I'm constantly amazed by the talents I see here on TRF and I'm sure there's a lot of other talents not being shown. My eyes are crying for more, so I'm starting a thread to showcase/showoff your other hobbies. Custom cars? Doodles? Crochet? Macaroni necklaces? Whatever it is, here's a good spot to show off for everyone's pleasure!
One of my former passions (currently taking a back seat to rocketry)...custom R/C car building...
A Customized Chevy engine model I made for a "50th Anniversary Clodbuster" build called "Gold Digger". This Youtube video has 1.3M hits (seems you get a million hits just by adding beer to a video):
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Here's the "Gold Digger" which had the above model engine installed - A working Monster Puller with a lot of custom parts including a etched gold colored plaque and has a full metal gear train...model engine was also made to shake as it speeds up and synced with the speed control. Won RCCA (RC Car Action) Ride of the Month and was 2nd or 3rd place for 2007 Ride of the year (Rock crawlers were big that year).
Another RC vehicle I designed and created...Full Metal Maxx/"Gorilla Warfare"...my own designed tank tracks and ended up about
95% metal (including the body, tracks and sprockets) and has a titanium tranny and brushless motor. Seems a major RC car parts company may have copied the track design a few years later since their product looks similar. My vehicle made it to 2008 RCCA Ride of the Month, but don't recall if it was a finalist for the year.
I really enjoyed the end results and most of the build; however custom projects like these become all-consuming and I found myself thinking almost 24/7 about a bumper or how to make something work for over a year. Not for those who are not strong-willed.
Come on people, let's see whatcha got!
BTW - I also started this thread since I misunderstood the topic of another "show off your hobby" thread and already wrote about my other hobby, so why waste all that time I spent on a nice post?