Tom Geiger

On my way home tonight I was passing a trailer load of new Mercedes and I noticed a gray SLC350 on the bottom row. Then I noticed that the front left fender was dented in! Somebody is in trouble!

Revell is reaching out to the next generation with the easy snap kits, they are doing Make and Takes with these at major events. And they will sell Make and Take packs to any organization that asks, low cost, probably at costs. Michaels was doing these too. TV is way too expensive for the model companies today on their limited budgets. I don't remember any TV ads for kits when I was a kid, they reached out to us through comic book ads. I don't think kids read comics anymore.

I've been all over the world and the Bonneville Salt Flats was one of the most interesting environments. First, since it's vast nothingness, you lose your sense of perspective, because there is nothing to compare for reference. The mountains you see in the back ground of the photos never changes size no matter how far out you walk so you can't tell if they are a mile away or 100 miles away. There were people out on the salt so far away that they were ants but they didn't seem to be anywhere near the mountain base. Vast! The salt surface is very hard, you can't break it with your shoe. It looks like ice, but not the least bit slippery. It has a roughness like unsmoothed concrete, and feels like those abrasive slip strips you find on outdoor stairways. It is salt, so it attracts condensate from the air, so there will be small holes every so often filled with water, and sometimes puddles on the surface. They will have to evaporate because they are not going to melt into the salt! Just a very cool place!

I noticed that the bonnet was tight once I put the headlight rings on. It seems to be catching on the back of those on my Universal.

Thanks for all the input guys! I guess it's like a 50/50 thing. And it confirms that I'm not crazy and will continue to paint everything!

You got it Andy! "The Crush" was actually filmed in Canada and that was a Canadian Valiant V200 with the Dodge Dart rear end on it. Haven't seen you in the hobby for a while! Are you coming to NNL East this year?

Andy, I saw this one in the supermarket parking lot a while back. Your project reminded me of these photos. I may just build it someday.

Cool idea. I love building models of vehicles I remember from my life. Remember to raise the top of the windshield, it's too low on the AMT kit.

Glass- I seldom break or crack glass. My beaters are usually legal drivers. All I usually do is NOT clean and shine the glass. It will already have some residue on it from handling. Just make sure it doesn't have large fingerprints. Also if you want to simulate a dirty windshield, tape off the wiper pattern on the outside of the glass and spray a little Dullcote from a distance.

Nothing like a country where nobody has more than a few years driving experience! Every day is demo derby day. And threatening little buggers aren't they?

We are too touchy a society... can't even make short bus jokes today!

I have to run up to the hobby shop to grab mine. I saw the new paper in issue 191 and actually like it better. No lamp glare as I'm trying to read it. Paper quality is good, not cheap.

I'd have to dig but there's a Rolls Royce partner to that Morris!

Go to Post 1, your first entry. Click on the editor. Once that appears you'll see, "Use Full Editor". Then you will notice that the title is editable.

You are doing a lot of good things on this model. First, inventing a new way to weather tires is cool. This is the reason we are on the board. Someone looks at a task from a slightly different perspective, and we have a new technique! I also like your wipers and that you have the eye for detail that led you to putting them at different angles. That's the kind of stuff that makes a model look realistic, especially when doing a car that's less than showroom perfect. I also will put my headrests at different heights, and with bucket seats I'll push the drivers seat all the way back. Just little details that really take no special talent or effort, but make a big difference in the overall look of your model. Back when I did my'55 Chevy pickup with the Christmas Tree sign on it, the great master Joe Cavorley was looking it over. He proclaimed that my wipers were too shiny. So I told him that you could put new wipers on an old truck! And yes that same truck had a brand new battery and cables. And my next beater truck had a bright blue Pep Boys water pump! It's all in the details.

Quick-Chang rears were made in Japan It's interesting that it also says "rubber tires". I don't have an original kit but I have a case of the last reissue and they had 2 piece styrene tires in them.

Nicely done! I especially like the grille detail with the pin heads! A lot of work, no doubt wouldn't have been accomplished if it were not for Pabst!

Okay, I found an image... I need this!

Good luck Jeff! And I hope to see your finished model at NNL East! I was unemployed for over a year myself. I found that model building was one of the things that helped me keep my sanity. I would spend my days in the job hunt, but at 5pm I'd take a break and head to the model room. My wife would get home at 6pm, so I had an hour to spend each night before we started to prepare dinner. I found that during a job search, no matter how hard you work at it, you really aren't 100% in control of the outcomes. It's a very frustrating time. Working on a model at the end of the day would clear my head, and give me something where I could set goals I could achieve. And that year I built and finished more models than at any other time!

I think the displays are pretty cool and so do the buyers since some of them are bid up around the $50 mark. I'd be a buyer of the Monogram Green Hornet if he does that one.

Dullcote is your friend here. Spray the chrome and it will be fine.The aluminum doesn't rust but 'chalks out' so light grey and flat white accents would be appropriate.

Looking pretty good! That's what I'd call a Western car, one that the sun beat down on the upper surfaces, damaged the paint and it rusted. Those don't have rust on the lower surfaces. A rust belt car is just the opposite, rust on the lower surfaces, rust through on floors. Tops fairly clean.

Betcha it starts!