Other Hobbies of Interest...
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What is your other preferred hobby...??
What is your other preferred hobby…??My other hobby is slot car racing. Simple one on one racing at ten/tenths ! Before getting back into model railways, I spent many hours building tracks and racing cars, from historic F1, sportscars, rally cars, touring cars, etc etc. Then the time came to build up a 22 metre long slot car track in the garage. I had spent many hours racing my mates, trigger in one hand, a beer in the other, (sometimes coffee as the night wore on !) ! Here are a few pics of what I had built up, using techniques from railway modelling.
From building temporary tracks…
To building up landscaped tracks…
To having fun on a landscaped track…
^ 1976, what a year in F1… Jochen Mass (McLaren M23) leads Hans Stuck (March 761)
^ Typical Holden Racing Team driving here… OUCH ! Mark Skaife (Holden) takes out Craig Lowndes(Ford), with a touch of smoke for a little reality !
^ Denny Hulme leads the Can Am/Sports Car Drivers Championship in his McLaren M20…
All good times to be had racing cars, but now I'm back into the railway modelling…, But I still have it all !!
Cheers, Gary.
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You are obviously not short of space anyway.
My other hobby is photography ( although you wouldn't be able to guess it. More specifically, wildlife photography. Before I started working away from home I used to belong to a camera club. We met on Tuesdays and Thursday with some occasional weekend outings etc.
Unfortunately it does not fit into my Callander at the moment so I rarely get the opportunity to get out now. In saying that, I am based up in Dalwhinnie through the week which is a beautiful part of the highlands but my attention has been more focused on the railway layout when Im sitting in my digs at night………….I've got the bug.
The photography will raise its head again at some point.
Cheers for now.
Toto
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Cheers
Andy
Andy
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Terry
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Cheers MIKE
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Regards
Alan
Born beside the mighty GWR.
Alan
Born beside the mighty GWR.
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Yes retirement does not bring the required hours to fit it all in.
John.
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Age is just a number and a state of mind.
Terry
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Cheers, Gary.
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Cant physically look after each.
But my other hobbies apart from the trains is most things Military.
Have been able to add a Flying Club and airfield (Many thanks to MR Revell & Mr Airfix) to the layout so that helps.
Also have a small collection of German armour awaiting at the rail yards for the Tank Museum to be built.
Plus what I have still in boxes awaiting to be built. Mainly 1/35 or 1/48 scale planes.
Have 5 super large scale Tamiya ship models to be built but have to get some where to display them first.
And my love of music, Classical and pre 1980 pop.
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Busy building a new show layout …..
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My music set up is on my second PC, most of the time it is streaming last.fm I select a load of albums or tracks mostly either baroque, big band swing or Jazz, last/fm streams random tracks. Not being a fan of PC speakers, that PC is hooked up to a Technics receiver driving a pair of KEF speakers. Same PC has a considerable amount of downloaded music which I can listen to if I fancy a change from the last.fm stream.
There is also an application called "Grand Orgue" (free download) which is a virtual pipe organ, load it with a set of organ pipe samples, then play it via a MIDI keyboard or in my case as I am not a keyboard player I "play" it with MIDI files, having downloaded scores to a piece of Notation software which allows me to edit if I want and then send a MIDI file to the "Organ". It will also work with most other sampled instrument files, so I could "play" a harpsichord and flute together or separately.
Keeps me off the streets!
It keeps the brain active as does modelling, I find that important since retirement, I never watch TV except occasionally to a railway documentary or wildlife programme if it catches my attention, even programmes like that I'm more likely to watch on the PC.
Cheers MIKE
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