Tom Geiger

Very nice truck! A build after my own heart!

Cool!

I’m not a cereal person, heck I usually just have coffee for breakfast. As a kid I ate whatever cereal had the best prize inside. Back then I lived on a US Army post in Europe. You know how the expiration date is like two years in the future? Well that’s about when we’d get it by slow ship! It often was stale and not too appetizing. Maybe that’s what turned me off to cereal for life

The thing I don’t like about a lot of kits is that the seats sit flat against the floor. In real life seats sit up on rail mounts and you can reach under them. Where it matters I will often add plastic scrap or strips in the underside hollow of the seat to build a wide flat mount to glue the seat to the floor. Best to have it raised a bit to give that appearance of that you could reach under it, even if I need to trim the seat bottom edges a bit to allow for the gap

Liquor stores closed

I’ve been participating in the Isolation 500 group build this weekend on Facebook. Decided to build a 1950 Chevy pickup from three parts kits I bought cheap somewhere a while back. One of our favorite restaurants has this wall art which is my inspiration for the build.

I have the T-Bone stake truck in that box. I bought it at a show maybe 15 years ago.

People may not remember but the Fireball 500, HEMI Under Glass and Little Red Wagon we’re Holy Grail class kits back in the early 1980s. I remember seeing them offered at shows upward of $200 each. Then the tooling was found and all three appeared. I was pleased because I was able to buy all three for less than I almost bought one of them for!

Just some city folk doing what they knew!

Of hard plywood

Ah! You jarred my foggy memory! The tail lights you need have the ribs on them. The last Scrambler version had flat ones. Back when that kit was still current I came into a beat up 66 American promo that I was going to build some silly pro street rod from, my friend John Slivoski needed the ribbed tail lights to restore a car. It didn’t matter much to my project so I traded them to him for the flat ones he had.

I built mine back when the kit first reappeared. Prior to that it was a multi-hundred dollar kit. So I bought one and got a thrill at digging into it. This was before all the chrome choices we have today. I stripped it all, cleaned up all the mess and used Testors Metalizers.

Cool! I built one a while back and found it fiddly, with seams and ejector pin marks on much of the delicate chrome chassis bits. Your impression?

I’m participating in the Isolation 500 build on Facebook. I’m building an AMT 1950 Chevy pickup from three parts kits. Just for fun. The build started at 6pm today and runs through Monday noon, or whenever you finish. One can start a new build or work on an existing project. Very loose, the whole idea is to have fun and some camaraderie while we are stuck at home.

I have this Polystill 1/25 scale one. I’ve had it for years. What brand are yours? They look nicer than mine.

First I would put the body in water overnight to see if the decals float free. And if your stars are all aligned, it would be too good to be true if the etched emblems were affixed with water soluble glue. Ive used the aircraft stripper from Home Depot to strip paint from a diecast, taking it to bare metal. That would certainly get the photo etch off since it’s on top of the paint, and shouldn’t affect them since they are metal. If you decide to scuff and paint, with emblems in place, maybe you can polish them out like the BMF emblems under paint trick?

Since we are fixated on trees.. Many years ago we rented a house at a lake community in the Pennsylvania Pocono Mountains. All the houses were woodsy looking with brown stained wood exteriors, A frames and chalet styles that all fit nicely into the wooded environment. We wanted to go to the community pool so we started driving down the main winding road and we stopped to ask walkers where the pool was. “Keep going until you see a blue house, then turn left at the next corner”. We kept driving and it was a bit so we thought we missed the turn. All the houses had natural brown siding so I’m looking for anything blue.. a door or shutters. We ask more walkers and they said the same thing. I questioned and they said, “You cannot miss the blue house!” We drove a bit more and suddenly there was a big break in the tree cover. And there was the blue house! It was a huge city style 3 story house. It had bright blue aluminum siding. It also had security bars on all the windows. The entire lot had been mowed clean of anything living and was all white crushed stone. It was all surrounded by tall chain link fence, with a driveway gate that had a lock on it. The front yard had a couple religious statues and the car in the driveway had New York plates on it. No doubt their little slice of vacation heaven! Most communities have architectural design standards. Our HOA has to approve any additions and changes. When we put the black metal fence around our pool, replacing the rotted wood one. I had to send in a form, and it was approved in a few days.

That goes for any food item. When I was young I worked in a sub/hoagie shop. I loved subs but soon enough got sick of them. I couldn’t get the smell of vinegar off my hands. My work t-shirts smelled that way fresh from the wash. I couldn’t even look at a sub for years after that !

Back in the day there was an article about putting a Beetle roof onto a VW bus. Anyone else remember?

On Facebook John Papp started the “Isolation 500” build for this weekend! Go to Facebook and sign up. I will be building a 1950 Chevy pickup from three parts kits. Just organizing this on my bench improved my mental being a bit! The premise of the build is to start with an existing or new project on Friday at 6pm and finish it by noon on Monday. No pressure, build at your own pace, finish whenever, even after deadline. Report progress in the group as you go.

Gorgeous! Everyone’s retirement dream, including the 57! I’m 61 and hoping to retire in another 5 years. And hoping that the current pandemic doesn’t affect my plans

To simulate marmalade

Cool Kurt! You are in a roll for sure!

Ordered orange paint

Hey, when we went shopping on Monday the meat aisle was full, but Little Debbie was completely sold out! I would love to have one every morning with my coffee! Anf the constant commercials from Friday’s to order their ribs had me Jonesing for ribs now!