Tom Geiger

Festering puss caldron

Lookin good Marty!

Since we are bringing back old threads.. I guess I’ll play! I own these twins if original issues. I got these from different places years apart, but they look like they came from the same builder. I’ve always have plans to redo these, one with open headlights.

Lookin good! I look forward to your 24 Hr Build Dodge Caravan! We hate you Alan! ?

Great bunch of models! That 40 Ford sedan delivery is just perfect!

A semi related story.. back when I lived in Germany 1969-72, they were still dealing with getting World War II bunkers out of the landscape. They tried to implode them with explosives, run tanks and bulldozers over them to no success. They were built too well. Then someone came up with an idea.. they filled them up with water over a cold German winter and the resulting ice expansion broke them apart! Same principle.

1/25 scale squirrel ?

Glad that see you back. I had wondered where you had gone!

My weathering washes are chalk dust liquified with Testors Dullcote

Thank you everyone!

Could be.. I found mine in a Fireball 500, but no doubt it came in other kits since it's on it's own sprue. It was fenderless,had no lights and came with styrene two part tires too. The wonky part of it was that the tongue had a peg sticking down from it instead of a receiver. The hitch that came with it had a hole in it instead of a proper hitch ball set up.. toylike! And of course we couldn't have any of that so we fixed it.

like a little...

red hot fire

or sheep dip

The Jeepster trio is finished and I took some time today for photos! The Jeepster is a 1969 MPC kit that was started a long time ago and completed in the "Bring Out Your Dead" board challenge. The Jeep CJ5 is the MPC "Mork & Mindy" kit, that was a glue bomb in my Jeep junk box. The trailer was from the Fireball 500 kit, with many mods. Jeepster was done with the pickup version and removable hardtop. Bumper was from the Safari version of this kit. I way overcomplicated this build! I cut the bed away from the interior, added sidewalls and molded it into the body for a more realistic look. I added ribs on the bed floor. Trailer hitch was scratch built from a few pieces of Evergreen, a round head shirt pin and a short length of heater hose. I did drill holes to replicate the top snaps. I swapped in a Jeep 4 cylinder base engine, instead of the kit's V6. That led to complications with the chassis and mods to the interior floor. As I worked on the Jeepster, my Jeep parts box was open and I started fiddling with an old glue bomb while I was waiting for glue to dry. It had no hood, windshield or tailgate, and the fender was broken. The idea of a project car on a trailer popped into my head! It was built pretty much stock from what I had. I did make the tail lights from Evergreen tube, wired the engine and added seat belts. All in all, it took about 2 weeks. The trailer was pretty toy like. It had options to build as a single axle with the axle too far forward so that the rear dropped, or as a hokey dual axle. I chose to remove all of that and move the axle rearward. I concealed the wire axle in a piece of channel, added fenders from a Monogram Green Hornet and the custom tail lights from the AMT 53 Ford pickup. The wheel fronts are still on the bench, and I need to make a trailer license plate. The Jeeps are registered as my final two builds for 2020, completed on New Year's Eve. I did fiddle with them a bit this week and will correct a few small things I see in these photos. The trailer could be called my first build of 2021! There were times I hated this project, but I'm pleased with the end results! Time to find another house to flip!

stale Walmart brand!

with other planets

What we have..

My wife: “There’s nothing in the house to eat.” Me: “Hold my beer!” We had Rotini in marinara sauce with andouille sausage, onion, kidney beans and peas”. AKA- Stuff we had around.

Congrats! Work and money are good! With all this pandemic crud I may have accidentally retired!

ruled his hood

I love the 53 Studebaker box art from the stamp!

When I was a kid living in Germany, the Airfix 1/32s were nearly the only game in town! As said, these look like you took a nicely detailed 1/24 scale kit and shrunk it! The only Airfix kits that survived for me are a built Capri, Mercedes SL convertible and an unbuilt Ford Model T. When I got back to the hobby as an adult around 1990, you could find them at shows in the $5/10 range since Americans didn’t understand them, so I grabbed some. Once eBay came about, American dealers figured out that Europeans would pay a good amount for them.

Been playing.. added a second color to the Buick wagon just for giggles.. And I scratch built a trailer hitch on the Jeepster

I have a 50 Ford junk box of all new parts.. what do you need? Just the frame or associated parts too?