Robert Myers

With over 1,000 1/24-1/25 unbuilt car and heavy truck kits in the basement (I intend to build them all!--yah right) can I choose a favorite and one that I would like more of.....yep!!! Mine is the Ford J Car. I love that body. The GT40s are next in a tie with the Shelby Daytona Coupe. Since the J Cars are rather hard to find complete or at a decent price, I am waiting to build my only one until I am really in the mood to tackle it. It will get built!!!! I do need another one or 2 or......as a matter of fact, I am watching one on ebay as I write this.

I use the primer and spray on resin....I am converted!!!!!!

My gosh, someone knows where Pocatello is!!! Actually we are easy to find, southeast Idaho on Interstate 15. Salt Lake is 169 miles south, Yellowstone National park is 150 miles north, Jackson Hole is 100 miles east, and the middle of no-where is 20 miles west (Sun Valley is 150 miles west too)! Actually, we do get a lot of tourists as two interstates meet here. This is a major route to 5 or 6 major vaction spots. We also have a model railroad club in a building donated by the Union Pacific RR, they have over 1/4 mile of double track on the HO layout. It must be one of the largest in the US.

I like that Cougar!!! I drove a Mercury Sable for a few years and I really liked it. I knew it was just a re-badged Tarus, but it had just a little nicer interior and a front end that I liked better. Figure the odds, Now, my wife drives an Olds van.....just a re-badged Chevy, but just a little different styling.

I sent you a message about our local model club.

It went into the savings for my model museum fund.

Thank you for your replies, I think you have missed the point. This is not for a business or to make a profit. I know it will lose money and no one is going to drive hundreds of miles to make it a vaction spot. It is just for fun and for a place to get me out of the house. It will include any type (wood, metal, resin) or scale of model I can get. Including railroad (they make entire towns!!). I have been to the Salt Lake museum years ago. They had a very nice thing going.

When I retire in a year and a half or so (I hope!!)...one of my projects is to open a model museum (Worlds in Miniature). Nothing real fancy, just a place to have the monthly club meetings, a research area, some good CD of contests/shows and a great bunch of models for people to look at (free of charge). I think it would be a great place for model collections to end up instead of the dump!!!! I started planning this about five years ago and saving money for it. I announced it on another web site and while I got support for it, several people had to tell me how hard it would be and it would be a waste of time. I didn't ask for donations, as a matter of fact I will not accept money, I have paid for every item sent to me and I still buy built/unbuilt kits (admittedly at low prices to conserve money). I could fail and the museum may never open. I may have to work a few extra years with our changing economy and just use my 1,200 square foot basement for a while instead of a building. I have warned people about this when I talk to them. I have a collection of 749 kits of all types that I have built. A good start. Relax, I am not asking you to send anything or sell me anything. I just want you to understand my motivation and think about how synical (can't spell) we may become about others dreams. The point is that I want to do this. I may fail. It is a dream not a scam. Is there a difference? I think so. Maybe, I can get you to think about how much fun it would be to visit a museum devoted to models....even if that is all I do.....mission accomplished!

The next meeting is Thursday, May 15th.

The day before yesterday was a beautiful warm day. Yesterday I woke up to 3 inches of snow. Today is sunny and warm. Southeast Idaho is a little unpredictable. Got to love the cold and snow, it gives me a good reason to head for the den and work on a model. The warm sunny days make me want to be outside enjoying them and not modeling. Just can't win!

Any car should be modified, lifted, dropped, channeled or chopped....except for a 1956 Chevy. They are sacred; should worshipped and left as is. 1957 on the other hand are good to go for anything.

Interesting replies and thank you for the support! I enjoy the hobby and I will continue to enjoy it at my pace! I am hoping that others that may have road blocks crop up for them will read this, (with all of your great support and comments), and realize the enjoyment we get is from within and can be reshaped to fit our circumstances. My hand pain is early arthritis. Don't want to treat it yet, because when it gets bad in later years, my body will be to used to the drugs and the dosages will have to go way up. The doctor thinks I am a little strange, but he says ok, besides, I know I am a little strange. As for the bigger scale, great idea! The 1/24 scale cars are my bigger scale, I also build 1/72 scale aircraft!!! Y'all are great!

I still enjoy building models, looking at models and collecting for the stash. During the week I daydream a little about what I would like to do with a particular kit. We have two model contests within 170 miles of my home this year, I plan to go look at both! My den is a place I can relax, look at the kits I've built and snoop thru the kits waiting to be built. The websites are great because I can connect with others who share my interests. Now the crossroads. On the weekends when I can actually build, my hands hurt when I sand or shake when I try to make or glue small parts. In short my skills are going downhill and instead of relaxing with the Exacto knife in hand it gets frustrating. Age is catching up with me, I can retire next year. I always thought that when I retire I can hideout in the den and happily build the years away. So I have found an answer for me, at least. I will build what I can at my own pace, enjoy what I have built, relax surrounded by good memories of when I could still wire a 1/24 distributer, lurk on a few good websites and collect a few more unbuilt kits with the dreams to build them. A few seams won't matter. My point...accept our hobby for what it gives to you and enjoy it. Go your own way and do what you can. We do it for ourselves not others, they don't feel the joy, excitment and pleasure that each of us gets from a new kit or building it the way we want it. Share what you can and appreciate what others share with you. Above all be kind in your remarks!

Nice looking truck! An old CD cover for a cab back, that is what I would call creative use of plastic. I live in farming country where a lot of the old road tractors are brought in at the end of their highway careers and used as short haul and farm trucks. Some get a fancy factory conversion with a window and upolstery, some get a sheet of tin riveted in to cover the old sleeper access hole. My point is almost anything you want to do is accurate. Your truck is great without a window.

I have an excellent method for finding dropped parts! I sit very still in my chair and look around me. I don't see the part...so I slowly roll my chair back so I can get up and look. Something goes crunch under the chair wheel. FOUND THE PART! just hate that