Tom Geiger
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I just had to chuckle today!
Here we have Revell giving us a really nice new kit... and we're all complaining about the box! ?
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Oh whata relief...
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Very cool! And for the family history, there's nothing more Canadian as a hockey stick maker!
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37 minutes ago, cowboy rich said:
Roger that!! if anybody needs a 1/4 acre in Deming New Mexico let me know! Really please.
and those jokes about selling me a bridge.... no thanks I already own one. Really!
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On 11/25/2019 at 10:52 AM, LL3 Model Worx said:
Honestly, I think I've only met 1 other builder...(that I know of) and it was a very brief interaction... as I was buying a large quantity of paint from him through Craigslist.
But, I get your point and hope that one day I too have a rolodex of friends in the hobby.
Welcome Bo!
And you soon will! If indeed you treat people well and participate sincerely, there is nothing the folks on this board won't do for you!
And if you haven't figured it out yet, many of us know each other a long time. Some in person, some just on-line friends forever. For instance right in this thread I know Tom Woodruff and saw him about a month ago at the Toledo NNL. Rich Manson and I have been friends for (gulp!) decades! I now see him at least once a year. While at Toledo I met a few guys I've known on-line for many years, we just hadn't met in person, but now we have!
So participate on the board. Post your questions, ideas and opinions. Become part of the community. We're happy to have you!
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10 minutes ago, slusher said:
I agree wait a while and resell it. I think all of us have made mistakes on eBay brother....
yea, early on I paid $20 for a kit instruction sheet thinking I was getting the entire kit! ?
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Mine showed up today! Philadelphia 'burbs zip 19341. Kinda funny that people on other planets got theirs before me and I live in a major population area!
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With Ron buying the Granada on eBay, I thought I'd start a thread to identify the series. Note that Lindberg did a bunch of then contemporary cars that hadn't been done in any scale. Some of them remain unique. I've been collecting these, as I see them cheap at shows. I don't care if I have a particular one when I see it for $5 or $10, I just grab it. Anyway, here's some of what I own...
Chevy Monte Carlo, Buick Century and Pontiac Grand Prix
Mercedes SL and Datsun Z
Ford Granada
Olds Omega
Chevy Monza
The El Camino
I also have the Chrysler Cordoba, Dodge Charger (same body style as Cordoba), and maybe another one or two. I can't put my hand on those ones right now, and they are all unbuilt in their boxes.
A pair of Corvettes. I'm not sure what the hardtop is, it has no makers markings on it. The Convertible with the interior built into the body was a later Lindberg series that had poorer detail. I remember these being in stores for a dollar each maybe early 1990s.
Here's the Cougar from that series.
Ford Torino
The Thunderbird.
There was also a Gremlin, maybe more...
So dispute anything I've written if I'm wrong. Add any photos of cars you own or any information you may have. Let's crowd source some info on this series!
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On 11/13/2019 at 8:21 AM, randyc said:
I remember cereal premiums. One of them was like a 69 Mustang or something. I cherished that car enough to remember something about it now. And wanting to get all four colors. And having to either dive an arm in the box or dump it all in to a big bowl to get the car as soon as we got home with the cereal. I was fine with the arm. Adults were not as keen on that idea.
My mother expected me to eat the cereal level down in the box until the car appeared! I didn't have the patience for that. First time she turned her back, my arm went in the box!
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I will be watching. I always loved the shape of the Europa, probably due to my early association with the Matchbox car.
I did work with a guy who was into British sports cars and upon showing me a photo of his garage with two lifts in it, I spied a Europa up on top. He was impressed that I could identify the cars in his photo, but said he no longer had the Lotus. He wasn't a fan. He said there was always something going wrong with it, it was difficult to see out of and always hot inside as the air flow was poor. But at least it's pretty!
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On 11/27/2019 at 8:10 PM, Dragonhawk1066 said:
We make fun of all of these Coca Cola based kits, myself included, but in reality they're actually a pretty good deal considering most of them come with the extras like the vending machine in this one. I think I am going to have to start picking some of these up for the extras.
There are probably more Coke collectors than model car collectors. Tom Lowe is very tuned to his markets. I have no problem with Coke collectors financing kits for us!
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There was a company that advertised in that Sunday newspaper insert magazine. They had a name that ended with "Mint", but were just a mail order retailer. Everything they had in their ad and catalog was made by someone else.
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many years ago we had a guy in our club who worked in a hospital. He brought many surgical blade number 11s and shared them with our members. They were sterile and individually wrapped. I remember thinking at the time that these were probably $20 blades!
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So you may ask, "How did the Christmas ornament presentation go?" Well, it didn't. My wife just put them in a bag of other things my daughter needed to bring home. They left the Thanksgiving celebration right after dinner because one of the babies went ballistic and wouldn't settle down. Five minutes into the ride home she was sleeping. Anyway, my daughter saw them once she got home so I never got to see her reaction.
We slept over at my wife's sister's house, so this morning we got up and ate breakfast with them. Then we left and drove the hour south to my daughter's house to babysit the three grand daughters so their parents could go shopping. My daughter did open them up last evening, when she got home. She said she couldn't figure out how I got the names onto the ornament, especially as small as they were, as it looked like it came that way. I explained how it was done and she was impressed. Mission accomplished.
And I got to spend Black Friday with infants on my lap all afternoon! A great day!
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9 hours ago, Snake45 said:
Very nice! Ya done good!
I use my model-fu skills on non-models all the time. For example, The Lovely Mrs. Snake will sometimes bring me some little tchotchke like a figurine or something of a friend or relative that's broken. I'm able to superglue or epoxy it back together, and with my huge stash of both car and military paints, can usually come very close to matching any colors necessary for touchup.
I put the head back on a Precious Moment tchotchke a few weeks ago. Thick CA and Dullcote did the job with no evidence of repair!
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33 minutes ago, LL3 Model Worx said:
If I have to strip and repaint I'm gonna be a very unhappy camper, as it was a very difficult color/sequence to obtain, and me (like a dummy) didnt write any of it down!!
Oh I know that feeling! Sometimes when I open an unfinished project I cannot identify the paint I used or remember just where I was with the build. I might as well as started with someone elses old project!
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I have the Trabbie out of the box and on the bench. I have putty drying around the head light surrounds as the gap was too wide. I’ll have to sand it flush and then scribe in a suitable gap.
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Shop4megastore.com is where I bought mine. Thin cardboard diaper wrapped around box.
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I had one of the first Fox cars, ours was. 1978 Capri RS, red with V8, air, TRX package and Ghia interior. Paid $6500 for it, using my wife’s 1974 Mustang II V6 as trade in.
The Capri suffered from new car intro defects and the usual poor quality of that era. Traded it in as soon as the 3 year loan was paid!
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And mean children
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Cool! I have a Sandpiper squirreled away in my dune buggy collection. It is a clunky thing, with bad early 1960s molding and all. But it's part of our history!
Many years ago I bought an eBay auction for two Sandpiper rebuilders. I saw it towards the end and it was cheap so I bid quickly without looking too closely. What comes in the mail? Two Surf Woodies! And that was right after the reissue and eventual blow out sale at $5-10 each so I didn't want them. I messaged the seller, who saw his error and refunded my money. He told me to keep them, so they are somewhere in my hoard!
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Sorry to hear Alan! Get better!
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Michael, we've never had a model disappear from the show table at NNL East. We have over 30 uniformed staff members patrolling the building in their lime green shirts so we are very visible. We also have two uniformed police officers, and two plain clothes officers in the building. We have several EMS people (two on our staff and at least one of the police officers) just in case we have a medical emergency.
We do get models left behind. Usually someone calls in a panic within the next day. Occasionally someone calls and accuses us of stealing their model. I ask if it's the red Corvette, and I tell them we have it and are holding it for them. Same with bags of purchases. At least one a year. Our vendors are very honest and always turn those in to us.
That said I do have one very nice Corvette that was left behind at least a decade ago. And a bag of ancient goodies left behind a few years ago. Neither was every claimed but I have them set aside just the same. We are always pleased to reunite people with their stuff.
In Dave's situation, he was a vendor in the room that is a Bingo hall. We do have the room rented until 4pm, and Bingo starts at 7pm. Still around 3pm ladies start showing up for Bingo! And as our vendors pack up, the hall's team of teenagers come in and set the room up for Bingo. Dave admits that the vendor next to him had already left, and he believes he placed the box on that table for safe keeping and forgot it. Unfortunately he did not realize he left it behind until he got home. He called both me and the hall, and then I spoke with the hall manager. The dumpster had been emptied by then, otherwise I would have driven there and taken a dive myself. I did send an email to all the vendors in that room, and nobody had the box.
I believe that in the haste to get the hall converted to Bingo, the teenagers must've considered the box trash and tossed it out. Note that vendors do leave behind a lot of empty boxes and other trash, so that makes sense. Especially since the box contents, which are unique, has not shown up. It's a small world today and if they were seen on eBay or for sale at a show, someone would've identified them.
Note that I always wait until after everyone has left the building and do one final walk through. Every year there is at least one model, a jacket or other things. One year we did have a vendor leave behind a case of kits. I take them home and wait for the calls. That year there were no boxes left behind. We're sorry that this did happen to Dave, as he is a friend of mine and NNL East. We hope that he does reconsider and come back to the show.
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10 hours ago, 59 Buick said:
Sounds like a great show Tom, please post pictures if you are going.
https://public.fotki.com/tssmcc/nnl-east-photo-albums/
Hey Martin- Here's the official photo albums for the past years!
You are invited! Distance is no excuse, we've had a number of Aussies come over the years including our own Alan Barton!
Finally, Sanctuary!
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If you really want to dive in head first, you are invited to attend NNL East in the spring. Yea, it's in New Jersey but it's the best place to fully absorb everything in the hobby and meet everyone. Check it out at the link in my signature!