Tom Geiger

Or petrified solid?

I was the logical and not so fun dad.. I told my kids it was easier to go to Walmart on November 1st and buy the candy on clearance!

This is an old build I was fortunate to purchase. The fun part is that the original builder glued the body to the rear tires as the hinge to raise the body!

Try six! ?

Eating dogs? Yuk!

With the dogs ?

Halloween! My daughter had a bad experience. She put out the big bowl of treats in front of her door like the town prescribed for a no contact event. First customers were a group of three little thugs. One put his hand over her Ring camera and the other two took ALL the treats! She sent us the video with sound, got all three on video before one said, “Look there’s a camera!” Little creeps! She won’t let us post the video out of fear since she lives alone.

He was a great actor! On the positive side he did live 90 years, which is more than many folks get!

I got one of those because I remember guys using that body on a 1/25 scale pickup to build a mini pumper.

Very period! Very cool!

Cool! We didn’t get that one in the US

Thanks everyone! It’s marinating in brake fluid right now. Will check on it in the morning.

That’s where it’s going. The original builder had a vision, did pretty well on the fabrication, and lost it with the paint and finish. Especially the hand brushed Testors silver somewhat on the trim. I even like the two tone burgundy and silver, and just happen to have those in Duplicolor.

Enuf for us

Cool!

In the early days of eBay, I knew a guy who would go to Walmart, put a bunch of diecast cars on layaway to list for sale. When / if they sold he’d retrieve them!

Mmmm dead cow!

I had one in my cart, then I thought about it.. I’d never build it. Just not my thing. So it would have just sat around waiting for the big estate sale someday!

I’ve never owned a cat but don’t dislike them. A local cat named Hunter (so it says on his collar tag) stops by regularly when I’m working outside. I’ve been gardening and he’s snuck up on my lap to be pet. I’ve never fed him but he still comes around and I’m happy to see him.

I posted on the Ollie’s thread.. seven kits at $8.49 each using their 15% off coupon. 2 Gremlins, and one each 69 Hurst Olds, Escalade, Mack pumper 1/32 scale, 55 Corvette, Scooby Doo Van.

Or jelly sandwiches ?

Billy Carter created a cottage industry to cash in on being the president’s colorful brother. The truck was one of the last, if not the last Revell created (was it?) product vehicles. It seems the 1:1 was built to sell kits around the celebrity. I remember back when Billy Beer came out, during the beer collecting craze, and people grabbed it up as an investment. Truth is the beer ? stunk! It came from a brewery that primarily sold collector cans with the beer being an afterthought. My friend was a can collector and even at 18 we recognized the beer was undrinkable and I remember assisting him at draining out an entire case of these through small holes in the bottoms.

You did good! Old pickups aren’t glass shiny! I never clear coat them, often semi gloss or Dullcote!

Okay! Funny story. I checked Waze from work and It sad there was an Ollie’s seven miles away! So I had to investigate. Waze takes me off on a route I’ve never seen. Okay because I got to see more Pennsylvania backroads with colonial buildings. Then I recognize an intersection.. from my normal way home! Turns out Ollie’s is ONE traffic light off my way home! ? The store has a good selection, but of course since I mentioned I’d buy a couple 62 T-Birds, there weren’t any! But overall, there were the large trucks including the ALF pumper, the late date Camaro and Corvettes, a Lindberg tug boat, large sailing ship and a few more off topic kits. No aircraft since some had asked! I did buy 7 kits. I got a pair of Gremmies, one 69 Olds, 55 Corvette, Scooby Doo van (the last one), an Escalade and a 1/32 scale Mack Pumper. Pretty much because I don’t have them, I grabbed one of each for the hoard. I had a 15% off coupon in my email so I used it. My cost was $8.49 per kit, for a grand total of $63 including sales tax. The cashier asked me if I was Christmas shopping and I said, “Yes! For Me!” She then told me her father built model motorcycles. I told her I’d like him! A good day!

That was my belief from day one. The manufacturers were listed in the bankruptcy. They were owed money. Tooling kept by them. When the bankruptcy sale listed the tooling selling for nothing, I was thinking that was probably just the US tooling they had in their warehouse. I’ve been wondering if the new Revell has the tooling that was in China.