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Outside of table top games what are your main hobbies?

I enjoy building larger model kits, specifically 1/350 scale WW2 ships. I'm currently working on a Tamiya IJN Yamato kit (about 75% complete, need to finish the PE bits, apply wooden deck, and paint).

After that I'll be working on my 1/350 Hasegawa IJN Nagato and a 1/350 HMCS Haida (cool little destroyer that used to be docked in Toronto). - I wouldn't mind having a Bismarck as well one day.

I also wanted to try something different so I ordered a 1/60 Perfect Grade Strike GAT-X105 Gundam kit (arrived yesterday!).

Lots of programming. Lots.

Writing.

Cooking

Gun Sports (mostly Trap & Skeet with the occassional glock comp).

Golf

I do old fashioned PnP roleplaying twice a week. Wargames and boardgames when I can. Computer games in random downtime.

Right now on my computer I've got Starcraft 2, DoW (all) LoTRO, Civ 5, and Just Cause 2 in my rotation.

RPGs active are Pathfinder and classic SpaceMaster.

I guess another hobby would be cooking. Tried two new recipes this week. Oatmeal molasses raison cookies, and a sausage/peppers/mushroom risotto. Both turned out well.

I'm a gun nut in every sense of the term. I also find I really enjoy the painting and converting side of the tabletop gaming hobby. I play video games, dabble in building computers and write poetry. I also do photography on an amateur level.

Bands - I play trumpet, bass, synths on ocassion and have been known to sing...

Talking about 40k is very nearly a separate hobby too.

Before I got married and had kids, lots of things.

Right now, shooting sports, cycling and the honey-do list. Trying to make $$ with shooting by becoming a pistol and rifle instructor.

Skiing (winter, obviously), hiking, video games, reading (comics, sci-fi, fantasy), painting, racquetball.

Video games - Mostly console gaming, but I'm looking into joining the PC Master Race soon.

Firearms - Mostly target and trap shooting. Not much of a hunter, and skeet is fun, but I prefer trap.

Music - I play bass and dabble in guitar, played trumpet in middle/highschool, and go to as many concerts as possible

And I occasionally work on cars and play airsoft...but those hobbies are just too expensive anymore

Edit - I also play RPGs every Thursday with a group of friend. Switching between Pathfinder and Hunter every other week right now.

My buddy is trying to get me into air soft. Does it run that much to play? Can't be more than shooting trap or skeet can it ?

RPGs, Mostly PFS. video games.
Im also a huge movie geek. I love them

Occasionally going to the shooting range
Playing on the 360
Cooking and baking
Exercising
Giving serious consideration to getting back into painting also

Oh, and college football kicks off for us tomorrow too GO IRISH!! Beat Temple

I follow Frazzled around whispering "remember though art mortal", and when he turns to see who said it I hid behind a bush. That keeps me fairly busy.

Videogames and reading mainly.

 Ahtman wrote:
I follow Frazzled around whispering "remember though art mortal", and when he turns to see who said it I hid behind a bush. That keeps me fairly busy.

You dare risk the wrath of the weiner dogs?

Mostly cooking, cocktail making and DnD...

Model warships. Mainly 1/700 scale plastic due to a combination of limited budget, lack of space, and a lack of adequate dust protection, though I do have a few 1/350 kits of the smaller variety in the stash.
I've just finished my latest build: a Trumpeter 1/700 RM Roma - a truly beautiful ship. Next up is a Tamiya 1/700 HMS Rodney.

Guitar. My recovery from wrist injuries has made sufficient progress to allow me some time on the Telecaster; anything by Ed Van Halen, Maiden etc, and just rock in general.

Then there's my usual diet of cycling, hillwalking, reading and xbox.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:
I follow Frazzled around whispering "remember though art mortal", and when he turns to see who said it I hid behind a bush. That keeps me fairly busy.

You dare risk the wrath of the weiner dogs?

Who do you think put me up to it?

Apart from painting models, photography.

Let's see...

I do the tabletop role playing
Video games
Hobbyist electronics (one major electrocution and a near blindness moment with a soldering iron)
Paintball (less so much now)
Camping
Occasionally going to the firing range (don't own a gun, but I enjoy shooting the range .38 special occasionally)
Drinking
Programming
Pipe smoking
Overthinking


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I go to a concert every couple months too. Does that count?

Games, especially video games of late, but I collect and play all sorts.

Reading.

Nit-picking.

They often overlap.

I'm starting to get into some photography and hope to make it a more regular hobby.

I also do some sword sparring. Though, with how busy I am, this is only on Wednesdays.

Hockey
Lego army building (mainly Star Wars Imperials) Also collect some of the Ninjago & the collectable minifigures series
Hockey
Reading
Hockey
Dragon Quest

I wanted to take-up Kendo as well, but was advised against it as it probably wouldn't mix so well with hockey...

 cincydooley wrote:
My buddy is trying to get me into airsoft. Does it run that much to play? Can't be more than shooting trap or skeet can it ?

You'd be surprised. Entry to the local field is $15, a 5000 count bag of bb's is $25 (and I'll burn through that every time I go)...and I have terrible luck with airsoft guns, so I'm always spending money fixing the damned things. Do I love playing? Sure, I've been playing for six years, and I go as often as I can. But I now put priorities into shooting real steel - I get more enjoyment out of it, and I can justify the cost a little easier

Besides tabletop gaming...
PC and a dash of console games
Watching SC2 esports
Watching anime
Playing board and card games
Watching TV such as science and H2 channels, cause knowledge melon-fether!
Running and slightly playing tabletop roleplay
I also like playing pool, swimming and bowling, but haven't got to it in a while
Skiing is another favorite, but it's been a while as well
Finally just being in the snow, not so much building and playing with it, but being there when there's snow/it's snowing.

Experiment 626 wrote:
Lego army building (mainly Star Wars Imperials)

Another Lego Star Wars fan? Awesome! If you don't mind me asking, how big is your Imperial Army?

As for myself:
- Lego Star Wars
- Reading books, mainly science fiction
- Playing the guitar (all types)
- Listening to music
- Watching films, mostly super-hero films
- Thinking

That's what I like to do, but being 16, schoolwork gets in my way a lot more than I would like.

Other than gaming/painting

My Cats

Reading (Crime, SF/F, non fiction)

1/35 scale armour kits

Console gaming (but not online, shudder)

gardening (but not so much any more due to allergies)

 Ahtman wrote:
I follow Frazzled around whispering "remember though art mortal", and when he turns to see who said it I hid behind a bush. That keeps me fairly busy.

Just don't steal his queso!