Tom Geiger

Nice colors on the Bronco! Second paint job should be the charm!

I swear these things just find me! Spending some quality bench time restoring this tattered old warrior. I'm figuring this was built somewhere around 1960. Don't date it by the 53 Studebaker wheels on the front end, I added those since the entire front end was wiped! t The one part I'm missing... can anyone identify this bumper? The inner part that goes down was probably longer as it appears to have been cut.

Oops! I spilt hot coffee all over my Bobbit!

"Yourself!" Yelled Aunt Rosie but we didn't hear the first words!

Destructors like little kids with big hammers

Easiest fix I ever did— my daughter had a Plymouth Breeze and she was complaining that sometimes.. randomly the car wouldn’t go into park. And so the key wouldn’t come out. She had to leave it that way in her work parking lot with a towel over the steering column so nobody would see the key. The car had a recall for the floor shifter so I took it to the dealer. They said there was no problem. Then one day she ran into the house proclaiming, “It’s doing it! I can’t get it into park!” So I run out front interested in seeing the problem. I grab the shifter and move it back and forth.. I try to get it into Park and it stops! Then I realize it’s hitting a big coffee mug she has in the cup holder! Remove cup.. problem fixed!

Teacher saw young Jimminy pop the pimple, squirting across the classroom possibly spreading Covid to everyone!

Fang was Phyllis Diller’s husband

Another FedEx rant! I’m waiting and watching for two pallets of computer monitors. Tracking said delivery by end of day yesterday. And what worried me was “no signature required” which has enabled them to just dump deliveries on our outdoor loading dock… yea, stuff has sat out there all weekend. So I sat here until 6pm yesterday.. nothing. I half expected to find it outside this morning.. nope. I check tracking and now it just says “pending.. no scheduled delivery date available at this time”. Fortunately I don’t need the monitors for a few weeks. And garbage like this is why I told everyone to order everything way ahead!

Decades go by and model projects sit dormant in their boxes ?

I’ve got an 80 seat office renovation going and supply chain has been the biggest threat to completion. Up front I told all parties to order and take delivery NOW and that I had no problem paying invoices for materials that were stored in the building. Right now I have all the ceiling tiles, carpet, appliances and a lot of the new furniture in the building. Still this week it was warm in my CEOs office and we needed a VAV blower motor. None to be had! I had the contractor pull one out of a unit in an empty space to get the boss comfortable! And as far as new cars, used Hyundais like my 2015 Elantra are sell for more than I paid for mine in 2018. People are holding off buying new cars now but there may be no better time like now. Note that most of the semiconductors come from Taiwan. One wrong move by China and there may be no new cars at any price!

Hello Ray! Good to see you here old friend! (I just saw this thread for the first time)

It's a touchy subject, and I think the opinions will vary as to people's connection to the hobby. I just went through the Off Topic Lounge and found the Bruce Owens thread. It was somewhere between "What Did You Get Today" and "What Did You Eat For Dinner", I went four pages deep and while I found death threads for general celebrities (which we really don't need on the board at all) and I didn't find mention of another modeler who has passed. Sad. For those of you who don't know or have met anyone here in person, who thinks we're all Artificial Intelligence Robots for you to play with, yea you don't need to know who has passed. You don't know who they are anyway. For those who are invested in the community, understand the history, or whether you have corresponded with folks some 20 years on boards or those who know a lot of these folks in person, it's different! For me, I have been in clubs and attended shows since the 1990s. I have been on message boards from the AOL Model Chat days, and know people that long. When someone you have bantered with, or exchanged emails and maybe parts, it's not like meeting someone new when you finally meet them face to face at a show. Same way you are very sad to hear of their passing. And due to my overinvolvement in the hobby I know a lot of the folks in person. There were people I looked forward to seeing every year at NNL East like Rich Manson. I knew him 30 years. And there are people I'd see at GSL every two years. Several have died this past year. The Jersey Shore Model Car Club lost two members recently, Pete Linsky and Russ Reber, who I knew 30 years. I was on the phone with a friend the other day and we talked about all the people who were in the room for the last NNL East (3 years ago!) who we have lost since then. It's sad and they will be missed. They are family.

When we had our garage sale, nothing went back in the house. Directly into the van that was driven to Goodwill. At our local Goodwill I seldom see much of value. I buy Kodak slide trays since I have tons of slides from my father. I used to buy wooden shoe trees to sell on eBay back before postage went crazy. Recently I have found a broken Franklin Mint VW Beetle, and I like to browse the T-shirt rack for anything interesting. I have shirts from all kinds of bars and such from around the country. And old concert shirts, one even a road crew shirt!

Picture a supermarket size store with one aisle for models! They also sell fake antique furniture, cutsey signs, holiday decorations... lotza stuff for people too lazy to actually make anything. And they play Christian music, disguised as elevator music over their speakers.

Be a Romper Room DooBee!

Lookin’ good! I support your decision to glue on the body panels, 100% improvement! Nothing like fiddly old kits! Yes, I glued doors shut on a bunch of oldies!

Assures social distancing

There is an obit thread buried somewhere on the board. So I get and support your wish. We've lost way too many folks lately!

We have no hobby shop, just a Hobby Lobby in town. The two storefronts that I had thought would be a perfect location for a hobby shop are both now vape shops!

Error is my middle name!

That was the slant six engine we had available for a long while. Until Lindberg came out with the 64 Dodge and Plymouths, which is the best slant ever done in 1/25! As such I bought a 6 pack case of Deoras when Hobby Heaven had them on sale back in the 1990s. Having a bunch of kits I didn't need I went for broke and stretched the chassis to build the Deora Hauler... This is as far as I went with it. Note that the hauler body is card stock.

Have you read the book Roadster by Chris Goodrich?

My grandfather told me for years that his first car was a yellow 32 Chevy Rumble seat convertible. Later seeing photos I think it was a 31. Throwing an idea out there.. I’ve been thinking about putting the nice chassis from the Dodge D50 or Ford Courier pickups under a 30s car.

Hi Charlie- I have a similar deserving candidate on the shelf over my work bench. Mine is currently brushed dark green and the attached box has some serious sink marks on the sides. I was considering a kit bash with the AMT 53 pickup, using that chassis and step side box to create a short wheelbase truck.