Tom Geiger

Oh, and I love your pond too! Very relaxing to watch the water flow! I have a natural brook that runs through my yard.

Great project Richard! And fun to be along for the ride with all the attempts and changes to the project. It shows that even the great modelers don't get it right the first time. It's not about getting things right every time, it's about not quitting until you get it right! While a lot of modelers would have just settled for the black and green scheme, you kept at it until it looked right to your eyes and vision. And that's what we call art! Funny thing though, I had jumped ahead to page 8, and in my first glance, your glossy patina looked like burled mahogany!

You are right Bill. This one didn't get off the lot. I had read an article about this guy a while back. To find it, I went to Google Images and put in "Tesla Wreck" and OMG..... I guess where there are hot cars, idiots are soon to follow! Expect Tesla based rods any day now! https://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1268&bih=610&q=tesla+wreck&oq=tesla+wreck&gs_l=img.3..0j0i8i30j0i24.1018.3419.0.4078.11.10.0.1.1.0.76.551.9.9.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..1.10.556.jq2FCXLB8VU#imgrc=_

Had an evil thought... many Tesla stores have a display chassis in their show room. Now I'm not sure if that's a piece pulled right from production or some budget mock up with plastic motors. But think about if that is a real working chassis.... and they wind up surplus... could be a lot of fun in custom cars and street rods!

They pretty much have that worked out. Keep in mind we have two Teslas in the family. Neither has found charging to be an issue. Tesla has enough quick charging stations in major areas. My cousin has been as far south as Georgia and as far west as Detroit. He lives in Pennsylvania. He said in all his travels he has never been inconvenienced more than the time it took to eat dinner. The Tesla GPS plans your route by the quick charge stations, the list of locations is downloaded to the car every night. And it can only get better.

I have driven Teslas... it's fricken amazing. What hasn't caught on yet is affordability . It's like when a PC was $5000 and nobody could afford one. Teslas coming off 2 year leases are making their way back to showrooms. Funny thing is that the used units are selling for what they cost new. Give it time. Game over!

Going back to the 1900s, early in the auto industry it was a lot like early in the computer industry. Small town shops assembling cars and computers from parts they bought manufactured elsewhere. How unique was that car? Did it have a Dodge Brothers frame, Continental engine and other bought components, merely assembled by the manufacturer? So you want one of the 100 produced / none known to exist Wigley Cabrolets... how hard would it be to build one from scratch?

It does have that "I made this in shop class outta plywood" look. You could cut one out of sheet plastic. What it does have in its favor is that he did come up with a unique look. I won't be spending big money on one but would buy one at normal kit prices

Thanks everyone. She's doing okay. She always has issues with anesthesia so she'll be an extra day in ICU but operation was a success. I'm fortunate that my boss is working in Europe the next month, so I will be working from home to look after her.

I'd keep the original intact. The detail is crisper. I have model king release and some details are poor

There is a guy who makes the proper sheets in both white and clear. I believe it's Callari Motorworks. I have his info at home, pm me if you want it

If all else fails... I used the bench from the Revell 66 Chevelle wagon in my Volare.

I write this from a hospital waiting room as a surgeon is working on sewing up a valve on my wife's heart. This was planned surgery and with the miracles they do today, this all should be fine. But it kinda takes the whine outta the mini irks!

No photo but as a follow up to my Tesla posts, my nephew who just graduated high school just got an internship at Tesla. I guess telling them that your family owns two kinda puts you to the head of the list. Got a feeling that I'll be seeing a lot more Teslas!

Gotta love the bag of shifters from Michaels! I had to buy new shirts to get shifters!

Back when I worked in Pearl River, NY, my daily commute was to get off the Garden State Parkway in Montvale, NJ. This was home to Mercedes Benz, Smart and BMW US headquarters so you never knew just what you'd see on the local roads wearing NJ Manufacturers tags. In the day they had all the Smart Euro models trekking around, and odd Euro cars like new Peugeots, Fiats and the like that they must've been testing.

We have in the diecast arena... there are Chinese diecast 1/24-5 scale cars that are dead ringers for Danbury Mint vehicles... 1941 Plymouth Pickup, 1953 Chevy tow truck, 1941 Chevy convertible to name a few. Pretty darn near exact copies but cheaped down a bit and sold in the $10-20 price range.

No, we'd go back. With the photographic proof it was there when we left, the owner understood it wasn't us! This kind of stuff happens to us! Many years ago we rented a house in the Poconos and a week later the owner was chasing us that we stole the paddles to their boat. We never used or saw the boat, had no interest to do so. I understand that it was on a rack down by the lake. A renter prior to us may have lost them or left them in the boat and someone took them. The house owner wouldn't hear it, and had the realtor keep our deposit. It wasn't worth chasing them in court in another state two hours away. Stupid guy... we had rented the same house several years in a row (and never used their boat!). For $200 he threw that away, we never went back.

Guess you are still waiting for Beta to come back!

Pictures! If you're building cool cars, we wanna see!

Me either. Had Paypal since the inception, never had phone contact with them. They have split off from eBay so there have been questions on the eBay boards about how they'll interact with your auctions and if anything will change.

For traveling to local model shows in my own car, I simply take a model kit box, set the model in the center of it, and surround it with packing peanuts. Put the top back on the box, and stack them in a larger box. Easy as that.

Yes, the box art is probably the Winterberry Red or the Russet Red. That's pretty much the feature car for that year's brochure. I had pictures somewhere of a four door done in the Yuma Yellow with a white top. It was very nice looking, especially since I've never seen a model done in that color.

I also noticed how tough it is to find auto transmissions in kits. For instance, I have original 1968 - 1976 full size Chevys to build. They all come with 454 4 speeds! Not exactly how I remember those cars, nor how I want to build the entire line of them! I see the Morgan transmissions as part of the solution, but it would be nice to find engine/trans combos like a 283 with a power glide, 327s etc. The two I owned in real life, a 1970 Impala coupe and a 1971 Belair sedan both had the 350/350 combo, probably was the most common.