Tom Geiger

I love this story!

5 gallon bucket!

I’ve been reading this and started to reply a few times.. Craftsmanship is a way of life, a personal trait that not all people possess. If it’s in you, you try your best at everything you do, even when not required, because you do it to satisfy the voice inside yourself. I know a guy who is a lazy worker. He complains that he has to go to work, and will do anything to get out of work and takes shortcuts. And it carries through in his modeling. He ignored all the very basics of kit prep and clean up. Make a suggestion and he’ll roll his eyes that it’s too much work and nobody will notice anyway. His models look like something we built as teenagers. But he wants kudos! He doesn’t win awards and complains about it. He doesn’t see his lack of craftsmanship, only that contests are too critical and that you shouldn’t have to wire engines if you don’t want to! No matter how you explain it to him, he’ll never get it. It’s just not in his make up.

As I lived in Germany from 1969-1972 I collected those Airfix 1/32s. I have both the Capri and Mercedes, need rebuilding without boxes. I have the Dennis Fire Engine and both versions of the Double Decker Bus. I have a Ford Model T bag kit and a few more. Here in the USA when I got restarted in this hobby as an adult, I’d find them at shows for $5 and $10. Americans didn’t want them. That ended when eBay came about and Europeans could buy them.

It’s the bubbles

Love the color and paint work! I have a few of these purchased for the flatty sixes, I should actually build one!

I always wonder! These old relics would have a story to tell if they could talk! Who built them? Were they in a hobby shop contest? How did they survive all these years? Some folks would toss them or use them for parts but I find it important to preserve them as a time capsule of where the hobby was in the early days!

Another victim of spellcheck on the iPhone! I stained the friggin deck! Second coat goes on today, then the contrasting trim gets painted!

Ah! I remember those little Couriers well. I worked for a large home builder and I was in charge of the fleet, mostly executive cars, but I bought a couple of these Couriers for the customer service department. They were bullet proof

And a bar

I’m pleased that I got the main level of my deck restrained between yesterday and today.

Instead of building

The more you look at a model... The original Jeepster came with a V8 drag option that had fender well headers. The body had the cut outs, and if building it stock you had to glue a portion of the inner fenders in. This separation line looked natural until I was studying an engine photo and realized it was all one piece. I tried out the automotive red glazing putty. It went on smooth and easy, dried overnight and sanded quickly, leaving a perfectly flat fender. I primed both vehicles engine bays again and it’s perfect!

Neat! I had to chuckle, my wife would order the chicken salad sandwich!

You’ve been busy! Nice little rod, I’ve been meaning to do something with that chassis!

Very nice work and quick too! I like the quarter window detail!

Those who know me are aware that I collect early custom survivors. In fact several of you have aided and abetted me in the pursuit! Dave Darby has a survivor board on Facebook called “Scale Survivors”. I pulled these photos out to share there so I figured I’d give you guys a peek too. The below two cars are as found, no restoration or mods needed. Just as the original builder created them in the 1962 era. They came from different sources, years apart, so they are not from the same builder. I consider these the folk art of our youth! Oh, if these babies could talk! An original AMT Styleline kit from 1962. It uses the kit’s front and rear treatments. What’s unusual is how well they were molded in by original builder. Monkey was one of several mascots AMT included in kits. Wires were found in several different kits. The thing that makes this car unique is the Kaiser peak on the rear window. Expertly done and still manages to use the kit glass. Builder didn’t do much in the interior other than using the kit supplied interior pattern stickers which have stayed in place better than most. Kit contains the reel to reel tape player and those awful plastic seat belts we all love to hate. The Revell 1962 Lancer done in a unique manner. Custom grille and the dual hood scoops! I believe this is the custom roof from the 1957 Thunderbird kit. It creates a prehistoric Barracuda look, as if Chrysler created that car one generation early! It really works here! Side view paint scheme does make car look longer. What’s spooky to me is how much like my old 1:1 1965 Barracuda this resembles! I had the Mopar 340 dual hood scoops on mine! Hope you guys enjoyed these. A lot of folks don’t get the survivor thing, especially early on when I started collecting these over 20 years ago. There were times I would pull one out of a junk box at a show and the dealer would say something like, “too far gone to restore to stock! Music to my ears!

The world’s worst backdrop! I was drawing ideas to create one and tested it out!

There’s a rule on anudder board not to post any sports results for that reason!

Guys, that’s what Photobucket does to old photos.. not the OPs fault

Exton, Pennsylvania opened on Friday, I went on Saturday. I’d been nursing my favorite glue so I bought some. Also bought two Testors Extreme spray cans in greens to test for my Jeepster project. Kit shelves were “optimistically full”. That means they fill the holes by moving stuff around and some kits were only one deep. There was nothing there new or exciting so I only got the supplies. Using my coupon I got out of there for $13.

I’ve done a lot of major home renovations including complete gut jobs and a two story addition to our old house in New Jersey. Below are photos I had handy of a rental house we recently sold. It was originally our first home 35 years ago. We lived there for 5 years, then rented to same tenant for 25. When she moved on, I gutted the whole place and added a second floor master suite so my daughters could live there. Living room gutted Living room finished Bedroom gutted Bedroom finished

A while back I had two Verizon techs in my den fixing my router. They were admiring my model display case and thought it was all diecast!

minded numpty idiots

Tasty Midwest buggers!