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Post by MONSTERRAILROAD on Dec 15, 2015 8:50:09 GMT -8
(Giggling) As I sit here at this auction ready to bid on my other hobby! Toys from the late 1970's up to about 1992! As if my model from hobby was not extensive enough I often go to auctions hunting for toys, the Goodwill and Craigslist. I went to an auction on Sunday and spent $185 for Pee-Wee's Playhouse and a decent sized lot of 1980's GI Joe vehicles and a few figures. Now today I am sitting at another auction awaiting a lot of 4 1988 GI Joe figures unopened, mint in their packages to come up and then buy them. There is some 1992 Batman figures and a couple of Ghostbuster figures all in the packages in the same lot too.
I love 1980's toys baby!! On, I love model trains too! I am a big ass kid with a decent income to purchase so much things I really do not need! But it is fun!
Do you have any other "Big Kid" hobbies?
Got to go, they are close to the lot!! LOL
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Post by TBird1958 on Dec 15, 2015 9:23:03 GMT -8
Bass guitars......... I do play them in a working band, but collecting them is an expensive (but very enjoyable) hobby that has been a lifelong source of fun. They can be expensive.........  |
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Post by nightmare0331 on Dec 15, 2015 9:37:18 GMT -8
I collect and repair arcade machines for fun.   Currently I have a couple of Operation Wolf machines I'm mashing into 1 working machine. Enjoy! Kelley. www.dufordmodelworks.com |
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Post by MONSTERRAILROAD on Dec 15, 2015 9:45:13 GMT -8
I used to buy arcade games too, before I decided to build a train layout in the basement. I only had room for one of those hobbies.
I won the bid for the GI Joe figure lot for $65 plus those fees and taxes $80. Not bad. On my way home now.
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Post by WP 257 on Dec 15, 2015 9:55:22 GMT -8
I play trumpet for churches, and once in awhile for an actual paying gig, too.
John
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Dec 15, 2015 10:00:14 GMT -8
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Post by onequiknova on Dec 15, 2015 10:58:17 GMT -8
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Post by MONSTERRAILROAD on Dec 15, 2015 12:43:54 GMT -8
Here is the two lots that I purchased this morning. All because I really wanted the 4 GI Joe figures.  
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Post by packer on Dec 15, 2015 13:59:04 GMT -8
Try having 2 other hobbies, that gets expensive fast.
Aside from trains, I play video games, and like to go racing and do some work on my car...
But my racer happens to be my daily driver, so I don't do that often.
Onequicknova, I may be a Ford guy; but that is a nice looking Nova.
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Post by atsfan on Dec 15, 2015 14:09:52 GMT -8
Is that TWO Neo Geo's I see??
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Post by onequiknova on Dec 15, 2015 14:23:38 GMT -8
Here is the two lots that I purchased this morning. All because I really wanted the 4 GI Joe figures. I had a few of those Micro Machines travel city sets as a kid. Cool. |
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Post by fiend540 on Dec 15, 2015 14:23:47 GMT -8
My other hobby is fly fishing, nothing better than standing in a river in middle of the Rocky Mountains  |
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Post by nightmare0331 on Dec 15, 2015 14:26:32 GMT -8
Is that TWO Neo Geo's I see?? Yup. I always liked Neo Geo. I can play Puzzle Bobble and Metal Slug for hours... Both are conversions though. I have a 2 slot that is in a Williams Moon Patrol cabinet (this one is actually a pretty well done conversion). The other is a single slot out of a Taito Double Dragon cabinet. Someday I'll find a dedicated 4 slot and convert the Taito cabinet back into a Double Dragon machine, but that's way down on the list of priorities.... Enjoy! Kelley. |
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Post by Paul Cutler III on Dec 15, 2015 14:44:23 GMT -8
My "other" hobby is WWII history, specifically Warbirds but generally the entire war. I have far too many books on the subject, and I like to go see museums, fly-ins, and even re-enactments. This summer, I saw the Collings Foundation fly in to my local airport. They brought a B-17 Flying Fortress, a B-24 Liberator, a P-51C Mustang and a B-25 Mitchell.     There a I met an interesting guy. This older gentleman was wearing a Tuskegee Airman hat and jacket. There's a man in my model railroad club named Jack who is a Tuskegee Airman as well. So I went over to this gentleman and asked if he knew Jack. He said, "I sure do! I saw him last night." I replied, "I saw him Monday night." He shook my hand and said, "How do you know Jack?" I answered that Jack and I are in the same model railroad club. "You are?" he said, "Then you're just the guy I'm looking for. I'm changing my layout over to DCC. Now what do I need to know about that?" We spent the next 30 minutes talking about model trains at an air show.  Then we had our picture taken together.  |
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Post by Great-Northern-Willmar Div on Dec 15, 2015 16:11:44 GMT -8
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Post by roadkill on Dec 15, 2015 16:29:31 GMT -8
I have two other hobbies too . I love to spend time riding my '11 Harley Road Glide Ultra and I'm accumulating parts to restore the rarest 5.0L HO Ford vehicle ever made, an '85 Mercury Marquis LTS. It's one of 134 built and it's estimated that less than 10 still exist. It was a Canadian market car so it's a pretty safe bet I have the only one in the U.S. . An oddball for sure but should be fun when its finished. |
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Post by TBird1958 on Dec 15, 2015 17:03:24 GMT -8
My "other" hobby is WWII history, specifically Warbirds but generally the entire war. I have far too many books on the subject, and I like to go see museums, fly-ins, and even re-enactments. This summer, I saw the Collings Foundation fly in to my local airport. They brought a B-17 Flying Fortress, a B-24 Liberator, a P-51C Mustang and a B-25 Mitchell. There a I met an interesting guy. This older gentleman was wearing a Tuskegee Airman hat and jacket. There's a man in my model railroad club named Jack who is a Tuskegee Airman as well. So I went over to this gentleman and asked if he knew Jack. He said, "I sure do! I saw him last night." I replied, "I saw him Monday night." He shook my hand and said, "How do you know Jack?" I answered that Jack and I are in the same model railroad club. "You are?" he said, "Then you're just the guy I'm looking for. I'm changing my layout over to DCC. Now what do I need to know about that?" We spent the next 30 minutes talking about model trains at an air show. Then we had our picture taken together.
I had the chance to walk through the same B-17 and '24 when they were in Seattle some years back - they're amazingly cramped, the outer skin is about as thick as a gum wrapper. The guys that flew them into combat had some serious brass - lots of admiration here.
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Post by atsfan on Dec 15, 2015 18:10:14 GMT -8
My "other" hobby is WWII history, specifically Warbirds but generally the entire war. I have far too many books on the subject, and I like to go see museums, fly-ins, and even re-enactments. This summer, I saw the Collings Foundation fly in to my local airport. They brought a B-17 Flying Fortress, a B-24 Liberator, a P-51C Mustang and a B-25 Mitchell. There a I met an interesting guy. This older gentleman was wearing a Tuskegee Airman hat and jacket. There's a man in my model railroad club named Jack who is a Tuskegee Airman as well. So I went over to this gentleman and asked if he knew Jack. He said, "I sure do! I saw him last night." I replied, "I saw him Monday night." He shook my hand and said, "How do you know Jack?" I answered that Jack and I are in the same model railroad club. "You are?" he said, "Then you're just the guy I'm looking for. I'm changing my layout over to DCC. Now what do I need to know about that?" We spent the next 30 minutes talking about model trains at an air show. Then we had our picture taken together.
I had the chance to walk through the same B-17 and '24 when they were in Seattle some years back - they're amazingly cramped, the outer skin is about as thick as a gum wrapper. The guys that flew them into combat had some serious brass - lots of admiration here.
I rode in the 24. Amazingly crude plane and construction. I dont mean that as a negative. But it was something amazing to think of some 19 year old kid Flying 25 missions over war zones getting shot at with no heat or pressurization. Today that kid is whining to the dean that someone had a sticker on their car that offended them so much they cant breath and need a safe zone to huddle in. |
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Post by jbilbrey on Dec 15, 2015 20:18:04 GMT -8
I was also big into 1/35 military models up till about 5 years ago [when our son was born]. Then, I realized that something, either model railroading or military modeling, had to give. While I still keep up with that hobby and still build an armor model occasionally, gone are the days of buying $80 tank kits on a monthly basis. As I described it to a friend, I'd rather spend that money on an HO locomotive and have something that runs instead of building something that will just end up collecting dust.
James Bilbrey
Laverge, TN
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Post by Paul Cutler III on Dec 15, 2015 20:23:12 GMT -8
TBird1958, While they certainly had brass ones (and I don't mean model trains), those crews were fighting in the most highly advanced weapons systems of their day. I'm sure in 70 years, folks will look back at our B-2's, F-22's, and F-35's and think, "They actually flew into combat in these things?" Of course, they'll still be able to watch B-52's flying because apparently that design is immortal. atsfan, Actually, there are armed kids today are walking down goat paths in Afghanistan (or flying overhead or sailing nearby) and getting shot at. We've always had youth in our society that's frowned upon (flappers, beatniks, hippies, Gen X'ers, Millenials, etc.). We've also always had youthful people willing to put it all on the line for society. |
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Post by espeenut on Dec 15, 2015 22:28:12 GMT -8
...along with trains, both HO and 1:1, I am a photographer and artist. I paint in acrylic and watercolor, do drawings in Prismacolor pencil and have boxes and boxes of train pictures that I have taken over the years...
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Post by riogrande on Dec 16, 2015 12:46:51 GMT -8
The GI Joes I remember were from the 1960's and were like 10 or 12 inches tall; looks like they've made some small ones since then!
I remmeber as a kid getting to see inside some WWII bombers but it's a distant memory - of course I was like 7 or 8 so they probably didn't seem cramped to me, but I remember the bubble windows and different levels where people had to climb in to operate. The amazing thing is they seemed to be sort of like the modern day WartHog planes, they could really get shot up and still remain airborn and able to limp back to base, usually in England IIRC.
Yeah, I was reading the B-52 is still operational. Amazing! My dad was in the USAF (1951-1973) and was a navigator aboard the KC-135 strato-tankers back from 1963-1967 out of Bunker Hill AFB in Indiana (re-named to Grissom) and refueled the B-52 bombers and B-58 Hustlers (4 engined delta wing fighter bomber. We have some 8-mm home movies he took out of the boom operators window while refueling a B-58 back then. Doubt with all the security today you would be allowed to film/video refueling now.
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Post by atsfan on Dec 16, 2015 14:45:04 GMT -8
The GI Joes I remember were from the 1960's and were like 10 or 12 inches tall; looks like they've made some small ones since then! I remmeber as a kid getting to see inside some WWII bombers but it's a distant memory - of course I was like 7 or 8 so they probably didn't seem cramped to me, but I remember the bubble windows and different levels where people had to climb in to operate. The amazing thing is they seemed to be sort of like the modern day WartHog planes, they could really get shot up and still remain airborn and able to limp back to base, usually in England IIRC. Yeah, I was reading the B-52 is still operational. Amazing! My dad was in the USAF (1951-1973) and was a navigator aboard the KC-135 strato-tankers back from 1963-1967 out of Bunker Hill AFB in Indiana (re-named to Grissom) and refueled the B-52 bombers and B-58 Hustlers (4 engined delta wing fighter bomber. We have some 8-mm home movies he took out of the boom operators window while refueling a B-58 back then. Doubt with all the security today you would be allowed to film/video refueling now. Filming is not a problem Bunker Hill has a nice small museum worth the drive to. B58 was a man's plane. Real men flew that baby. |
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Post by atsfan on Dec 16, 2015 14:47:20 GMT -8
TBird1958, While they certainly had brass ones (and I don't mean model trains), those crews were fighting in the most highly advanced weapons systems of their day. I'm sure in 70 years, folks will look back at our B-2's, F-22's, and F-35's and think, "They actually flew into combat in these things?" Of course, they'll still be able to watch B-52's flying because apparently that design is immortal. atsfan, Actually, there are armed kids today are walking down goat paths in Afghanistan (or flying overhead or sailing nearby) and getting shot at. We've always had youth in our society that's frowned upon (flappers, beatniks, hippies, Gen X'ers, Millenials, etc.). We've also always had youthful people willing to put it all on the line for society. Yes I know. But still.............  70 years from now their won't be pilots. |
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Post by Paul Cutler III on Dec 16, 2015 20:02:04 GMT -8
Jim, My dad was USAF, SAC, 4126th SW/456th SAW and based out of Beale AFB, CA from 1958-63 with a TDY to Eielson AFB, AK. Nothing like being on a SAC base during the Cuban Missile Crisis, right? Dad was a clerk with a Top Secret clearance in a 3-man office (a Captain, a Sergeant and him, an Airman 1st or E-4 these days). He had something to do with the Go Codes for the B-52's, IIRC. They had the FBI come and interview his High School classmates, family, neighbors, etc., for that clearance. Dad did get a couple rides in KC-135's flying home for leave. They let him observe out the boom operator's position, too. He's said it was a great view! The BUFF's (B-52's) are currently scheduled to fly in service until 2045 (at least). They've already had 3 generations of the same family fly the same aircraft, if you can believe it. Oh, and the new aerial refueling tankers don't have a tail position anymore. The boom operator sits up front with the rest of the crew, and watches everything from monitor screens. The great thing about the little 3.5" Joe figures was that we had some cool vehicles they could be in vs. the 12" ones. Sheesh, I had an F-14, a couple tanks, a chopper, and so much more. The '80's were fun times for boys with toys. atsfan, Just think of this: less than 0.3% of our population is currently in the military. In WWII, it was 12%. And with today's 330 million population (vs. the 130 million in WWII), there are just way more people not in the military than in it. But then we don't need 16 million people in uniform any more. There's no need for 1000 planes with 10,000 men (plus escorts, plus ground crew, plus supply, etc.) to take out one ball bearing factory (and probably miss it, too). Now you send one plane with 1 or 2 people on it to do the same job and get 99.9% accuracy. And you're right, 70 years from now it will all be drones. |
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Post by jaygee on Dec 17, 2015 5:39:37 GMT -8
My two cents worth.....parents make the kids, for the most part. Treasure in -treasure out....same with garbage! I do WW2 armor also, but usually not at the same time as chooch. When things are slow in RRing, Tamiya and DML will typically get my nickel. History in general will get my attention, but it looks like Scaletrains.com will be getting a big chunk of my $$$ in the near future !
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Post by riogrande on Dec 17, 2015 9:08:42 GMT -8
Jim, My dad was USAF, SAC, 4126th SW/456th SAW and based out of Beale AFB, CA from 1958-63 with a TDY to Eielson AFB, AK. Nothing like being on a SAC base during the Cuban Missile Crisis, right? Dad was a clerk with a Top Secret clearance in a 3-man office (a Captain, a Sergeant and him, an Airman 1st or E-4 these days). He had something to do with the Go Codes for the B-52's, IIRC. They had the FBI come and interview his High School classmates, family, neighbors, etc., for that clearance. Dad did get a couple rides in KC-135's flying home for leave. They let him observe out the boom operator's position, too. He's said it was a great view! I never memorized my Dad's units etc. but he was in Strategic Air Command (aka SAC) during the first half of his career stationed at McDill in Tampa, later Randolph in San Antonio TX (where I was born) and then Bunker Hill in Indiana going from KC97's to KC135's during that period. Definitely during the Cuban Missile Crisis but I was too young to remember that - but I do remember having to do air raid drills in Kindergarten where we got under our desks, like that would do any good! =P My dad did lots of "alert drills" where they had to rush down to the flight line and get their tanker in the air. While living there a B58 collapsed his nose gear on the flight line at Bunker Hill, IIRC the crew had to eject from the ground and resulted in a fatality - this looks like the incident my dad related: www.ejection-history.org.uk/Aircraft_by_Type/B-58_hustler.htmAfter Bunker Hill in 1967 he was assigned to Karat Thailand to navigate C121 Superconstellation 4 engine triple tail prop planes where they orbited over Vietnam for electronic surveilence of troop movements. After that it was MAC (Military Airlift Command) flying in C133's Cargo Masters (crew called the the Weenee Wagons) which at the time held the most cargo until the C5A Galaxy came along. He retrained for C141 Starlifters after they retired all of the C130's. My dad had a few close calls. Back when he was flying in the KC135's, he was sidelined by the flight surgeon. The mission he was supposed to go on included two KC135's and they went down in the Bermuda Triangle. My dad reported all they found were some flight helmets. It's actually in the wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Triangle#KC-135_StratotankersHe had a couple close calls in the C133 Cargo master too. In one, one of the engines fell off the wing, but that wasn't catastropic. The second close call was yet another mission where the plane went down. He and his crew had landed the C133, left the plane and another crew got on board to take it across the US to another destination. During the hop across the country, the plane he had just gotten offo of broke apart mid-flight and went down. All hands were lost. My dad said the plane cracked in-half ahead of the wing due to stress fractures. Based on the time frame, I think it was this flight from the wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_C-133_CargomasterWe were last stationed at Travis AFB, my dads last job was as a "desk jockey" between 1971 and 1973, when he retired. He commuted down to the base from Davis CA where we moved to until I was in college. I was the Air Forces fault I became a fan of the SP and later the D&RGW. Yeah, pretty amazing - I didn't realize they planned on operating them into the 1940's per the wiki - operational since 1955. A 90 year flight history is amazing. |
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Post by Paul Cutler III on Dec 17, 2015 11:28:36 GMT -8
Jim,
By 2040, I think the only left from the original B-52 will be the control yoke...and maybe not even that.
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Post by riogrande on Dec 17, 2015 13:22:22 GMT -8
What about the airframe? hah hah
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Post by Gary P on Dec 18, 2015 6:13:16 GMT -8
I love trains year-round, but in warmer weather I like speed. Love the old muscle cars (never should have sold my '69 GTO convertible or '87 Monte Carlo SS... Oh well.) You can usually find me either boating (offshore and poker run style performance boats) or drag racing (mostly 1/8th mile). The car I drive runs between 6.35 and 6.50 seconds at 105 MPH in the 1/8. The few times we go 1/4 mile racing, she runs 10.2 seconds at around 128 MPH. The boating is with my brother, and we're currently running a 30' Skater catamaran, w/twin 300XS Merc outboards on it. Good for a little over 100, and with the right conditions, (light fuel load and about a 1-1/2' to 2' chop) we've seen 106 MPH on the GPS. |
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