What other hobbies do you have?

Here's mine...

This is mine...

La Compagnie de La Vérendrye was established in 1994 in the heart of Manitoba’s French-Canadian community of Saint-Boniface in Manitoba, Canada. This Franco-Manitoban reenactment group brings history to life by portraying those first explorers who opened up Manitoba to the fur trade in the 18th century. In particular, the group re-enacts a unit of the Compagnies franches de la Marine (French Marines), those colonial soldiers that have protected the frontier of New France since their arrival on the North-American soil in 1683 to the fall of the French regime in 1760.

Opening nite of the 37th edition of our winter festival. The crowd went wild every time we fired a volley.


Phot-op with tourists during last year's Canada Day where we honoured our veterans.


After a battle with the English.






I'm the Company sharpshooter.. so you better watch out!

I race 1/32 scale Slot cars recreationally and competetively.

Here's one of my NSX's






NSX and a Group C Porsche 956.







Photo of NSX Japan Super GT Pace car slot car that I'm currently replicating

Here are some pictures from a tournament back in November in Atlanta. It was the Ninco Nationals. Winner and 2nd place goes to Italy to compete in the Ninco World Cup consisting of drivers from 10different countries. I came in 5th driving the Green Takata NSX on lane 6. These shots are from the finals. Final 6 cars.





shot of the longest straight (50+feet) at JD Modelraceways (host track)


Here are some of the guys that stayed around until the finals. Im the asian guy wearing the blue polo all the way to the right.




That's one of my other hobbies


*Credits: Ninco Nats pics courtesy of MGBrown of SCI*

those are pretty sweet mark, the cars we used to race back when i was young didn't look anything like that.....

my hobbies....well lets see, i work & then i work some more, if not @ the job, there is always something to do at home either on the honeydo list, or on the my gotta get done list.....in what little spare time i have i try to work on my truck, maybe i'll get it done before they come out with a spaceship with warp drive?

NYTRDR,

Yea the slot car industry has advanced a lot! The 1/24 racers still race heavily modified wing cars, and HO scale is still around and very well alive. The 1/32 racers like to race just like the rest of them, but I think they also like the car's looks and history. As you can tell they're very well detailed nowadays, which is pretty dang cool. Another thing is a lot of the older crowd that races 1/32 are really really into 1:1 racing. This is mainly because almost ALL of 1/32 cars are modeled off of real race cars! Note the little caption under the base plate of that Spirit of America Porsche 956C. It tells you the actual drivers and year it raced in! That's a real car!



Lalunnette,

your hobby is pretty neat. There are a lot of those types of happenings here in the US as well. There is a big Renaissance festival every year and a lot of reinacmemts(sp?) of certain things. And when I lived in south Georgia and was in elementary school, we used to have civil war festivals that the public schools would hold.

Here are some real cars in slotcar mode:







And here's the real Takata NSX!!!

that's pretty sweet, yeah i noticed the detail on the cars, very intricate. just to get a better idea on the size of the 1:32 how big are they say compared to a coke can...the pics are good, but it's hard to tell, or at least it is for me......how much do these things cost, i can remember when me & some friends of mine back in the day got into racing them, the cars weren't cheap & they were the size of a matchbox car, heck they even had a few upwards of $75 & that was a lot for a kid to be shelling out.....

yeah, i was just fixing to say, i know several people that are into the civil war reenactments.....if nothing else, all of the rednecks that go deer hunting with black powder rifles.....my buddy let my bro go with his b/p rifle once & he loaded a hot load in it, so when bro went to shoot the thing it knocked him on his butt haha!

i weld as a hobby, make scrap metal art and stuff.

music......if thats a hobby?? i'd like to be a dj but not much extra time to learn.

$75 will get you a very nice 1/32 car nowadays.

The standard now for 1/32 cars is between 30-50bucks. 50+ are typically the more detailed and sometimes faster cars out of the box!

About the size, I'd have to say it's around the same size but add a little more on each side.
For example my NSX is almost an inch taller than a regular coke can, and a tad wider. An NSX is a pretty long car and wide car in general. They make new Mini coopers and they are a little shorter than a coke can and nearly the same width, maybe wider.

here, check out

this is an online store that mainly caters for 1/32 cars. they have everything you need to get started again! they'll even tell you how to route your own track if you want to go that route and already forgot how!

and also check out



has wide variety of racers, 1/24, HO and 1/32. But 1/32 still dominates in this forum.

let me know if you want more info!