Hello,steemians! Welcome to my page, eh!
I've noticed that there doesn't seem to be very many people posting about hobby projects on the steem blockchain. It is possible that there's more hobby posts than what I know about, but I'm not seeing very many of them myself. There is one person that I've found, @andrewsmodels, who does videos of model kit reviews on Dtube, and @blewitt posts about comic books and the related collectables in that hobby. I have seen a few other random posts from time to time, but that's about it. If anyone knows of other people who do hobby related posts on the steem blockchain, please let me know in the comments. Any collecting or miniature kit building hobbies would qualify for this. For instance, I've seen some really nice 1/12th scale doll house stuff being put together.
This is my first actual hobby related post, I think. I have had a life-long interest in model railroads of various scales. I've had stuff from most of the different scales at one time or another. Right now, I have stuff in 3 different scales on display on my shelves, G gauge, the largest that I have, O scale, and HO scale. G gauge is actually a mish-mash of different scales including 1/32nd scale, 1/29th scale, 1/22.5 scale, and 1/20.3 scale. All of these scales use the same track, 45mm between the rails. In 1/22 scale, it represents European meter gauge narrow gauge track. In 1/32 and 1/29 scale, it represents standard gauge track, and in 1/20.3 scale, it measures a scale 3 feet between the rails to represent American narrow gauge track. There is also a not well known scale, 1/13.7 gauge, where the 45mm gauge represents a scale 2 feet between the rails. There are actual live steam engines in 1/13.7 scale, usually the water is heated with an alcohol or butane burner. That's an entire subject in it's self.
This is an overview of some of my different model railroad stuff.
The top shelf is G scale, the middle shelf is O scale narrow gauge, and the bottom shelf is HO scale. On the left side of the picture are two 12 inch G.I.Joe figures that will give you a basic idea of the size of the various things.
O scale is 1/48th scale, one actual inch equals 48 scale inches. HO scale is 1/87th scale. Yes, it's an odd scale size, I believe that it's originally based on a metric size track gauge, but it's been around since before WW2.
The O scale stuff that I mess around with is based on narrow gauge equipment, mostly 3 foot gauge equipment from the western United States. I have been fascinated by narrow gauge railroads for many years now.
My HO scale stuff is mostly generic standard gauge stuff. I started out in HO scale as a kid. I sold off most of my HO scale stuff several years ago, I don't have very much of it left now. I was dabbling in HO scale narrow gauge stuff for the past few years, but I'll talk about that in another post.
Another thing that I was collecting for several years was Star Wars related figures, but I sold most of them several years ago on ebay when I needed money. I still have a few figures, I use them for train crew on the G scale railroad stuff. They're a bit oversize, basically 1/18th scale, but that's ok with me. :-)
I also have a bit of an action figure collection from 10-15 years ago when I ended up with all of my younger brothers' big G.I.Joes and Johnny West type action figures. I've set them up in the garden a few times in the past for pictures, harvesting the veggies.
I've also done that with my G scale trains, hauling tomatoes and beans. I guess I'm easily entertained... These are from 2011.
Another hobby that used to be popular, and still is to some extent, is building model kits. There are all kinds of model kits, from various figures, to car models to military models, to sci-fi models to airplane models, to boat models, etc. The most widely known models are styrene plastic models, but there are also a variety of resin models, wood models, cast metal models, and even some molded vinyl models. The latest addition to the model building hobby is 3-D printed model parts. 3-D printed parts have been a big thing with model railroad hobbiests, you can get 3-D printed parts that simply are not available anywhere else. 3-D printed parts could be the subject of it's own post, or perhaps several. The only drawback to 3-D parts is they're still more expensive than the more traditional parts.
In future posts, I'll be writing about some of the railroad cars that I've built from kits, or scratch-built for my various scale railroad displays. I'll probably also do some new model kit reviews, both railroad related, and other kits. Perhaps I'll also see a few more posts from other people about their hobbies. It's another subject to add to the blockchain.
Well, that's all I have for this post, I hope you found it interesting!
Thanks for stopping by my page to check out my post, eh!
PS, I posted this with the wrong title.
