The Hobby/Project thread

[Lonk]

Not necessarily a hobby, but I do enjoy Jigsaw puzzles. Bought this one during the holidays and just now opened it. I'm gonna need a drink.

[Harmony]

Welp, I am now officially 42K lighter.  Today the foundation repair guys just left after 11 days of seemingly non-stop noise.  But the good news is that all of our doors can close easily once again! 

So this is stage 2 of 5 of our major home remodeling plan.  Stage 3 hopefully begins in December.  But at this rate, I'm not sure we'll financially make it to stage 4.

[Lonk]

I forgot to post this. I took me some time to finish it, mainly because the pieces are not unique so several pieces could fit in the same 2-3 slots, making it very difficult to figure out the darker areas and the edges.

Building this puzzle gave me a new appreciation for the cover. The amount of details that it has its incredible. I saw things I never noticed before.

[jingle.boy]

I dunno about anyone else, but I'm not seeing any of your images, Vmadera??

[Lonk]

Weird, let's try this again:

First picture:


Last picture:

[jingle.boy]

That’s fuckin wicked!

[cramx3]

That's pretty cool and also looks extremely difficult with so much dark color

[jingle.boy]

Where did you get that puzzle, btw.  Asking for a friend 

[Kotowboy]

DRUMS DRUMS DRUMS.

When I'm not playing. I'm watching Drumeo or thinking about playing. That's all i watch on YouTube now - is my fave TV shows cause I dont watch TV or I watch drumming videos.

I won a year of Drumeo Membership and a Drumeo practice pad so when i'm not playing i'm doing rudiments.

I think when you get really good at drums its way more fun than being good at guitar.

[Lonk]

Where did you get that puzzle, btw.  Asking for a friend 

It was being sold on the official DT merch page but it looks like it was taken down already :/

I think when you get really good at drums its way more fun than being good at guitar.

No argument there, drums could be a really fun instrument. I'm able to play simple 4/4 patterns and enjoy it. Eventually, I'll get a drum set to mess around, but space is limited now and drums take up a lot of space (though I would probably do an electric set)

[Kotowboy]

1. Get a good Electric Mesh Head kit.

2. If you have a decent pc / mac - get EZDrummer- or if you can afford it / have the PC space / ram - get Superior Drummer 2

3. Plus the kit into the PC / Mac via USB and turn your kit into literally any drumkit you want.

[ReaperKK]

DRUMS DRUMS DRUMS.

When I'm not playing. I'm watching Drumeo or thinking about playing. That's all i watch on YouTube now - is my fave TV shows cause I dont watch TV or I watch drumming videos.

I won a year of Drumeo Membership and a Drumeo practice pad so when i'm not playing i'm doing rudiments.

I think when you get really good at drums its way more fun than being good at guitar.

Do you play guitar often anymore?

[Kotowboy]

Now and then - mostly noodling when watching something.

[Lonk]

This is where the puzzle lives now, right next to my Strat puzzle in my office/music room.



This are some others I have hanging around my place.

[cramx3]

That's really cool 

[Evermind]

Cross-stitching update: work was busy as hell in October - December last year, so I didn't make any progress during those three months, however I'm back at it since January and so far so good. So here's a current pic, I'll post these once in a couple of months, as I guess it'll be interesting to look back at later when it's finally finished. Still on track to finish at the end of 2022.

I haven't posted in a while but now that I'm back on DTF, I thought I owe you guys an update. Long story short, I dropped most of my hobbies as the war started, but I kept playing guitar, stitching and running. Which is probably why I was even able to finish this piece this summer. I haven't shown it to many people, my parents have seen it, and so has my friend I've known since childhood and I think that's it. It did turn out pretty well though.

Final work:



On the wall without pre-built color-enhancing filters on my phone:




This section is for cross-stitch nerds: pic with only the cross-stitches/half-stitches, no back-stitches or other embellishments, not ironed:



Ironed with all details done:

[jingle.boy]

Fuck dude.... that's beautiful!

[cramx3]

Very cool

[gmillerdrake]

Fuck dude.... that's beautiful!

This!!!

Very cool....great skill 

[MetalJunkie]

So here's one that I've finished:



And here's one that I'm working on. Yes, will add Bill Paxton later. Just took a picture of the three that I've (mostly) finished. There will be touch-ups and adjustments as well.



I'm not as happy with the second one, but I think I've got it in a place where it'll be acceptable to me once I touch up the details and fix the shading/shadows.

[jingle.boy]

Sweet. Very nice work.

[cramx3]

Also very cool

[Chino]

Awesome work all around!

[XJDenton]

40k Deff Dredd I completed relatively recently.