Hobby would you get into if time, money weren’t issues?

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22 Mar 2019, 7:34 am

I would like to build a miniature train model of my city as it was 100 years ago or maybe longer. I'd like to include the river and various buildings that are still there. Then, when I've got the ancient place down pat, I'd like to add little Metro signs from today, in the appropriate places. It would take a lot of research. It can't be done though - the smallest train gauge would make the project bigger than any basement.



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22 Mar 2019, 7:43 am

Bladesmithing, various gun-shooting forms and, I dunno, Zeppelin-piloting?


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22 Mar 2019, 7:58 am

Aircraft and railway modelling are two things I'd love the time (money isn't an issue) to take up.



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22 Mar 2019, 8:09 am

I've known a few people who were into model trains....HO type trains.

I'm not patient enough to indulge in that hobby----but I think it's really cool.



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22 Mar 2019, 8:17 am

Oh, and prepping.


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22 Mar 2019, 8:19 am

I would build the first interstellar spacecraft.


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22 Mar 2019, 8:38 am

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22 Mar 2019, 8:39 am

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22 Mar 2019, 8:59 am

jimmy m wrote:
I would build the first interstellar spacecraft.



That'd be one heck of a hobby!!
I recall the guy who was a hobby chemist (iirc) and he made a bizarre product that he took to the grave after not finding a suitable buyer, it could resist temperatures up to thousands of degrees.
In fact the name has just come to me, starlite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlite


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22 Mar 2019, 9:03 am

Claradoon wrote:
I would like to build a miniature train model of my city as it was 100 years ago or maybe longer. I'd like to include the river and various buildings that are still there. Then, when I've got the ancient place down pat, I'd like to add little Metro signs from today, in the appropriate places. It would take a lot of research. It can't be done though - the smallest train gauge would make the project bigger than any basement.



Have you considered T Gauge, far as I know that's very small. Combining that with perhaps just the central couple of square miles of the city and you might be on to something?


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22 Mar 2019, 9:04 am

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22 Mar 2019, 9:04 am

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22 Mar 2019, 9:31 am

Map84 wrote:
jimmy m wrote:
I would build the first interstellar spacecraft.

That'd be one heck of a hobby!!


Actually it is simpler than what it sounds. It would be based on the phenomena described as the Meissner effect.


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22 Mar 2019, 10:59 am

I pretty much do my interests daily or as I wish (read, play games, surf the net). If money and other circumstances weren't an issue, I don't really know that I would take up any other interests/hobbies.

I would like to have the money ro buy a Switch though so I could start playing Pokemon Let's go and some other games.


I would love to volunteer with helping turtles at a rescue center or a turtle hospital, or do volunteer work with socialized wolves, but my lack of doing so is down to lack of opportunities where I live. The only way to do so would be to move.
In the case of turtles, out of the country....

If money was no problem at all, like I won a gazillion, then maybe I could set up my own animal center.....I would need help though, cause I sure am no expert.


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22 Mar 2019, 11:19 am

kraftiekortie wrote:
I've known a few people who were into model trains....HO type trains.

I'm not patient enough to indulge in that hobby----but I think it's really cool.


You could mix it with traveling the world: traveling around to see the model trains of other people! :D

Personally I'd also like to travel around a lot and take pictures while at it. If I had the money, I'd also hire some professional novelists and such to go over my own stories (I write fiction as a hobby) and give me feedback so I could improve. I'd also probably just try out a lot of different things to see if I could find an interesting new hobby.



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22 Mar 2019, 11:32 am

Building large scale Lego models, it is just Lego is so expensive in Canada. I could spend countless hours doing so.