Happy to hear that worked for you.
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I can almost hear âBorn to be Wildâ playing in the background. 
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One of my favorites.
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Primary hobby is everything regarding music - discovering new bands, playing in a band as a guitarist, producing another band, home audio production (primarily rock/metal), currently testing out some new Neural DSP stuff.
And while weâre at rewards after a hard dayâs work - hereâs mine:
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Writing - even more poetry - www.mikebellpoems.com - design work dead so this is my Parkinsonâs treatment!!
I do regular Tai Chi - both alone and now âvirtuallyââŚ
I do gardening - having a sizeable walled-garden in town is a boon.
I mow our back lawn [now too frequently].
I recently finished putting a new shingle roof on our summer-house [posh-word for âshedâ] - done single-handedly - ~18 m² - my improvised scaffolding platforms etc was a bit âhairyâ⌠The roof hasnât blow-off yetâŚ
I also completed a 2 mÂł log-shed [designed in SketchUp]âŚ
I also enjoy long walks along the beaches north of here - but thatâs âverbotenâ at this timeâŚ
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I do yoga but if this carries on i wil start restoring my Laurent Giles ketch and if it really goes on i may finish it by spring 2021 !!!
One of my hobbies is High Powered Rocketry. (this Rocket stand about 8â 6") My other hobbies include Back Packing (every year since I was 4, Iâm 60 now) and Scuba Diving. (although to be honest havenât gone diving in 5+ years. Really miss it.)
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Ah yes, I remember rocketry when I was a kid. You put together a few cardboard tubes a plastic cone and fins and slipped in a solid rocket engine and off you went to the park carrying all the bits, launcher and bloody heavy battery etc.
So, 15 minute struggle to the park full of anticipation, 10 to 20 minutes wandering around finding just the right spot to set up, 5 to 30 minutes to set up and check youâve got the igniter in properly and wires connected securely. Bit of pause just to be sure and shoo the dog away, deep breath, 10 second count down, hit the button⌠nothing⌠check the connection, looks ok⌠look at rocket from distanceâŚhmm wait a bit incase the igniter is delayed⌠tell group of jeering neighbourhood kids that seem to have materialized from nowhere that it is normal and you meant that as a test run⌠if you are lucky you find the wire has fallen off the igniter (if not you discover the battery is flat and youâll need to run home and get a new one while someone guards everything from the increasingly nosy onlookers) you reconnect it.
Take 2, herd everyone back to a safe distance, which can be anything from 2 feet to the other end of the park depending on the ratio of need to show off weighed against the fear of facial burns.
Another pause to remove more stray paws, then the count down begins again, this time echoed in various states of synchronization by what seems to be the entire neighbourhood⌠oh god let it work this time⌠2, 1, hit the switch and whoosh up she goes for about 5 seconds of rocket burn, then pop and the parachute opens. The gathering is awed into silence as they crane their necks to see it⌠the more active run to follow itâs drift dying to be the first to touch it, the rest sort of quietly wander off back to their worlds now the excitement is over. The wind has caught it now and it is heading well beyond the extent of the park out over the houses, even the most avid followers give up when it disappears among the clutter of roofs and back fences.
You pick up your launcher and battery and head off into the streets to knock on doors and look in back yards for the the next 3 hours until you finally locate it either on a roof well out of reach, floating soggy in a pool or clutched in the jaws of the most terrifying animal that can almost be called a dog.
You trudge home wearily with or without your plastic cone, tail fins and something that may have once been a cardboard tube. The sun is almost down and you wish it would hurry up and be up so you can do it all over again.
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Amen!
Great story.
I somehow cannot picture you walking down the road, towards the park, carrying a rocket.
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Ours werenât as extravagant or quite as exciting as that. We used cylindrical washing up liquid bottles filled with water. Sat in a little saddle we connected a mini air compressor in such a way that when just enough pressure built up the bottle would bust off the airline and take off. No aerodynamics so theyâd just spin around hopelessly before the inevitable fall back to ground.
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Pretty much like that but on a much bigger scale, with Ammonium Perchlorate Composite Propellant motors (APCP like the solid fuel propellant used on the Space Shuttle) instead of the black powder motors used in the little model rockets. These motors can be purchased but I make a lot of my own. Much more affordable and besides chemistry is fun. Some purchase kits for their rocket (and there are a lot of great ones) But I design and build all of mine. The body tube of the rocket pictured is carbon fiber, as is the nose cone. Also there are electronics that control deployment of drogue and main chutes (as well as ignition of second stage motor if a two stage rocket) to name a few. And typically walking or running for retrieval isnât an option, get in the recovery vehicle and drive a few miles. We need to get an FAA waver that gives us a no fly zone for aircraft over the area that we launch.
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WOW! you guys are really productive in your free time 
I watch anime when Iâm free 
I did model rocketry as a kid. As I recall, there was âmodel rocketryâ and there was âamateur rocketryâ and yours sounds like the latter; serious rockets and FAA clearance.
Honey-Doâs, remodeling home, with no budget, and SketchUp Model of home.
I do stuff like this!
Itâs a 1:24 scale model of an RAF Typhoon, WW2 ground attack aircraft. Chose to build with the engine totally exposed. It had a unique 24 cylinder Napier Saber engine. It was essentially two flat 12 cylinder engines arranged one on top of the other, with two cranks geared together to turn the prop. It also had sleeve valves⌠another unique feature. It was originally designed as a fighter, but had troubles at higher altitudes. It was, however, and excellent ground attack craft and was instrumental in the success of the D-Day.
Iâm also heavily invested in 3D printing architectural parts for my next model railroad project, a 3D rendition of Edward Hopperâs âHouse by the RRâ. Iâve put this building onto the 3D Warehouse
The parts are a combination of elements taken from the 3D Warehouse and parts that I drew. All the windows are my drawings. Regardless, all the drawings needed editing to make them effective 3D printed parts.
As a result of all this work, time is flying by for me. Canât say the same for my spouse. Not being an avid hobbyist like I am, time is not flying by. Everyone keep safe and healthy.
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Nice to see what people get up to in their spare time. Great post. I do a bit of photogrammetry in my spare time. Hereâs some of the results.
Beagle dog on Sketchfab.
It gets pretty tricky trying to photograph external objects in the right lighting conditions - diffuse light / no shadows when you donât have access to a studio. Bit hard moving rocks & trees into a studio tooâŚlol. So if I get the right cloud conditions, say alto stratus clouds, where the light is nice & diffuse, I go get my camera & tripod, set up the shoot, start taking photos & sure enoughâŚout comes the sun or down comes the rainâŚ9 times out of 10âŚguaranteed. But it keeps me busy, & occasionally I have some success running it through Meshroom to get a decent but extremely high poly model to use in S.U. But then I wade into the murky waters of retopology & baking on texturesâŚanother topic for another dayâŚsay no more. Cheers.
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