Reply With QuoteI was diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes last year, so this lockdown has given me a bit of a shove to get out my turbo trainer and do some fizz to enable me to shed a few pounds.
Hi all I’m sure during lockdown you have at least had more time to yourselves whether a key worker or not ( I am a key worker but only going on emergency calls ). For me this has meant the obvious things
Realising I actually really do love the wife she’s been fantastic given she’s about to give Burt this week and spending more time with the small humans has been lovely.
I have also discovered many projects I meant to finish, chief amongst them was a cupboard full of slot cars I really hadn’t gotten around to mending or modifying in some way. I’ve made some old super tourers look good again and restored 4 Maserati mc12 cars to their former glory.
Pictures below.. but my question to the rest of you is what have you been up to? And what’s been important to you, about time we had some positive posts in here
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I was diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes last year, so this lockdown has given me a bit of a shove to get out my turbo trainer and do some fizz to enable me to shed a few pounds.
I think this is many people’s goal losing a few pounds, although Mrs Macca is about to cheat the system of weight loss and have a baby, she thinks it counts
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This, and others.
Crossroads reverberating around the house.
Cheers,
Neil.
Nice, I’ve always been awful with instruments but I can sing at least!
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Here’s a good one I forgot I even had, I bought this on the forum in good condition but missing the stickers and parts so I sourced some new bits and sorted it out, I’m delighted with it, always loved this particular bond car and the esprit in general, it all works too!
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Decided to try a design for a slip joint I've been thinking of for a while. Pleased with the first prototype, rwl34 stainless blade and titanium handle scales. Managed to test out a few procedures and ideas with it. Looks purple on edges as it's anodised on the inside that colour! Pleased with the way it works and anodising seems like a fun way of adding a bit of colour.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
I must say that’s very impressive and this forum never ceases to amaze me, there is some very skilled individuals on here indeed, everything from little marvels like this knife to the home made pizza ovens and car restoration.. it just keeps on delivering
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This thread isn't specifically hobbies, covering other ways of keeping entertained as well, but there have been a fair few skills posted by some of our talented members here:
https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.p...g+entertaining
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
Oh that’s great thanks very much! I’ll follow that one now, I just thought I’d make one while on lockdown to share a bit of what I’ve done and hopefully encourage others to do the same
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I had one of these growing up. Amazing that yours still has the torpedoes, they are so easily lost.Originally Posted by Macca
Here’s a good one I forgot I even had, I bought this on the forum in good condition but missing the stickers and parts so I sourced some new bits and sorted it out, I’m delighted with it, always loved this particular bond car and the esprit in general, it all works too!
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I got the car with none, sources the torpedoes and stickers on the net
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I have finished three days ago to build a tall watchmaking table - the one I have used so far was a standard IKEA.
This one is 100cm tall, has a chest of shallow drawers on wheels, must transplant the small vice on it - fill the drawers and than all ready.
I did it all from pine slabs and some plywood I had, and some varnish to protect.
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Managed to test out a few procedures and ideas with it.
What, like medical procedues?
Ha ha, no.....not yet....still looking for a volunteer..!
Anyway carrying on from the last post, been making some tooling today. Not the most complicated stuff but accuracy had to be spot on, as I'm going to be milling a few thousandths of an inch off small parts and it needs to be repeatable. So all set up level, with the ability to mount the part exactly the same each time, and ready to go. I'd forgotten how easy it is to work with aluminium, most of the time anyway. Needed some socket headed bolts to use preferably with a coarse thread for ease of tapping the aluminium. Was going to get some metric ones ordered then remembered to check the 'tobacco tin stores' from my father who was an engineer. Sure enough some 1/4 British Standard Whitworth 'Allen bolts' and taps to match were waiting to be used! So no delay, and it always feels nice to be using my fathers tools and stores!
Here's one of the pieces set up on the rotary table. Not very exciting to look at, but I'm pleased with it, and a couple of others for different 'procedures'!
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Decided to learn Tai Chi. Loads of fun and good for both fitness and relaxation. Only difficulty I have is with Golden Rooster Stands On One Leg, no problem on my right leg but I find it hard with my left due to recovering from knee replacement surgery! It's improving daily so I'll just have to persevere - it should certainly strengthen that knee/leg and help with the recovery.
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
I bought and assembled my first chainsaw and have made an excellent hobby of chopping down 40 rather large conifers, only got 10 left now though I’m going to have to find other things to chop up!
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Don't let the park keeper catch you!
Very nice looking slip-joint there @oldoakknives
I've done a lot more balcony gardening, a bit of digital painting on my iPad and recently got myself a terrarium.
However my main lockdown hobby has been Call of Duty Warzone
Furnished my garage with some gym equipment (dumbbells, barbells, kettlebells, bench, TRX suspension, resistance bands) and hired an online personal trainer to do some workouts several times a week. It was hard going at first (been a while since I've done any) but now I really look forward to the sessions - in spite of the fact my trainer is a sadistic bitch, which I've stopped pointing out to her now as she clearly was getting perverse gratification out of hearing it.
Determining to explore more of the local countryside, taking the dog out for walkies has now become an exercise in getting completely lost and then finding a new route back home, the result of which is a) much longer time spent walking and b) one very dirty pooch that needs a thorough cleaning when we return.
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Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.
I'd been looking for a set of Aqualung/US Divers Conshelf 14 Scuba regulators for quite some time and bought a set just as lockdown kicked in.
Out of the box (in the air, rather than water) they seemed to work, but I stripped down and cleaned the second stage (the bit you stick in your mouth) and then found a second 1st stage (the bit that bolts onto the cylinder) and stripped it down to see how it all worked.
At that point I decided I'd try and service this one, but you can't buy service kits in the UK for these - Another diver in my club found a place in Florida that sells them, so I bought a couple of kits from there and have rebuilt the 1st stage with the new service parts (and having cleaned all the reusable parts).
Of course, without any water to test them in, I've no idea if it works properly or not yet! (The bath isn't deep enough)
I've also started building the wooden car kit that my wife bought me for Christmas (or maybe even the one before, now I think about it!) - Its intriguingly complex requiring no glue, all the parts are pinned together with dowels made from cocktail sticks! I've been working on it on and off for a couple of weeks, but so far only have the engine (nearly) completed!
M
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Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
Ha I might go and start on the park, but these monsters were in my own garden! Made a hell of a bonfire mind
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Any more info on this? Looks good so far.
...I've also started building the wooden car kit that my wife bought me for Christmas...
M
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Made by a company called Ugears - Available here - https://www.notonthehighstreet.com/u...hoCp_sQAvD_BwE amongst other places.
Their steam locomotive looks pretty incredible too!
The kit is very impressive - All the parts are precut in a piece of plywood, but I've had no issues popping any of them out.
The instructions are not that easy to follow, but there are 2d bar code links to videos to help you in a lot of places.
M
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Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
Final finished below, Tamiya 1/20 Williams fw07 1980 Argentine GP winner
Cool! One of my favourite ‘vintage’ F1 cars, many happy memories of sitting on the sofa with my Dad watching this era of car.
Funnily enough, I’ve just been in the shed tinkering with a 1/10 Carisma VW Touareg RC car. It met with an incident in a beach rock pool last autumn and I’d not got around to fixing it.
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They are lovely those Tamiya models, I’ve got a skyline I’ve had in the cupboard I’m saving for a rainy day
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This, and others.
Crossroads reverberating around the house.
Me too. Bought a guitar and am now learning chords and knocking out a semblance of music. Quite got into it.
... the Heinz 570 pieces all-red jigsaw puzzle anyone?
Nope, but just bought the 144 piece clear one now because of that post. Can't wait to gift that out this Christmas!!
Nasty.
I just finished this 1000 piece LS Lowery. I never imaged how texured and rich this painting was. Bloody difficult, but very rewarding.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
So, I have always been interested in military aviation, particularly WW2. I also used to collect militaria and specialised in German and American, which in turn led to an interest in air crew jackets with nose art on them. Now when I was younger you could pick up the jackets for not a lot of money (compared to now anyway), and I mean the real thing - not Eastman. Obviously the value increased if the back of the jackets were painted and I always lusted after one. When I was about 20 or so I bought a jacket and thought I’d give it a go painting it. Now, 35 years or so later my daughter wears it and loves it, of course it has aged well and is worth a few bob - even though I devalued the jacket by painting it.
So roll on to now, it was my Dad’s 80th last month and my brother and I paid for him to have a flight out of Duxford - sadly postponed due to COVID 19. What can I give him I thought, and out of nowhere a thought came into my head - a jacket with nose art for his flight. Now he is quite small so heavy flight jackets were out, a cotton A2 with leather trim seemed perfect. A bit of research and 303rd Bomb Group Molesworth dropped into the picture, their designation was C in a triangle (our surname begins with C). I found out what the appropriate squadron patch looked like, and set about painting a Group patch and Squadron patch. I then painted a piece of Nose art on a leather panel, which will be stitched to the back of the jacket.
The kids call him Grandad Tortoise (Mum & Dad have several) so I set about designing a logo, after several trial runs I came up with the picture below, incorporating 80 and his other great love - West Ham. I have also shown how the other badges will be applied on the jacket, his 8th AF patch is a genuine WW2 badge too.
It turned out so well, in my opinion, I then did one for myself. Flak Wolf was a B17G that also flew out of Molesworth.
Thanks for looking people and I hope you like them.
Thanks for sharing that story Crouchy fantastic!
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