European motorcycles…
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I don’t know how I failed to remember that one of my hobbies must be cats. I mean, we have 5 and I continue to feed and clean up after them. I don’t get paid for it, so it must be a choice to spend my time doing this, thus…hobby. Not my favorite hobby, but the rewards are definitely worth it.
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Great Tamiya kit
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I have so many interests, my hobbies have hobbies, for example: Model building got me into 3D printing, which brought me to 3D design,
which led to wasting even more time with my latest hobby, generating “Art” based on my 3D designs.
Outside the model sphere…
I’ve been into computers since the VIC20, it got me into writing computer games (a hobby that actually paid off) As soon as DOOM came out I started enjoying multiplayer PC games. This combined with my interests in PC hardware, led to creating and for many years maintaining a gaming LAN
(A fulltime job and money pit), which has now (mostly) morphed into maintaining a PC retirement home.
That said, I do enjoy restoring old PCs.
Circling back to art, I was once big into painting with watercolors (and have delusions that I will be again), though all my recent efforts have been digital.
Activity wise I still love hiking and take full advantage of the 5 beautiful days per year Vermont has to offer, while doing so I also enjoy photography and manage to get one or two keepers for every 100 pictures taken. (gotta love digital for that)
I also spend free time digitizing and listening to my vinyl collection and making home movies out of old vacation and event footage & photos.
And also - whatever shiny thing I see tomorrow!
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For more than a few seconds I thought that was a real bike (until I noticed the bottles)
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I have to ask what you do with these older PCs? I have a couple that I used previously, still have some stuff on the HDs, but never really seem to need to get access to that stuff. Do you run old games / programs, or something else?
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Fond memories of playing Leisure Suit Larry on my IBM XT
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Welcome to the club! Sure it kind’a blows, but there are no dues and eventually the government even pays you!
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Mostly drive my wife insane, but some I keep because they are needed to (easily) run old software that I still use. Love me a fast dual core XP Pro PC for VB6 coding (another old hobby), For sure some are just nostalgic - like my P4 Gateway Media Center PC, I’ve kept it around long after it’s sell by date and if I’m being honest, it was past that when I picked it up - just always wanted one.
Now that I’ve retired my wife is looking to keep me to my promise of - someday putting them on eBay… But never the Gateway!
EDIT:
Wanted to elaborate more on this question as I realized it contained another stealth hobby - I’ve recently come to enjoy installing the DRM free GOG versions of games I own, on the old hardware they were originally written for. Such a treat to no longer need to find and insert the CD or dig out the manual to lookup and enter a keyword! And again if I’m being honest I’m likely to play the game for only a couple days a year, but much of the fun is in getting it to work! (If I even can)
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I’ve got an old 386 that I recently installed that on 
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[Arnold voice] I pick up ze heavy things und put them down [/Arnold voice]
… ok ok, medium-heavy things but I’m working on it. 
I like my hobbies to balance each other out, I build models to get myself off the PC, and I drag myself to the gym to get myself out of my chair; it’s the circle of life, or something.
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Being a former soldier and cop, I like firearms and shooting. But under the previous bosses here on FSM, such discussions were suddenly forbidden here due to the sensitivity of a member here. So I will just say I like to recreationally exercise my 2A rights in that area, beside playing with plastic. 
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Not LE/MIL, but also a firearms guy here. The engineering/design of different firearm platforms ties into my love of scale modeling. Glad to know that there are others of us out here that enjoy the quiet hobby of scale modeling along with the slightly louder hobby of firearms.
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WOW, I thought it was the real thing! Great job…
My new years resolution is to find the BLM/open shooting area!
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Take Rainbow Valley Road South, past where the pavement ends until you run into the boundary of the Maricopa Widerness area. That’s a shooting area on public land. Went there with my son this past Tuesday. An off-road capable vehicle makes it a more fun drive for the last few miles.
Wood working, biking
I made this hope chest for my daughter.
I made a few doors and they all turned out well.
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Thanks! I’ll take the Jeep
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No, there ARE dues - I have the medical bills to prove it! 
I used to be a zero-maintenance guy up until my forties, but then the warranty expired, and my body became like a GM car that passed 26K miles.
But being older means having more modeling tools and learning more dirty tricks and shortcuts. It is a good time to be a modeler.
Someone recently declared that the golden age of modeling has ended, and it is now the platinum age of modeling. Judging by the selection, quality, and price(!) of recent kits, I find it hard to disagree.
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@RealG Yes indeed the price… When I was twelve I could afford to buy a model every week with my paper rout earnings. Doubt may twelve year olds can still do so. And no way they can afford to paint them!
This old car has been pretty lucky, but I do feel like a 20 year old Toyota 4 Runner with 260k, A rusted out body, shot suspension. bald mismatched tires, a cracked windshield and random rattles even on smooth pavement, but the engine wont quit!
With all the above I still think it’s a great time to enjoy building models. For me 3D printing has been a game changer.
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