Cool Hobbies/Interests/Whatever

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Re: Cool Hobbies/Interests/Whatever

Post by Hastur » Thu Jan 11, 2018 3:21 am

I've been wanting to start with Model warship combat but I can't convince anyone else to join me and I don't think there is any active clubs around here.

Looks like it would be right up my alley.





The kits are a bit pricey but not prohibitively so.

http://www.strikemodels.com/products/ships/
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Re: Cool Hobbies/Interests/Whatever

Post by Martin Hash » Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:10 am

My friend does that. The cannons shoot ball bearings. I went once to watch but nothing got sunk.
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Post by DBTrek » Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:59 am

Martin Hash wrote:My friend does that. The cannons shoot ball bearings. I went once to watch but nothing got sunk.
Any spectators take one to the knee?
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Re: Cool Hobbies/Interests/Whatever

Post by Speaker to Animals » Thu Jan 11, 2018 9:02 am

So you can launch attacks against the duck kaiju??
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Re: Cool Hobbies/Interests/Whatever

Post by Martin Hash » Thu Jan 11, 2018 9:27 am

DBTrek wrote:
Martin Hash wrote:My friend does that. The cannons shoot ball bearings. I went once to watch but nothing got sunk.
Any spectators take one to the knee?
I could barely see what was going on through binoculars. Maybe if there was some fire? Things burning are quite visible from a distance.
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Re: Cool Hobbies/Interests/Whatever

Post by DBTrek » Thu Jan 11, 2018 9:30 am

Ah, I was envisioning a large crowd standing around a duck pond as ball bearings whizzed through the air at a high velocity.
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Re: Cool Hobbies/Interests/Whatever

Post by de officiis » Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:32 pm

Hastur wrote:I've been wanting to start with Model warship combat but I can't convince anyone else to join me and I don't think there is any active clubs around here.

Looks like it would be right up my alley.



The kits are a bit pricey but not prohibitively so.

http://www.strikemodels.com/products/ships/


I wonder if the Arado float planes are RC too... :shock:
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Re: Cool Hobbies/Interests/Whatever

Post by Speaker to Animals » Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:33 pm

It looks like it would be genuinely entertaining piloting the boat in a circle for about ten minutes.
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Re: Cool Hobbies/Interests/Whatever

Post by de officiis » Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:34 pm

Some dude who built a 1:1 wooden mock-up of a Tiger Tank turret.

http://www.panzerbasics.com/index_files ... ohn-01.htm
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Re: Cool Hobbies/Interests/Whatever

Post by SuburbanFarmer » Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:34 pm

Speaker to Animals wrote:It looks like it would be genuinely entertaining piloting the boat in a circle for about ten minutes.
This.
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