OT- What's your hobby? (Denard Robinson Custom)

Submitted by AlphaBlue on

I recently developed a hobby for customizing sports figures.  This is my most recent addition to my collection.

It's something i enjoy doing and holds me over duing the off season.

 

What's your hobby?

 

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xtramelanin

July 16th, 2015 at 5:25 AM ^

how large, what materials used?  you definitely have the correct 'maize' color.  very nicely done.

too busy at this time in my life to have a hobby.   someday, but not now. 

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AlphaBlue

July 16th, 2015 at 5:36 AM ^

The base figure is a Mcfarlane sportspick, so it stands around 6" talk I used acrylic paints and I have a guy that creates all my decals. I just use a canon pixma pro-100 printer on decal paper.

It is very tedious for sure, but relaxing as well.



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xtramelanin

July 16th, 2015 at 2:38 PM ^

or does it come basically already formed to the figure you want and you just paint it - seems unlikely, but never heard of this stuff before.

extremely nice work on your part too.....except red wings, not devils.  can you do-over and get us a red wing?  lidstrom?  howe?  

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Bakers and Best

July 16th, 2015 at 6:45 AM ^

Wow that is really incredible, impressive work.

For the last four or so years I've spent a good chunk of my free time baking bread.  It's a great hobby to have because you always have bread around the house.  It's a terrible hobby to have because you always have bread around the house.  More recently I've taken to photoshopping said bread into Michigan football related photos.

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Bakers and Best

July 16th, 2015 at 10:51 AM ^

For the last two years or so I've been doing a lot of sourdough loaves but have been trying to do more yeast breads recently.  Been busier on the weekends and don't have as much time to sit around and wait for slow rises.  I make a more basic sandwich loaf once a week and in the summer especially make lots of corn bread.  

I'd be interested to see what you do for brioche and the milk loaf, I haven't done much before with either of those two.

At the risk of being too self-promoting, here is a pretty comprehensive list of everything I've baked since 2012.  

http://www.bakersandbest.com/recipes/breads/

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turtleboy

July 16th, 2015 at 4:48 PM ^

Both are yeast doughs, but I have tricks to make them rise easy. My brioche i used to do as one giant loaf, but nowadays I break the dough up and make it all in muffin tins. I make the dough at night, rise it in the fridge, then bake them in the morning. Recipe makes 18-24 muffins. 1 packet yeast, 4 cups flour, 1tsp salt, 2 tbl sugar, 6 beaten eggs, 1 cup softened butter chunked. Soften yeast in a ramekin of warm water for 5 minutes, mix with 1 cup flour, then place in a bowl and pour warm water over the top to cover, wait until lump floats, maybe an hour. While waiting: in large mixing bowl combine remaining flour, salt, sugar, half the eggs, half the butter, then wet yeast lump and knead until combined. Gradually add remaining egg and butter kneading until smooth, top with flour and aluminum foil, and put in fridge overnight. In the morning preheat the oven 450, grease muffin pans, and tear off and roll balls of dough that fill the tins 1/2 to 3/5 full. For tradition save a portion of dough, cut x in top of each ball, and top with a smaller ball of dough. Egg wash if you want, I don't. Lay a foil pan under tins to catch any butter that might dribble out. Bake 15-20 minutes. Serve with BlackBerry jam, or whatever suits you :)

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turtleboy

July 16th, 2015 at 6:40 PM ^

Not a problem! I'll be spending the weekend with my sour milk corn meal griddle cakes, done my special way, with lots of baking powder arrested with some melted butter. I pour them in a smoking pan so they get a skin right away, but still have a runny puddle on top, then flip so they rise twice. Puffs up to almost an inch thick once you practice. 

I look forward to trying some of your sourdoughs. I've never really experimented with them like you have,  but i should. It's my favotire sandwich bread. My milk loaf, however, makes for excellent toasting. You can't get a more moist slice. I can toast slices almost to black and theyll still have delicious steaming white bread inside.  I start with a basic white yeast loaf, with a few substitutions.

4-5 cups flour, 1 cup potato flakes. 1 package yeast, up to 2 cups warm whole milk, 2 tsp salt, 2 tbl sugar.1-2 tbl soft butter/oil.

Numbers vary because of how dry my bulk fliour can get after a while.

I let the warm milk dissolve the butter/oil and sugar in it to give the yeast plenty to feed on, and I actually bought a breadmaker to let the dough rise in. The narrow vertical pan gives it plenty of surface to grab so it rises almost double what im used to and the bread ends up incredibly fluffy with that much extra air in it, plus from the potato flakes. 

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DanaGoBlue

July 16th, 2015 at 7:29 AM ^

I fish a lot. I've had two severe spinal fusions so my hobbies are very limited compared to what the used to be. I've also been an avid bird watcher lately.

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BlueBarron

July 16th, 2015 at 8:20 AM ^

Photography: sports and airshows mostly. I've recently gotten slightly addicted to printing and framing some of my photos to hang on the walls of my apartment. My bedroom is where I hang all my Michigan Sports photos. I'm quickly running out of wall space.

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MGoGrendel

July 16th, 2015 at 8:26 AM ^

I coach baseball.  30 some years now with ages from T-ball to 12U as each of my kids grows up.  I started before any of them were born.

Umpires are bad and parents think every game is Game 7, but I've learned to tune that out.  The kids really enjoy playing.

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sadeto

July 16th, 2015 at 10:00 AM ^

Yes, I know some or even most get paid, my son is a hockey ref and gets about the same, but I also know some don't and I think 50 bucks is cheap for what some of them go through. Especially hockey, for some reason those parents are especially vicious (coming from a hockey parent). 

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Hail-Storm

July 16th, 2015 at 3:53 PM ^

I am looking forward to coaching my boys in soccer in a few years.  Not really looking forward to dealing with the other parents. When they are young, my main goal is to get them excited about playing and enjoy the game and sports and competition in general. 

 

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TyTrain32

July 16th, 2015 at 8:28 AM ^

Wow! So did you carve that from a block of wood or something? What did you start with? Can we see some pictures through the process? Also, you should sell out and mass produce these, i know Id buy 5-10 of them for my games room. Well done, thats awesome!



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buckeyejonross

July 16th, 2015 at 8:30 AM ^

That's awesome. Nice job. I collect those figures and it's amazing how much the quality has declined from the early series to now. Plus they raised the price $5. Pretty lame.

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