Tom Geiger

like a hurricane

pieces of snow are falling from the sky here and I'm not going out there until it stops, probably not until sometime on Monday

in skimpy swimsuits

Okay! That is major league cool!

"A long December and there's reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last" Very nice Willys! And your dogs lived long lives! I've been lucky to get 13 years out of mine!

scratching their balls

with coconut glue

Too many postcards was the theme of our day as the NNL East team got together to label and stamp the annual mailing of 1500 cards advertising the show, soon to be dispatched to the modeling public in all corners of the USA and Canada!

Every model in this post was built by me using decals I made myself.... I restored this old custom 57 Ford. It was literally missing the roof so I added one from another body. I painted the roof gold because there was no way I could match the green. The decals on the body were all original, some of them peeling and flaking so I sealed that all in with clearcoat. I wanted to match the theme on the roof so I found a scan of the decal sheet on-line. I copied this one piece of artwork, and made three copies so if I screwed up I had extras. Always make a few copies, during the process the ink will run on one and you'll screw up applying another... The Court Jester was a restaurant in NJ we used to frequent. I loved their jester logo so I made them the sponsor of this Valiant stocker. When you make decals on clear film on your inkjet printer, they are translucent like stained glass. So this car was planned so that all the decals went on areas painted white. You will soon learn the colors you can use on decals and what body colors you can successfully decal over! Again, the decal I made was applied on the white paint and not the blue! I hand lettered this very large and reduced it down to size On this one the flag and St Thomas decals were printed on white decal paper. It's harder to work with than the clear. I believe I created the St Thomas ones in PowerPoint, and matched the body yellow good enuf! When creating decals, create your artwork and do your test prints on paper. Once you see what you want and you have the size correct, create a master with several to many of the decals you want. As said above, some will screw up. Once you print the sheet on decal paper, let it dry overnight. The next day or later, seal it with Testors Decal Fixative. It's a spray can. Do one light coat and let it dry. Repeat a few times. If the decals start to run, and at least one will, stop and let it dry! If I was doing any more decals with a white background, I would do a two part decal. Cut out and apply just the white background. Print your decal on clear, and after doing the sealing process, apply that over the now dry white decal. Let that all sit a day or more than do any clear coat you wish.

This thread just popped up in my feed again! I read that the Ford chassis was unchanged to very similar right up to the early 1960s. I have been sizing one up, along with the step side short box, under the new AMT 1960 Ford pickup body. It seems to fit well.... has anyone tried this yet?

Me thinks that custom car guys are a bit crazy, who would want to paint scallops on a custom?

Night can be very dark in my neighborhood since we have no street lights

sold on eBay

It cannot snow here in Pennsylvania (about an hr west of Philly) because I just paid to have my snow blower serviced! So far we've had two 1" or so coverings that melted off hard surfaces before needing to be shoveled. We are supposed to see some snow Sunday into Monday, lets see what happens!

on Gilligan's Island

There is no place like home

Scratches his balls

Wallet sales go way up right before Christmas since everyone buys one for their dad

Thanks everyone! The wagon is controversial! And it gives me a chuckle. I had one guy scolding me that I ruined 2 valuable kits! I didn’t tell him it was started back when those old Johans were $5 at shows. I did tell him there were THREE kits in the car! There were two guys looking at it at the Mama show. One pointed at it and said, “Look at that hot mess.” Other guy replied, “Yea that’s just resin.” I guess those are guys who shove a Hemi into everything!

On expired Nexium?

My mother would give me a dollar bill. I’d go to Ann’s Candy Store and get two packs of cigarettes and I had a dime to spend in candy! We thought nothing of it.. selling cigarettes to an eight year old! Would not fly today!

so said eBay

Long term project started back when this was a cheap kit. There are 2 kits and 1 junker in here! I built the body twice and did a lot of work several times over the years to learn how to get it to acceptable. I decided to get er done for the MAMA show this past spring. I hand drew and applied the decals to be a late 1960s band bus, converted from a beat airport limo. The interior is full of instruments and “stuff”. This 50 Chevy pickup was built over two days in December as a gift for a friend. I made the decals to match his business. He was very pleased.