Tom Geiger

Great! Let me know how it performs with cans. I’d been procrastinating buying one

The same way the eBay algorithm takes a search for "Chrysler 300" and sends you junk for "300 CDs"

Didntja respond to the post about the toy Glock yesterday?

Welcome! We are a congenial group here and there’s always room for one more model fanatic!

Cool. Nothing like a great pickup build! And now that you are back on the horse, stay on it!

Folks, I’d rather hobby stores be closed a while more to keep everyone safe and curtail the spread of Covidvirus. I’m not that far from the very infected NYC / NJ area and I credit that the virus hasn’t spread far into Chester County PA here to the quarantine. Note that Germany opened up, had a reoccurrence. Rather be safe than sorry. In the end hobby supplies really don’t matter. And for the record, I’m not getting paid during the crisis.

Sitting on toilet

We’ll need a full review! Are you going to use it for air brush or rattle can? I primarily use cans and am concerned about clogging it and going threw filters like crazy

Very interesting conversion!

But nicely weathered

Hey Frank! Welcome! Can Marty be far behind?

Interesting! I never saw a problem with used police car value. In New Jersey these heavy duty sedans were sought after by taxi fleets. A police Vic with 100,000 miles on it still had a few hundred thousand miles of taxi service left in it. In fact there was one shop that did nothing but paint old black and whites taxi yellow. On one side of the building were all police cars and all taxis on the other. We did see the quest for resale value with New Jersey state cars. They were originally institutional colors with state seals on the doors. Cheap fleet strippers that no resale customer would want. I remember one used car lot that had a whole row of 1973 Valiants in an awful yellow with green interiors with the state seal hastily scraped off the doors. The state went to small American sedans like Dodge Aries and Chevy Cavaliers outfitted like rental cars in an array of normal colors. They moved the state seal and “For Official Use Only” to on the rear door glass, which was easily removed without harm for resale. NJ also had a reputation for maintaining their vehicles well and the engines got steam cleaned at every service. My father and I went to a few state auctions and were amazed at the prices they sold for. Later on the state, counties and towns were feeling budget crunches and kept cars in service longer. Instead of buying new cars for employee use, they’d reuse used police cars for less critical roles. In my last NJ town the building inspector pulled up in an old Crown Vic. Gone were the days of changing out cars on a quick schedule. Back in the years of waste and excess my father was an army officer and his staff car was changed out every two years. I remember having a 1968 AMC Ambassador and having it replaced with a new 1970 Falcon, which was the fleet low end Torino. My father complained that this was wasteful since the AMC was only used on post and had less than 10,000 miles on it. These were miserable strippers in army green. Lord knows what the US Army did with these in Germany! They couldn’t dump them on the local market, but the cars just disappeared. They probably crushed them. And as wasteful as the government was, they probably shipped them back to the USA and then crushed them

Retrieved from poop

Ya know.. with all that’s going on and trying to hold it together, stuff still happens! With the major winds yesterday I had a huge tree come down. I live halfway down a major hill and when we have winds over the mountain, the air at ground level can be still, with the wind roaring by higher than the trees. And times it dips down with bad results. We lost a huge cherry tree at the back of the property. Didn’t even notice. Last time I looked out yesterday all the neighborhood deer were huddled under the bushes right there as they often do. This morning my wife gets an email from our back door neighbor that we lost a tree! Crud! This is the second time this has happened, nailing the nice fence both times! I am putting a notice out on the town board offering free cherry wood for anyone who wants to cut it up. We will see how that goes! And it’s all Ron’s fault for all the tree talk! ?

Hitting your head

I’ve had this dream that a lion is stalking me. I see it coming down a city street roaring and I’m hiding in a doorway. As it gets closer, I’m planning on going inside the door and slamming it shut.... and then I freeze and can’t move! That’s when I wake up abruptly and find my wife is snoring loudly like a trucker! Seriously!

You just did! ?

Nearly everything in this camper is scratch built. Per my earlier statement on shapes, the furniture is nothing more than a series of boxes made from basswood. The drawers and doors are just an extra piece of same basswood laminated on with carpenters glue. The countertop is Evergreen sheet, I don’t think it’s even painted. The sink came from the shape box.. I believe it was once half a truck fuel tank. The blue TV came out of the Dodge van kit and was modified into a microwave. The bed is just a few pieces of same basswood glued together for the thickness needed for a mattress, which was then wrapped in a white tissue with white glue. Pillow is also just a glued wad of same tissue. The blanket is a paper towel that was spray painted. Now the illusion.. the flooring and Welcome mat were printed from a dollhouse miniatures website. The shoe was on a broken figure in the shape box. He was already missing both arms and the other leg! On the busy counter top.. I made the sink faucet from wire. The coffee maker was measured off my real one and is all from bits of Evergreen plastic. I toss all the tiny scraps into a box, they come in handy for things like this. The controls are a paper label of some piece of equipment from that doll house website. You don’t need the exact controls for a coffee maker to create the illusion. The coffee pot was an issue, I couldn’t find a clear hollow cylinder until we were out to dinner and a straw showed up in a drink! Shapes are where you find them! The top was an odd round shape in the shape box. The handle is half a large staple. The vodka bottle came from the MPC 28 Lincoln kit and the can is a short length of sprue. I made the labels and magazines in my printer. The cabinet knobs are model ship builders brass nails. Just buy stuff and you will find a use for it! Dont overlook military model supplies. The plates are from an aftermarket mess kit. Even though most of their stuff is 1/35 scale, I went through and found pieces that fit my scene. The coffee cup is from the set, the character is a decal I found in a parts bag I once bought and saved for such an occasion. Silverware is Detail Master photo etch from one of their Misc Junk sets. The left over food on the plate is a Squadron Green Putty blob I found on the work bench. In the end nothing needs to be absolutely perfect as viewers will see this through windows from a distance. Again create the illusion and the viewer will complete the thought in their mind! I did this post to illustrate how something can come together from various parts sources and some imagination. The construction is very basic, nothing the average builder on this board wouldn’t be able to do.

And now Testors is owned by Rustoleum who has been cutting back the line. Makes sense to me, they can use the same plant and equipment to produce the larger Rustoleum cans that they can place in every Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Lowe’s... you get it.

Nice work on a great kit!

Monster to eat

Yes! This is part of the series of early Fords Monogram started in early 1960s. One of my favorite series, I’ve built five of them in the past few years and have hoarded many more!

Ya know guys, we have a worldwide situation going on and the rules change daily. It’s no biggie if our toy car orders take a while or cannot happen at all. I’m more concerned about the food supply in the coming weeks! Mail delivery has been sporadic in Exton Pennsylvania. We have been getting a daily delivery lately but missed a day here and there the past weeks. The post office was shut down as the virus made its way through the ranks. The post office was closed for a week and now operates on limited hours. My favorite counter clerk died two weeks ago. I spoke to my regular carrier yesterday and he said he was on 14 day quarantine until the other day, and people from other post offices were trying to serve our town. So I’m not complaining about much these days in view of the big pictures

Because Revell only got two versions of the kit out the gate! Things like a hood and side panels may have been planned for future / now shelved versions.

At least it’s probably dry!