RSchnell

Here's a few pics from today's show. I left around noon having seen everything & darn near filling up the truck of the car with goodies.

Part of the haul from today's model swap meet.

Nice Metropolitan & El Camino in today's travels.

This is coming up Saturday. Here's a couple pics from last year's swap.

Thanks for the update. I will likely pre-order a couple as I suspect they may sell out in the first run.

Any word when the '60 Ford pickup is getting released? /s

Good trades with SamIAm and Ranma on two different trades. Good folks to deal with!

This is one of my favorite swaps that I attend. Most of the vendors are just guys downsizing their stash, not the usual people you see at the bigger shows selling the same stuff at every show. A model car contest is new this year. I've no affiliation with the show other than a buyer. Just passing the word along!

Merritt Island, FL Ollie's is down to these dregs. No one wants the Mach 5, Green Hornet or the Snow Dragster! I had a 10% off coupon to use. Heads up if you use a discount coupon it wont apply the 33% off & you can't stack the coupon with the 33% off. The cashier told me about this and rang up my two kits separately.

Made an Ollie's run as I needed some other stuff, picked up these two from the 33% off sale. I figured the Thunderbird is worth about $9, makes a great slump buster kit.

I'm about to do that to mine. Thanks for the heads up!

I didn't have much time since I had groceries in the car, but did a quick walk around and got a few pics. I apologize for the poor quality of the photos, I didn't have my regular camera only my Fisher Price cell phone.

Thrift store find. Not an original but the 1996 Ertl reissue, got it cheap enough there's no complaint from me!

My son picked these up for me at an estate sale he went to. He sends me this picture with "would you be happy if I gave you these for Christmas?(he already knew the answer to that" In short I told him yes, he said he got them for a very reasonable price and they are complete. One can never have too many of the Hubley kits, especially Model A's.

I haven't seen any Great Dane trailers at my local Ollies, just the Fruehauf and old IMC kit. Was in there yesterday and there were still a good number of kits. I thought the 20% off sale would've cleaned them out. Grabbed a couple more '32 Fords & one of the Snark missiles for my space kit stash.

Don't see many of the other brands of bikes down here on the Space Coast of FL, it is overwhelmingly Harley country when it comes to touring bikes. Surprised to see this nice BMW R18 in the parking lot at the bank.

Miller's Bar in Dearborn? Really enjoyed their simple burgers! Used to eat there every time I went to the Ford Archives researching "stuff".

Same as above, no problems and have had better luck finding hard to find stuff through both Hobby Search & HLJ.

This kit is probably the most aggravating & difficult kit I've tried to build in 35 years on modeling. The kit itself is nice, well detailed and the proportions are spot on. However the smaller scale (1/35), the parts count and brittle plastic make it a tedious build. I had several versions of this kit (bus, tow truck, etc) since I have weakness for any Model A/AA kit but I was so turned off by this one I traded the others off.

Part of the reason I have no desire to go! My local Ollie's is always crowded, I can't imagine the pandemonium that would ensue on a night like this.

That's pretty cool! I'd rather have Clarkson's Bentley which made a couple appearances on the most excellent Clarkson's Farm show.

I will check my local Ollie's next week while I'm out running errands. They certainly have been surprising us lately. I fully expect the scalpers to hit Ollie's Night this evening and clean out whatever is on the shelves now.

Seeing that Comet P-38 takes me back. I built one as a teenager and got it to fly pretty decent on rubber power. Haven't built stick & tissue in a while. Those old Comet kits built well and most of them flew well without too much adjustment.