Tom Geiger

Greg, best wishes for your surgery! Hope all is well and you are back to your old self in no time!

Here's the F&F 56 Chevy 4 door sedan. Ed Fluck has been gone a long time, but his son Ed Junior is still casting. I don't know if he can cast up these again. Still, they pop up, I have one I bought originally from Ed and one I found recently at a show. I'm sure eBay has one from time to time. Set up a search agent for it.

Wheeler Dealers did one two. What I like about these two shows is that they are not the yelling, screaming in your face car shows. They explain the merits and assembly of the cars as they do the builds. I learned a lot about 2CVs as I watched both episodes! I lived in Germany back in the late 1960s early 1970s and these were all over the place. I wouldn't mind having one, Billy Joel owned one.

Very nicely done! I love the color but the "over the top" for me is that you gave the chassis the subtle weathering that a well maintained car would still have!

Wow! I admire your patience and perseverance in completing all that taping! I don't think I could resist peeling some up to check that it wasn't bleeding! Very nice work. I did own a 1970 Impala like this one back in the day. Mine was all gold with a vinyl top. 350 Automatic. I loved that car! You could fit a couple bodies in that trunk. The only drawback was 10 miles per gallon!

a few responses: Leaves- Yes, I have large oak trees in my yard. The leaves would be up to past my ankles in some areas if I didn't rake. For the most part I blow them into the woods. This year we paid for them to be taken away. As others said, I'd have no grass if I left them. Johnny- So sorry about your Christmas gift theft. If you used a credit card to buy them, some cards have insurance on your purchases. Per Bill's worries about porch pirates- Last week New Jersey news reported that a pile of 25-30 Amazon packages were found in the woods.. empty of course. And I hate delivery idiots as well, last Sunday I was driving home in the rain after dark. In our neighborhood the houses sit back from the road and we have mail boxes at the curb. I noticed a bunch of Amazon deliveries were made that day, boxes dumped next to the mail boxes and here they were sitting out in the pouring rain overnight.

I've had that problem for years. I live on a street that's a hill. The house next door (above me) is a divorced lady who waits until the very last leaf falls before she calls the lawn service to clean up her yard. Me, I have few trees in my front yard, but it's wooded in the back. Still I always would clear the front yard of my leaves... then after she finally had her yard done, last year I bagged about 20 bags of leaves that blew downhill. So this year a combination of I was too busy to blow my leaves. My wife came home from work for lunch one day and there's a lawn service clearing her yard. She makes a deal to have ours done at the same time. I come home and SURPRISE! every friggin leaf is gone! Yea. That's the plan for the future.

Hello Peter- This is my favorite kit, so I'm really pleased to follow what you are doing with it. I think everything you've done looks great, but two suggestions.... Take a look at the height of the top of front fender vs the top of rear fender. Would the rear fender being sectioned to match the front fender height add to the design? Second, remove the stock molded in door handles. For the work you've done on this model, add some separate pieces, either from a kit or aftermarket. And where are you in Australia? Cheers! Tom G

For years when I went to hobby shops and wanted to round up my order, I'd always add a few packs of Evergreen. I have quite a collection. I should do inventory and fill in the sizes I don't have. I just did that with brass rod.

It is a very nice kit to build. I did mine for the 24 hour build. Things like the exhaust and the glass just pop into place. I bought 2 more. Another one to build at my leisure and one to put that amazing chassis under something else!

Why not go through the register three times and buy all the kits at 40% off? I have the 40% off coupon bookmarked on my iPhone. Most times I have trouble finding anything I want to buy, many times I just buy another can of Testors flat black or dullcote with it. And if the lines are long, and I have to wait, it costs them a lot of money, because I let everyone on the line know about the coupon!

The Tri-State Scale Model Car Club had a great holiday party yesterday! We had too much food and everyone had a good relaxed time!

Here's one I was working on back in 2015. First photo is a side view with the pieces that were removed. I didn't find the door thickness issue that Casey had, maybe because I pieced in the roof differently. Notice that my roof ribs are different from Casey's and he did a much better job of mating up his intricate pattern, where my ribs just stopped at that point. MPC changed the van every year to reflect what Chrysler did. Mine may be later date and they flattened the roof above the passengers so people could install sun roofs? I'll throw it out there.... Hey Casey! Let's have a build off! I'll finish mine if you finish yours!

Super Build! How did you do those spark plug wire ends? Very realistic. I recently attempted this myself, not so good!

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Sigh! A Viper Dave post! It's great that people we've lost can live on in the their posts. I'm pleased that the photos are still visible too. Still doesn't answer the question as to how he did the interior!

The world is going crazy. Maybe it was always crazy but the Internet gives the loonies a way to get their views out there! Anyway, my chuckle of the week is the jack who announced he wasn't going to play "Baby It's Cold Outside". It has resulted in that song being played everywhere, probably the most airplay it's had in decades!

Bob has been going through some very hard times with elder care and hasn't been able to put much time into the business. So it's not that he "Cant be bothered". He has a few new items drawn up and hopes to get them out soon.

Very nice work! I'm happy you took off those oversize door handles, that is one of the short comings of that kit and the glue versions before it!

Ha! I like the way they used the air space by putting a totally unrelated apartment building on top of that historic building! Only in New York! Unfortunately for most people today, photography is now done with their iPhone. It's going the way of hobby shops... My father was a professional photographer in his early years. He put himself through college shooting weddings. He had his dark room in what was originally the coal storage area in my grand parent's basement. He taught me how to take pictures when I was young, focusing on centering the image and getting a good result. No cut off heads or feet in my photos! He died right before I got my first $800 Mavica digital camera. I've always wondered what he would have thought about that! I still have some of his cameras and equipment.

Congrats to you and your family Alan! I have a one year old grand daughter who is the new love of my life! When she sees me she immediately wants to go to grandpa and crawl all over me! Just melts my heart! And... on Thanksgiving my daughter announced she is pregnant again! Good life on the way! Enjoy yours! It sure beats model cars!

Cool! I don't believe I've ever seen one of those chassis in person! Old story time... when I was a kid we live in foreign countries since my father was US Army. The post exchange had a Sears counter where you could order and receive Sears catalog orders. That left us kids living our dreams through the Sears Wish Book Christmas catalog every year. Around 1969-70 they had both the V8 and Chassis. I asked for both for Christmas. As a kid I believed this would be big enough to drive around. I drew pictures of the modern roadster body I would build for it. Sweet dreams. Christmas came and my father just got me the V8, no chassis! I was devastated. We built it together that winter... which means he built it while I watched... and I was disappointed that it just sat on it's stand and whined when you ran it. I wasn't into it. I don't remember what ever happened to that V8, but I do have a Revell Slant Six apart and missing parts in a box.

That is why I use it! It doesn't have a nasty smell, smells like lemon! Snake, I wouldn't think to use it as a thinner since it's pee yellow. I've never tried it on model paint.

My father was military and the US Army promoted seat belt use early on. He bought seat belts and installed them in cars that didn't come with them. I always remember wearing a lap belt as a kid. Mandatory in my dad's presence! It became a life long habit before it was ever legislated. And fortunately in my 60 years I haven't been involved in a crash bad enough for this to come into play! Knock on wood.

I've stripped a lot of chrome in my day. Mostly because I didn't want the parts chromed... things like the entire rear end in the AMT '57 Ford kit. I've also stripped and rechromed because the chrome was bad, old, faded or had awful mold lines across it. I am very good with BMF, I have wrapped entire bumpers. I've also used Alclad in the spray can successfully. My tip for stripping chrome. Mr Clean kitchen floor cleaner. Put some in a clear glass juice glass. Put bumpers in and you can see your progress through the glass. I usually just leave it overnight. It's most times clean at that point. Dump Mr Clean back in it's bottle for the next time!