Tom Geiger

Deficiencies that make them idjits in the first place?

I went to a dermatologist for some psoriasis on my knee. They give you the full body check and I had this little mole in my mustache. She did a biopsy and it was a basal cell precancer thingie. I had surgery where they cut open a part of the right side of my face down to my lip. I was knocked out for this and released same day. The first two weeks I wasn't allowed to chew or use my lip. I survived on pasta with meat sauce and macaroni. I lost 10 pounds. Three weeks later the "skin flap" is pretty much healed but the skin is still swollen thick, numb and is either tingly or throbbing. Lotsa pain and I slept on my back on the couch so I couldn't accidently roll over onto my cheek in my sleep. And no hair is growing there so I don't know if I can have a mustache again!

My local Walmart now has a guy at the door putting a yellow highlighter mark on your receipt as you leave the building. No doubt having a lot of theft with people coming back in the store with their bag and duplicating their purchases! Michaels is going down! I heard they are so broke that they cannot replace batteries on the forklifts in the distribution centers so guys are humping loads manually. All brick and mortar stores are in a decline. I just found out my local Staples store is closing. Its a larger one, and they are consolidating in the smaller store one town away, as they try to get everyone to order online instead.

Tolerate stupidity and you will get overrun by idjits!

Super project! I saved photos of a real one in the crate for years hoping to build this one day. You beat me to it! Glad someone built it!

Nice model! My family had both a 1970 Impala Coupe and a 1971 Bel Air sedan when I was growing up.

Super build! I love the color scheme and the headlights!

Desired results are often not achieved by whiney lazy people who refuse to put in the necessary work

freshly laid turds

Thank you to everyone for their service. I grew up in the Army, I was an Army Brat until I was 16 and my dad retired. Army families are a world of their own. We moved every two or three years so it was an interesting life. I lived in Izmir Turkey from 1966-68 and Pirmasens Germany from 1969-72.

Not even a camera these days... just an iPhone! ?

Interesting that the post office Pintos showed up at Ollies. I couldn't find them at retail in the real world of stores and shows! I did manage to get one. If anyone bought a bunch of them for other than USPS use, I could use a few sets of those postal decals to build other postal vehicles!

Breakfast is highly overrated, I prefer to just have coffee and wait until lunchtime for any real food.

Funny thing... my eBay sales chime (cha-ching like a cash register) kept going off during the game. So there were folks not watching!

Michaels is slowly going down the tubes. I'm in USA. I wound up with a $50 gift card for free as a credit card premium. I envisioned getting about a dozen of those shoe box sized photo / craft boxes I use for my eBay stamp inventory. I get there and am shocked to see they want $7.99 for a box! These are $2.99 and $3.99 at Hobby Lobby depending on the decoration on them! So at $7.99 I wasn't doing that even with a free card! Then I see their gimmick.. everything in the store is way overpriced and they are depending on their 30-50% sales to bring people in, and at that point the prices are the normal price in competing chains. So right before Christmas I saw the 50% off sale and bought boxes for $3.99. I extinguished my gift card and paid a few cents cash. Never Michaels again!

Forever is a long time said Captain Obvious

In my neighborhood everything is underground. Even my Fios fiber is below surface from the box to my house

And there's some controversy about that. There have been shows across the country that have come and gone who used the name "NNL". One was actually a judged contest, and when contacted were clueless as to what NNL actually meant. Some groups have stretched the concept with that Top Ten or even an award for each category, but it's frowned upon by the founders and those of us who are still holding the torch. It's supposed to be about the modelers and providing the best day of the year for the hobby! At NNL East we minimalize the awards to honor the original intent. We don't even have a Best in Show. We have the "John Slivoski Award" for most popular model as voted by people's choice. We have Best in the theme and sub-theme. We have a web award that is only put on our website just before the show to train folks to go to the website for information! We have a Junior award. All of thesse are people's choice balloting. We have the Joe Cavorley award for the model Joe would have appreciated most, chosen by his friends. Our last award is the Long Distance Award, to recognize the person who has traveled the furthest to attend in the spirit of friendship and comradery. Over the years we have had visitors from Europe. South America, South Africa and Australia. Also- there has never been a "trophy". We only give out simple plaques. We do get regular inquiries asking to do their own special award, and we respectfully decline as we want to keep the awards to a minimum and preserve the spirit of the event.

I just had to chime in... John Slivoski was the president of the Tri-State Scale Model Car Club. He would go to the NNL Nationals in Toledo with Rick Hanmore. He asked the founders for permission to use the concept on the East Coast and was granted permission as long as he held to the formula. Back in the day, there was a group of guys shooting the breeze at a Brooklyn, NY hobby shop. A guy came in and joined into the conversation. He told them he was good friends with the "owner" of NNL East and it was a very tough contest, but he won Best of Show, where he received a six foot tall trophy! The guy had no idea that one of the guys he was jawing at was John Slivoski, who quietly listened. They let him embarrass himself and after he left they all burst out laughing! John loved to tell that story!~ One time during the old Saturday night AOL Model Car Chats I got home late after NNL East. I joined the conversation and a guy instantly asked me who won the contest?" I replied that EVERYONE in attendance won, because it wasn't a contest! He immediately challenged me that nobody would attend a show without trophies! I instantly got so many IMs at once that my computer crashed! And even today I get a bunch of phone calls right before NNL East. One year I got a call from a lady asking if her daughter could enter the NNL East Model Show? I replied, "Of course!" and let her know we had a junior category. I asked what did her daughter like to build? She responded, "BUILD???" I instantly realized she though this was a modeling event for female models! We are on a few of that industry's mailing lists because we still get emails looking for models for photo shoots!

And there are those of us with snow on the ground who are happy it's just rain this time! ?

burning against pavement

Nice display case! I have a repurposed china cabinet, and I also added a shelf between each of the original ones. In mine, each shelf is actually 3 pieces of glass, so I bought 9 pieces of glass. Not cheap!

Words can be hurtful.

Super scratch building and finishing! I started one years ago and it's still sitting. I love your solution for the seat

Drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike cannot drive, especially the New Yorkers going 50mph in the fast lane!