Tom Geiger

I don’t know what the life of these is supposed to be and of course those of different brands and quality. Are you getting paint on it? Originally I noticed I was and moved it.

Back in the day before they merchandised everything to death! As a kid I would’ve loved to have a Speed Racer model or Hot Wheels car but none was available!

It makes sense to do the Green Hornet as long as they have the licensing. Did anyone say it was coming from the original 1964 tooling? Today it may even be easier to produce that curbside kit as an all new tool. And as the Whine-Fest develops, note that this kit isn't aimed at us car model geeks. It's going out to the TV and Movie fans, there are large conventions all over the country. Most of the kits will be sold to this market, and many will never have the shrink wrap broken. And it makes business sense...

Nice work! I just bought that kit. Chassis looks interesting, how does it build?

Back when I was young my friend and I were like Richie and Potsie from Happy Days. We were 17 and seniors and I had a car. Two Junior girls, who were trouble, asked us if we wanted to go to a party with them.. uh, yes! So we drove them several towns away. One of them had a fake ID so we pulled up out front of a liquor store and gave them money. They went in and we waited.. and waited.. finally took a look and found they weren’t there. Liquor store has a back door! We were ditched and scammed!

I like the Dart project, I'm building a few old family cars now myself. I have my old 56 Chevy and my dad's 64 VW on the bench. That Dart kit is a good one, especially that chassis. Perfect for replacing old one piece chassis on older kits. I have a few tucked away for that purpose.

I build 1/24 or 1/25 exclusively, pretty much because my eye is trained to that scale.

Love the blue squirrel ?

Super food truck at my company picnic. Wood fired pizza, oven right behind the cab. Pizza wasn’t bad either. 1950 F6

What ever trans is behind the puny 2.4 MItsu engine! When I do get around to using that chassis under a street rod, I'll use the fully turbo engine thing!

I did mine as bare bones stock. I used wheels and tires from the 57 Chevy Black Widow. I thought those big six lug wheels would be good for Chevy pickups…

It’s a nice kit, well engineered and a lot of detail parts. The chassis will slide right under your street rods too. As I built mine I test fit the chassis under a 40 Ford sedan delivery. You can also build a Mitsubishi version with some decal magic and that resin grille. One thing to note.. actual vehicle has six lug wheels.

From dried poop ?

Ice cream ! Gotta love the high top treatment. It was my company 4 year anniversary so everyone got ice cream on my company credit card.

Cool! Came out great! I love to see what everyone has done with this kit, one of my favorites.

Nice work! I like it!

That looks great! I think we all have contemplated building one of these! I have an old SJS resin kit of same, and I have a Danbury Mint version. Too cool! With that 1950 Chevy pickup kit, watch how the nose wants to sit onto the chassis. It doesn't play nice!

eBay has sellers dancing like trained poodles. The standard ship time is within 3 days. And eBay hounds and demotes sellers who take longer. I don't use eBay's shipping labels so I'm not familiar with that sequence. I sell flat paper items that mostly fit in an #11 business envelope. I do volume, shipping an average of 250 items a month, so I try to ship every day or it backs up! The "Buyer Paid- Ship Now" page lists everything you need to ship. As I pack up things, note that I may have 10-30 items on that list, the only way to get them off the list is to mark them "Mark As Shipped". That makes them go away so you can focus on the rest of the items you need to ship, otherwise it gets into a tangle on your screen. And eBay stops pestering you to ship. I generally pack and ship in the evening. Those items get marked as "Shipped" today, but they get dropped off at the post office in the morning. Things I pack this evening will sit until Monday morning. And that's just the way it is! I don't sit on things for days.

Yesterday a tractor trailer dropped 20 pallets of Dell monitors on my loading dock for the other major tenant in our building. Turns out it was a double shipment, the requested shipment was received last week. Now those 20 pallets line the hallway, as they try to figure out what to do!

But it's amazing what people fall for! My wife had me watch a Dr Phil where a lady in her 70s was scammed by a guy in Nigeria out of over a million dollars... even sold her house and sent him the proceeds!

I had a similar thing happen in my house. A towel hook in the bathroom was leaking black ooze down the wall... My wife had this vision that the entire wall was full of black mold... but it was similar to the tire issue here. A plastic / rubber gasket between the metal on the hook and the wall was deteriorating and gravity did it's thing. It was sticky to the touch and would stain your fingers, but wiped off the wall with lacquer thinner.

Very nice model! Just think how revolutionary that design was in 1956! Downright space age! I've always liked Citroen cures... the position of the spare tire... the steering wheel! I remember being a kid on a trip to Paris in 1968 and being amazed at that wheel. These were Taxi Cabs all over Paris at the time.

Mini pickup or would that be a Ute? Probably started out as one of those Red Bull ad cars or something like that.

And I was just kidding for Gods sake! I know we all know each other a long time.. and many of us have met in person. I’ve met both Luc and Steve..

Folks here need to understand we are the movers and shakers in the hobby... some of us are more like Trekkies who wear their Starship Uniform out in public! ? We are a small part of Round 2's market... I understand something less than 10%. Those of us who attend shows, know every minute detail of every kit etc. The "Mass Market" are casual builders whose entire involvement is in the Hobby Lobby aisle, or know where their local hobby shop is located. I read once that the average stay in the hobby is 18 months. That means R2 could turn over their entire catalog every two years and they'd all be new kits to that current group of buyers.