Tom Geiger

It’s really cool that you finished it for your brother. Very nice custom! That’s a superb build for the era! I collect old custom builds from the 1960s. Some need restoration and others that were never completed need finishing. I just see them as the folk art of our youth

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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!

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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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.

Wow! The world is surely ending!

Thanks! The bus was built to showcase the NNL East decals. I wanted to do something different for the nose.

Today’s progress on my Corona project... We are up on wheels and engine is glued to chassis. Still playing with weathering and little details. We are at the stage of the project where we “do one thing, wait for it to dry”.

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!

And spinning room

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.

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.

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.

The Christmas Tree truck has five lug wheels. Someone only pointed it out way after it was completed. i was fortunate that this one has Baby Moons! And this one doesn’t really matter!

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.

Road trip! But not right now! ? Scratch building dream! It’s all straight panels!

No worries, happy to help. I wish someone told me before I finished two trucks! You can find six lug wheels in the AMT 37 Chevy, 50 Chevy pickup, 57 Black Widow and no doubt a few more kits. Aftermarket also makes them.

Cool 41! I may put mine in my queue! I’m working on my 50 Chevy pickup truck daily. Yesterday afternoon I weathered the chassis and hood. I put the decals on the doors, added setting solution and put the body aside overnight. I should be able to assemble chassis and weather the body and bed today.

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!

I like it!

My wife went to the supermarket and FORGOT to look for my Little Debbies ?

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.