Tom Geiger

That is why stupid people are stupid.. because they don't know they are stupid.

I went to the World Turtle Day celebration in my town. Not a big event, just a turtle walk hosted by the town park system. It was late in the day so all the turtles usually sunning themselves on logs in the lake went home for the day. We did probably a 2 mile hike and didn't find any turtles. But the young lady who ran the event brought her box turtle Charlie for everyone to see.

Thing was a character on the Adams Family TV show back in the sixties

I love those old Monogram 29s! I collect / build the whole set! Nice job! I like the matte look. I also use wire for the metal brace rods.

Yup, recently dumped a nearly full bottle of BSI Accelerator across the work bench! As said, I never spray the stuff, but I removed the lid and there is just enough liquid on the bottom of the plunger tube to work for me. I didn't even know when I hit the bottle, just all of a sudden the bench was all wet. I mopped up what I could with paper towels and left the craft paper that covers the bench wet. By next day it was all dry. My workbench is an old hollow core door covered with brown paper. I once dropped a bottle of beer into an interior tub.

Amen. It's said that people don't leave jobs, they leave bosses. The problem is that those bosses just soldier on, ticking people off, and somehow companies don't catch on and sack 'em!

My model room was a bedroom, so it has a hardwood floor. When I drop something (note I didn't say when!) I get down on my hands and knees and sweep the floor with a business card. I find all kinds of stuff, some of which I didn't even know was missing. On my last build I needed 6 eyelets to tie down the tarp on my roof rack. I only had 5 left! Later on I dropped a photo etch interior door handle. I not only found the handle and some other misc parts, but I found an eyelet! That gave me the 6 I needed.

Brooklyn Brown Ale is one of my favorite beers!

Month to month, year to year, the unbuilt model kits just sat in the cupboard

cookies are very important here at the Little Debbie's race team!

New York, New Jersey and New England really aren't new anymore

Years go by faster and faster, the older you get!

Lamb Chop was Shari Lewis' puppet that debuted on Captain Kangaroo in 1956.

and navel jelly

Billy-goat, when cooked right, makes for some good eatin'

She's a peach!

I am experiencing issues running a small eBay business. One of the issues is that my mail gets processed in Wilmington, DE and that's one of the centers due to be closed. I recently had a package going to a customer in Wilmington take 3 weeks. It's typically taking 2 weeks to get something from PA to CA. eBay adds to the mess by overlapping their over enthusiastic delivery promises to buyers. I have my terms set for 3 business day turn around, and that doesn't include weekend days. So something sold today (Friday) is due to be shipped by Wednesday. And eBay tells the buyer they can expect it Monday onward! I have people crabbing on Monday (before I've shipped) that they haven't received their item! The govm't realizes there is an issue, suspending the consolidation plans to study it a bit more: https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2024/05/13/usps-suspends-dfa-consolidation-plans-until-january-2025/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3j1letq-UluDYFe4GOG7nv2-Mk44OLvHoV7svsHXDj3XzeqwR_cFJYgHg_aem_AaqrskD0pEx7ncLI0zQSCn5D-rSLZA0oLjt9G_AqhigaQ4xvAaNAv6VtYyH_qN8aJaD-U50E0UrMWr3_ss8Lf9Jw

Park your ass at the model bench and get some work done!

Glad to see you went to the hospital and they took care of you. Get well my friend!

Irritated is the perfect word to describe my current view of our gov’ment

I found this one in a junk box at the MidAtlantic NNL in Maryland this past Saturday. It’s a 1950s Marx Rolls Royce. Complete except it’s missing the front bumper. It never had glass. Couldn’t leave it there for $10. Proportions are all wrong but that’s part of the ancient charm of what is essentially a toy.

God Bless You!

As promised, I finished the Snake tribute car! Follow the link below to the thread :

I logged into the board last week to find that our friend Snake, Richard Messner, had died. I was saddened because he was a fun part of the board. He will be sorely missed. We participated in the "Bring Out Your Dead" group builds that he moderated. I'll admit I failed to finish more than I finished! And he'd often jab me as to the whereabouts of my 1960 Plymouth Airport Limo. It has been my on again, off again project for probably 20 years. At least far enough back that this kit was cheap enough to cut up several for a project. So what better tribute could I pay to Snake than to finish this model in his honor. Then I saw that the MidAtlantic NNL Theme was station wagons. So it just had to be. My plan was to have this model on the table on Saturday May 11th! And here's where we were the last time anyone saw this model. After several attempts over the years, each time thwarted by my then skill level, with each attempt I'd get a bit further. It was up on wheels with an extended chassis. The stretched interior fit well. My issues were making the sides blend together well and adding the final pillars. So I figured if I could get past those two issues, I could indeed finish this model. So I started with less than two weeks to go. My first issue tackled was finishing the roof rack. Above is where I was last time. This attempt I glued down all the pieces, the round tire cover was meant to be a drum. I then made a mixture of water and Elmer's Glue. I cut down a brown McDonalds napkin that was already in my project box for this step. The soggy napkin looked awful! I figured I had crashed and burned, but let it sit over night. Come morning it looked salvageable. I gave it a coat of thick brown craft paint. Once that dried I dry brushed it with chalk dust. Added some ropes with my last 6 ship eyelets and it actually looked like I wanted! Here's the final result. Onward! I gave those center pillars like three tries before they finally looked good and stayed in place! Then a created the top drip rail from Evergreen rod. That covered some of the sins of the body joint! Here it is in white Tamiya primer. Next day I gave the sides a couple of coats of Tamiya Racing White. Here we are taped for the blue two tone. I include this photo to show that I used Tamiya tape for the critical edges, but cheaper blue painters tape where it was just protecting the paint. That's my answer to the guys who whine that it's too expensive to use Tamiya tape! While the blue paint... (my mistake was to use a hardware store satin blue paint) dried... well, it never completely dried... it was still slightly sticky as I applied BMF. My skills from the 24 Hour Build came in use here! I worked on the interior. The bucket was already painted. I added photoetch window cranks since the Johan engraving was nearly non-existent. I had the interior junk already done too. It was just a matter of doing some interesting and convincing placement and gluing it all in place. And bummer! It's hard to see through the windows. And as assemblies dried, I did the details like the steer horns and antenna. I continued on with my goals in mind. I needed to have this model on the table on Saturday to make Snake proud! I won't lie, as of 10pm Friday evening it wasn't going anywhere. I couldn't get the body to sit well with the chassis. I had it on and off many times and it always fell together! After awhile I deduced the back bumper was the culprit, I had never test fit the assembly with the bumper on! So I whittled the bumper mount off, and glued it to the body. Now we sat right. And by 1am Saturday morning, this is what we had on the bench! I made up a 1960s sounding band name and created the logo. The trick was to do the lettering large... the original is 11x17, then reduce the final art to tighten the linework. I then printed several copies. I'm very pleased with the roof rack. It came out as I had hoped. It's not glued in place, I used two sided tape in case I ever want to reposition it. The big secret? It hides the ill fitting roof joint. I never did try to fix it. I am soooo happy to have it done! I made it onto the show table, and got a lot of positive comments. I didn't win the theme award, which would have been the icing on the cake, but that was not the goal. My task was to honor my buddy Snake by actually finishing the model in his honor and making the show deadline! I hope he's pleased!

I am working on a Snake tribute car right now! I will share details after the weekend! He liked to be called Snake.. I used to bust his chops... "Does your mother call you Snake?" ?