Ship Simulator
English forum => Small talk => Topic started by: Nathanael on December 24, 2007, 15:22:02
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Hello again! :)
What was your hobby when you were young, or now if you are still sort of young? I am eleven and my hobbies are...lets see.... ::) directing short films with my camcorder(even though it is a tape one, not a cd one >:() and writing my own short stories.
Happy Christmas!
Nathanael ;D
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my hobby,s are fishing on pike FS2004 and shipsim08 and i like watching the A-team
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Apart from the computer (mostly simulators; flightsims, racesims and tactical sims like ofp/arma) I am a musician.
I played guitar and bassguitar for about 16 years or so. Played in dozens of bands throughout these years and these days I play the drums, which I have been doing with a new band for about a year and a half.
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...and i like watching the A-team
You are a genious, A-Team rules(ever noticed that whatever B.A. is doing with a car, the shock-absorbers are ALLWAYS thrown away?)
my hobbies are:
computers, electronics, restoring my 67 Chevelle aaand.. sleeping actually :P
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mine are model collecting model trains, ships, cars, and planes and planning model railroad layouts.
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Hello and Happy Christmas.. :)
My hobbies are parachuting and voluteer fire department (and playing with computer).
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Exept for this game & forum,which is a great hobby!!
I play the guitar,now for about 32 years.2 years ago i've purchased my dreamguitar.The Fender(american)stratocaster,crome red 50th anniversary-edition of the company Fender.
Real a beauty.
Regards
Marc
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Nice axe, Marc, it must have set you back a bundle!
Regards,
Marty
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Had lots of hobbies over the years but the major ones were music, last guitar was a Guild D35 that I gave to one of my sons last year. Motorcycling although that was more of a lifestyle than a hobby. Flying, I'm a private pilot and had been very active in the EAA. And fishing, I have a small boat set up for trolling for salmon and lake trout on Lake Michigan.
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and i like watching the A-team
But have you ever noticed despite all the gunfire, nobody ever gets shot or hurt?
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But have you ever noticed despite all the gunfire, nobody ever gets shot or hurt?
AND: despite all the car crashes, nobody gets hurt there either :P
still, its a good program.
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Cykling :-\ ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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one of my hobbies is: creating scale models of cruise ships.
my first project is called ''SS Argonautica''
it's a model which is 1.85m long, 20cm wide and 39cm high
some pics:
(http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m104/mrr_03/autocaddrawing.jpg)
this is the CAD drawing of the project
(http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m104/mrr_03/IMG_1488.jpg)
this is one of the unfinished frame sides
(http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m104/mrr_03/IMG_1487.jpg)
this will be the bow deck
after some days i made these pics
(http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m104/mrr_03/IMG_1527.jpg)
bow deck with cross-sections
(http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m104/mrr_03/IMG_1528.jpg)
and some stff i have for this project
(http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m104/mrr_03/2ndpicture.jpg)
(http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m104/mrr_03/newmodel.jpg)
(http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m104/mrr_03/argo1.jpg)
(http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m104/mrr_03/argo2.jpg)
and some 3d drawings of the next step i will take.
that's my current hobby ;D
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looking good so far Mr Robville. Is that balsa wood you are working with i wonder?.
My hobbies have been many over the years, starting with the usual Airfix kits but i could never resist having a go at whatever turned me on at the time. My early day found me rooting around in old council rubbish tips looking for any old radios. Building crystal sets followed and shortwave listening became the norm. I was mad on aircraft as a kid, and spotted from Dover, my home town, all the prop types of the day (1960's). I got to fly in some of em, eg the Bristol Britannia (Whispering giant), Vickers Viscounts and the Handley Page Hastings. The trip back from Singapore was in another obsolete plane now, Dehaviland Comet.
From aircraft i eventually moved to spacecraft and astronomy, then to Ufology and ended up with anything in the supernatural field, including ghost hunting. Unfortunately being an old far*, erm 65 years old and prone to back trubs, sitting about cold, draughty, damp old building all night doesn't sound all that inviting so much now. Made my own web site once. Thinking of having another go.
Unfortunately my wallet recently went through a period of accute anorexia, so i had to cut things out. Flogged all my model railway gear, aand the guitar and amp went too (Would never play like Satriani anyway sigh!). Basically left with Amateur radio, plane spotting (which i thought i would take up again despite the fact they all look the same now *sigh*) and the computer. Using the latter for SBS1 (Live Virtual aircraft radar), Ham stuff, Short wave listening and various games and sims, such as Silent Hunter, Trainz, MS Flight sim, Falcon 4 (stand alone), various space sims and Rail Simulator, which incidentally is a pain to use in 'World editor', as opposed to the easy to use 'Surveyor' in Trainz.
I understand that Microsoft are bringing out Train Sim MK2 soon, hope that it's a vast improvement on the original though. By far the best steam sound at the moment is on Rail Simulator, but like Ship Sim, they are still ironing out bugs at present, and the instructions in box are totally inadequate. Gone are the days when you got a manual the size of a phone book like the original Falcon 4. Rail Simulator are providing instructional videos on their site, but it's not the same as perusing a manual at your own leisure in my view anyway.
Reckon that's enough waffling from me. Mmmmm thinks!, reckon i could write a book too.. Regards, Brian
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looking good so far Mr Robville. Is that balsa wood you are working with i wonder?.
wow you have a big story :o ;D
the wood i use currently for the frame is called in dutch ''vurenhout'' which is transilated to ''firewood'' (i think it's not correct) but i will remind that balsa wood, as i see on google images there are a lot of nice models made with balsa wood, thanks ;D
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The fact that you are using a harder wood rather than the easier to work with balsa wood, makes your work even more impressive. Good luck with the modelling my friend. Regards, Brian.
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Lets see. I lik eating, drinking (not alchahol at the mo ;)) and model collecting. Right now i am making a plastic scale model of an RNLI severn class lifeboat.
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The fact that you are using a harder wood rather than the easier to work with balsa wood, makes your work even more impressive. Good luck with the modelling my friend. Regards, Brian.
thanks ;D, i will remember the balsa wood for the details on the ship like sunbeds, balconies, antenna's ect. ;D
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Many hobbies trough the years...
My fist real hobby was playing keyboards and synthesizers. The next one was astronomy where I did use a small telescope and some large binoculars (russian made) to spot the stars. And in the past years I have been playing drums in a marching band until I did quit in 2007. I have also been doing some plane spotting and have been more or less much more a virtual pilot with Flight Simulator. It was the Flight Simulator game that made me interested in simulators and it also made me to make my first small add-on for Flight Simulator which started my current interest which is 3D modeling and computer graphics. My next hobbie will probably be computer programming since I find computers games really interesting.
So that's my hobbies story ;D
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Dear JHB, i fancied that idea of programming as well, and bought a book called 'Build a Program Now' (Microsoft Visual basic 2005). It made my brain hurt so i hid it underneath my 'Airliner World' mags out of harms way. Regards, Brian.
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Nice question,
Its just took me to the good time I had when was a kid, now I'm 31 going to 32y :'(
When I was a kid I had made some model vessel's with old wood form the small yard close to my house, I was always dreaming with ship's on that time I was planning to be a Tug captain, me and other two friends I created our own fleet of ship's, Tugs, Pilot boats all by wood Not the beautfull ones but those had been our own ships and nothing could made us happy than our ships ;D
Today I work as a ship planner and now I'm a member of the Brazilian Marine University studing for Harbor pilotage. What was from a hobby at that good time now is coming on my real life.
My hobby today are:
Surfing, Ship modelling, Radio boat, Garden care, VTS/ VHFRadio/ Weather Observer. I have a nice station of VTS/Radios/WeatherView at home and off course after my dailly study I'm playing on the SS to relax.
Attached are two of my 6 radio controlled boats.
Cheers,
Bring your dreams today in your hands and remember how happy you had been and then You gonna be happy today too.
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My hobbies are building r/c boats and operating them
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Hello!
well my hobbies would have to be surfing, playing football, using simulators, studying on internet for different information I think is interesting, and also playing video games, and ''working''... hehe
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If that's Ausy rules football you are refering to, i've gotta hand it to you there mate. Seen it on tv here. Thought rugger was rough, but the way you guys fly into each other, make me cringe. Reckon you must be made of rubber or something *Chuckle*. Regards, Brian
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Nice question,
Its just took me to the good time I had when was a kid, now I'm 31 going to 32y :'(
When I was a kid I had made some model vessel's with old wood form the small yard close to my house, I was always dreaming with ship's on that time I was planning to be a Tug captain, me and other two friends I created our own fleet of ship's, Tugs, Pilot boats all by wood Not the beautfull ones but those had been our own ships and nothing could made us happy than our ships ;D
Today I work as a ship planner and now I'm a member of the Brazilian Marine University studing for Harbor pilotage. What was from a hobby at that good time now is coming on my real life.
My hobby today are:
Surfing, Ship modelling, Radio boat, Garden care, VTS/ VHFRadio/ Weather Observer. I have a nice station of VTS/Radios/WeatherView at home and off course after my dailly study I'm playing on the SS to relax.
Attached are two of my 6 radio controlled boats.
Cheers,
Bring your dreams today in your hands and remember how happy you had been and then You gonna be happy today too.
you do some serious stuff! :o awsome models ;D
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my hobbies are building model airplanes and ships, collecting pictures and posters of airplanes(every wall in my bedroom is full of them), i also play video games. occasionally, i will play my guitar(its a Paul Stanley signature guitar....if you didn't know, Paul Stanley is in the band KISS)....and one of my favorite things to do is play football...
Dan
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If that's Ausy rules football you are refering to, i've gotta hand it to you there mate. Seen it on tv here. Thought rugger was rough, but the way you guys fly into each other, make me cringe. Reckon you must be made of rubber or something *Chuckle*. Regards, Brian
Hahah, no I was reffering to soccer and also rugby league.. AFL is crazy
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My hobbies ;)
Model boats ;D
computers ;D
computer games ;D
sleeping ;D
fishing ;D
70s, 90s, and 90s music
boating
and for the finishing touch. my most nonfavroit hobby School. :-X
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Yeah sleeping is a very interesting hobby ;) :D
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is airsoft,modeling boats,taekwondo,computer games
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Have many hoobies... Sketchup... Model can be found in Small talk...
One of my biggest it to make musikk in FL Studio...
I have FL Studio 8 with some plug-ins, makin house and trance :P
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My Hobbies:
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oh lets see here... ::)
photography (of awesome trucks and cars, and trains)
my model railroad
tinkering with computers
computer games
working at my school's tv studio after school
band
bowling (been in a league for 8 years now)
riding my quad
boating in the summer
camping in the summer
the list goes on and on... ::)
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When I was young? (to be on-topic). Hmmm... Chasing dinosaurs, rampaging with fellow Vikings and so on.
Or when I was in my young teens, designing and building electronic devices, such as disco lighting systems (a very new-fangled idea then), sound systems and so on.
It may say like nothing much, but in those days, it was ground-breaking new design work. Back then, there were no computers, no internet, not even calculators or digital watches. We listened to the wireless on long, medium and short wave and there were two TV stations (BBC and ITV), which started at about 5 in the evening and finished at 11 with a quick burst of "God save the Queen", for which my parents stood up.
Like Fred (see below) I also played various musical instruments (still do). Bass guitar, drums, keyboards, piano accordian, harmonica, descant recorder and so on.
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Chasing dinosaurs.....
Finally we know the true reason of their extinction.. they didn't go extinct at all, they were tired of running from Terry, built themselves a Dinosaur space-ship (yes they were intelligent beings) and blasted off into outer space.
I bet that's why so many bad SF films feature reptilians as the bad guys too, that must be partially based on the truth then after all.... ::)
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Actually, you're wrong.
I opened the caveman equivalent of McDonalds and we served Dinoburgers until we had eaten the lot.
Then we had to close the chain of restraurants down. End of the Terry Dactyl Burger Chain. ???
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Aaah, my bad. That makes much more sense than what I said.. ;D
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They tasted just like chicken, though. Yum. ;D
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Why does that not surprise me? Heh heh..
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To keep on topic, what were your hobbies when you were a lad then, Fred (or a lass if applicable)?
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;D
Lad would be appropriate, although I haven't checked for hours now..
When I was a young lad, I played football and later did karate. Then I discovered music(al instruments).
Been playing in bands from about 15 years old and that's what I spent most of my free time on untill today, numerous bands, loads of gigs and lotsa practise obviously.
There were other things besides that, I read a lot, enjoy a spot of fishing (or angling if you will) now and again and of course spend a lot of time with pc's and so on, mostly with simulation games. And well, when I was still a young'un, just going out with a handfull of little mates into the forest or whatever, being young and playing outdoors, was a great thing to do. Nowadays most youngsters are 'digital' in their free time, but that wasn't around when I was their age, really.
And I think that it wouldn't be a bad thing if kids did more of that old fashion kid stuff again, instead of being online all the time, or otherwise using modern technology instead of nature or simpler ways to entertain themselves. But hey, maybe that's just me. ;D
Fred
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Apart from the computer (mostly simulators; flightsims, racesims and tactical sims like ofp/arma) I am a musician.
I played guitar and bassguitar for about 16 years or so. Played in dozens of bands throughout these years and these days I play the drums, which I have been doing with a new band for about a year and a half.
What type of music do you play Fred?
It's not really a hobby, but I've been a session musician for 4 years now, been playing guitar since I was 7. My 2 proudest moments in relation to that are playing 3 gigs with a hugely popular band (westlife...shameful, but the money was good!), but I've also done some work with the audio department of Rockstar Games (scoring/composing/playing, I know virtually nothing about making games :)).
Apart from music, my hobbies are model tugs, xbox 360 (live + Halo/Gears/CoD4/GTA4 is almost an addiction for me), and my favourite, Star Trek. :)
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Hoy,
It seems that we have alot of musicians on this forum to.
Maybe we can make a new band ;D
Prohably named"The new shipsims" :D :D :D
marc
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hmm the new shipsims eh. sounds interesting :D
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You haven't heard us play yet......
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AMERICAN football and KICKBOXING!
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Hoy everyone,
Just an update of my hobby,
New buyed guitar + drumcomposer/bass-line.
Look at the pics
Greetz
Marc
P.S.hope you like it to?
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Looks expensive.. ;D
My hobbies are, well, I'm a musician, I'm in a band, and uh.. well I play the keyboards, and I also do some work with the Sax, Trumpet, and Tuba, I used to work with the Flute, but if you can play the Sax they're like 85% the same thing..
I love Nightwish, they're the best.. :P
I'm a bit of a programmer/script writer, (a Linux programmer). I also quite enjoy 3d modeling.. (when there's SOMETHING TO MODEL...) Haha
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My hobbies.
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I spend my time in or around things with four wheels that go fast (i.e. karts, quads, cars e.t.c.). Or those other things with engines, Boats.
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im 15 and im into making youtube videos iv made 53 up to now and iv git my website TITANIC AND HER SISTERS lol but ilike caming somthing aswell
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I'm into horseback riding and wood working. I've made a few decent ship models, and planning on another one, but i'm not sure if i'll have time to make it come to life.. I'll be sure to keep you guys posted if i do :)