What are your hobbies & interests?

[Sparky]

I very much doubt Brooklands would get DG indoors.  She was pretty much scrap when we rescued her from Filton, and anyway I don't believe Brooklands management would ever get it done.

Of BA's seven commercial airframes, AA (Edinburgh), AC (Manchester), AE (Barbados) and AF (Filton) are indoors, and are all fabulous exhibits.  There are plans to cover AG (Seattle); timescale unknown.  AB remains outside at LHR and, due to Heathrow's intransigence and BA's reluctance to spend on her, will probably rot there.  AD remains an outside exhibit at Intrepid in NYC, but is currently away for paint as far as I'm aware.  Not an easy life by the Hudson.

[tomcattom]

A prototype(?) at Duxford is undercover too isn't it? Or at least it was in one of the hangars last time I visited many years ago now.

[Sparky]

Yes, G-AXDN - pre-production aircraft.

[Bibs]

Due to TLF's ongoing Youtube success, we were sent a Lego play button! Cheers yt, first time I've done legoing for 40 years! 

[Sparky]

What's your address again?  And are you a heavy sleeper?

[Gjk]

Have you finished Concorde yet @Sparky ?

[Sparky]

Unfortunately not!  Decorating right now, but hoping to get on it later.  I would very much like to finish it on this auspicious anniversary.

[Gjk]

Here’s your next build to compliment….

[Sparky]

My old office!

[Gjk]

Here’s what they had to do to get the big bird in!

 

[Veloce_Rosso]

Other than Lotus and other cars, any other thing that stimulates the old grey matter?

I like music, don't play any instruments but have a substantial vinyl and CD collection.

In addition I really like research into historical events. Currently researching the Whitechapel murders of 1888. My great grandfather was one of hundreds of Police officers hunting down Jack The Ripper.

[Kimbers]

You got merged, we already have this thread

I have so many I don't really have time to work to pay for them all. So I'm lucky my wifes a professional Artist so that I can get involved in one of my hobbies for free and that's Art. Love it (mostly except Abstract, still don't get that) buy it, sell it. We do Art fairs all round the country and sell Wendys art at them.

Love an Auction and Wendy is making me sell a load of the stuff I buy back in the auctions as she says I am a hoarder.

Recently got into Picking. Like the TV show American Pickers. It's not house clearance because you only buy what you want but many times I give the seller a bunch of cash for stuff they would get £1 in £2 for in auction or even pay someone to take away in House clearance. Just a month ago a lovely lady invited me and Wendy in to look at her deceased parents house and some items a clearer had offered to take for free cause "They were costume jewellery" were all marked up for 925 silver to 14kt gold and she got a load of cash for. She was so pleased she gave me some other bits for free (which I insisted on paying for). Now I need to start a TV Program "British Pickers".

Then I collect Coins, Love Automobilia and Militaria and in my "spare time" play poker and computer games!

So yeah. Just a few.

Edited February 15 by Bibs

[Veloce_Rosso]

4 hours ago, Kimbers said:

You got merged, we already have this thread

I have so many I don't really have time to work to pay for them all. So I'm lucky my wifes a professional Artist so that I can get involved in one of my hobbies for free and that's Art. Love it (mostly except Abstract, still don't get that) buy it, sell it. We do Art fairs all round the country and sell Wendys art at them.

Love an Auction and Wendy is making me sell a load of the stuff I buy back in the auctions as she says I am a hoarder.

Recently got into Picking. Like the TV show American Pickers. It's not house clearance because you only buy what you want but many times I give the seller a bunch of cash for stuff they would get £1 in £2 for in auction or even pay someone to take away in House clearance. Just a month ago a lovely lady invited me and Wendy in to look at her deceased parents house and some items a clearer had offered to take for free cause "They were costume jewellery" were all marked up for 925 silver to 14kt gold and she got a load of cash for. She was so pleased she gave me some other bits for free (which I insisted on paying for). Now I need to start a TV Program "British Pickers".

Then I collect Coins, Love Automobilia and Militaria and in my "spare time" play poker and computer games!

So yeah. Just a few.

The wife's dad used to own a antiques shop, specialising in oil paintings. I like antiques but couldn't tell you if it is from the Georgian period or a copy made last week.

We have a few bits and pieces, such as a card table from the late Victorian period. We just use it as a coffee table.

[Bibs]

The battle above Tatooine in 6 pieces.
 

 

[Veloce_Rosso]

I have loads of Tri-ang and Hornby oo gauge railway. As we don't have a spare room, it's sadly consigned to the attic, collecting dust.

At some point I might put up a large shed and fix it all up.

[exeterjeep]

10 minutes ago, Veloce_Rosso said:

Tri-ang and Hornby oo gauge railway

Have had a number of phases of OO model railways, sold it off, bought some new stuff and sold it..etc..  Still go to the occasional toy fair to see if I can find anything interesting. A mate of mine, him and his late father had an O gauge track round their garden - including 1 live steam loco.

Have still got some N gauge stuff and gone digital.

[Veloce_Rosso]

4 hours ago, exeterjeep said:

Have had a number of phases of OO model railways, sold it off, bought some new stuff and sold it..etc..  Still go to the occasional toy fair to see if I can find anything interesting. A mate of mine, him and his late father had an O gauge track round their garden - including 1 live steam loco.

Have still got some N gauge stuff and gone digital.

Very nice. It's good to know I'm not alone in miniature trains.

Trains are in my family. My grandad spent the whole of his working life on Southern railways, eventually becoming the driver of the Golden Arrow.

My dad, after he was demobbed from the RAF spent a few years on Southern railway.

Attached is picture of my grandpa-pa

 

Edited March 15 by Veloce_Rosso

[exeterjeep]

Myself and some school friends went with one of the fathers (he worked for BR) to Barry Island to see all the scrapped steam engines all lined up ready to be cut up, but I have since been told that they have all been saved.  Good memories also of the IOW and Ventnor (town) station.

[Chillidoggy]

13 hours ago, Veloce_Rosso said:

Very nice. It's good to know I'm not alone in miniature trains.

Trains are in my family. My grandad spent the whole of his working life on Southern railways, eventually becoming the driver of the Golden Arrow.

My dad, after he was demobbed from the RAF spent a few years on Southern railway.

Attached is picture of my grandpa-pa

 

 

Is that @Sparky the trainspotter on the right?

[Sparky]

Many a true word...

I shall have to dig out some pics.

[C8RKH]

20 hours ago, Veloce_Rosso said:

Trains are in my family.

My father spent quite some years at Crewe, where he was a coil winder - he would make and repair the coils used in the diesel and electric loco engines. They had a family open day every year and I used to love going and "exploring" the factory and seeing the loco's and engines in bits and various states of build and repair. Stumbled across an Intercity 125 power coach where the front end was looking stained and marked - I was later told that I was staring at all that was left of someone who decided to walk off a platform in front of it as it went past at 100mph!  🤢  Still didn't stop us playing on the railway that ran behind our house. It was the main London-Glasgow line and we used to play chicken with the express trains. Luckily (or not some may think) I survived this period of my life.

My son's house has a fully cleared and floored attic room. All insulated with velux windows and power, and right now I am building him a wooden framework for a continuous table that goes around the perimeter, some 16m in length and 1.22m deep. He is going to put all our old Hornby stuff on it and add to it - when he is not in his "Lego" room building his lego - yes, I kid you not, he has a whole room in his house dedicated to Lego!

After my son's "build", my next project in the garage will be a suspended and fold away Scalextric circuit with some scenery etc.  It will be 3m by 2.4m, will fold in the middle and be suspended and stored flat against the wall. The design of the "build" has been interesting and a challenge, but it supports my other hobby which is woodworking. I built cabinets for key bits of kit like the bench saw, table saw, bench drill etc that all connected together to make a "continuous" wheeled workshop. This was a few years ago and I have designed a new modular workbench (thanks to some great videos and makers on YouTube) where the sections all connect to either make a 2.4m x1.2m flat topped workbench. The various tools will be housed inside their individual cabinets, with drawers etc, for storage of the various bits (allen keys, spanners, blades, drill bits etc). All of this is partly getting ready for when I fully retire - I'll then mostly (when we are not travelling) be found in my garage, every day, pootling about with woodwork projects and playing Scalextric lol.

[Veloce_Rosso]

On 15/03/2024 at 20:18, exeterjeep said:

Myself and some school friends went with one of the fathers (he worked for BR) to Barry Island to see all the scrapped steam engines all lined up ready to be cut up, but I have since been told that they have all been saved.  Good memories also of the IOW and Ventnor (town) station.

That actual engine still survives. Thanks to a couple of real train geeks I found online, the above Bulleid Pacific, named 'City of Wells' still runs on the East Lancs railway. That was rescued from S. Wales. I've been promising myself I'll have to visit the preservation line and touch my grandad's loco. But work and home commitments have stopped me so far. And it's a long way to travel from Surrey.