Winter evening hobbies… sat indoors stuff.., what have you got?

RC planes take up the spare time at work (well, repairing them after I crash them), together with tweaking the UAV/Autopilot software for the larger project plane.

At home, well, I’m planning on moving house soon, so my time (and money) will be spent doing DIY and buying things for the house. Sadly, I was planning on buying a Remmington 700 Police in .308 Win for F class shooting this year, but that looks like not happening for a while.

Any spare weekends get taken up by working for the Army. As luck would have it, they will allow me to earn a bit extra to pay for stuff for the house.

Writing my thesis, reading, a bit of TV, bike fettling… that’s about it really.

Cooking, It’s something I’m getting into
Some programming (work, but it’s fun enough to be a hobby)
Films on my big chav telly
Might slip the odd ride in
Am thinking about getting a PS3 for bluray and a couple of games, as the DVD player is becoming unreliable.
Pub on fridays!

Think I might spend a bit of this winter rebuilding my motorbike… Poor thing is festering up the back of the garage, don’t want to spend money on it but mostly it’s just time. Proper nuts and bolts rebuild I guess.

Other than that- computer games, internets and furious masturbation.

AS for C2C… start East and head West??
I’m good at this planning lark.

You’re rubbish at it!
You should start west and head east. Two words:
Prevailing. Winds.

😉

Northwind, are you in a club or do you just do it for your own enjoyment?

I should read this thread from the beginning and try and get some ideas as winter bores the hell out of me and saps my motivation.

chupucabra what scale is that model?

Pigface, It’s 1/35, the fighting compartment is about 3 x 5 inches.

Raceface: yes it is, a Carnifex. And cheers!

amazing models (my dad does them) i’ll be baking, knitting, might go to the gym, will go running, will not slump on the sofa in front of Eastenders

home brew – got a batch of Coopers APA with extra Cascade hops to put on this weekend. Some wine struggling to clear too

RC helicopter – Blade MCx is small enough for the front room; Twister Storm 400 is very much a sports hall / outdoor model. Century Hawk .30 nitro needs a new home as I’m terrified of it. Flown once

music – band practice once or twice a week, plus now & then I actually pick up a guitar too

scale models – got a Tamiya 1/35 Hanomag half track to finish off & a 1/100 3-master (USS United States) that desperately needs the rigging finishing off
10 free films from Blockbuster

oooh, that Raptor is really good,lovely finish…..I can’t get a decent finish on planes at all… I’ve spent that long painting armour,any planes I do end up looking like tanks with wings. It’s a good look for pre jet era soviet planes but not a lot of use for owt else:)

jim kirk. i used to love games workshop figures (and loved space hulk/proper board game that was 😉 one day i think i may try to paint some again 🙂

Make a frame.

I’m trying to learn the electronics. going to build a bench power supply then a function generator to start off with. Done a Hello world / blinking led on a AVR already so will start making useless stuff soon.

Also got a small cheap wood lathe in the shed that I play with. Got a stool on the way but it’s looking pretty ropey atm!

Watching NFL
Working out
Assassin’s Creed Revelations
Drawing stuff on my computer

…in no particular order

skyrim, turbo, gym, mtb trail centres

fix bikes (neverending)
make bike lights
break bike lights
photography
need to get back into the old music & sound design.
pub
family guy and mighty ships
having a poo

This winter I am mostly rebuilding a tractor!

It’s a 1955 Nuffield DM4 and was in lots of pieces when I acquired it!

OT for the thread, but plan to do my first off-road night ride this winter season – got next Monday pencilled in to scare myself silly.

Cooking (but that’s an all year round thing I guess). Aside from daily sustenance next few weeks will be mostly trying out and tweaking bits of the usual over-ambitious Xmas dinner menu.

TV/films.

Want to get back into a bit of electronic music production (been out of the loop for a couple years now if you’ll pardon the pun).

Fettling bike stuff in the mancave (obviously).

Noodling around with art, photo and video stuff.

Wasting time shooting stuff and driving around stuff on the Wii.

Maybe a bit of floodlit archery to keep my eye in.

slainte 😀 rob

Must try and finally get this finished

before the kids are too old for it

(that’s not mine BTW)