Tom Geiger

I lived in Germany from 1969-72 and those eye stickers were very popular then! I forgot all about that until I saw them on your model!

I think at least three guys complained that their Michaels store that's very near to a Hobby Lobby had a lame model department. I'm thinking that they surrendered and just stocked some obligatory models knowing they couldn't compete with HL in that area. The Michaels stores near me (no HL near) have a better stock than described, more like the set of photos that were posted earlier.

there was an ancient Jeep with snow plow on it near my old house in New Jersey. It had a home made wooden cab on it.

Not really home made but since sand paper came up, here's something that makes my life much easier. Above is my sand paper cabinet. It cost something like $7 at Walmart I wanted to have two different grits per drawer, so I made some simple drawer dividers from cardboard Then I took standard size full sheets of sandpaper in the grits I wanted. I inherited my father's garage full of stuff so I had most of it in stock! I cut these handy little sanding sheets on my roller cutting board. Size is an inch square. You get a ton of them from a pack of sandpaper. More than a year's supply of most grits. Insert squares in the bins and you are set for a very long time. It also saves on sandpaper since most guys waste a lot tearing pieces off the full sheet. I use these for most of my hand sanding.

Yup! In our headquarters building... that we cleverly have disguised as a church!

Nice little deuce and just under the wire to be the last build of 2014!

Whoa! this is gonna be a serious build... he's using shiny pennies!

Same concept as buying the cereal to get the prize!

Fourth box was in the house... the one I opened to get the cards on top!

Look what I got! Opened my garage door and 4 big boxes were there! Yup, the NNL East postcards came from the printer. So you know what we're doing at our club meeting on Saturday! Right on target for our annual goal of getting the mailing out before January 15th.

Postcards came today! Expect to see yours in the mail in the next week!

I grew up in the the military so I became used to being in a diverse community from an early age. I have known what its like to be the foreign guy. Moving forward I have spent the last 35 years in the pharmaceutical industry, which is very diverse, so I don't even notice these things until someone stops to point it out. In fact I had a friend I knew 10-15 years when he mentioned being Jewish. I didn't know that. Religion had never come up in our hobby conversations. Hobbies are the great equalizer, because having a common interest brings people of different backgrounds together. I really enjoy knowing modelers from different parts of the world, male, female, young, old, and of different faiths and races. I like to see how people who come from different beginnings and experiences approach the same thing... like street rodders in Australia, Europe and South Africa. So close, but with some interesting twists. It's all part of what makes this interesting. And the really interesting part is what's called "crowd sourcing", where a topic or question comes up and answers come from all over. That happens on the board all the time, and sometimes the solutions come from all over the world. We take that for granted today. And that's very cool.

Very true. I worked my tail off for a company for 15 years and got involved in a mass layoff. No fault of my own, just happened to have my number come up. My boss was very upset and in my exit interview he said that after all the hard work I had done for this company, that the sad fact was that there were people siting reading newspapers in the building right now. And knowing some of the employees in the company, he was right. Even sadder is coming back to same company as a consultant 15 years later after working for three companies in three different states, and finding that some of those newspaper readers are still there, and even promoted a level or two higher!

Cheers Dave! I own two air brushes but haven't cracked them out in at least five years. The above model is Duplicolor Automotive spray paint, over their primer. The results are good enough for me so I do this almost exclusively. With your interest in figures, with the detail painting and toning, maybe I can enlist you over to the dark side of auto modeling? Weathering and rusting require pretty much the eye and skills you have exhibited in the figure you posted. In doing this type of work I use spray paints, but I do a lot of hand detail work. Much of my rust is chalk powders and painting on the detail, much akin to working with water colors. Just an illustration of the diversity we have in auto modeling.

Tory left out of his photo... he also created a section of 1/25 scale orange track to display it on!

Can't take credit, I swiped both of these from FaceBook...

Ha! This photo was also posted on da-udder-board and I was looking down the comments and saw my comment wasn't there... it was confusing because I could've sworn I had posted a comment! And then I see it was here!

Very nice work! The suit case has outstanding details too!

That's Cool! I like it! Back in the day a friend of mine had one that yours reminds me of. It was the same blue, but a lighter blue top like your door color. About the same battle scars, and maybe 200 lbs of garbage in the back seat!

Looks good. It's pretty much the same kit as the sedan, so you should be chock full of experience!

That knocks out just about everyone! Looks like they don't want to pay a relo package.

Car wouldn't start. Had to drive the truck to work today.

Harry, look at the top shelf. Those are all cool model boxes, and I like to have them on display.

I wasn't building in that time frame, so how I remember the program is all the flimsy boxes at swap meets because the token is cut out badly!

The problem here is that there is snow on my driveway and sidewalk, but not enough to use my snow blower! That means shoveling... ugh!