Tom Geiger

The first reissue of the Fireball 500 kit had a trailer included. No mention of it anywhere on the box though! I bought three kits in one box, minus the trailers for $10.

If you buy the Xuron cutters, make sure you use it only for photo etch and nothing else! Otherwise you will dull it and it won't be effective on photo etch. I keep mine in the box with my parts to avoid grabbing them on the bench. Also, stick your photo etch parts to Scotch tape prior to cutting from the fret. The tape will keep the part from springing off to another dimension. It will also give you something to hold onto.

Cool model! My friend worked for an AMC dealer back then so I got to play with these. A six cylinder 4 speed Pacer was a lotta fun!

We saw no rain or snow at my daughter's house by 7 pm. It was 38 degrees. All the other guests to the party had left so we figured we'd make a mad dash west to our home in Pennsylvania. We got to the PA border and it started to rain a bit, and as we got closer to home it was sleeting with some snow sticking to the grass on the sides of the Turnpike. We noticed the temperature drop down to 32 as we approached our exit. We did get home with no issues. Very little traffic due to a ban on commercial traffic from noon Saturday to noon Sunday and others staying home. It soon turned to rain over night. And it was dry and sunny today, no snow anywhere!

Kitchen Table Resins makes the correct air cleaner for the '57 Chevy six. It's different in the car vs the pickup.

Looks great from 1,000 miles away here in NJ! The tail light trick worked well. I have some of the Fireball door handles. Delicate little pieces no doubt exactly to scale. If you are going to glue them on they’re perfect. I like to drill out and pin mine on, and they are just too small for that!

Cool! I’ll start mine after the 24 Hour Build

Russ, mine are gone too! With my father being military and living in other countries, I didn’t have many to begin with. Those I finished got broken down for the next great idea. We finally settled down in NJ and when I moved out of my parents house, I left a lot of stuff there. My models, unbuilt kits and parts boxes were in my closet. There was a termite swarm, they got into it all, eating boxes and instruction sheets, and leaving dirty trails everywhere. Without my knowledge, my father assumed it was a total loss and I was grown past it, so he chucked everything. The few kits that survived include a Revell Porsche 914, a bunch of Airfix 1/32 cars and an Aurora 1/32 Hemi Under Glass!

Ironic when you consider that Matchbox made more Miuras than Lamborghini!

I try never to watch anything on live TV. I DVR everything. I couldn’t tell you when my favorite shows are actually on! I’ll be ready to watch something I’ve saved and my wife will say, “but show x is on now!” And I’ll tell her we’ll record it and watch it in an hour. You actually get through an hour long show in 40 minutes.

I’m at my daughter’s house in NJ. Very cloudy but the sky is holding! The PA Turnpike is closed to trucks and busses until noon Sunday. We are anticipating getting clobbered, brought our overnight stuff and my snow shovel. The calm before the storm!

Thanks Bill! We did the big mailing operation at our club meeting last Saturday. The postcards went in the mail on Monday! They are landing around the world as I type this! This is the event that makes the upcoming show real for us! As Bill said, get your hotel rooms now! We will sell out quickly. We had added rooms every year, pushing out other groups but last year was the first year we had the whole hotel, but still sold out!

I have collected all of the models I had as a kid, and more important, most of the models I wanted as a kid and never could afford or find. The tough one was the Scat City Funny Car, which was the 1970 Coronet body over a funny car chassis, typical MPC of that era. It's never been reissued and I've only seen one once! But I do have a modern repop of the Coronet kit, repro Scat City decals and a more details Polar Lights funny car chassis all in one box! Another hard fought one was the Tom Daniel Tijuana Taxi kit. I found a partial kit at the Toledo show many years ago. I managed to collect the entire kit, parts supplied by people I met online. Of course later on Monogram reissued the kit! One of the kits I wanted but never had as a kid was the Tom Daniel S'cool Bus. I was happy to buy the reissue!

Hmmm. Never had a problem with AAA like you describe. It's always been great to have and peace of mind when you have a wife and two daughters out on the road. They've come and jump started cars, fix flats and unlocked cars for them. Yes, based on what you tell them, the service vehicle can be sent vs a tow truck. In my area it seems they only have tow trucks. The time you wait for them is based on the volume of work at any given time. I've had to wait a few hours, and then I've had them show up in 15 minutes. I've driven with them to my closed garage and had the car dropped off without any question.

Very nice. The flames are perfect as is the leather interior!

I have always used Fotki.com as my photo host. I have a personal account and one owned by our club for NNL East. They are paid accounts, but it's not that expensive. And once you sign up, every so often they'll run specials and I'll re-up both accounts for multiple years then. I had the board to host my images here since it's been allowed.

I believe your '57 Chevy is a recent snap kit done by Revell. It's got great proportions and finishes well.

Amazing paint!

I do buy what I want but I'm reasonable in my spending. I don't spend a dime on myself or my hobbies until all of our obligations are well past met. And my wife has never complained about my purchases. A few years ago... My wife asked me for my help in selling something on Craig's List and eBay. When I agreed, she brought out at least half a dozen expensive designer handbags! You know, the ones that are a few hundred each... I had no idea she had these! and I knew there wasn't a darn thing for me to say!

I didn't say it was, just reporting what I was told. We already have people who think, "I'm an American and I have freedom of speech!" Add to that, "Hey I'm PAYING for this service!"

I'm happy to see your father likes the model! Now let's pray he gets well enough to come home from the hospital to enjoy it!

There are some suitcases in the Johan '59 Rambler kit. They were in some other Johan kit previously that I forget, but Okey added them to the '59 release.

I was in the same place you are some 30 years ago! I was always a Mopar guy and had a couple cases of neat Mopar models I had bought over the years but never did anything with. I wanted to build them, but was afraid to ruin them with my then poor modeling skills. Then I found Scale Auto Enthusiast Magazine at a large magazine store. I had no idea there was a model magazine back then. Note this is long before the Internet. In the back of the magazine, there was a small ad for the Tri-State Scale Model Car Club. I responded and they invited me to a small modeling gathering they were hosting in a few weeks. That was NNL East 3. I went and was floored by all the work people had accomplished. So I joined the club. Still, I didn't want to learn my skills on my beloved stored Mopar kits, so I practiced on a Johan '62 Studebaker convertible. The club had an internal contest using the AMT '57 Ford kit, so I bought one of those. With a lot of guidance from the club membership, my modeling skills jumped exponentially from that of a 15 year old, to something I could be proud of! I found that I was using the wrong glues, sandpaper, paint and learned tons of little tricks and techniques. And I was hooked! I met a fellow named Joe Cavorley who was building fantastic old weathered trucks. He was very happy to teach me and share his wealth of knowledge. So I found a niche in weathered old vehicles, especially light commercial trucks and cars. That changed me drastically. And as I've gone on I've learned to appreciate different 1:1 cars, solely from my exposure to them via other modelers. I have a shelf of neat little 1930s street rods, and a variety of subjects I never thought I'd be interested in. In the past 30 years my skills have grown, and I'm still learning new things. The exposure to modelers has vastly expanded my knowledge of modeling, cars in general and respect and interest in a wider spectrum than I originally envisioned. Some of my dearest friends today, are fellow modelers, some of which I've known the entire 30 years I've been involved as an adult! There are so many more resources today than when I started. You can get questions answered and advise instantly on this and other boards. You can do research on any vehicle via Google. One of my favorite places to find detailed photo sets for any vehicle is on eBay Motors. The kits being produced today have unprecedented detail and ease of build. The aftermarket has so many options for parts and materials. You can make your own decals on your home printer. And 3D printing threatens to change the whole game! Now the ironic part? I've never once touched any of those Mopars I originally intended to build! But it's been an incredible journey, and I wouldn't change a thing! So jump in if you dare.

This was posted on the udder board... 1-6-2019 Dear fellow modelers, After Chrome Tech announced their closing many people recently found that the Little Motor Kar Co. does chrome work for the modeling community. We have been recently inundated with new customer inquiries. The Little Motor Kar Co has been doing chrome work since 1995. We have never advertised nor pushed to increase our footprint since it was never intended to be a full-time business. That should not be viewed as a small success as it is quite the opposite. One of the features we have always prided ourselves upon is the turnaround time for processing. We have always tried to keep it to two or, at the most, three weeks. We do not believe that it is fair to our loyal, long time customers to wait an extraordinary time for their work to be completed. At seventy-nine years old I have no intent on this becoming a full-time job. We have always done all our work in-house and that will continue to be so. Bearing this in mind any new customer work will be done on a “first come, first served” fill in basis AFTER our established customers are served. So, if you just found Little Motor Kar Co. please be aware of the priority your work must be given. It could possibly be a long wait. Now would be a great time for a younger enterprising person to seize upon the opportunity to find a processor in their area and start a chroming service of their own as others have done. There seems to be room for two. Dale Horner Little Motor Kar Co.

I think we've all made this suggestion. I remember Harry saying that they didn't want to charge for the site because it would empower some of the instigators that they had "rights" to post garbage.