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Candy tastes best
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Here’s a pair for ya! I built the green Vicky as my first contest model some 30 years ago. I bought the sedan delivery on eBay. I did as many mods as I could back then. I opened and hinged the doors with doll house hinges. The inner door panels are VW Beetle, the window surrounds are window frames cut from a second Vic body used on the opposite sides. I even had working Deora buckets inside. Paint is Pactra RC colors with clear over it. I even scratch built a baby seat in the back seat. People would smile when they saw it. I did my first tilt nose and added the working trunk from an Anglia. And put a full VW chassis under it. I wanted to be trick and different. It wasn’t well received 30 years ago. People didn’t have open minds back then! It never even placed. I remember one contest judge telling me he disqualified it because “that was disrespectful to Ford”. Times have changed!
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Great collection Alan, you have many more than most of us! Good to seeing you posting. This is an old survivor, probably built from the first issue Vicky back in early 1960s. It’s just classic so I had to have for my old model collection. And a very interesting innovation, a working flip top! The original builder glued the wheel wells to the tires so it is hinged by rear axle! A keeper for sure!
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For eye ? protection
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Hobby Lobby and all other nonessential businesses are closed in Pennsylvania. And in essential businesses there is no shortage of idiots who think they can take the entire family out shopping, so stores are limiting entry to one and two people per family. My grocery store says one person per cart, so my wife went alone yesterday. i was watching the special on CNN last night and they showed a chart how this current quarantine is helping the spread exponentially. Be safe, stay home and build something.
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Wow! The world is surely ending!
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When I was working in Washington last summer the marijuana store was right across the street from my hotel. I watched those coming and going. I stayed in Kirkland... little did we know!
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And spinning room
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I had some projects I thought I’d do someday but stopped and said to myself, “ today is that day!” I always said I’d build a camper so I did it. And I have started to concentrate on finishing old projects that fell into that definition. Just now I’m building a 50 Chevy pickup for a local restaurant that’s been on my wanna do list for at least a year. I do want to do a diorama one of these days. Maybe a period used car lot.
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I’m hearing lawn mowers and noticed landscapers still working in my neighborhood here in Pennsylvania. My own consulting work dried up at the end of year and I had some great prospects, thought I was maybe a week away from starting a new project when this all hit. And it’s come to a screeching halt.
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Reworking Door Panels.
Tom Geiger replied to StevenGuthmiller's topic in Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials
NIce! I have a 64 Valiant that I have cut apart the interior bucket and am in the process... actually staring at it from time to time, converting 71 Duster side panels to match the Valiant upholstery. -
Biggest pet peeves on builds.
Tom Geiger replied to LL3 Model Worx's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
I drill off the kit provided mounting pins, drill the parts and use straight pins to assemble nearly everything. And as mentioned, prefitting and sanding mount surfaces flat helps a great deal. -
I haven’t been out enough to see if there are any road projects going on in Pennsylvania. I did notice the big apartment building project up on the highway has come to a halt.
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Squatters in my paint booth
Tom Geiger replied to Ironman63's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
Cool, take pictures as they grow! We had robins nest on an upstairs window ledge one year and we could observe through the glass. I took photos daily. Note that the parents need access to feed them. Fledglings will eventually hop out of the nest and find ground cover before they can fly -
They say the menu will change weekly so I’ll watch. In fact both of my favorite restaurants are on limited menu that doesn’t include my favorites! Oh well, we are saving a fortune on restaurants lately!
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My wife went to the supermarket and FORGOT to look for my Little Debbies ?
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"Bring Out Your Dead" Completion Build--ROUND 2 Is On!
Tom Geiger replied to Snake45's topic in WIP: Model Cars
Good idea! That will be a lifetime supply of putty if I remember the size of that tube correctly! I may be headed to Wally for prescriptions tomorrow.