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Tom Geiger

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  1. Cool project! But as the former owner of a 1963 Lark, that must be an Arizona car! It would be easier to tell you where there wasn’t rust!
  2. Yes! Million dollars batches of biologicals are transported between facilities that process different stages of the manufacturing. What you don’t see are the stability controls and monitors on the product. Yea, I have many years in Pharma and those trucks were a familiar sight
  3. And when it swings the other way they are selling gas for less than they paid for it! Kinda averages out. My family owned a station.
  4. That’s insane! Looking forward to seeing it in person!
  5. Thanks Bill for the kind comments regarding NNL East! I’ve often said this hobby is just an excuse to have lunch with friends. I’m very good at lunch!
  6. There are LEGO sets up into the hundreds of dollars, so kids not building models is just a choice. Most of us could build from our stashes for years, only spending money on supplies like glue and paint. In my own building I’ve noticed I am creating things lately from cheap parts kits, stuff in my junk box and broken old built ups. Hardly costly!
  7. My grandmother would say, “You kids would complain if you were first on the bread line!” And it was lost on us post depression kids in the 1960s
  8. People don’t understand how tooling actually works, so they simplify it down as if they were kit bashing... the ole “it’s so simple, just take the roof off kit A and add the engine top end from kit B!” They have no idea how those parts sit on trees, or how those blocks fit into a tool to work with plastic flow and ejector pins. How much room is there in the confines of a tool? And I’m sure I’ve over simplified that. And that’s why there are engineers!
  9. If you want to see where 99 percent of the kits go, check out Model boards on Facebook. Threads with 100 responses defending not painting models at all or that brush painting bodies is good enough.
  10. This is the best option in the thread. Note that the Falcon and the Ranchero were different tools and I’ve found differences in them. The wheel wells from Ranchero would probably work on Falcon
  11. The best rendition of the slant six in a kit!
  12. They can place those in every Walmart and Target in the country! Follow the money!
  13. Happy to see you back on cars! Great GTO there!
  14. I remember reading that the average person sticks with the hobby about 18 months. (Note- we are not average). So if they reissue kits every 2-3 years they are all new to the current herd if consumers.
  15. Kurt, My own solution for the spots I wet sand to bare plastic. I use my earth tone chalks.. I sand for some chalk dust, wet with a dab of Dullcote and paint with it. Not only does it look like the natural high spot worn to bare metal and rusted, but it gets some texture too
  16. I was in touch with Tom Valenta, a good friend of Rich's this morning. He says... Rich is doing well, talked to him yesterday. May be going home by weeks end. Not as much pain as he was told or expected which is good. 10 10-12 weeks, 100% recovery expected. Good spirits. All his numbers are excellent. Let everyone know he will be back soon and he is doing awesome! (for those who may not know, Rich had heart surgery)
  17. Rich Manson is doing well after his surgery! His friend Tom Valenta says he should be home by week's end!
  18. And it continues! I learned last week that Hobbymasters in Red Bank NJ closes this month. Owners retiring and a developer bought all the buildings on that block and is putting up condos.
  19. I know what you mean! In the car dealer software they buy or subscribe to, the box pops up with a photo of an attractive young lady asking if you need assistance. That box pops up and floats across the frigggen screen like once a minute. Getting rid of it reminded me of shooting down the flying saucer on Space Invaders!
  20. I dunno. I remember driving my 50s and 60s cars and they felt like Scotty was running the Enterprise at warp speed at 75. And I think about that on the Turnpike as I pass some old classic lumbering along in the slow lane. Cars today are so much more refined and comfortable, just as 50 years of progress should be, and I’ll take it. A few Saturdays ago I was cruising along just chatting with my wife on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey in my little Hyundai Elantra and got pulled over for going 86 without even noticing! The trooper was cool and let me go!
  21. Instead of complaining that there are 60 year old molds, we should be grateful that against all odds and corporate changes this tooling still exists! just think about how few kits we’d have to choose from today if all the legacy companies had efficiently scrapped tooling when they were done with it!
  22. There were three versions of the diecast and the real car. On the left is the Pontiac, center is the Saturn Sky and up front is the Opel GT which was sold in Europe. It marked the first and only time an Opel was made in the USA!
  23. Those old AMT Corvettes and Geo Storm promos are so plentiful that I see them at east coast shows for $5 and $10 each, with no buyers!
  24. Exactly why I take a lot of bench top photos of my builds as I work. It's best to see these things while you can still correct them!
  25. I use those for red and yellow lenses. I tried using a black one for panel lines and discovered that Sharpies will run when covered with lacquer clear. Beware
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