Other Hobbies?

[cataclysm80]

Those trains look pretty cool Erik.
I always liked miniatures, scale models, and stuff like that.
I have probably about 4 HO scale train sets from the late 1980's, and some accessories.
I haven't had them set up in years just because they take up some space.

I have quite a few (maybe 20?) unbuilt model car kits from the same time frame.

[750-h2]

@750-h2   That's an impressive line up!  This is a photo of me as a kid (maybe 2.5?) around 1975.  Any idea what snowmobile that was?  Can you tell from the seat?

Cody that is a 1972 Polaris, model would be  Charger 440SS.

[Cuda Cody]

That looks like it!    

@750-h2   That's an impressive line up!  This is a photo of me as a kid (maybe 2.5?) around 1975.  Any idea what snowmobile that was?  Can you tell from the seat?

Cody that is a 1972 Polaris, model would be Electra or Charger.

[Rev-It-Up]

   You made that table?      That is ineradicable!  How does one even go about making a table?     Do you have more photos?

It is MUCH easier than building a car!     Here are some pics of it "in progress".  I had to build it in the room, upside down.  It took six large fellas to lift it and turn it right side up. If we ever sell the house...the table conveys! 

[Cuda Cody]

That's impressive Rev.  Nice job.   

[XeGnome]

I play with bees ... does that count? 

[jimynick]

I love collecting and restoring antique snowmobiles.

Wow, what a collection and I see "our" H2 in the distance it seems. I should send you a pic of my poor old El Tigre sitting beside the garage. 

[Chryco Psycho]

Nice work on the table !!
I do some photography also

[cataclysm80]

I play with bees ... does that count? 

Mmmm, HONEY! 

[cuda hunter]

I'm an amateur paleontologist.     Not terribly exciting.

I hunt/track American mountain lions with a bow, no dogs no guns, no hunting companion.     SERIOUSLY


I'm basically an adrenaline junky.  If it gets my blood pumping , I'm totally in!


snowboarding, dirt biking, street biking, racing anything, fight sports(mma,taekwondo,etc.), even extreme bicycling,

eventually want to do sky diving, squirrel suit, ice summiting and ice climbing.  Maybe some base jumping to get me to the squirrel suit jumping. 

[cataclysm80]

I'm an amateur paleontologist.   

That's really cool!
Is there any particular region that you focus on?

My wife loves dinosaurs.
One of the multiple Mopar projects we're working on currently, is building her a screen accurate Jurassic Park movie Jeep.
1992 Jeep Wrangler Sahara with some custom painted red stripes, BF Goodrich tires one size larger than stock, Ramsey REP6000 winch, Mopar tow eyes, modified Mopar light bar, Jabsco motorized lights, KC Hi-Lites amber fog lights, and a whip antenna with CB radio.
It's a pretty straight forward build, but there's no reproduction parts, and a few things are difficult to find after 25 years.

[Husk Challenger]

Some people here have great Hobbies, great skills and amazing collections! 


I did stop scale modelling, not enought time anymore for it. As i like WW2 period it was the best way to have a Sherman tank at home

Besides E-body my other hobby is running and bicycle with my two dogs. It's pretty fun and keep you in good health 

[cuda hunter]

That's really cool!
Is there any particular region that you focus on?

Within an hour of me there is the garden park area that supplied most of the "type" specimens in the big east coast museums.  That would primarily be the jurassic age.  This is where the bone wars were started between Cope and Marsh.  So I have found lots of jurassic fossils.  Now of course there are regulations to collecting vertebrate fossils.  So I don't collect from there , just look for a scientifically recognizable fossil.  I have a friend with land up in north colorado that I hunt jurassic dinosaurs legally.  I've got apatasaurus leg bones and vertebrae.  I've got dipldocid vertebrae as well a as a tooth.  The apatasaurus site had allosaurus preying on the apatasaurus so we have found teeth and a few allosaurus bones as well as some allosaurus dung.   The folks who own the land have found stegosaurus tail spikes there.  They put the land into a nature conservancy.
  I like the cretaceous age more than any as that is where the dinosaurs really went through some serious evolutionary changes over the course of 79 million years of so. 
I've gone to Montana and love hunting up there.  I received permission from a giant land owner to look for bones and such on his land.    My wife and I found several micro sites that included baby teeth and bones from an array of cretaceous animals.  Upper judith river to be exact. 
  Now I spend time looking for cretaceous invertebrate fossils as well.  I have found an array of ammonites from all over Colorado.  Mostly cretaceous as that is the ocean that was on this land. During the Jurassic Colorado did not have an ocean to work with, at least not much of one. 

Ah, I see in a minute or two I wrote a ton of stuff that most folks won't read.  Sorry for the long windedness.    I can talk for hours about vertebrate fossils. 

[cuda hunter]

I'm an amateur paleontologist.   

That's really cool!
Is there any particular region that you focus on?

My wife loves dinosaurs.
One of the multiple Mopar projects we're working on currently, is building her a screen accurate Jurassic Park movie Jeep.
1992 Jeep Wrangler Sahara with some custom painted red stripes, BF Goodrich tires one size larger than stock, Ramsey REP6000 winch, Mopar tow eyes, modified Mopar light bar, Jabsco motorized lights, KC Hi-Lites amber fog lights, and a whip antenna with CB radio.
It's a pretty straight forward build, but there's no reproduction parts, and a few things are difficult to find after 25 years.

Sounds like that is going to be a really cool project.  Please post up pictures when the project is coming along.  First I have heard of someone doing a jurassic movie look alike.     

[Spikedog08]

Hobbies??  Hmmmm     Cars, Guitars, Wife, Dog, Bowling, Billiards, Travel, Boats and the Lake, Family, Work, House, Drinking / Beer, Sleeping, Yard, Money. . . .  Car Shows . . . That's about all I got off the top of my head. 



Sometimes during the winter, the wife and I will binge watch some TV shows . . . Right now we are watching The Walking Dead and are in Season 6 about episode 7 in our theatre room . . Started this series about 2 weeks ago . . lol