Tom Geiger

inky paint! Ink is opaque, the silver is glossy and solid out of the pen so it's more like paint. I found a new use for mine today. I needed to cut a dark colored part for cutting. I marked it with the silver pen.

Per Jonathan's assessment of people... It doesn't stop at the store... people in this hobby can suck the fun out of running a show. Note that the Fort Knox tight security and rules at NNL East are because of the 50 ways people have tried to scam us. + Vendors who try to sneak in their entire club for free as "helpers" + People who try to sneak into the vendor rooms early.. one year we had a couple with a pregnant woman who needed to use the restroom badly. Two minutes later we removed them from the vendor room. + One year someone stole two of our walkie talkies that were left unattended for a moment. + People have vandalized our equipment. One year someone stood in our tent smoking and burnt a design in it with a cigarette. + One year a guy went into the vendor room, saw a vacant table and set up for business! When the real vendor showed up, the guy we had running the vendor room thought we were a table short and set up another one. Artificial vendor brags about scamming us in his club's newsletter. I'm on the club's mailing list. I contact artificial vendor who accuses me of spying on his club! Banned. + At another show someone stole a stack of voting ballots off the registration table. The guy was not smart. The show would've had to give him every award at the show! and it goes on! Folks do not realize or do not care that the $5 to $10 they scam a show out of may be the difference whether there is a show next year! I will end by saying that 99% of the people who attend our show are great honest folks. In fact, if you try to scam us you are very likely to be turned in by the 1000 sets of eyes looking out for us! There was a shoplifter a few years ago who was nabbed by two show attendees.

Agreed. Facebook keeps me in touch with my 86 year old uncle in Florida. We started a family photo site. I am in touch with people I went to high school with, kids I knew when I lived on an Army Post in Germany. There are Facebook groups for every thing! I have kept in touch with business associates through LinkedIn. I have gotten my last three jobs through those connections. Used properly, the Internet has untold possibilities.

We have a winner! Let that man pick a prize from the top shelf!

You are right Jeff, I've said before that in a lot of cases hobby shop owners are their own worst enemy. I've known guys who just repelled people, who didn't come back. I was at Mainline Hobbies the other day and the owner there is a nice guy who engages you in a conversation. He told me that the specific Hobbytown owner did want to retire, and last year the roof caved in after a major snowfall. Standard strip mall with trussed roof. The insurance paid for the entire inventory so he retired!

You never know what the rationale is with Facebook. People we know who behave rather well on the model car boards are raving lunatics on Facebook! It seems anything goes. The one thing they worry about is copyright. If some entity complains that you have posted their copyrighted content, they will pull it down. One time the NNL East website got blocked by a corporate web nanny... we checked into it and it was blocked for the word "models". As if we were a porno site. Once we contacted them, they lifted the block.

True! I've lost track of the ownership of AMT through the succession of owners, but Dave's first kit was the '63 Chevy Impala, and the box was black and white with line drawings on it.

Mike, if those seat belts are just mocked up, consider giving them some depth. I glue mine to a piece of Evergreen plastic, then cut the plastic to the size of the buckle, sand to shape and then hit it with the chrome pen.

and that's what killed the manufacturers parts hot lines. When Revell came out with the '66 Chevelle wagon with only a custom hood, it was amazing how many people claimed the stock hood was missing from their '66 El Camino kit. And the folks who would claim parts from different trees that made up an assembly were missing! And both the wheels off the chrome tree and the tires were missing from a sealed kit? Oh My!

I have a Molotow pen and it has it's uses but it's not a replacement for BMF. People find out very quickly that they cannot paint a straight line! If I was going to use the pen for trim, I'd want to tape it off with Tamiya Tape.. pretty much the same amount of work to use BMF. Molotow does lay down a decent chrome line, but you get one pass. If you try to get coverage of a larger piece and go over what you've already done, you will get marks as you dig into the drying paint. It also is unforgiving, if you err and need to clean up a line against paint, it has distorted the shiny paint. I have used it for touching up sanded mold lines and sprue parting spots on kit chrome. It does that well. I've used it to chrome interior door handles and dash knobs. Past that I'm sticking with BMF.

Jeremy, my very best wishes and prayers to your son and family! A friend of mine recently lost his grandson in a similar incident. You may have a long road of recovery ahead, but you and your son will get through this!

Oh, I'm the voice of experience! I had a printer I liked. I put a new cartridge set in it. Didn't work so I figured the cartridges were bad. So I bought another set. Same result. So I bought a new print head. Same result. Bought new printer for the same price as the print head. School of Hard Knox..

I can't take my wife to movies. She will fall asleep, no matter what the subject matter. And she will snore. Loudly.

There is a 1:1 of the Mach 5.

Taking a printer / scanner to a repair shop is like taking a gold fish to a vet! They are disposable today. 2.75 years is a good run. A new one will be cheaper than the replacement ink cartridges and will have newer technology than the one that expired.

Yes, Dave paid to have the chrome shot reverse engineered from an NOS parts tree he supplied to them. I believe there was also something to do with redoing the wheels to accept available tires too. Part of his deal with Tomy was that he had the rights to issue each kit for a year, then they could do as they wished after that. The deal he had was with Tomy, a toy manufacturer who had no knowledge of the market. They welcomed his business since he paid for the runs he did, with zero risk on their part. Once Tom Lowe purchased the whole thing from Tomy, he wished to market everything under his own label.

Man, that was 5 years ago! Seems like yesterday! Alan and his lovely wife stayed a week. We did the Lancaster Amish thing, we took a day at the Baltimore Harbor and went to one of the John Carlisle swap meets in Wayne, NJ where we shopped separately but bought the very same things! The following week we went to the Liars Show on Long Island. And we spent a full day digging in my basement model vault. We had a great week! And here's the Fury Alan mentioned.... This is one of my favorite customs in my collection. I've never seen a car with a floating roof like this one! Funny story is that I pulled it out of the bottom of a vendor's junk box about 15 years ago. As I pulled it out, he sighed and said that it was ruined! It couldn't be restored. So I agreed. I gave him $5 and he was happy!

Here's a couple of Valiants...

Here's a survivor of sorts... 1965 Dodge Coronet planted in hot wax! Now that Alan has shown up, I'll let him 'splain it!

Only his pride

A 65 Valiant kit or promo isn’t all that scarce. The tough one is the 66 Valiant, very scarce as a promo, didn’t make it to kit. It is available in resin though.

I will back up Dave... that is very cool!

No, her voice is the most annoying sound on TV!

Hey Charlie!

It's been a rainy, soggy summer here in Eastern Pa. There is a meme on Facebook that says it only rained here twice this summer... once for 45 days and once for 30 days. And that's pretty accurate. My yard has been one big sponge, to the point that the grass is getting overtaken by the mud. I had wanted to get some yard chores done since I had no obligations this weekend, but it drizzled all day yesterday (so I got in some bench time!) and today it was hot and very humid. My wife and I took a walk and came home sweaty from just that!