Gaming i'm not sure i count as a hobby. I have a real hobby though, its the world's greatest hobby!
Your hobbies can't hold a candle to this one. I've been building this 4x8 table top layout for about 5 years, and i've still got a long ways to go. My collection includes 60 locomotives, and over a hundred different freight cars and passenger cars. I focus on New Jersey between the early 70s to the present (which includes Conrail, NJ transit, and Amtrak).
I built the overhead wires in this picture from scratch. Metal is tough to work with, and i didn't have a power tool that could drill small enough holes, so i had to built it all by hand. Its time consuming but worth it. The locomotive is a brass (as in expensive and collectible) E44, for those of you who know trains.
These are my recent additions to my roster.
I enjoy detailing and building the locomotives the most. For those in the know, this is an E60MA, and it took considerable modification to build. Here is the finished model
it looked like this when i started.
I also like adding little scenes. This scene is pretty recent, i only did it last month.
Yeah, Its pretty rewarding, if you have the space for it. Its not for everyone, but the hobby lets you explore so many different things. You need to be an engineer (electrical, mechanical, etc.), an artist, a storyteller, and you need an imagination.
Window shoppers
the big City
Parting shot!
yeah, i'm really enthusiastic about the hobby.
