My very un-extreme hobby

[lancegranite]

Hiding from the oh-so very miserable weather that plauges sin city every summer, I return to my only inside hobby... building 1/48 scale model aircraft.

I admit it, a total geek pursuit.

 

Things were not supposed to turn out this way, I usually carefully maintain my devil-may-care, extreme manboy pursuits: cliff crawling, multigear hill biking, trolling storm tossed waters for stripers, rush hour commuting... ect.

 

Wandering through the local craft store with Mrs. G, I stumbled across the model section.

My eyes feasted on snazzy hot rods, elegant multi masted sailing ships and of course, fearsome military aircraft.

The near infinate paint selection made me dizzy with consumer delirum.... this was better than new cams!

 

I beg to be allowed to spend my allowance on a F/A-18... she rolls her eyes and relents to my infallable logic, "it's only $15.00, a cheap hobby that cannot possibly make you a widow"

 

Nearly 20 very small (and not so small) aircraft now patrol the skies of our modest home.

Spitfires, Tomcats, Apaches, Zeros, Mitchells, Sabres, Hueys, Phantoms and too many number/ letter jobs to count.

 

Opening a dining room cubbard, my wife asks if I'm going to do something with the sleek (if slightly dusty) F-15C that perches on her good china like a hawkish silver gargoyle...

"careful with that" I warn..."it was $15.00"

 

 

Time to come clean folks... What's your most hidden bastion of childish geekdom?

[Carp]

I owned almost every Muppet movie on VHS. Then, I bought them *all* on DVD - "To protect them for posterity!"

 

(There are also model cars in our china cupboard:))

[G-spotter]

 

Wasted 10 years of my life on RPGs If I had been climbing instead I'd be more bad ass than Sharma or Colin

[ZimZam]

I loved playing hoops so I'd pretend I was Pistol Pete Maravich.

[chirp]

[Ducknut]

[knotzen]

OK, so I knit and do cross-stitch.

 

I'm such a fucking nerd.

[ScottP]

 

I am a wood scavenger...

The wood for this project came from a 1920's bungalow remodel.

[icegirl]

I own a kitchenaid mixer (pro-600 model) and a sewing machine with 140 stitches. I spend weeks on end perfecting pizza doughs and pasta... I make fuzzy fleece blankets for my friends pets..

 

 

and of course... photography..

[wayne]

A partner of mine collects old thermoses.

I am addicted to remodeling my condos

[Dave_Schuldt]

I have an electric RC car.

[Knottygirl]

I like to garden and....love to clean! Houses that is....

[olyclimber]

i like to spend a lot of time on the internet on a bulletin board.

[Couloir]

I own a kitchenaid mixer (pro-600 model)

There aren't many things you can't do with THAT!

[minx]

knotzen--you are not the only denizen of knitting on this board. there's another cc.com poster who knits (no...it's not me!) i've completely failed as a domestic goddess.

 

geeky hobbies include but are not limited to horses, spending to much time reading about my work (science is cool) and the NYT sunday crossword. damn i'm a dork

[rbw1966]

I spend a lot of time riding two wheels: Lemond Poprad and BMW F650. Not at the same time of course.

[Weekend_Climberz]

I have too many hobbies to count now. I do enjoy coding in Perl though

[luwayo]

your humble reveal is wicked funny. "...cliff crawling, multigear hill biking...rush hour commuting..." .

 

at the risk of showing the softer side, i bashfully admit to the following: bread baking - the braided & sculpted stuff you know; knitting - woolen socks; greeting card design, manufacture & sales; dog apparel, design & manufacture. but quite honestly, it's tough to fit much of these hobbies in anymore.

 

however, come winter we could form a cosy little stitch 'n bitch club for all the knitters. 'splains why we like rope work, don't it?

[MisterMo]

I make the best pie in the known universe...well the best pie in the upper Sky valley anyhow. It's not really very good for you, but nobody seems to really care; they never leave any on the plate.

[olyclimber]

I make the best pie in the known universe...well the best pie in the upper Sky valley anyhow. It's not really very good for you, but nobody seems to really care; they never leave any on the plate.

 

what flavor?

[G-spotter]

hair flavor

[crackers]

i make bags out of spectra to send to pakistan:

 

 

20 liters, 6 ounces.

[Weekend_Climberz]

Dude, your packs rock

[ken4ord]

I own a kitchenaid mixer (pro-600 model) and a sewing machine with 140 stitches. I spend weeks on end perfecting pizza doughs and pasta... I make fuzzy fleece blankets for my friends pets..

 

 

and of course... photography..

 

 

 

And of course drinking a fine complimentary wine to the meals I make.

[Dechristo]

Working on my house. I started building it 24-years-ago, so, as you can tell, I'm in no hurry to finish it. Also, learning to play a left-handed, five-string, Alembic bass; it puts 2k-3.5k in my pocket per year... good for liquids like gas, beer, etc.