Tom Geiger

In a roady..

I drill and mount my mirrors onto lengths of straight pin. See test fit here. See passenger side pin inside body. Only cut the pin when you are ready to permanently install. As others said, glue from inside. As a bonus the long pin keeps small parts from getting lost and can be used as a mount point when painting the part. I found it’s only necessary to drill one post. Here are mirrors with pin cut, ready to mount. I do all my drilling with this old eXacto brand battery power drill. No longer sold, but Tamiya sells a drill today.

of Jack Daniels

not going there! ?

I like this version of the VW bus, I never liked the surf boards on the sides and because of them it didn’t go through the Supercharger!

She’d whoop ya!

And ignore danger!

Either one of these! I actually built the green traditional rod as an exercise in what I would like to own in retirement someday. Then I built the woody pickup and that went to the head of the class!

On Covid quarantine

It’s more like... in auction you can sometimes realize several times what you wanted for the kit on their platform... and people still complain about paying a sliver of their profit as a fee!

No doubt! I certainly would have goobed it up and it would be in a landfill today!

Okay we are going to compromise! Moving forward kits will be 1/24.5 scale! ?

I assemble a lot of my parts with straight pins. I believe it’s a number 72 drill bit. I wouldn’t be too keen on drilling through clear plastic as it’s brittle. If I did I would be using my small battery power drill. I’d put blue tape over the glass and drill through it to avoid scratching the glass in case of slippage and to avoid chipping at the hole. You could try to drill both the glass and frame at the same time, but I’d opt to drill the glass flat, then tape it in place using the holes as the template to drill the body. I would check the pin head size, I believe it’s too large. There are pins with smaller heads, check a crafts or sewing store.

Interesting that your shops had Johan kits in the UK. I lived in Germany from 1969-72 and the shops in town had Airfix and Revell of Germany. The dollar took a dive against the Deutsch Mark, from 4:1 down to less than 2:1 while we were there. 1:24 and 1:25 kits averaged 20 DM so they were $20 US to me back when kits were $2-2.50 in the US. It was a rare treat for me to get one! I remember building a VW Beetle and a Porsche 911. I still have the 914 I bought then unbuilt!

And shipping them

Very cool!

this neat Olds appeared at the old barn that houses the 56 Ford pickup this week.

Retrieving dead relatives

Here’s what I’ve been using for years. And this brand can be found at Hobby Lobby.

That’s fun! I like it!

I hadn’t realized the cart was dual engine! I wanted carts but hesitated to buy the 60 Chevy pickup since I already had a couple of them. Then I came across someone who wanted a couple pickups but didn’t want the carts. We made a deal! I should pull them out, I have a project in mind!

The mail is slow! I mailed something from PA to MD last Saturday, and it normally would have arrived on Monday but not received until Thursday. Aside from a double holiday rush this year since people are ordering online instead of shopping, USPS is getting hit with Covid. This past spring my own post office was shut down and we received our mail every other day from another office working double. I have a relative who works at a big sorting center who said there are a lot of people out sick or for quarantine. They are pushing the remaining workers to do double shifts. Bad year!

With fryer grease

What the heck, let’s post some pix of originals from my collection. My favorite is the old custom pickup.

A little chuckle for ya.. back in 2017 this car won The John Slivoski award, our highest award, at NNL East. Per our normal operation, our team goes out onto the floor to get an eye on the winners, to make sure everything is on the up and up. Eric had this listed on his registration as “Model A Speedster” . We couldn’t find it! Finally as a group of us did a table to table search reading the registration cards for numbers, we found it in the Misc table! It’s so far from a Model A that we passed it but several times!