What's the Holy Grail item in your hobby?
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I don't care what the other nerds say. This is the Holy Grail for me:
My holy grail is that i have an actually painted army
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I'd kill or die for a WWII or pre-WWII Colt .45. One I would especially love would be a Singer (yes, the sewing machine company) made for the war. There's a rare one that even Forgotten Weapons hasn't seen, forget the model.
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$500 isn't even that bad tbh. Csgo skins get sold for more than that
Sure, but it's hard to justify when the retail value is a fraction of that, and I can buy several other nice kits for the same price. I have plenty of other kits to build, so I'm fine with waiting.
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To celebrate the new millennium, German model train maker Märklin released a 1/87 scale electric locomotive with a body made out of platinum, with real rubys for the red taillights and other real materials such as windows made of real glass, wheels made of stainless steel and isolators of real ceramics. It's considered one of the most sought after railway models.
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The Lost Ark of the Covenant actually
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I'm curious as to what makes it so nice? My gut reaction is to say "It's literally a rod of metal with some checkering", but I've been in enough hobbies to know that there are some very fine details that make a world of difference.
It's springy but also very very tough. Weightlifting bars are designed to be dropped from overhead with weight (bumper plates) on them, and Eleikos are rigorously tested. Also, the collars (the things on the ends) that the plates go onto rotate very smoothly.
They use these barbells in the Olympics and other high level weightlifting competitions.
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Woodworking: An entire log of American Chestnut.
About a century ago, the species was all but wiped out by a blight that came from Japanese chestnut. Some three billion trees died. The blight actually survives in the forest living on but not damaging oak trees, so American chestnuts are struggling to reclaim their historic habitats. The species is critically endangered and efforts to rehabilitate the population are underway, including trying to breed large surviving individuals or to genetically engineer blight resistant trees. Logging is of course completely out of the question.
American Chestnut is an excellent lumber, with many of the properties of white oak in a faster growing tree. It is straight grained, hard and strong, easy to saw and split, rot resistant due to tannins. A fantastic choice for indoor and outdoor furniture, structural timber, even telephone poles. Reclaimed chestnut timber from old buildings is highly prized, and what woodworker wouldn't love access to a few hundred board feet of freshly kiln dried American chestnut...if it was possible to ethically source.
A couple more things about American Chestnuts:
-Chestnut forests used to cover a shitton of the northeast before being reduced to basically nothing
-"Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire" is about the tradition of eating American Chestnuts in the winter...
-... Because for some, it was a treat. And for others, it was practically a staple food! They were an extremely abundant resource
-Seriously, look at the size of the original American Chestnut forest:
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Why can't they just be grown here instead of japan?
American chestnuts will die here, but I have a magnificent large Chinese chestnut tree in my yard. It's not the same, but at least we get to harvest some 10-15 gallons of chestnuts every fall.
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A server rack with a few A100s
No it isn't crypto
Well, what is it then?
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A couple more things about American Chestnuts:
-Chestnut forests used to cover a shitton of the northeast before being reduced to basically nothing
-"Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire" is about the tradition of eating American Chestnuts in the winter...
-... Because for some, it was a treat. And for others, it was practically a staple food! They were an extremely abundant resource
-Seriously, look at the size of the original American Chestnut forest:
Farmers used to just let their critters loose into the forests to eat the chestnuts off the forest floor because there were just so many. Now I think every American chestnut tree alive has a name.
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Well, what is it then?
Selfhosting, as well as occasional LLM/GenAI model hosting for when I'm looking for inspiration in my artistic ventures.
Currently I do all this on a several generations old gaming rig and would very much like to have a dedicated server for it that I can put not in my living room
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The 2600 is definitely a worthy nomination. The 2500 is even more grail-ish.
there’s one on reverb for $280k o.O
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TTRPGs. A cleared schedule
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Gasp. The things I felt seeing this image.
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Farmers used to just let their critters loose into the forests to eat the chestnuts off the forest floor because there were just so many. Now I think every American chestnut tree alive has a name.
If I could time travel, I'd go see the chestnut forests first. I only learned about them a few years ago but I think about it a weird amount (maybe because I have a huge elm tree in my yard)
Like can you imagine entire states covered in them? I don't think they were quite the size of redwoods but they were ancient and well-established forests. And it makes me sad that most people don't even know what we lost because some rich asshole just HAD to have foreign trees on their estates.
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Elite Dangerous: the grail is the Fleet Carrier. Spent 7 years of non-grindy playtime saving up for mine.
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To celebrate the new millennium, German model train maker Märklin released a 1/87 scale electric locomotive with a body made out of platinum, with real rubys for the red taillights and other real materials such as windows made of real glass, wheels made of stainless steel and isolators of real ceramics. It's considered one of the most sought after railway models.
Do you have a link? Trying to look it up but don't know which I should be looking at.
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They're super special electrostatic headphones, so they have to be run with a special type of amplifier, and the one they come with come is absolutely insane, and is a huge part of the cost. Honestly, I bet you could cost cut the whole thing down to under $20k, but you're paying a LOT of money for stuff like the fact that the amplifier case is made of marble and has one of the coolest boot sequences imaginable, where all the tubes and knobs rise out of it and retract back in so the whole thing is seamless. It's very much one of those things that get built when engineers are handed a blank check and told "We don't care what it costs, have fun"
wrote last edited by [email protected]Cadillac 16 energy imo. I think part of what's wrong with the world today is all companies suck, have no fun anymore and don't care if things are actually cool. I know it sounds stupid but everything is black, white, or grey on the road and everything is a shapeless blob. Oh you want nice headphones, or computer case, etc? Enjoy our exciting options of black or grey, and fresh new material of cheapest plastic we can make shiny.
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My hobby is Chess, and to me it would be to beat a Grandmaster(impossible under normal context). I have beaten only once a National Master in a simul, to put things in perspective.
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Probably an Abarth 695 Bipisto or similar. I could drive nothing but Fiat 500s and die happy. I have an Abarth 500, and I've literally driven the car to its limit on the track before, 3 wheeling around corners. I can only imagine what a race prepped example would be like.
