Tom Geiger

We’ve all done it! Remember it’s not how you screwed it up, it’s how you recover that makes you a modeler! Yes, here I was repainting the roof!

Hey Scott! I remember that book. When I was in seventh grade I was getting off the school bus and saw it just sitting on an empty seat. I grabbed it, took it home and read it over the weekend. I did have the evil thought that I could keep it, but being the little guy I was, I would have felt too guilty! So I took it back to the school library on Monday.

My tube of Tamiya putty has gone hard and every project I can think of needs putty! It’s always something

I’ll be in again, God knows I have unfinished projects! I’ll have to find something I can work on with supplies I have on hand. I used the last of my putty on my 1960 Chevy pickup frame! BTW, the title of this build may not be that funny in the upcoming weeks ?

My father was a Studebaker guy so many years ago I bought a 1963 Lark like the one we had when I was little. The Studebaker Drivers Club is a great organization, I was a member for years and enjoyed their magazine, especially the reports on rare prototypes they found and restored for the museum. Id love to scratch built a Zip Van if I can find one to measure someday.

Great work! Looks like you are ready to kick it off the bench!

Don’t expect much

Today I got the interior finished for the 1950 Chevy pickup. Next up is weathering and rust

Be aware that Chevy trucks in this era had six lug wheels. I put five lug wheels on my first 55 and got yelled at!

How about a good news, bad news? Good news is that my favorite pub, that has been closed for two weeks, is now open for pickup! Bad news is that they have a limited menu that doesn’t have the items I am Jonesing for! Argh!

If I go to Hobby Lobby and I do not find anything to buy I will grab a spray can of Dullcote, Decal Fixative or Flat Black to get with the 40 percent off coupon so the trip wasn’t an entire waste!

My work bench right now. It is built upon a hollow core door wrapped in brown shipping paper. My work surfaces are an old pink and yellow board that has holes drilled in it to allow things to sit flat. I can also drill into it as needed. On top of that is a thick piece of glass that started life as the top of a Xerox machine. That helps when I need a flat hard surface, and I will clean it if paint and glue with a single edge razor blade. i like light so I have five lights all on one switch. At the back of the bench, left corner is a small plastic drawer unit I keep my 1x1 sand paper squares by grit. Each drawer has a center divider to hold two types. The right back corner has two 50 drawer units where I keep small items. The shelves over the bench hold unfinished projects so they don’t get tucked away and forgotten.

That’s great as a buyer! Stalking for clueless sellers who listed that 1969 Impala kit for $10. ?

Depends on what you are selling. I’d always go the auction route with rare old kits. You can start them low and let the bidding fly. With typically cheap kits, it may be best to do a Buy It Now at a reasonable price. Those kits that typically sell for $10-20 each, I’d put up a bunch of them at the same time for say $18 each. Then offer reduced shipping for multiple purchases. Figure out your typical postage charge like $10 for one kit $15 for two and no extra charge for multiples over that. It saves you on the packing and sending kits to multiple buyers. And it could be the difference between you and another seller. I am wondering though how the current situation is affecting eBay sales. Are people still buying or saving their money during this uncertainty? And even, can you ship? My local Nextdoor town email chain says my local post office is closed.

Best wishes and prayers to you and your family Vince. You should be fine in the end!

My father was military and the US Army was a seat belt culture in the 1960s so from the time I remember all our cars had belts and we used them. And I carried on in life that way right up to today. As far as belts in models I usually put them in unless they are early cars, 1950s and earlier, modeled in their period. I try to make them fit the personality of the build. Here is the seat from my Volare messenger car. Belts are messy and random. And as said in this thread I didn’t do the end that would be on a retractor. Here’s a street rod I did with Model Car Garage photo etch buckles. Neatly placed, no retractors. Note that I add thickness to the buckle, a peeve of mine is those that don’t and the buckle just looks like a wafer!

I have one of these 1960 pickups staring at me from the shelf over my work bench. I had been asking around about a better chassis too. A friend of mine suggested the 1956 chassis but I had several parts kits if the 1953 kit. I told him I didn’t have one of the 56 kits. Wouldn’t ya know I went down to the model vault in my basement to look for a 1950 Chevy pickup and found half a case of 56s!

Let people sleep

Nice work. It’s a trend now a days to restore the vehicle and maintain the patina. I’m work on a 1950 Chevy pickup like that right now.

Cool. I have meant to scratch build one of those mason boxes for years, so I guess that procrastination wins again. I’ll have to get one. I will be watching your project!

Today I wired the Chevy six for my 1950 pickup. I also have all the engine accessories painted, drilled and pins glued into the receiving spots. I also made some decals for it.

That’s what got me back in the swing! I’m putting in a few hours a day on that one and find it helps my attitude. Still I could kill to sit at my favorite pub with an order of wings.

Sorry to say I won’t be finished. I ran out of the semigloss clear I needed for the final finish. That and other things.. first planning for NNL East, then worrying about have to cancel, then actually cancelling and setting the whole thing up again for September. Then the Coronavirus concerns all kept me out of the model room.

From spinning fast

With Modelhaus gone the eBay parts guys provide a vital service. They are not making a lot of money once you consider the work and fees. By the time they’ve photographed the item, wrote the description, packed and shipped it, I’ll bet they have an hour invested. Then think about the PayPal and eBay fees, including fees on unsold items and it all adds up.