Tom Geiger

Very nice work!

Nice! I have a few of the MPC kit, I’d always rescue them from the $5 table at shows!

Ya know, I cannot get my arms around this! Same as my objection when people put shiny hot rod pickups in the Light Commercial category at shows!

United Airlines! Again! This time on my way out to Seattle. They missed my connection again so I got to spend the night at the Denver airport. I’m sitting here waiting to see if I get a seat on the 8 or 9am flights outta here. I needed to be there in an orientation program by 9am, which I need to get a company badge, without I’m utterly useless for the rest of the week! No more flights with connections! Direct only no matter what the up charge!

And nuclear winter

No progress for me this week! I’m in Seattle again!

Try eBay Motors! Some of the antique car sellers will have 50 good shots of a single car. And you can also search for parts for detail photos. And if you don’t find what you need, try again next week. Always new inventory!

Of the dark

And he’ll growl

Very nice! That green just pops in the sun! I just got a resin 4 door wagon body I should get on soon!

Cool! This was a pretty detailed kit with a lot of very nice parts. I'll be watching your build. I have a few versions of this kit in my hoard.

I remember back when I was a kid, the only room with an a/c was my mother's bedroom. When it was seriously hot my sister slept in the bed with her and I brought in blankets and such to sleep on the floor right under the a/c! Today should be a scorcher! And where am I going? To my niece's high school graduation party... out in a back yard!

Very nicely done! Love your back drops too!

in his airbrush

For comparison, here are a pair of '59s showing the typical warp. Yea, I own these suckers.

Mark, note that I said; "They could've taken a Euro Escort, Cortina or German Taunus and Americanized it and manufactured it here for a lot less than developing those cars from scratch." These were all proven reliable cars in their home markets. The Cricket was British and was fairly troublesome. Chrysler's later partnerships with Mitsubishi went better, and the original Omni / Horizon was basically a VW Rabbit under license.

I drove a 1977 Pinto wagon for a summer in the 1980s. My brother in law had asked me to sell it for him and I drove it daily during the process. I found it to be a nice little car to drive. I was sad to see it go when it finally sold. Reading the article in Mike's post, we all knew that Detroit had been caught with their pants down as small cars took over the market. Instead of rushing the Pinto and Vega to market both companies should've gone to their International subsidiaries to pull in a car that was already vetted out in the market. They could've taken a Euro Escort, Cortina or German Taunus and Americanized it and manufactured it here for a lot less than developing those cars from scratch. I already have a pinto kit set aside to build this one....

Since folks are retreading... here's my fleet... 2016 Hyundai Elantra - The daily runner I bought for business use. Does this job remarkably! The wife's daily driver... 2005 Buick Lacrosse. Still only 74,000 miles The PT Cruiser Turbo Convertible 1996 Dodge Grand Caravan Mark III High Top -- The NNL East swag van. Once was the family car but now I keep it around for hauling duties. Over 200,000 miles on her. 1991 Geo Tracker GSI Convertible.... 5 speed! My baby! You know you are old when you have classic tags on a car you bought new! 2000 Jaguar S Type - 30,000 original miles. Thinking of selling to reduce the fleet! 1996 Celica Convertible. It's sitting at my NJ house. Was stored in garage there 8 years and started right up! It's for sale if anyone wants it!

Super model! Isn't it fun to build them to give to the original owners? I built my wife's sister's Chevette and she was pleased!

I also have a Canon. I use the BMF Brand clear inkjet paper. When buying, make sure you are buying the inkjet paper and not the laser printer paper. The BMF brand is a full size 8.5 x 11 inch sheet. If you are only printing a few images, print them at the top of the sheet. Then you can cut that off and use the remainder of the sheet for more decals. When using a partial sheet, I usually tape it onto a standard piece of paper.

Yes! When Chrysler bought AMC they realized that the AMC guys were used to making something from nothing and with no money. So Chrysler decided to see what they could do with money! The first design was the big Jeep wagon, and it became Car of the Year! I think I'll pull out Lee's book and read it again! Great story!

Sounded like World War 3 out there until after midnight. Quiet this morning while all the drunks sleep it off! Probably will get more amateurs over the weekend if they still have stuff!

The oldest survivor from my youth, circa 1970. As a kid I had seen the original "The Italian Job" and fell in love with the Mini Coopers. I lived in Germany at the time. This is a 1/25 Scale Polystil diecast. They sold these both as a finished mode and as a prepainted kit. This one was the kit. I did my own thing with it. I painted the hood black, washed the wheels and lettered the tires. I removed the grill. I detail painted the interior and added orange felt as carpet. Somehow it survived all these years! It was always on the shelf in my room, and I recently found a photo of my first apartment and it was sitting on the shelf in the living room. When I was in high school we did single frame animation, and this Mini starred in our film since all the panels opened. We spent weeks taking those shots and it was over in a minute. The car pulls up. A clay figure gets out of the car. He opens the hood, looks at the engine. Shuts the hood and runs around to the trunk, opened and closed it. Then he got back in the car and drove away.

Here's photos of the Nomad. This work was done back in the late 1980s. In fact those photos were taken in my old NJ backyard and I haven't owned that house in 9 years! I've pulled her out and started to review the status..

You'll have one before long! They are building them at a mad clip to the point of saturation! I have one within walking distance (okay, a hike but I've done that walk!) to my house here in Exton. I noticed a brand new one that wasn't open yet near King of Prussia yesterday.