Tom Geiger

NOTHING is irking me today! I spent yesterday at the Liars Model Car Challenge. I saw a bunch of friends, bought some cheap kits and even won an award! Today I am going to my granddaughter's first birthday party! Cannot beat that for a weekend! (hey, you gotta be thankful sometimes!)

Many thanks to the Liars organization for a great show! As I always say, I enjoy going to a show where I'm just an attendee! I had a super time, caught up with many friends, as evidenced that I talked myself hoarse by the end of the day! I managed to buy my share of cheap kits, and even won second place in Light Commercial.

that is cool! I like to see completely different treatments to old kits! Great concept and follow through!

Reissuing old kits like these are a double edged sword for manufacturers! First we all recognize that this is a 60 year old tooling, and represents where injection molding was in the industry at that time. We are happy with our purchase. We are a very small part of the model car buyer pool though. The majority of the potential kit market are new or occasional modelers who are not as astute as we are. They see this on the shelf in a hobby shop and assume it's a new kit. After all it's shrink wrapped and has a bar code and all on it! The last Model King kit they bought was the Moebius Ford pickup and they thought this was a mighty fine kit! Of course it is, and state of the art 2018. They get this one home and oh-my-GOD! They are shocked. There are what... a dozen parts in the box? It's thick and clunky! They feel robbed! The manufacturers get a lot of complaints and hobby shop returns. Not good. In fact not that long ago there was this exact same deal. A guy posted on one of the boards that he wanted to order a Moebius Ford pick up and ACCIDENTALLY ordered a Model King one. The last Model King kit he bought was this Imperial and he swore he'd never buy another one of their products! The responses assured and educated him, but that's just one guy.

Very nice work on one of my favorite kits!

I just renewed Fotki for 5 years. $92, which is $18.40 a year.

Daylight savings time gets tricky for me since I'm in Skype meetings every day. Europe does theirs on Oct 28th, and US not until Nov 4. So we're outta sync that week! Puerto Rico, Japan and China don't do it. So we're off an hour all winter. This week I hosted a training class in Puerto Rico. Phone line opened at 8am their time, which means I had to be on the line by 7am. Put in an hour prep before that, I had to be in the office by 6am! And the office is 90 miles from home! Fortunately it's Friday and I work from home!

Blue Moon Beer

Great work Art! Bring 'er East this spring! Just saying...

Bump to the top! This show is tomorrow! Looking forward to spending the day among friends, seeing some great models and maybe buying a thing or two! I'd like to meet people from the board I haven't met before... so ask around. I should be easy to find, I'm the fat bald guy with gray hair!

This is my Xacto brand battery power drill. It takes 2 C cells (anyone else notice those are getting scarce?) and I've had it 25 years plus. When my chock lost some of it's grip, this is what I did.. I took my smaller bits and glued them into scale heater hose. Now the chock grips them just fine! The extra bulk and red color also keeps them from getting lost!

We still print with plates? I thought that ship had sailed.

I saw your post on Facebook where you asked the question about the different custom parts on the '57. I was not near my photos at the time so here goes... These are a couple of oldies that some kid built way back then. I have restored the blue one and will restore the green one with the top that's posed there. I need a full set of suspension for this one. But there are the two different custom treatments.

How the heck does that happen?! Us? We live in the fast lane. My wife brought home half a salad they had a work today. I have one piece of store bought fried chicken from last night (ate 2 pieces for lunch since I worked from home today) and I checked the cabinet and found a bag of gummy bears. With beer of course.

Ha! I destroyed one of those when I was maybe 11-12. As an adult, I was able to put most of the parts in one box from various sources. Then they reissued the sucker! I've always loved the TD customs. And I was able to tell him so over beers at GSL one year!

I have to spend the weekend preparing the NJ house for sale. My younger daughter called this evening to volunteer to help me paint and clean all weekend! They do eventually grow up!

I am attracted to odd and obscure models, and I did live in Europe from 1969-72, so those cars are pretty much in my set of experiences. I would love to have the Land Rover back. I don't have one and the last one I saw was way more than I'd pay.

Nice work on yours! I took a different direction, here's just a mockup... it's still not done! This is a nice little kit. Well engineered and different options on the Mitsu 4. I can see that entire chassis under a street rod!

Love the Falcon, I have a few that look a lot like that. I had the famous "Elusive Falcon Box". It was a shoe box full of that era Falcons, Rancheros and associated parts that literally disappeared! It became a running joke at my club. I thought it had gotten thrown out for sure, and I'd never see it again. Literally gone missing for something like 10 years. But what happens? When I was moving, I emptied out the model closet and the bottom shoe box was marked "Matchbox Cars". Upon lifting it I realized it wasn't heavy enough... and lo and behold... there were the Falcons! It turns out that the box was marked "Falcons" on the opposite end, facing the wall.

Aha! We call that "working on the 1:1 scale diorama". Looks nice.

This year's photo... me and my favorite miniature human!

Two quick shots in the parking lot at work this week...

Anyone else getting this warning from this thread? I tried to go back to the beginning and look at everything again. Seems this comes up on pages 1-6.

Prolly would! Especially since it's a mixture of Testors Dullcote and chalks. Wipes right off with lacquer thinner.

Those are the original Monogram wheel covers that came in this series of kits. I found the first few in the original 1962 Phaeton kit, supplemented by donations from the community. I don't know if there is a term for them. The wheels on the pickup are from a diecast '32 hotrod. I've seen them on a bunch of different diecast cars. I think they'd be worth casting since a lot of folks have asked about them.