Tom Geiger

Here's a product that I experimented with.... spray can, goes on thick. I used it for the board I use for photos. It's too glossy for me, it looks like the driveway sealer guy was just here! But a good start for detailed asphalt..

Hmmmm....

Ya know, life is too short to be ticked off. Back when my kids were young it was our friends kid’s birthday and we gave the little tyke a gift. He opens it and proclaims to everyone, “Dis is garbage!” Everyone was taken back and his parents were embarrassed. We laughed it off. To this day when my wife, daughters and I exchange gifts, one of us will mimic “Dis is garbage!” in a little kid voice and we’ll all laugh.

Hmmm, Considering NNL Nationals 40 is this year and the first one was held at his house? Yea, maybe late 40s...

Yea, that Revell '57 Chevy Nomad was my arch rival as a kid too! Every year I'd buy a new one figuring my skills had improved over that year... nope! Still never got one together! I even have one about half done from 30 years ago when I got back to modeling as an adult.

I've been in several Hobby Lobbies in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. All of them have been neat, clean and organized. They are all fairly new stores, and spooky that they have the same layouts, right down to what peg certain items are on from store to store! My issue is that they make the shelves look full by spreading out the same items. For instance, where they may have three of one kit, and are out of two other kits, they'll spread them across the shelf into the empty slots. Sometimes if you look, the models are only one deep! The models are okay like this, but they do the same thing on the paint racks! I went looking for certain Testors paints, and found the racks full, but the wrong paints in some of the marked spots. I was looking for gloss black lacquer and found that the slot was full of an overstock of flat black lacquer from the slot next to it! Argh!

Very cool. Love the brake lines and many other details!

My board name? I was born this way! My parents decision... I could've been Little Artie! Like Rich, I got involved online with AOL. My user name, which is still my email was "Modlcitizn", shortened to fit into the AOL 10 letter maximum for screen names. I used to write a column for my club's newsletter called "The Model Citizen" that got reprinted into a bunch of other club's newsletters. I had that content online in an AOL website "Modlcitizn On-Line" until AOL wiped those away. Not that long ago I found much of my content had been preserved on a website. Every so often I get an email from someone who has stumbled across them. It's hard to believe it's mostly over 20 years old now! http://www.carsandracingstuff.com/library/g/geigertom.php

Good luck with the move! Hope it makes your life better!

Funny thing about old habits. I own a house in New Jersey. It was our first house and we lived there for 5 years. Rented it out for 25 years. Then renovated it for my daughters to live in. Part of this renovation caused the kitchen light switch to be moved from one side of a door way to the other. Wouldn't ya know when I stay there I still reach for the old side?

I like it! I love odd engines in street rods, no matter when the era!

Cool Model Rich! Hope to see you and this model in April!

Nice save on one of my favorite old kits

Hey, let’s give Revell a chance! It’s a brand new operation. Revell will be at NNL East. They said they wanted to communicate with American modelers, they see the USA market as viable. And that’s all I’m gonna say!

I'm agreeing with my friend Alan that you need a piece of glass to work on! Here's mine. It is the glass from a Xerox machine and has a finished edge all around. Glass is great for a number of reasons. First it's absolutely flat, which works for many assembly processes where you need to square up things. Second, to clean it, all you need is a single edge razor blade. I scrape mine between projects. The board under the glass is also a good thing. It saves my bench surface (which is brown paper over a hollow core door) and gives me an edge to work with. I also have a few holes of various sizes drilled into it to hold items while I'm working. And I have to agree with Chris... your bench isn't messy! In fact this photo is as clean as mine gets!

Very cool and in the spirit of the rally for sure! I like that you did the canvas trunk lid like in the photos I saw of the 1:1 cars.

There weren't any cars produced in Turkey until 1967. That's when they produced their own Anadol, a small sedan. It wasn't copied from anything. I remember this because I lived there at the time!

Looks good. What you did right was that you didn't over do it!

and large hammer

Proper perspective time! This is a general seller with over 5000 items listed on eBay. Only 30 items are in our category. They have sold six model kits for under $20 each since November. They sold one of those parts lots, a handful of wheels and wheel backs for $20. More than likely this person came into a lot that included model cars and parts and they are trying to figure out what to sell them for. No harm, no foul.

Nice! That looks like a Monogram Model A. I've had a thing for those lately! Did you paint the wheels? A couple of kits in that series are molded in yellow and I've noticed people had painted bodies and such, but wen't with the kit plastic color on the wheels. And it looks just fine!

Very cool build! And Revell created a very nice kit to build! I am planning on building one sooner or later!

I moved from New Jersey to Pennsylvania nine years ago. I was fortunate that we owned both houses for a year. I lived in PA during the week, and drove home to the family in NJ every Friday. Every week I'd fill my Dodge Grand Caravan up into the Mark III hightop with "stuff". One of the first things I brought down was my work bench (an old hollow core door that sits on two night stands) so that I'd have something to occupy my evenings. Yea, at least 50 trips to get all the collectibles and things I didn't trust to movers to the new house!

Falcon Sport Coupe

I take a day off from the board to go to the Philadelphia Auto Show and I miss all the fireworks!