to accomplish that too.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 31, 2024 07:45 PM (CEzQx)

144 Anyone here buy from the GHQ site? They make a bunch of miniatures for wargaming... focusing on WWII and earlier.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2024 07:48 PM (Q4IgG)

145 People always think it is Luftwaffe paint schemes that are well nigh mystical with what colors or patterns were used.

But on the Allied side there are sore points also. The dark blue Spitfires of Malta or what color did the 61st FS/56FG used to paint the top surfaces of their P-47M Thunderbolts are two examples.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2024 07:48 PM (qOFls)

146 This is why this place is so great. lin-duh gives Robbie legos. Anyone looking to do leather work I have stuff for you.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2024 07:51 PM (1k7z0)

147 PSA. Thank you to all that sent cards for JT. They have been forwarded.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2024 07:54 PM (1k7z0)

148 Considering the premium price I paid for the Anniversary Ed., I was disappointed to see that all of the Italian naval pieces were just the German ones rendered in the Italian 'team colour' and the artillery, fighter and bomber were Japanese ones [at least it had an accurate tank for them]; and half the Royal Navy ships were USN ones. So I just spent US $150 [incl. postage!] on accurate Italian pieces from the A&A Europe 1940 version.

Also got accurate RN vessels, artillery, and a few different tanks for the Brits; accurate artillery and subs for the Soviets along with some fun tanks for them; and a few more airplane types and tanks for the US forces for fun/ variety. Similarly, got some extra German tanks and planes for variety/ fun too!

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 31, 2024 07:57 PM (CEzQx)

149 Good evening Ben Had. **clink**

Posted by: TRex at August 31, 2024 07:59 PM (IQ6Gq)

150 Inspired by last week's hobby thread, I decided to actually try some operating with my collection of ham radios.

That's when I discovered that there were dozens of wasps in the window. Eventually, I discovered an eight-inch-wide nest on the inside of my house.

So, my hobby this week has been killing wasps and destroying the nests. Oh, and I'm printing a badge for the Texas MoMe. I was hoping to have a photo of the finished badge by last week, but it has turned out to be harder to get the dang thing to print than I was expecting.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 31, 2024 07:59 PM (iZEhM)

151 I can't build models anymore. My hands shake too much. When I was young I had a huge HO railroad in the basement. I made all the terrain from cardboard, paper and plaster. Would make fake trees from balsa wood and lichen I got off of trees. Balsa wood buildings and bridges, etc. Spent lots of hours down there.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at August 31, 2024 08:00 PM (fv27Y)

152 144 Anyone here buy from the GHQ site? They make a bunch of miniatures for wargaming... focusing on WWII and earlier.
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I just bookmarked their website literally yesterday, looking for accurate Italian et alia models!

I haven't played them but the 6mm Micro Armor is excellent.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 31, 2024 08:01 PM (CEzQx)

153 150 So, my hobby this week has been killing wasps and destroying the nests.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 31, 2024 07:59 PM (iZEhM)
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Yikes! Inside the house! Double yikes!

Posted by: TRex at August 31, 2024 08:02 PM (IQ6Gq)

154 TRex, Cheers and thank you for such fun threads. See You Soon!

Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2024 08:03 PM (1k7z0)

155 I should try making a ammunition pouch, I got a leather punch a year ago

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2024 08:03 PM (fwDg9)

156 And GHQ has been around for a very long time so I'm sure they're no problem to deal with.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 31, 2024 08:04 PM (CEzQx)

157 So, my hobby this week has been killing wasps and destroying the nests.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 31, 2024 07:59 PM

Yikes! Inside the house! Double yikes!
Posted by: TRex at August 31, 2024 08:02 PM

I gotta tell you those red wasps were pretty chill. They just let me spray them with ant and roach killer, which apparently kills wasps, too.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 31, 2024 08:10 PM (iZEhM)

158
I built models as a kid, almost exclusively planes, when I was in grades 4 through 7. I don't recall their scale. When we moved between 7th and 8th grade, we strung a wire near the ceiling in my bedroom and hung the plane models from it. There were between six and eight plane models on that wire. When I went off to college, my (middle of three boys) brother inherited my bedroom as "his" when I wasn't home. I do not recall when the planes came down, but they did, and then they were gone.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 31, 2024 08:11 PM (xG4kz)

159 Maybe we are stuck here until the ONT

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2024 08:17 PM (fwDg9)

160 Well, if we're stuck here with each other, might as well make use of the time. Opening the hobby thread theme suggestion box. We've got a great queue of topics and there are never guarantees, but always interested in ideas and suggestions. What themes does the horde want to see in future hobby threads?

Posted by: TRex at August 31, 2024 08:19 PM (IQ6Gq)

161 https://tinyurl.com/2kwhvax9
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2024 08:20 PM (fwDg9)

162 Maybe we are stuck here until the ONT
Posted by: Skip

Well I guess we could start our own movie thread. Anyone seen the Reagan movie yet?

Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2024 08:21 PM (oaGWv)

163 Asheville Robert,

I used to buy models for my husband at Christmas. Then he finally told me that his hands shook so much he couldn't put them together. That left me with pipes and tobacco.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 31, 2024 08:21 PM (MpVUb)

164 "Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe-----------
Caused me to think of the WWI 'trench art'

t.ly/6M3ar

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2024 08:22 PM (XeU6L)

165 Been watching non stop movies as got a new big screen TV this week.

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2024 08:22 PM (fwDg9)

166 Could we do a prepper thread? I know people have asked for one. Zero Hedge recently had an article on 50 items you should prep.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 31, 2024 08:22 PM (MpVUb)

167 "What themes does the horde want to see in future hobby threads?
Posted by: TRex"

Essential tools. Like giant channel lock pliers and a bench mounted wire wheel.

Posted by: fd at August 31, 2024 08:23 PM (vFG9F)

168 Would be neat to have a beer in those

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2024 08:24 PM (fwDg9)

169 One of the women I follow, at Dragon Poodle Studio, is hanging it up. She has been rebuilding older machines. She's 75 and said she can't lug around 40 pound machines any more.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 31, 2024 08:25 PM (MpVUb)

170 "War Of The Colossal Beast" is on Svengoolie. It's the one where a giant ogre fails to destroy LA.

Posted by: fd at August 31, 2024 08:27 PM (vFG9F)

171 Maybe we could do an RV thread? I think we have some folks that full time. People always want to know how to set up solar charging.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 31, 2024 08:27 PM (MpVUb)

172 Would be neat to have a beer in those
Posted by: Skip
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A search for 'WWI trench art images' is worth it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2024 08:28 PM (XeU6L)

173 Um, Nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 31, 2024 08:29 PM (y31cs)

174 Um, Nood.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Yup. Someone forgot to hit "publish".

Posted by: Tuna at August 31, 2024 08:30 PM (oaGWv)

175 This is one of the best ever posts.

Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2024 08:32 PM (LHPAg)

176 Built plastic models when I was pre-teen.
Total klutz. Seemed to make fastest assembly the priority. Glue on fingers, totally messing up small parts. Back when solvent glue was a thing. Until the “glue-heads” messed it up for all of us, and we could only but the lemon-scented glue that was only slightly more effective than Elmer’s glue.
Later, early 20s, did an F14 Tomcat that turned out nicely. Meticulous custom paint, perfect alpplication of decals, and the variable-sweep wings operated flawlessly.
Enjoyed displaying it for years.
And then, something happened with tequila and firecrackers.
But I can’t remember exactly what…

Posted by: Gunslinger at August 31, 2024 09:41 PM (65a8d)

177 Oh, and no mention that I noticed, of models with little Cox motors.
Fun!
Had a little jeep that would just do circles until it ran out of fuel.
And a rail dragster that ran along a string to keep it straight.
And then, I got a plane.
I still have finger scars from infliction over 40 years ago.
Unavoidable cuts, it seemed…

Posted by: Gunslinger at August 31, 2024 09:53 PM (65a8d)

178 I still build model airplanes at 67 years old. My plastic model stash occupies half the basement, and the RC stuff, the other half. Big fun.

Posted by: JoeBar at August 31, 2024 10:50 PM (Js1Uk)

179 I build all kinds of stuff. Best therapy ever.

Posted by: Tim at September 01, 2024 11:15 AM (xAHVZ)

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