I am a fan of all things guns so there are a lot of funding decisions that need to be made.
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My spare time, is taken up by family, the wife and a canal boat.
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Mine suggested the strip club, same amount of plastic and funding but she doesnât have to see the boxes. College is expensive, have to support the ladies career goals somehow. Always wonder what result would have been if I called her bluff. I am thinking a cast iron skillet to the forehead.
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My non-modeling hobbies consist of working on/riding my 1998 VN1500e and reenacting WW2 (Great Patriotic War) as a Red Army Officer/Unit Kommandir. I am pretty much retired from reenacting, but as Kommandir of the 193rd Rifle Division, I had the privilege of meeting Red Army Veterans and in 2019, being the guest of the Russian Ambassador at the Victory Day Commemoration. (I am center of the pic of the great hall). The Veteran in the wheelchair was airdrome commander at the airdrome where the PO-2 carrying the Virgin of Kazan icon during the defense of Moscow in the winter of 1941 flew from. The Veteran in uniform is Polkovnic Zaireâs, who as a young Artillery Leytenant took part in the advance through Austria in 1945. He is one of the finest persons that I have ever known. Needless to say, WW2 Russian is my main focus in modeling.
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I always tell my partner there are worse things I could spending money on! Although most other addictions are probably cheaper.
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I donât do much anymore, just build models (though that in itself, is getting expensive!).
I used to do various periods in living history, including trips to the US to part in events like Little Big Horn and Gettysburg. Used to have an armored car too at one time, the gear box went in it and I sold it off.
Not much happens where I live, no model shows, certainly no living history events, so now I just walk my German Shepherds and play games on the computer, when I;m not modelling.
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well I have joined my wife in birdwatching, listen to various music genres 40âs big band thru some stuff today and am a Big Classical Music fan as well. was into ACW reenacting for 15 years Infantry and Provost Guard Impressions I love to read all types of subjects. Modelling of course however space and work are plotting against me. I love to Golf all though I play to have fun as I am admittedly not very good quit gaming for the most part but occasionally play something on the computer. and of course my doggos we have three a Rhodesian Ridgeback a Chihuahua and a Manchester terrier. also dabbling in growing piri piri and Jalapeño peppers and some minor carpentry projects also love watching MLB and minors and Hockey and Soccer and occasional pro and college football game
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Hobbies?
Cars definitely, four project cars would like more but my wife vetoed that. 72 Vette, 91 Camaro, 99 Trans Am, & 02 Z28. Have a LS2 stroker build in process with an engine builder currently.
Reading history, sci-fi & fantasy.
Ran a 1st & 2nd edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons campaign that lasted thirty-one years. Game naturally concluded in 2017.
Writing for my own entertainment, mostly stupid stories from the AD&D campaign.
Cooking but more importantly, eating!
Plastic model building, almost exclusively 1/35 armor, previously a trophy 
hound etc, won awards at IPMS Nationals long ago and a gold medal in AMPS Advanced last year. Focused only on building for fun now days.
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My main hobby is modelling but i do like gardening and reading. Recently I bought a number of items to try my hand at fly tying. I would really like to learn fly fishing properly, I will be retiring next year and that is top of the list.
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In 1998, when I first visited Western Europe, I discovered beer mats as a phenomenon. The last time I counted them was about 10 years ago and I had a little over 20,000 unique items. At that time, it was the third largest publicly announced collection in the country.
In recent years this hobby has waned, but for now it allows me to justify to my wife visiting pubs by looking for new coasters, rather than drinking beer, which I love.
Since the age of 50, having given myself a visit to the Verneya Pyshma museum for my birthday, I have turned museum trips into my main hobby. Since then, I have visited more than 200 museums, museum sites and events of technical and military-patriotic orientation in dozens of cities, mainly in Russia. I have posted 245 reports on my visits on my website fromsalekhard.ru, a little more than 80 of them have been translated into English and posted there on the English-language part of the website and on this forum.
Since 2016, I have made 13 kitographs of assembly models and additions to them at a scale of 1/35. Mostly on Soviet armored vehicles of the Great Patriotic War. However, there are publications on fountains, hydrants and other water things, as well as on figures of Soviet tankers and everything related to horses. There is a separate April Foolsâ theme dedicated to toilets. Kitographs are available in âprintedâ form (pdf format) available for downloading, as well as in the form of an electronic catalog with the ability to search, sort, etc. All this is available on my second site in-mirror-scale.ru.
I try to keep it up to date, but it doesnât always work out. These are most likely not reference guides, but a recorded cross-section of the modeling industry on the eve of its complete absorption by 3D printing.
All these hobbies come and go, but modeling has been with me since childhood. I remember how I used to assemble, together with my father, or rather my father with me, models of equipment from the Soviet company Ogonyok or airplanes from VEB Plasticart, which were more rare than expensive. As in my student days, saved money from booze and girls, I spent hungry evenings gluing models in the dorm. How my wife, before the birth of children, helped paint the airplane model with her nail polish. While the children were small and required increased attention and money, I hardly did any modeling. But when they grew up and left, I took their former room and made a separate workshop for myself.
Thank you very much for such a ânon-coreâ topic on this forum. It is very interesting to know what people do in their free time from work, family and modeling.
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That will keep the teenagers off the lawn!
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Shouting at the TV and other devicesâŠduh yes, when theyâre switched on. And stupid road-users. I only shout at inanimate objects when they become malevolent. So with a hobby like that, most of the time Iâm out of breath but at least it beats boring exercise equipment.
OK seriously, I sometimes find other uses for my model-making paintâŠ
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I like O and HO model railroading. I also play Starcraft2 on line. Other hobby is WH40 K. I no longer play but like to build and paint the Space Marines. Oh yeah I love baseball. Go to 26 to 32 games a year at Citifield. I am a Big Met fan.. I also like to read military history and science fiction.
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I dabble in photography but mostly wildlife. I live in the mountains in the middle of the woods in PA and a lot of wildlife around here. These were all taken in the yard. With the Hummingbirds, I also dabble in gardening to attract them. I recently lost all my photos as my hard drive crashed and I didnât back them up. These are not the originals, they are cropped and edited.
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No, it was actually âhobbys.â
Thankfully mine do not include being a spelling or grammar nazi. We already have a guy for that. 
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Not sure what youâre reading into, manâI was just echoing the thread title. Nothing more, nothing less. All good.
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No reading into it necessary. Your post happened to spell âhobbiesâ correctly, whereas the original did not. Iâm actually surprised that a certain spelling Nazi didnât jump in and correct the title already.
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Vee must have good order and discipline.
I donât sweat the small stuff.
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