Hobbies
Hobbies
My hobbies
An activity that you do for pleasure when you are not working
By that definition my 'Hobbies', 'Activities' and 'Events' are all really Hobbies. Even so I will continue to refer to them separately, accepting the there will be some overlap.
Also included in that definition would be eating, and watching TV. One an essential, the other a pastime. Neither covered here.
TT Scale Layouts
TT was my father's favorite scale. Table Top railway modelling. He was also a member of the 3mm Society.
Apparently there is a British TT and a Continental TT, and of course, they are different scales.
3mm is short of a scale of 3mm to 1ft. There are some calculations that can go with that. A foot is 304.8mm, generally approximated to 305mm. The scale factor is therefore 101.6. This is very close to the frequently used architectural scale of 1:100. There are some convenience's in this coincident.
Standard Gauge railway, the distance between the rail heads, is 4' 81/2". The metric equivalent of that is 1435mm, or strictly 1435.1mm. The 3mm to 1ft scale size of Standard Gauge is 14.124mm. This is also known as 14.2 Fine scale. Whereas the normal TT gauge is 12mm. Tri-ang and later Peco produced 12mm gauge track for TT.
Subcategories
Photography Article Count: 1
Photography
I have been interested in photography since childhood. This was generated in part by my father’s interest. My brother is also a professional photographer. His name is Trevor Hurst. Click on his name to link to his web site. I have used a wide range of equipment in that time including Pentax, Olympus, Nikon, Panasonic and Sony. My first Camera was a box brownie.
Natural History Article Count: 1
Natural History
Again I have been interested in Natural History since childhood. I started writing a book on animal classification in my first year at secondary school. I never completed it as there were already better books available. However, the research for my book did give me a good understanding of the structures of classification systems. At the time that I started compiling the book I thought that there were only two primary classifications known as Kingdoms. This was based on the Linnaean classification. The Animal Kingdom and the Plant Kingdom.
Trucks, Motorhome, Military and Motoring Article Count: 11
Trucks, Motorhome, Military and Motoring and other vehicles
Trucks includes the trucks, coaches, and library van, some of which were ex-military.
My history with motorhomes and my dream motorhome that never was.
Company cars as well as those I have driven is covered by motoring, and other vehicles is primarily for the boat.