Tom Geiger

Remember that most annuals started as promo models ordered by auto manufacturers. They always promote the top of the line, thus promos and resulting annuals are too! The aftermarket fills in the void for plain Jane cars.. MCW has a good selection of low end sedans

I moved around some furniture in my model room to install my new paint booth. I have a hardwood floor. I scraped the entire floor area with a business card and put the resulting pile of dust, hair etc into a shoebox lid.., what did I find? Photo etch wheel weights and seat belt buckles, a kit door handle, several brass dollhouse nails and a few small kit parts I didn’t even realize I was missing!

Got it in my hand! One decal cut from sheet, whatever is to left of license plates and right of black strobe. All side and rear decals good. PM me your mailing info and I’ll drop in morning mail

Drop me a private message. I know I have this, just a matter of which decals you need from the kit sheet. I’d be happy to help

I generally don’t buy diecast of cars we have in plastic kits, but I do own the Gremlin. Mine is red with a black interior. White stripes. It looked so nice I had to have it for the ten bucks!

With cement shoes ?

Congratulations! Here’s to her continued great recovery !

Agreed! I have had three of the four extracted. The last one sits under the gum line, causing no harm... hopefully! I had the first two out at the same time. One had actually come in and was sitting there in the row of teeth. It got a cavity and dentist said to have it out instead of filling it. So I went for the first two. I was put out for those. I remember sitting there talking to a nurse, then the next thing I remember I was sitting looking out the window... I felt my cheek and oh yea, it was done! Since nothing is easy with me, I wound up with dry socket and had to go back to surgeon's office every day for a week to have the packing in it changed until it healed. Ouch! The other one got infected so it had to come out. Local anesthesia and I could hear and feel every move! It shattered and surgeon was pulling out the pieces one at a time. That afternoon full of anesthesia, I went out with my daughter and purchased a car for her! No doubt not on top of my game! And continuing with my theme, that one caused a lot of pain. I went to my own dentist and he found the issue. A piece of the tooth was still in there. He extracted it.

Love the rack assembly!

Model car guys fall into three camps.. First are the guys who are into math and are pleased that they can calculate out every dimension. Second are the guys who don’t build to scale and approximate because they think scaling is too complicated. And third, the camp that includes you and I using scale rulers. This comes naturally to me as a former draftsman, where we used scale rulers daily. We designed and produced this scale ruler as a free show give away in the hope that more people would discover just how easy it is to build in scale by using a scale ruler. We made it all inches to eliminate the math in converting inches to feet, as done in several industries. Also we built in a nifty centering device I find very handy.

Blows leaves far! ?

Neat! I built a strip car using the body with the old Monogram Green Hornet chassis. Ken Kitchen did some interesting conversations with this kit too!

Hmmm.. between the Thames pictured here and the Anglia thread, it has me wanting to build a factory stock version!

I’ve always used Duplicolor gray primer. Recently I wanted my red to be brighter on my Jeepster, so I tried their white primer. It lays perfectly flat and I got the effect I was looking for with the red. I’ll be using white primer under all my light colors from now on!

Or slant six

Look at your Duplicolor can to see if it’s a color that requires a clear coat. That would spray dull but will come to life once sprayed with clear

Cool, I just went to the Revolico site and saw a 1950s Dodge truck converted into a taxi van, complete with modern high back seats and Toyota engine. There also is a 56 Chevy sedan.

I just had to chuckle.. I remember it well! And even have an example to show! A while back someone gave me this old original to restore. Note the cardboard cab back panel and pickup bed

I think it’s more a corporate policy on dealing with applicants. Calling an unsuccessful applicant just opens them up to a recruiter saying something wrong on a call the receiver could be taping. They don’t want to be sued. So they send out a carefully worded standard form email their attorney has approved

Which is why you need a scale ruler. No math at all. Measure 18 inches on your 1:1 car, then measure off 18 inches using this ruler against your model. We also kept it all in inches to avoid the inches to feet math. Several industries do this in real life.. for instance office furniture. Scale rulers are extensively in industry. Coming from a drafting and design background, when I got into model cars, immediately I sought out a scale ruler. I couldn’t do scratch building without it!

It’s a Barracuda!

These days you usually get closure with an automated email from their applicant tracking system. That’s good enough for me.

As soon as you can! Duplicolor dries quick. As soon as you are sure it's dry to your touch, carefully remove the tape.

I agree with Brian. You don’t need any more pressure than if you were tracing the line with a pencil. Practice on a scrap body, as to how little pressure you can apply and still be able to pull the foil away

Yes! That’s the one I’d build!