Tom Geiger

Don’t cut those long side panels! They were only in the first issue or two! I have a few later issues. I would love to have the full hardtop, but I do have the soft top etc. The pickup bed area is lacking details, like the bed ribs and the side walls. Olsen Brothers make some parts for these, including that long hardtop and long side panels. I’m working on a pair of Jeepsters right now. I do love the kit!

Round 2 must’ve known there is a hood fit issue. There’s a note on the instructions to sand on the radiator cross member to lower it

With floral trim

I have that Revell Slant Six and I think it would be a bear to bring to market.. aside from the plastic molded parts there are wires, bulbs, screws, clips and a bunch of other parts that would all need to be sourced or made.

It’s interesting to put the snap kit next to the full detail glue kit.. glue kit came first and you can see what was copied into the snapper.. there are details, like tail lights, that are better done in the snap kit!

Naked swimmers essentials

I’d leave well enough alone! Wheels look great, adding pins may clutter them up

Another one that irks me... people who write 57$ instead of the proper $57. You’ve only seen it the proper way for your entire life!

Very nice! A typical color scheme you’d see back in the day. A buddy of mine had a dark brown car. His interior was an awful white cloth that was filthy and stained. The dash, door cards and rest of interior trim were dark brown. We went to the junkyard and found a medium brown vinyl interior like in your model. We swapped these seats into his car. The side panels were two part, so we left the lower panels dark brown and the medium brown up top. It looked super! Back then I had done carpet in several of my friends cars. We were 17 with no money to buy professional carpets so I’d fit in what ever we could find. He got some dark brown carpet and asked me to do my thing. I get to his house to find he had already stripped out and threw away the old carpet... um, I needed that as a pattern to cut the new carpet!

You only have to look at older posts here with missing photos. Digital copies can be a problem like that. Magazines cannot just send out a file because people would forward it to their friends, avoiding subscribing and a loss of revenue to the magazine. And the downside is it will eventually go away. Many years ago we did a video at NNL East. We paid a professional guy who did car shows to produce it. We were only charging $10 with hopes of breaking even. First year it was a hit and we broke even. Then it dwindled.. people admitted their club bought one and made a copy for everyone in the club! They’d tell me this like there was nothing wrong! The last year we only sold ten copies. The next year many more than ten people complained that we cancelled it!

Right up there with “Needs restored”.

Sad week! We put NNL East to rest for this year, and several other shows packed it in as well. Just when you thought it was bleak, Kalmbach said, “Hold my beer!” and cancelled Scale Auto! Ive spent time on the phone this week cancelling NNL stuff and taking care of details. The PAL hall cancelled us and we went over our contract for April 2021. I opened up our hotel block for April so people can roll over instead of cancelling.. those with reservations should get a call. It was sad undoing everything for the second time! The dishwasher we bought a month ago was a scheduled for delivery.. they called and said it never came in so they had no idea why it was scheduled.. so we are washing dishes by hand. But on the good side, everyone was great to deal with regarding NNL. (Except for the two loonies who called us mask wearing sheeple). Not a single vendor wanted a refund, all rolling their payments for April. And the job I was supposed to start in March called asking if I’d be interested in starting on August 3rd! Life is a roller coaster!

Facebook has its place.. I keep in touch with what’s going on with family and friends. I banter with my cousins that I otherwise had long lost contact with. I have met relatives in Germany. I had a conversion with one of my model friends in South Africa today. I participate in boards that interest me... my town history, Terry Jessee’s resin board, Dave Darby’s model car survivor board and our on NNL East Friends board. I also belong to boards for my high school graduating class and one from the military post I lived on in Germany as a kid. It’s put me in touch and regular contact with people I never thought I’d know again. You don’t have to look at it even see objectionable content. There are settings that either delete or hide people who spew garbage. I’ve hidden all the lunatics who forward anti government stuff all day long. People who say they will never go on Facebook without any experience on it, have no idea what they are missing!

For people like me in New Jersey the Ertl ag diecast wasn’t interesting because I had no experience with the real thing. Years ago I worked for a company with a plant in Evansville Indiana. When you fly there from Chicago, the flight is over nothing but farmland! I went into Walmart there and they had a full aisle of this stuff up near the cash registers! A regional thing for sure!

Very interesting and imaginative!

Pooh.. no pants!

Cool! That’s why I posted!

I've been working on Jeepster chassis, fitting the 4 cylinder into the V6 chassis. I did have to move the transmission mount location and redo the motor mounts. Someone on a board, I cannot remember what board, was asking how to mount an engine securely. He was focusing on building motor mounts on a kit that didn’t have any. So I’ll post my method here.. See above Photo.. notice the pin sticking up from transmission mount, and the corresponding hole in bottom of transmission. I pin most of my engines in place this way, they glue rock solid and will never move. I like to use straight pins. I also have motor mounts on this one, but they don’t have to carry any load. And here’s how engine and transmission sit in place. Not even glued yet, just sitting as I was fabricating the exhaust to chassis. Notice how exhaust curls around the motor mount and the pin I’ve inserted in it to accept the pipe. I’m trying to get both Jeepsters chassis complete and up on wheels this week.

Or potty jokes

Yea Ron, you certainly feel them up there! I had roof and siding replaced on my house a few years ago.. my advice? Take all the pictures off your walls and contain anything likely to move from vibration. In the end you’ll probably have pop nails and some cracks in walls and ceilings.

Hope things go well for you Alan! I’ve always enjoyed your friendship.

Already covered... this is a fiddly old kit. Not recommended.

Did this ever happen?

Times three!

Bingo! Revell 56 is the best Nomad