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Swamphen

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Monday, February 27th 2006, 4:09am

Other hobbies?

What "other" hobbies do y'all have away (gasp!) from here?

Aside from being a "collector of plastic and builder of none", I'm also deeply into birding (current life list, 312 species). Lately I've been spending a lot of time here:

http://www.ebird.org/index.jsp

CanisD

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Monday, February 27th 2006, 4:20am

Well, until the eyes went south I was building and painting miniatures for a couple Warhammer 40K armies and for Battletech, I've got my starship drawing website, and my never-were drawings. Haven't built any models in a few years, but I've got a few boxes full of built and unbuilt models in the garage.

The Rock Doctor

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Monday, February 27th 2006, 4:43am

Models and the model railroad are on hiatus while I get more and more into the renovation/carpentry thing. This weekend's activities have included building a birthing den for a very pregnant cat and starting on a closet in the basement.

I do have a lot of Warhammer Fantasy and Necromunda models from those lines. It'd be nice to get back to those some time. I should see if I can dig up a few pics of them...

AdmKuznetsov

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Monday, February 27th 2006, 4:53am

more than I've got time for...

reading, model-building, wargaming (World in Flames the present favorite), fencing to keep the waistline in line... oh, and WesWorld...

thesmilingassassin

The Chosen One

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Monday, February 27th 2006, 5:16am

Aside from wesworld, Model building, reading (mostly history) and a new model railway project currently in the gathering stage. I'm hoping to buy my own condo in the near future so I acctually have a place to put my railroad and models.

I'm also into computer gaming, mostly Call of Duty and I'm currently building up a sizable book collection (as Rocky can attest too).

ShinRa_Inc

Mad Scientist at Work

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Monday, February 27th 2006, 5:22am

I used to run a RPG on AOL, but that seems to have died off. Reading, video games (that I can get to run)

and some modeling;

http://sapphire-wings.net/shinra

thesmilingassassin

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Monday, February 27th 2006, 6:33am

Swampy I honestly wouldn't have even thought for a moment that you were a bird watcher type. Quite a unique hobbie.

I'm gonna have to get me a digital camera and post some pics of my own models.

Earl822

King of the Nords

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Monday, February 27th 2006, 9:08am

Apart for alt-history I'm interested in Model railways & the real thing (see Here )

I also like to read, but my time for that, on top of work for my course, is limited.

Doug Wise

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Monday, February 27th 2006, 4:34pm

Alternate history, (American) football, basketball, baseball (first practice today!), history, other...high school stuff. ;)

HoOmAn

Keeper of the Sacred Block Coefficient

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Monday, February 27th 2006, 5:12pm

Something completly different: my girlfriend.

(Okay, hardly a "hobby" but still time consuming. ;o))

Red Admiral

Italian Stallion

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Monday, February 27th 2006, 5:28pm

Reading Classics, Fencing, Badminton, Conservative Future, Heckling Liberal Democrats and of course motorbikes, which are my biggest love in life.

Swamphen

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Monday, February 27th 2006, 5:36pm

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Swampy I honestly wouldn't have even thought for a moment that you were a bird watcher type. Quite a unique hobby.


You should try it, it's lots of fun. :-) I reccomend the Kaufmann field guide...

Here's my Life List and my 2006 Year List - I'm hoping for 300 or better this year.

American Birding Association

Rooijen10

Mr. Valentines Day

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Monday, February 27th 2006, 6:21pm

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Something completly different: my girlfriend.

(Okay, hardly a "hobby" but still time consuming. ;o))

Good enough. :-)

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Here's me at work up the railway!!!

Quite some rust there. Nice looking little loc though.

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I'm hoping for 300 or better this year.

You're already at 170 at the end of the second month. Surely you will get to the 300 with ease.

I read and collect US comics as well as Japanese manga (translated in the US of course), I watch and collect Japanese Animation and download fansubs of those series that are not available, I collect a variety of statues and figures (comic/manga/game related), I play video games (PS2, X-Box or PC), and of course when I am in Canada and not raiding the comic stores, I'm hiking in the Rocky Mountains.

Desertfox

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Monday, February 27th 2006, 9:17pm

I love to read, not only history and aviation but just about everything I get my hands on. As for the rest, anything to do with airplanes, history especially military history, robotics (FIRST Robotics competition), baseball, model building (should I say plan on building) and Aviation Art see here took 1st in 2004,2005, 3rd in 2006.

Oh yeah theres Navalism too.

Marek Gutkowski

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Monday, February 27th 2006, 9:37pm

My hobby is lerning difrent laungeges or launges and word in general.I try to lern and memorise latin and old greek sentence as much as i can.

I also like tuning cars.

One I like aviation but now its on the sidelines

Commodore Green

The Irish Legend

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Monday, February 27th 2006, 10:23pm

Radio Control Models (Planes, Boats, Cars)
Static Plastic Models (Aircraft and Sci-Fi mostly)
D-I-Y (does it ever end!)
Warhammer Fantasy (Wood Elves)
Warhammer 40K (Eldar)
Bloodbowl (Wood Elves) spotting a theme here??
Necromunda ( Escher - 'cause there's NO Elves!)
Role Playing Games
Reading (Sci-Fi - Space Operas mostly)
And my latest hobby....UNPACKING!!!!

LordArpad

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Monday, February 27th 2006, 11:11pm

hey, we should be able to unpack all that stuff in 1 evening, I am sure ;)

Commodore Green

The Irish Legend

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Monday, February 27th 2006, 11:32pm

Just finding it may take a little longer!!

The Rock Doctor

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Tuesday, February 28th 2006, 1:32am

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Necromunda ( Escher - 'cause there's NO Elves!)


Groovy - got some of them myself, plus a bunch of Delaque, Redemptionists, and hired guns. Ran a Wyrd gang for a while - that was certainly interesting.