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Distractions
- Thread starter Ted
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Jenny Croft
Banned
Well Joshua looks like he could be related to little Cagney Letterman 
!
Jenny :kiss:
!Jenny :kiss:
You're looking at my other hobby right now.
no really, you are...
This website is my other hobby. doing IT stuff is like a hobby to me. I've been lucky in being able to put bread on the table with that hobby. Now if I can figure out how to do the same with modeling...
no really, you are...
This website is my other hobby. doing IT stuff is like a hobby to me. I've been lucky in being able to put bread on the table with that hobby. Now if I can figure out how to do the same with modeling...
Jenny Croft
Banned
moon puppy wrote:
Take up baking :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Supporting the stash will be hard enough
Jenny :kiss:
Take up baking :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Supporting the stash will be hard enough
Jenny :kiss:
panzerace007
Active member
TED,
Cool looking Furniture !! I Dig that Chair !! Great Job !!
ERIK
Cool looking Furniture !! I Dig that Chair !! Great Job !!
ERIK
carabinier
Member
The mighty Stoke City FC is my other hobby mind you the models never break my heart or ruin my Saturday nights so perhaps i will just stick to the plastic :huh:
Kreighshoer
Active member
mountainbiking and airbrush painting ... those would be mine!
Rudi Richardson
Member
Mostly... life :laugh:
We've got a small bub which keeps me pretty busy - the missus looks after her all week, so I guess it's fair that I do my bit over weekends. Fair enough she's not awake all the time, but when she's asleep there's household stuff to be done.
Other than that, the main thing that keeps me from doing actual modelling, is internet modelling Apart from surfing forums way too much, I also write product reviews and run a little figure site. In the case of reviews a single figure can take me about 24-48 hours of effort to write - that includes research (which I do fresh everytime), photography and editing, and of course writing the review. I know it seems excessive, but I like to produce a quality product and so far it seems to have worked - based on the feedback from readers and vendors alike.
The figure site in mention is of course the one in my footer/signature: FigureOneThreeFive. I'm not as on the ball as I was initially, but I still check in the region of 50 manufacturer sites every 24-48 hours for new products and probably about 15 community/review sites for new reviews over that same period.
In addition to this, I'm also a keen photographer and I also fence (epee) twice a week. In the case of the latter, when I get home after a good session the adrenaline is normally still pumping too hard for me to hold a hobby knife or brush :woohoo:
So yeah... there ya go... apparently I do have a life
:laugh:
We've got a small bub which keeps me pretty busy - the missus looks after her all week, so I guess it's fair that I do my bit over weekends. Fair enough she's not awake all the time, but when she's asleep there's household stuff to be done.
Other than that, the main thing that keeps me from doing actual modelling, is internet modelling
Apart from surfing forums way too much, I also write product reviews and run a little figure site. In the case of reviews a single figure can take me about 24-48 hours of effort to write - that includes research (which I do fresh everytime), photography and editing, and of course writing the review. I know it seems excessive, but I like to produce a quality product and so far it seems to have worked - based on the feedback from readers and vendors alike.The figure site in mention is of course the one in my footer/signature: FigureOneThreeFive. I'm not as on the ball as I was initially, but I still check in the region of 50 manufacturer sites every 24-48 hours for new products and probably about 15 community/review sites for new reviews over that same period.
In addition to this, I'm also a keen photographer and I also fence (epee) twice a week. In the case of the latter, when I get home after a good session the adrenaline is normally still pumping too hard for me to hold a hobby knife or brush :woohoo:
So yeah... there ya go... apparently I do have a life
:laugh:
I have been power lifting in gyms since I was a teen, back in the fifties. That, like modeling, has been a lifetime obsession. I have always had that drive that would push me to finish those large dioramas and relentlessly keep pushing myself at the gym. In the seventies and eighties I got into power meets and competition. As part of that regimen, I also ran, (not jogged), daily, usually 2-5 miles. My wife Susan was always there with me, way back when women didn't do those things. She is a little woman, not that much taller than Jenny, but for years could squat 260 pounds at a body weight of 110. She never had the body type to become muscular, just looked very fit. To see her move that kind of weight was quite the sight to behold!
I believe that, as we are still going strong, (and I am going on seventy years old), I can still compete with, (And usually beat), any twenty to forty something in our gym. My all time highs, at a body weight of 185, was 378 bench, 655 squat and a 700 pound dead lift. Those were respectful numbers. I can't quite match those today, but I can still come fairly close. We both still enjoy it and work out regularly and religiously four days a week. We walk/run 7 days a week.
This picture was taken in 1991, I was about 50. Yes, I was wearing shorts! Susan calls this my Adam in Eden pic. She laughs every time she sees it!
This was taken in 2008. I was 67, and Luca Marchetti of Pegaso Models had sent me a case of Chianti Classico. I sent this to him and said, "Look what drinking vino will do for you"!
I would recommend this hobby to anyone as strongly as I would modeling.
Bob
I believe that, as we are still going strong, (and I am going on seventy years old), I can still compete with, (And usually beat), any twenty to forty something in our gym. My all time highs, at a body weight of 185, was 378 bench, 655 squat and a 700 pound dead lift. Those were respectful numbers. I can't quite match those today, but I can still come fairly close. We both still enjoy it and work out regularly and religiously four days a week. We walk/run 7 days a week.
This picture was taken in 1991, I was about 50. Yes, I was wearing shorts!
Susan calls this my Adam in Eden pic. She laughs every time she sees it!
This was taken in 2008. I was 67, and Luca Marchetti of Pegaso Models had sent me a case of Chianti Classico. I sent this to him and said, "Look what drinking vino will do for you"!
I would recommend this hobby to anyone as strongly as I would modeling.
Bob
bob letterman wrote:
Oh yeah? I bet I can whoop ya at Duke Nuk'em!
hmm... maybe not, haven't played that in a while either. nevermind....(shuffles off to the corner trying to look over my belly to see if shoes are tied)
Oh yeah? I bet I can whoop ya at Duke Nuk'em!
hmm... maybe not, haven't played that in a while either. nevermind....(shuffles off to the corner trying to look over my belly to see if shoes are tied)
