P51;
Is that an L-6 with invasion strips in the background? was it in the Normandy invasion? I flew one and then Exported it later to Asia....Those are very very rare IF original...
Hoppy, good point on enjoying model trains all year. I live in the Pacific NW, and it rains a LOT. We have several good steam RRs in the area, but they each run less than 6 months out of each given year. A gloom surrounds the area around September and doesn't let up until about this time of year. I'm frankly sick of everything I'm into 'hybernating' half of each year, so this is why I have finally decided to build the layout I've been dreaming of since I was a teen.
Once the layout is in place and running, then I no longer have to rely on anyone else and the only time the weather will cause problems would be if the winds get going real bad (I live where the power goes out easily if the winds get going past 30MPH)...
Originally Posted by BigBoy4014:
Is that an L-6 with invasion strips in the background? was it in the Normandy invasion? I flew one and then Exported it later to Asia....Those are very very rare IF original...
I'm not sure, the guy shows up every other year or so, that's at the Olympia WA airshow from a few years back. When the guy shows up, he'll often park the plane in my display group's area. But I don't know the history of it at all, sorry!
I guess fishing may be the only hobby that I've totally dumped. I got sick of cleaning the slimy buggers, and later began to see some sense in what my old man used to say: "Why do you want to harm the fish? What did they ever do to you?" All the other interests I've had have been retained to some degree.
I quit smoking Viceroy cigarettes long ago and the money I didn't spend on cigarettes I used to buy trains so I got them all FREE!!!
Originally Posted by Lee Willis:
For 25 years - while I raised and put three boys through college, I scratch-built model Napoleonic war fighting ships: specifically I built a model of every class of warship in the British Navy as of January 1, 1805 (the year of Trafalgar). All were in a uniform scale of 1:87 (HO gauge). On all I used Preisser figures painted as sailors and officers and put several hundred figures on larger ships. It was a good hobby, and cheap, too, but toy trains move and do something and I prefer them now. I treasure these ships, however, and keep all of them in my study now.
The ships are very impressive, Lee!! I wouldn't expect anything less from you.
Never got into hunting, even though my Dad loved it and so did my brother and I love shooting.
Something about being hunted in the military sort of takes the thrill out of pitting your wits against an animal. That, and I never thought it was sporting. It's not like in most cases, you're hunting something that could off you as easily.
Now, my Uncles went tiger hunting in Burma with Tommy guns in WW2. That, I think, was sporting as a tiger could easily have gotten the drop on them. Or Inuits going after Polar Bears on an ice flown armed only with a knife? Yeah, THAT is sporting.
But spending tens of thousands of dollars on gear used to wait for a deer to walk across your path or pit your wits again a fish, that seems downright silly to me as it's just not sporting at all, the way I see it.
Agree, I love shooting targets with my Relic rifles. Some of my Mausers go back to 1898!
But, to sneak up and shoot an animal like a deer...I just can't do that, very Unsporting!
Originally Posted by p51:
Never got into hunting, even though my Dad loved it and so did my brother and I love shooting.
Something about being hunted in the military sort of takes the thrill out of pitting your wits against an animal. That, and I never thought it was sporting. It's not like in most cases, you're hunting something that could off you as easily.
Now, my Uncles went tiger hunting in Burma with Tommy guns in WW2. That, I think, was sporting as a tiger could easily have gotten the drop on them. Or Inuits going after Polar Bears on an ice flown armed only with a knife? Yeah, THAT is sporting.
But spending tens of thousands of dollars on gear used to wait for a deer to walk across your path or pit your wits again a fish, that seems downright silly to me as it's just not sporting at all, the way I see it.
Very interesting Thread! I have all sorts of toys to numerous to list. Mostly I dabble with Trains both model and 1:1. When Summer arrives in the frozen tundra I call New Hampshire, I m boating, fishing, swimming and grilling with family and friends on Lake Winnipausaukee, NH. The Scuba idea sounds like fun recreation, it reminds me of the Lloyd Bridges "Sea Hunt" TV show.
I wonder if today's kids have the same enthusiasm towards hobbies that we all have?? I wonder is it all Video games and computers for today's kids. Or is it nothing at all ? It's healthy too have interests and passions.
Originally Posted by Seacoast:
Very interesting Thread! I have all sorts of toys to numerous to list. Mostly I dabble with Trains both model and 1:1. When Summer arrives in the frozen tundra I call New Hampshire, I m boating, fishing, swimming and grilling with family and friends on Lake Winnipausaukee, NH. The Scuba idea sounds like fun recreation, it reminds me of the Lloyd Bridges "Sea Hunt" TV show.
Seacoast:
Here in the Pittsburgh area, there is a TV channel that re-runs the old Sea Hunt show. I was a huge fan as a kid, but, alas, in re-run, the show was super-corny, always with some goody-goody comment at the ned of the episode, but usually had some really nice looking female actors, a plus at any age.
Bob Severin
Originally Posted by Bob Severin:
Originally Posted by Seacoast:
Very interesting Thread! I have all sorts of toys to numerous to list. Mostly I dabble with Trains both model and 1:1. When Summer arrives in the frozen tundra I call New Hampshire, I m boating, fishing, swimming and grilling with family and friends on Lake Winnipausaukee, NH. The Scuba idea sounds like fun recreation, it reminds me of the Lloyd Bridges "Sea Hunt" TV show.
Seacoast:
Here in the Pittsburgh area, there is a TV channel that re-runs the old Sea Hunt show. I was a huge fan as a kid, but, alas, in re-run, the show was super-corny, always with some goody-goody comment at the ned of the episode, but usually had some really nice looking female actors, a plus at any age.
Bob Severin
Hi Bob,
Yes I watch it on a retro TV show station here. I agree very corny and campy for sure.
George, scuba is lots of fun. From the old "Sea Hunt" days lots of things have changed. Regulators have changed, BCs and computer dive equipment. I just started again and love it. It will never take the place of trains but it's a fun sport. In fact I'm going this morning. This video is my first dive in a long time. I'm the one shooting myself with the GoPro.Don
I agree about the diving. However, it's been found that trains will operate poorly
if submerged.
Hoppy
Sea Hunt! My brother and I watched when we were kids. We used to have pretend knife fights like Lloyd Bridges did. One of us would just make a fist, no anything to resemble a knife. The other would try to keep him from hitting him with the fist. Our mother was okay with it. We may have been dumb, but we weren't stupid.
Anytime I see any movie with an underwater scuffle, it brings back memories of Sea Hunt.
Originally Posted by scale rail:
George, scuba is lots of fun. From the old "Sea Hunt" days lots of things have changed. Regulators have changed, BCs and computer dive equipment. I just started again and love it. It will never take the place of trains but it's a fun sport. In fact I'm going this morning. This video is my first dive in a long time. I'm the one shooting myself with the GoPro.Don
Very Cool Don.. Thanks for the Video, its very nicely done. Was that you or a Lloyd Bridges dive master double ?
I picked up most of my hobbies from my dad. He was a casual hobbiest- into a little bit of everything & I copied his style, but with my main interests, I took those particular things to the next level. I like model kits, O gauge, HO, photography of industrial subjects, trains, boats, cranes, Zippo lighters, fishing, fireworks, & military history. I've never really "gotten out of" any of them but I do partake in certain ones more than others at different times during the year just based on the fact that some of those activities are seasonally based, like say an Air Show in the summer time & model trains for Christmas or whatever. Regarding kids today, they like hobbies too but they like them for different reasons. My 16 yr old wants everything new & shiny with all the latest electronics, & he doesn't like to spend much time doing the "busy" work of custom building anything, modifying, painting, or even doing couplers, or any of that stuff. He (erroneously) expects everything to work right out of the box & due to his generation's short attention span, he gets discouraged quickly & wants to bail (what I liken to a video game "reset" mentality) I don't know what the future holds for him, I'm not sure if he will take Dad's traditions & make them his own or not.
