Tom Geiger

Rest is highly over rated! We started planning next years event a few months ago so there's always something to do throughout the year!

Yup, I use Irfanview for all my photo editing needs.

Spotlight Hobbies sells model car promo boxes. See the link below: Tom Carter is a good businessman and ships quickly. Model Car Boxes

As mentioned, Palmer box art is interesting and fun to collect. Many years ago in the hobby you'd see them at swap meets for $5 or $10, so I started to collect them...

Now that the dust has settled and we've gotten a full night's sleep, here are the results from NNL East, April 21, 2018 Many thanks to the Tri-State Scale Model Car Club members for all their hard work and dedication to producing the best show we possibly can. The official NNL East Photo Album is up and running! See the link below: NNL East Official Photo Album

Ron, Scale Motorsport will be doing their final sell off at NNL East tomorrow. They are not "going out of business". Matthew is shutting down a thriving business for other pursuits. He had offered the business for sale, there was interest, but nobody came through with the $$

I have confirmation that our British friends are already at the hotel. Our annual French visitor flew into Montreal today. It's on!

Ya know, nothing ever goes smoothly! I took today off to finish up some NNL details. I have been working at remote locations lately, which includes dedicating Sundays to travel and returning home late on Fridays. First thing in the morning? My wife wakes me up to say there is no hot water. I go to the basement and find the furnace room flooded, a saddle valve someone else installed for a long gone furnace humidifier had sprung a leak right over the water heater. So there went my morning! Replaced the valve, vacuumed all the water and am still waiting for water heater to dry out enough to relight the pilot.

Very nice! I believe you have seen the one Alan Barton is building! Here's mine:

Last year we had 100 rooms and sold out. This year we have the whole hotel and sold out. We have gotten a lot of emails asking us to book additional hotels. People are not aware that we have to sign a contract with specific guarantees with each one of them. If we don't make the forecast, we pay for the rooms out of our pockets. So it's not that easy and not worth the financial risk. We already have all the work we can handle!

In Wayne, New Jersey there's a place with two full gymnasiums worth of new kits, old kits, resin and aftermarket parts and decals from the best vendors in the country. It's called NNL East. There will also be two gymnasiums full of display models built by the best builders in the country, who will be happy to meet you. It's this Saturday, and if you are in New Jersey there's no excuse not to be there! Full details on the website: www.nnleast.com

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The model display room is two full gymnasiums. This is an old photo. We now have tables the length of the room under the windows on the left. The vendors are in two other rooms the size of gyms.

Maybe Chicken Little was a bit premature?

I'm pleased that many people showed up at our club meeting yesterday to stuff the NNL East goodie bags! We set up an assembly line the length of the church gym and got all 900 bags stuffed and ready to go for next Saturday! We have some really cool swag in the bags this year! You'll just have to be there to see! WWW.NNLEAST.COM