My other hobbies

[Nonamefril]

Since I'm new here and this looks like the place to post things I thought Id toss out my other hobbies just in-case there are any other enthusiasts in these areas.One of them is Lionel Model trains and the other is Minitrucks....Any of yall into this other stuff feel free to give me a shout.

[chrisatpsu]

hehe, your truck wouldn't last 1/4 mile in pennsylvania

[sebjsan]

My other hobbie. Work in progress.

[chrisatpsu]

this would be mine...

[Nonamefril]

hehe, your truck wouldn't last 1/4 mile in pennsylvania

LOL I'm gonna try and get up there for the all truck national at Carlisle this year but that is in spring,I remember the winters up there....I do have other vehicles this is one of 3 minitrucks I have to trailer to shows...I also have my 1965 Datsun L320 I'm restoring and my other "low" truck my 1985 Toyota pickup with a built engine.....I'm glad there are other car peeps in here...

[Nonamefril]

Owww I also forgot last year I did a static display with my truck and lights behind it to make it look like it was dragging the ground,so this year coming up I wanna do lights on the wheels to make it look like its rolling and set up twinkle on the lights behind it so it looks like the sparks are actually moving.

[rogerwh]

Mods - We have another guy who thinks there is stuff other than DLA that he can spend his free time on.  I say 60 days probation and then ban him if he doesn't come around to his senses

J/K, welcome to the forum.

[Ron]

Here's my "other" hobby. Well my main one anyway.

[jess_her]

OK here is mine  I just started on and what a finished one looks like.

[JoeFromOzarks]

I play with toys.     The top truck is (as yet) unmodified as you’d receive from the store.  The lower fire truck is almost ready for plastic rebuilding (it’s broken up pretty bad) and paint/chrome/gold.   The circuit boards control all of the lighting, the bigger board does the headlights, tail lights, side lights plus all the red/blue blinky emergency lighting.  The smaller circuit board controls the “rotators,” six red SMT LED’s  arranged in a circle to emulate the old style rotating lights.  Just below the PCB’s is a hacked up LED, the top flattened slightly then drilled out just a bit to hold a fiber optic strand.   The other end of the fiber is polished so it’ll shine brightly, then the whole thing is hidden inside heat shrink tubing.  This is the best method I could come up with to make “pinpoint” lighting, especially for the vehicles I do in smaller sizes like 1:24 and 1:87 (HO) scales.   Due to the amount of detail (and due to my disability – I can’t do anything for more than 15/20 minutes at a time, sometimes nothing for days on end) I’ll take a year to do a vehicle, start to finish.

joe

[scharbon]

hehe, your truck wouldn't last 1/4 mile in pennsylvania

There was a truck in the picture?

[Harley]

Here's my other Hobby

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[taybrynn]

Wow, I really love all the pictures and cool toys --- certainly making me jealous!

A couple of my hobbies I enjoy are:

- coaching volleyball -- I coach 7-9 grade girls competitive club volleyball.   This consumes a lot of my time,
  between practices, clinics and tournaments.

- conifers -- yes, I plant them and have a number of rare or collectible dwarf conifers.  I have over 100 trees in my yard and
  a friend in the area who has been generous and given me many unique conifers to plant.  My favorites are the varieties that
  turn bright yellow in the winter months.

[Nonamefril]

hehe, your truck wouldn't last 1/4 mile in pennsylvania

There was a truck in the picture?

Ahhhhhh this guy got it....lol

[RJ]

I have a couple of other hobbies also :

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RJ