What Hobbies Did You Have As A Kid?

[Brian37]

(Inspired by awty)

Apart from throwing rocks at Protestants, which I regarded as more of a social justice thing  than a hobby, I collected old Empire coins in a rather desultory way and made penny whistles.

Boru

I briefly got into building model airplanes. The kind you buy at the toy store. I once assembled and painted an F14 Tomcat, only to be told they were never painted camouflage.

[vulcanlogician]

(Inspired by awty)

Apart from throwing rocks at Protestants, which I regarded as more of a social justice thing  than a hobby, I collected old Empire coins in a rather desultory way and made penny whistles.

Boru

I briefly got into building model airplanes. The kind you buy at the toy store. I once assembled and painted an F14 Tomcat, only to be told they were never painted camouflage.

Ah... the glue. That explains a lot.

[Peebothuhlu]

At work.

(Inspired by awty)

Apart from throwing rocks at Protestants, which I regarded as more of a social justice thing  than a hobby, I collected old Empire coins in a rather desultory way and made penny whistles.

Boru

I briefly got into building model airplanes. The kind you buy at the toy store. I once assembled and painted an F14 Tomcat, only to be told they were never painted camouflage.

Weren't the ones sold to Iran given a 'Desert' paint job?

Or am I just remembering pictures of them mouldering away in neglect?

Cheers.

[Astreja]

I collected comics and occasionally other things like rocks, teacups and Zodiac bling, and assembled plastic model kits.

A bit later on, in my teens, I started writing stories and poetry, did a few oil paintings, and taught myself a bit of guitar.

[Angrboda]

I collected cherries.

[Brian37]

At work.

I briefly got into building model airplanes. The kind you buy at the toy store. I once assembled and painted an F14 Tomcat, only to be told they were never painted camouflage.

Weren't the ones sold to Iran given a 'Desert' paint job?

 Or am I just remembering pictures of them mouldering away in neglect?

 Cheers.

Actually it is far more likely they had nets that were mocked up to match the color of the desert to cover them.

But I was told by an adult at the time that the way I did that model wouldn't have happened that way.

[Neo-Scholastic]

At work.

Dungeons & Dragons, all day, every day.

Ah.... the old, original 'Red' and 'Blue' books.

B1 Who's title I forget and B2 "Search for the caves of Chaos" I seem to remember.

Good times......

Mine was 3 biege booklets in a white box.

[Angrboda]

I think I've only played the original D&D a couple of times. I've played Ad&D quite a bit more. A local professor, M.A.R. Barker, developed a game based on his Tékumel fictional universe, so we played a lot of that. And C&S, and Paranoia, and Morrow Project, and Star Trek, and Runequest....

Ah, good times.

[polymath257]

At work.


Ah.... the old, original 'Red' and 'Blue' books.

 B1 Who's title I forget and B2 "Search for the caves of Chaos" I seem to remember.

  Good times......

Mine was 3 biege booklets in a white box.

Original D&D. Gary Gigax.

[The Valkyrie]

At work.

Dungeons & Dragons, all day, every day.

Ah.... the old, original 'Red' and 'Blue' books.

B1 Who's title I forget and B2 "Search for the caves of Chaos" I seem to remember.

Good times......

B1: In Search of the Unknown

B2: The Keep on the Borderlands


You're welcome.