Tom Geiger

except fresh roadkill!

Folks, this thread has gone down the slippery slope to the land of poor intent! All we are doing at this point is discouraging people from posting their models. Seriously, I had a PM today from someone saying exactly that! And that's a crying shame!

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Yup, always a paid Fotki user, both my personal and club/NNL East accounts. Never an issue.

One caution - Don't clear coat over Sharpie unless you test it first! I had Testors Wet Look clear melt black Sharpie and it wasn't pretty!

Kerry- It'll go down something like this! I stripped this one just out of curiosity. I got it in a bag-0-junk some 20 years ago. Funny aside, people stole the second photo and used it in their own tutorials. One said this was the result of brake fluid and when I emailed them, they swore it was their own photo... um, that's the nose of my van in the background! I stripped it with the old and now unavailable Chameleon Paint Stripper. Best stuff I ever knew!

Great model and story! Our fictitious hero must've carefully removed all the chrome before sending it to Uncle Earl for paint... otherwise they would have painted it all gray! Yea, their motto was "we paint cars, chrome, dirt, bird doodoo..." It was like a car wash with paint!

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A sticky situation at best. Just as people posted that they didn't know that two of our esteemed members were 68 years old, we don't know people's individual situations. Is this person posting that no so perfect model a young person? Are they a special needs person? Are they handicapped, or are they using modeling to recover dexterity from suffering a stroke? Many times we don't know! And we don't want to discourage people from enjoying the hobby, and working on their skills. There are people who build passionately and their work gets a bit better with every model. And we need to celebrate and encourage them! If indeed, someone does post and asks for help, then by all means do so tactfully. When I post my in progress stuff, I do so partly because people will point out things... a detail on the real car I didn't know, an issue with the kit I need to know about, or something I've done wrong. I'm a big boy and appreciate input, especially when presented with good intents and in a way that avoids embarrassment. And especially when in progress and I can fix it! I'm blessed to know a good number of the people here in person. I do know one person who once was a very good modeler, and suffered a stroke. He spent years regaining his abilities, and now builds a great model once again. I would encourage them with every build, which may have looked hollow to some folks, but you didn't know the situation, nor the personal relationship. Rest assured that there are folks on the board who are PMing people and helping them along. It's nice to do so and being able to do so without embarrassing the person.

I once had a young lady that worked with me who had to be one of the nicest people in the world. I doubt she ever had an evil thought in her life. Everyone loved her and nobody could say anything bad about her at all! But she sucked as a CADD drafter. She worked earnestly and as hard as she could, but this just wasn't in her aptitude! She somehow created system errors we could not recreate! She'd call me over and her drawing was upside down on the screen... as in how the heck did you do that? So I ran key stroke logs on her, I literally wrote Fortran lines in programs where you deleted stuff that read "IF*(user)= 'jess' then <quicksave=*(filename)*(date/time)" just so we could save her work. We'd run the log files and watch incredible things happen and write protections into the system. We called it "Jess Proofing" and it assured us that nobody could break the system! As a consequence, everyone else worked harder to cover for her and get our workload out. But nobody complained! There was no way we could fire her, but she did drag down the department. Anyway... one day she comes into my office and starts crying. She then tells me she has a better job offer and will be leaving. She was so nice she couldn't tell me this without bawling. She felt like she was killing us! I'm trying to act disappointed, but at the same time assuring her it's okay.... but inside I was pretty darn pleased!

Once you're gone you'll never know that your wife went cheap and had you cremated, but did go for the large coffee can for your remains! ?

Richard that looks like there's more than parts from one kit in that box. And the '66 has been popped enough that anything missing should be easily available. A parts bonanza if bought right!

I will turn 61 in a few weeks. I am counting down the time to retirement and being able to build a lot more. So I'm not selling anything! The one change I did make a while back is that I started to use the "saving for someday" kits and supplies. Well, it is that someday! How much longer should I have saved them? Bill offers sound advise. If the collection brings you joy, keep it! Either make the list as suggested, or make plans to have it all delivered to a Cobra museum upon your departure.

I came into a batch like that about 20 years ago. A salesperson who sold me office furniture at work had a who friend owned an HVAC company and came into a box of old models in a basement when installing a furnace. The owner of the house noticed him looking at them and told him to take them home. My salesperson visited his shop and saw the box of models. He told him he knew someone who built models, so the guy just gave them to me! That was my once in a lifetime find.

Very nice! I believe I left off the bottom bracket on mine because of size constraints too!

I remember those Dodge crew cabs in USAF colors running around Chili Airbase in Turkey in the 1966-8 era. I believe that Dodge actually created those for a US military bid spec. Every one I've ever been close enough to touch in civilian use started life as a military truck.

I went to Berlin as a kid and remember going to Checkpoint Charlie and the museum there, dedicated to escapes from East Germany. I remember one small car that had a place in the boot behind the rear seat to hide a person. They had mirrors set up that made it look deep and empty. We stood and watched at rush hour as Trabbies made their way back home from West Berlin. A lot of people from East Germany worked in West Berlin, kinda like the US/Mexican border. This was probably 1971.

Very nice work! Great model that nobody else has!

Amazing find! Every one of those is a winner! None of the forever reissued kits! Goes to show that those little collections are still out there!

They gave away real cars too! Augie Hiscano once won, I believe it was a Mercury Comet. There was a fellow named Chuck that I met in modeling circles. I forget his last name. He won the Ed Roth contest and Ed was supposed to build him his custom model in 1:1. Ed never came through so Revell gave him a 1:1 Corvette. He no sooner got the car and Uncle Sam invited him to a little tour of Viet Nam!

That will be cool. Nice use of colors, in fact if there weren't things in the background it could've been a black and white photo!

his esteemed peers

for green bananas

Still pluggin' along on the '50 Ford jitney bus! Tonight I concentrated on fixing stupid errors I made this week! I am hoping to finish for a show on Sunday, we will see!

I get the eBay ads all the time. Lately they've been LinkedIn and Florsheim shoes for me. Right now I'm seeing a Go Daddy ad.