Tom Geiger

I think the Evergreen route is better than resin. Castings are not absolutely flat like a plastic sheet is and you can make a few until you get one perfect

Welcome Ray! Yours is a typical story, how many of us got back. Enjoy the board, you will make friends and get help and questions answered to help you along!

Maybe stinky ones

Back in the day a buddy-o-mine had a 68 Biscayne in an awful repaint flattish green. He drove it for awhile, then told me he it was ready to blow! So he junked it. A week later we saw it driving around town... the new owner worked at a local shopping center and we’d see it parked there for years!

Since we are sharing badly wrapped packages, I dug up this photo from more than 10 years ago. It was a manual transmission for my 65 Barracuda... arrived completely wrapped in duct tape! FedEx Ground!

And poor hygiene

I ordered my Revell Land Rover from an outfit in UK. I shows up with a leantoo of cardboard wrapped around it, open on the ends. The very act of wrapping it like that damaged the box. Fortunately the kit was fine. And then you get other stuff triple boxed and prepped to survive a nuclear blast.

I’ve had things like this happen on Facebook... tried to post a response, hit Respond key, nothing happened. Tried it s couple more times.. nothing! So I give up. I go back on Facebook a few hours later to see I’ve responded like six times.. and at that point when I try to delete the extras it won’t let me! Strange

Many engines mount up fairly insecurely so I always drill a hole through the trans mount and through the trans. I secure it in with a length of straight pin glued in place. Rock solid!

A very cool little build. As u said, a kit for the Tamiya domestic market. We’ve never seen this one in person in the USA. But as these cars are getting older and able to come in as exempt antiqued, we are seeing the odd Japanese market cars.

Nerdy model builders

Funny story.. my wife’s brother is not a car guy or even remotely mechanical. We were at their house and the two of us jumped into his older Caravan to go to liquor store. I could hear noise from front left wheel and told him to have it checked out.. probably a wheel bearing. He shrugged and said it had been making that noise a long time. Maybe a year later he’s on the NJ Turnpike in the fast lane when it finally let loose! He was all over the road and came to rest in the left shoulder. There was a lot of damage so he junked it. To this day he will tell you Mopars are awful cars and that his Caravan tried to kill him!

On their faces

Cool! I like it! I had an eye out for one of these for a long time but seems the asking prices went over $100 and I didn’t need it that bad!

I once had a seller ship a 1963 Chrysler convertible built up in a bubble mailer. Crushed windshield and frame of course. Back in the days before PayPal and buyer protection. Seller responded, “You’re a modeler, fix it!” Appropriate feedback left!

I’m an American but I lived in Europe in the late 1960s and bought the Airfix 1/32s. Great little models with as much if not more detail than US 1/25 kits of that era. I never had the Marina but a bunch of the others. I still have the Mercedes SL and Capri.

Wow! Your life must be pretty cheery if this is the worst thing that happened to you!

Except mean ones

http://Vintagetruckmagazine.com of course! It’s a really nice magazine with lots of light commercial project ideas. I’ve subscribed for years!

I had Scale Auto and Vintage Truck Magazines show up in the mail together yesterday.

Another quick walk through my local store.. nothing changed. Same kits, no 67 Chevys. The empty spots all had different kits marked on them.

Nice save George! I kinda like the original Son of Danger. I might have kept it around for giggles if it wasn’t a rare kit

For navigating life

Very nice build. I’ve never been a bike guy but I’m learning a lot from American Pickers. Mike has a passion for very early Indians and Harleys.

I wouldn’t be overly concerned about your license. No sane cop would ticket you under the circumstances. DMV has been closed here in PA as well. I managed to renew a registration through the website.. you just print your new one. Inspection has been suspended through end of July. Shouldn’t be an issue since that’s done by local garages.