Tom Geiger

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Nothing like car repairs! We had no problems with our daily drivers all thru Covid.. two weeks ago I had a coil go bad on my Hyundai and no sooner got that fixed, I noticed an oily spot under the LaCrosse… bad rear wheel caliper so doing the back brakes completely!

I agree! I’d be really pleased if I had a model from when I was 15!

Why Hobby Lobby? I guess because it’s there! Just the idea of being able to go somewhere.. anywhere physically in place of a real hobby shop. Online is just not the same thing. I do remember back before HL had stores near me and I’d see guys crowing about it on sites.. I thought it must be a big hobby shop! When I finally got to one it was like, “Hunh? This is IT?” ? I was there this week… I was 20 minutes early for my haircut appointment and needed to kill some time.. no kits I needed even at 40% off, then I checked the clearance area and bought a rubber stamp of a turtle ?! Yea I’m easily amused!

Look super! When I saw your thread title I thought someone was commenting on a year old thread!

Very nice work!

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I dropped off the LaCrosse at the garage today for a leaky rear brake cylinder. This shop shares the parking lot. This is just a few of the vehicles they have!

In the interest of saving someone from accidentally neutering themself… Old draftsman tip.. add a little wing of masking take to your knife as shown here. It no longer rolls.

A lot of fleets used to do that. Back around 1977 the local utility sold a fleet of 1966 Nova meter reader cars. All gold 2 door sedans, complete strippers except for the 2 speed automatics. Cars didn’t even have radios. A buddy of mine bought one for something like $100. There were a lot of these around. We figured out they had a fleet key, so whenever we were driving around looking for trouble as young boys will, and we spotted one of these parked, we’d move it using my friend’s key! Just moved within a parking lot or facing the other direction.. just enough to make the owner notice. We thought we were hilarious!

I remember the days before they separated the model kits by type.. you had to skip by all the tanks, boats and aircraft, but you still could browse that entire category! Today I rely on my saved searches or browse the Ending Soon for things ending in the next few hours. I buy and sell in the stamp collector area because postage costs have pretty much ruined buying models.

Someone else recently did! I’ve always planned to do one, I was thinking the wagon as that was more prolific in service in my area. Still I remember the 1980 era hatchbacks. They only had one seat for the driver. The back was all flat for cargo and the passenger seat was replaced with a sorting tray. I have the East German post office Trabbie, still have to finish it!

USPS Pinto??? Any details? Will it have authentic decals to match what the actual postal fleet Pintos wore back in the day??

Great work on a fun old kit! And your diorama brings in the Keebler elves aspect! Did you build it or did these guys do it at night? ?

But get none!

Comet looks great in flat black!

Great work! Love all the color. I have one of those dune buggies someone painted all flat black.. no comparison!

EBay recently made a lot of category changes, supposedly to make it easier for people on mobile devices. What they pretty much did was screwed up everyone’s saved searches. Mine were very specific and only hit occasionally. Now they turn up gibberish results daily.. like 100s of items. Sellers are complaining sales are down because nobody can find their stuff. Buyers aren’t invested time trying to fix their searches. You have to be pretty stupid to totally screw up a working system!

Agreed. Leave it out on display and you’ll get used to it. Not a bad color

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Cool! I had a 1978 Sportsman window van. And I have every version of the Dodge vans done in kits. It's interesting that MPC changed details on the van kit every year, including things like the roof stamping detail. A few years ago I went through my Dodge van junkyard looking for a body to cut up, and realized that each and every one I had was different!

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