Aside From Coins, Do You Have Any Other Hobbies?

Boxing. Here was a fight at the Chicago Golden Gloves semifinals many years back. I'm the guy in red getting beaten. Only shows rounds 1-2. The other guy won the tournament and became a pretty good pro fighter for a while:


Now I teach. Mostly older people (I don't want to actually be responsible for fighters who get in the ring). Here's my mom working the mitts in the garage when the gym was shut down during the pandemic. She's good (especially for being ... well, born in the mid-20th century):

 

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Lucky you, unfortunately when I was a little kid in the early 1990s, you couldn't buy Voltron, Saber Rider, etc. toys in Croatia.

 

Well I made this for the Wife she wanted something beside the recliner it's made of Maple/Sapele.The design is my own and it never hit paper once it just poured out of the head.The dimensions and piece count are all inspired by numbers of God.The second piece again no plans all mortise/tenon but I absolutely hated the piece....I hate stain and I could of selected a better grain for the front of the draw makes it look crooked and it's not.I gave it away was going to sell but like I said...

 

My other Hobby taking up alot of my time of late is model building.This build will probably take 1-2years it's a 1/200 scale of the Kriegesmarine Scharnhorst that brings her in right @4 feet in length.The wood I am going to use for the base will be Paduka with a roman along the edge.

 

I also have signed WW2 art prints. One is signed by ace of aces Major Erich Hartmann 352 victories on Eastern Front 1943-45. Another Adolf Galland 106 kills/ Walter Krupinski 197 kills.

 

I think these maybe some Taylor prints?his stuff commanded some serious dollars even in the 90's.

 

Yes, Nicholas Trudjian/ Taylor!
Most of these brave soldiers are now in Heaven. I think only 1 Knight's Cross receipient is alive. For luftwaffe aces/ many with over 200 confirmed kills were not awarded Diamonds. Gerhard Barkhorn 302 kills only got Swords/ buddy Hartmann 352 got Diamonds/ the third man Günther Rall 276 only swords. JG-52 scored 12000+ kills vs Russians lost 325 of theirs. Not the "Hogan's Heros" luftwaffe. Three best fighter aces in history/ records wil never be broken.
Hartmann 352 Barkhorn 302
Rall 276

 

Didn't Hartman live on well into the 1980's doing interviews on TV and such?I have seen bits and pieces it was a high scoring ace very interesting/gentleman.

 

Yes, Erich Hartmann will be the true, "Top Gun" in history of aerial warfare. He was never shot down by enemy fire. He scored 352 confirmed kills on Eastern Front. His best friend Gerd Barkhorn was second highest with 302 kills. Some rate Heinz Bár 220 victories/ 120 Western front/ rest Eastern/ 16 in Me-262 jet, just as high. Turns out Kurt Welter/ nightfighter ace, scored 33 kills flying Me-262 equipped with radar/ dubbed the "mosquito killer" He scored 63 victories at night. There are always what ifs? Had Werner Mólders 102 kills not have been killed in a flying mishap in 1941/ he was first too break 100 mark. Hans Joachim Marseilles JG-27 "Star of Afrika" scored 159 vs RAF/ USSAF pilots/ died when engine caught fire/ parachute mishap in 1943/ he may have beaten 352 mark? One Finnish ace scored 94 kills vs Russians. Finland was Germanys best ally.