Your other hobbies & interests other than modeling. What do you like to do?

[WhatIfRebel]

Just curious to ask what other hobbies and interests people have other than model kit building?
Traveling? Biking? Cooking? Fixing cars?
What other interests do you have?

On a side note, I’m curious to ask the following: As you went through life, particuarly in your teens and twenties, Did you ever find yourself going from one hobby/interest to the next not really feeling like anything would stick with you or that maybe you just didn’t “fit in” somehow with a particular hobby? Just curious if anybody else has felt that way. It’s happened to me several times in the past.

[Jeeves]

I have a few which makes it difficult to focus at times. I play drums and D&D…also DM high school kids. That also involves lots of painting minis for it which is kind of like modeling.

[keavdog]

I have way too many hobbies. I tend to cycle over them - static models, rc stuff - planes, helicopters, buggies, trucks, boating, fishing, 1:1 performance cars, skiing, camping… on and on. Right now I’m back in the static model mode. But here’s a bit

Whoops - and playing guitar

[SprueOne]

Bicycles

[NWAN322]

I’m a photographer! usually do aviation/nature/city photography, but my internship has taught me a lot about event and commercial photography.

I’ve also been drawing ever since I was 3 and had classical training all throughout high school. These were some evaluative pieces I had to do.

I recently aged out of scouting, but those nurtured my love for biking, hiking, and camping. Sports-wise, I love running and playing tennis.

[Aggieman]

Photography of whatever strikes my fancy, from sneaking in some family shots to the flowers that bloom each spring to A&M football games to family vacations (most recently Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park but a few trips to Disney World with some fun shots there as well).

Writing. I do enjoy writing. When I was younger, I wrote stories about existing characters such as found in Star Wars, Superman, and even one about a megadolon (inspired by Jaws). I wrote a book right after finishing my IT degree at A&M. It is a political thriller somewhat reminiscent of a Tom Clancy type of work, but not to the level of detail he infused into his books. I tried a few times to get it published, but wasn’t real experienced in that and never got any takers. Then life got in the way with my marriage and family. Eventually I am going to get back to it to complete a book that I’ve probably written 300 pages of and discarded 280 of them. That one will be an alternative history based on the thought of what would Nazi Germany have done had they defeated England and the Soviet Union. The book was inspired by two things: Jane’s Aviation books featured a photograph of Messerschmitt’s Me264 “Amerika” bomber, and there was an old-style newsreel in the movie The Rocketeer featuring Nazi rocketeer soldiers flying over the Atlantic to lay waste to Washington, D.C.

I love watching movies. In the theater for big spectacle movies like Superman (saw last night) or F1: The Movie (saw last week). I have gotten to the point where I’ll wait for digital releases to stream given the cost of going to movies has ballooned so much in recent years.

Wood working. I don’t get to do enough of this any more, but I still have all the tools, various saws, planers, etc.

Edit to add traveling. It’s not often that we get to travel, maybe once every 2-3 years for a big trip. I mentioned earlier our trips to Disney World but also our most recent trip to Colorado, where we stayed in Manitou Springs for a couple of days and then went north to Estes Park for the remainder of our time in Colorado. A couple of years earlier, for our 20th anniversary, I took my wife to Gulf Shores, Alabama for a week at a beach that doesn’t look like toilet water such as we have here in Texas. I’m a planner, which I suppose goes along with my attentive nature to details and my career in software engineering. I’m already planning our next two trips - for my 60th birthday to Disney World, and for our 25th anniversary to Germany. And in the back of my mind is yet another Disney trip, this time to take our grandson at age 5 or so to spoil him rotten, fill him with sugar, and then bring him back to his parents.

[MR_TOM_SCHRY]

Working out has always been part of my life(getting ripped for the girls) and as I got older bicycling(girls in bicycling shorts) then motorcycles(the need for speed). Now as I’m in my 5th year of retirement scale models are back in my life,bicycling(cardio health & to reduce the “beer belly”),motorcycles(Family minivan isn’t reliable), and working out(two hip & two knee replacements and to reduce the “beer belly”).

[SprueOne]

@WhatIfRebel

On a side note, I’m curious to ask the following: As you went through life, particuarly in your teens and twenties, Did you ever find yourself going from one hobby/interest to the next not really feeling like anything would stick with you or that maybe you just didn’t “fit in” somehow with a particular hobby? Just curious if anybody else has felt that way. It’s happened to me several times in the past.

In addition to models and bicycles, I got into CB radio and collecting old AM/FM receivers then restoring them.

[S.Hollowell]

Besides modeling, I enjoy collecting some WWII stuff (and other military things as well). I also enjoy writing, both history and fiction. And reading.

[RealG]

Currently I have no hobbies other than gluing plastic bits together. I guess I also like to study the effects of long-term dust accumulation on stored model boxes.

I used to go cycling up till college, but me and my friends stopped after we started working. A friend and I took scuba diving lessons and got certified, but then my friend found out that life insurance companies didn’t like the sport. He had to quit when he got married and started planning to have kids. Scuba diving was the only “sport” I really enjoyed.

My dad was a golfer, and he really tried to get me to play. But I had zero interest and talent. As a Japanese friend once politely told me: “Neeru-San, this is golufu, not base-u-boru. No three strikes.”

My friends played all sorts of wargames, from Starfleet Battles to D&D. I only took an interest in a few like Battletech and Ogre. I did like some of the board games like Talisman and Judge Dredd. But, after college we stopped having gaming night due to “grown-up” commitments.

I took RC flying lessons, but decided the mess was not worth it. That oil-infused fuel got everywhere! Plus, it was expensive, and even more so when I made a mistake. The electric planes nowadays are a far cry from the old glo-engine ones with the nickel-cadmium batteries.

I used to watch a lot of Japanese anime back in the 1980s and 1990s, but now I don’t follow the current stuff. I think because the mecha-action shows declined in popularity and the character shows took over. And Gundam got Gqwuuuuuuxed.

So there it is, I’m a one-trick pony. And an old one at that - I turn 60 this week.

[Rob_Gronovius]

I play World of Warcraft, build Lego sets with my son, read a lot of Stephen King novels, and have started going through my old comic book collection that has been in boxes for a quarter century.
I also actually go to work, which is kind of a hobby to me. I already retired back in 2011.
And I’ve been using an app on my phone to learn languages. At first, I refreshed my French because I had taken six years of it as a kid in school. Currently, I have been learning Spanish for the last six years or so.

As a kid, I was a big model builder and collector of comics, actually back then, a reader of comics. During the 1990s, when I was in my late 20s and early 30s, I probably collected more models and comics than I actually built or read.

I slowed down both in my 40s in the early 2000s. I had a whoops child at 40. About 8 years after the last kid. He’ll be 21 in a month, and the next younger is 28. It was akin to raising an only child. Because of this, I think I grew closer to him because I didn’t have multiple children vying for attention (I raised six kids, the others are in their 30).

All my older kids had these elaborate Lego sets that were in giant rubber maid totes. My youngest son and I were going through these sets and figuring out what went where. Thank goodness I had kept the instruction booklets. Most of the little dudes were long gone.

I also began building those cool Bandai Star Wars kits from Hobby Lobby. They were what the old MPC kits should have been in the 1970s.

[missileman2000]

Photography is a big interest. It also aids my model building, for things like a scratch build, decal making,etc.

I also have a life-long interest in aviation. Probably could not renew my medical, but certainly follow aviation technology.

[Demolition]

I play guitar ( metal, death metal) I dabble with RC crawlers and rock bouncers, cooking ( grilling bbq, smoking mostly) models ( kinda every genre but cars mostly) I used to bobybuild but it caught up with me, I still try to lift here and there, nascar, I have a telescope I use several times a year. Im sure there is more but I think that covers it.
Oh I got my GMRS radio license a few moths ago so I’ve been messing around with that a bit.

[Demolition]

What genre do you play?

[keavdog]

I’m all over the place. A lot of southern rock, Van Halen, 90s bands - sublime, 311. I’ll get into some groove metal though like Pantera. Lately I’ve been playing a bit of country, but it’s pretty boring - country is all about the vocals & lyrics.

[Demolition]

Nice, pantera is fun but dime goes from level simple to 1000 real quick. I picked up a 7 string (one on the left in the picture) like 3-4 years ago and it’s fun but I never got into it really. I pick it up once a month maybe.

[keavdog]

I mostly grab my Fender acoustic - when I play the strat models fall off the shelves . I gave the Schecter to a friend of mine. Also had a p bass for a while but couldn’t get into that so I sold it.

[keavdog]

I’ve been considering this Grestch White Falcon but it’s $$$. I’d like a hollow body.

[Demolition]

That’s what credit cards are for

[PhoenixG]

I collect hobbies.

Photography of all sorts. Portraiture, landscapes, macro. I prefer manual settings and prime lenses. I only use automatic settings when taking photos in very dynamic settings.

Electronics and their repair. Such as refurbishing old video game consoles. Like the Atari 2600 and early handhelds and the occasional bit of household kit. Dabbled in Jukebox restoration as part of that. Fun, but expensive.

Microcontrollers such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi. Tied into electronics repair. Hacked a couple of electronics toys to mod them with additional functionality.

Woodworking. Mostly utility carpentry. Some fine furniture such as barrister bookcases, custom cabinetry, custom moulding. Some antique restoration. Storage solutions. Built several sheds for various homes.

Models of course.

Personal Computers. Building and customizing. Used to do that a lot, but for many years I’ve been less interested in mucking about the insides of a desktop PC. Probably because my interest in video games has dwindled to practically nothing.

Did try to pick up a musical instrument, but found I lacked the discipline to maintain the required practice.

Strength training. Mostly to maintain a degree of physical fitness.

Board games, all types and genres. Get together regularly with friends and family to play old favorites and try out new games.

Been trying to learn welding. Started designing an electric go cart that I’d like to build.

Was a comic book collector in my youth and every now and now and then go to a shop and try out a new series. Currently I have a digital subscription to Marvel. Mostly to read the comics I didn’t have the cash to get when I was a kid. Fun bit of nostalgia there.

Avid sci-fi reader. Subscription to Analog magazine takes care of my need to read.

Sci-fi and action movies. Also enjoy movies that are so bad they are good. Really enjoy a good thought provoking drama. Along with that I still try out the occasional anime series.

Camping. Mostly easy to get to sites. It’s been decades since I humped a pack over miles of trail to pitch a tent.

Marksmanship and all that entails.

Pretty much all of my hobbies have been solo pursuits. So I’ve never felt like I didn’t belong in a hobby. Modeling is the first time I’ve attempted to actively interact with a group with similar interests.

It’s a lot to do so I tend to cycle through them across the years. With a few core ones that I tend to do almost continuously.