A 1959 Gibson Les Paul in to a Marshall Plexi.
I’ve started collecting 1:24 and 1:18 scale models of my favorite movie cars and I guess you could say my holy grail would be a 1:18 sized, 1985, Cumberland Grey, V8 Vantage Aston Martin, from 007’s The Living Daylights (and recently, No Time To Die). That and the 1:18 Chevy Nova from Death Proof, without breaking my bank account.
I’m a photography nerd.
There’s a bunch of rare and expensive cameras, of course, so I could probably just say “oh, probably anything from Leica”.
But the real snobs go for turbo rare lenses. As a Nikon fan, I hope that I shall one day be allowed to the same airspace as the hallowed Nikkor 13mm f/5.6. The first ultrawide non-fisheye lens. 350 of these were made, each individually blessed by priests as they left the factory, or so the story goes. They cost an arm and leg - wait, in this economy, an arm and leg would probably be cheaper.
As an old and broken skateboarder, I would love nothing more than a pump track within driving distance.
There are some great parks, but nothing with enough flow that I can just carve around to work up a sweat without have to push or climb a ramp to drop in all the time.
The America’s Cup.
As someone who has started rewriting an old Summer Camp Island fanfiction I started around 2019 and never got very far with, I’m gonna have to say concentration and not getting writers block as the combo that would be the holy grail IMO. I’m sure a lot of writers in general could probably agree with that.
I definitely wanna get back into fanfic writing to a degree, but concentration and writers block have been my enemy.
Atari Falcon
The Alpha Lotus
The legendary spray and pray.
Steady hands. For both of my hobbies.
In my hobbies it’s relaxed hands (motorcycles and tennis)
I dream of one day finding an original Model M keyboard in a Goodwill or yard sale for like $10. Every time I’m in a thrift store I look over the electronics section JUST in case.
Also waiting for the day I find a random copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga for the Sega Saturn. Only 20,000 north American copies were made, which sounds like a lot but in video game numbers is insanely low. I’ve only ever seen it in the real world once at a gaming convention and it sold for $1,500.
Goodwill has competent people to notice and divert such things to online auction. You’re better off checking pawn shops in crappy towns/cities.
JFC I had that game! Only could get like six games for the Saturn in the US (nights into dreams, clockwork toy knight, a tactical RPG that had a big rabbit in the intro (sorry I forgot the name), owner dragoon, and virutua fighter). Dan I had so many super obscure games from the discount bin cause they weren’t popular new. Now everybody wants them.
If you want the model M just for it’s feel you should check out Unicomp keyboards. They make modernized versions that feel identical according to a friend who uses one. Although they are way more expensive than 10 dollars.
The Imperator-Class Titan is the largest mini in Warhammer 40k.
I have fantasized about using one of these in an actual game ever since I learned of their existence in 8th grade.
“mini”
Considering it’s got full on artillery emplacements, and a fucking house on it’s head, it’s kinda too scale with the other units.
The true Holy Grail item in my hobby of motorcycle riding would be a MotoGP bike.
Realistically the achievable halo option is a 1000cc supersport and lots of track days.
I see a guy pop up on my you tube shorts who talks about his Aprilla a bunch. Says it’s not really worth the headache when something that would be simple to fix on a mass produced bike, isn’t cause there only like 5,000 of that model ever made.
I say this but if I had fu money, I would definitely buy a Koenigsegg.
I really want a used arcade machine for drum mania. It’s a party of my childhood I miss
If you’re so inclined and have the time, you can make a USB controller to play it on your computer with an Arduino, pads, and some piezo speakers.
https://medium.com/@elainezshen/diy-electronic-drumset-for-drummania-bbcb6524e335
I am a themer for Project Outfox: check us out; all you need is the guitar 😉
Now kiss! Seriously, though, what an awesome project. Clone Hero taken to all new levels.
This looks amazing! Does it also support electric drums?
EDIT: looks like it’s possible! Imma dive off the deep end!
I don’t play drum/guitar mania, but the support is all there (albeit the guitar hero/taiko modes are all recently added so they’re not nearly as mature as dance/pump/technomotion, etc.
As a hobby engineer/machinist I would say any “medium” sized mill but specifically Bridgeport mills are especially coveted by hobbyists.
If I found a reasonably priced Bridgeport even one that needed a bit of work, I would happily sell my Chinese machine and make some extra room in my workshop.
