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What some of you are missing is the business equation here... + eBay allows you to refine your search - because eBay makes money if you can find what you want + eBay allows you to follow your favorite sellers - because eBay makes money if you buy more things from them + eBay allows the sellers in question to post loads of over priced model car parts - because eBay makes money from this seller + eBay won't allow you to block a seller - because they don't make any money doing that! Plain and simple. eBay isn't going to offer a service that works against eBay make money.
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Great concept and work so far. I knew we'd be seeing some Trabbie rods before long. Only comment. It's an East German car, not Russian.
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New kits with flaws.
Tom Geiger replied to Dave Metzner's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
I was going to post in this thread, and after I saw how some guys behave I just walked away. And we wonder why this board has that reputation! Dave, thanks for trying to educate the board, but as you said in your closing, there will still be gripers and complainers. There are those on the board that have no professional project management experience, and don't understand the process and constraints any program has to work within. Those of us who do are amazed at what you accomplish within those parameters. Guys, note that Dave is personally the project manager on TWENTY of these projects at the same time. Many of you would have issues building more than one model at a time, never mind run the program that creates the product. And as Tim said, it's amazing that engineers in China, who have never seen these cars in person, get these so right. If we were in the days of 500,000 kit runs, Moebius could ship a 1:1 of the car to China and let them at it. Then we'd get that near perfect model! You can do anything with no constraints on time, people, resources and cash, but unfortunately that's not the real world. Now go back and read Dave's first post and absorb it. He tells it like it is. -
Scratch Building an Aussie Ford Falcon **New update,15/1/18**
Tom Geiger replied to ShawnS's topic in WIP: Model Cars
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Welcome to the board. Love the diorama, hat's my wife's dream probably the day after I die! You aren't far so I want to invite you to NNL East in New Jersey. Harold Bradford always comes, and it's a great crash course overview as to where the hobby is today. http://www.nnleast.com
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Hi Guiseppe- What kind of work are you doing in the Ukraine?
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Welcome Christian! I am American but I lived in Pirmasens as a child from 1969-72. I build mainly US light commercial vehicles, such as pickup trucks, but I have a fondness for old Euro cars from my time there. So my current build is a Trabant Universale! I'm happy to have the International diversity of the board.
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I think Mark answered the question.. sounds like the tool was modified from stock to make the stock car version. If the original was a 2 in 1 and the stock parts were on the tooling, Round 2 would've given them to ya!
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Would it be easier to cut the bell housing off the resin trans instead of the finished engine? You could cut it off with a razor saw, cutting a bit into the housing, then sanding it down towards the trans.
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1958 Mercury Parklane convertible - Class of '58 - Graduate #11
Tom Geiger replied to Ramfins59's topic in Model Cars
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When is a build complete in your eyes?
Tom Geiger replied to ERIK88's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
Mirrors... small parts that benefit from being pinned onto the model. I drill out the kit mounts just enough to fit a small length of straight pin inside. Then I drill the corresponding holes in the model. Sometimes the fit is good enough that they stay in place without glue. Otherwise, I just add the dab of glue on the inside of the body. It does take some effort, but it's worth it since I've never lost a mirror! I'm fairly sure that Norm Veber makes some nice exterior car mirrors. -
When is a build complete in your eyes?
Tom Geiger replied to ERIK88's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
There's always one more detail! When I'm coming into the home stretch on a model that I'm enjoying building, I always find an excuse to extend the build. On my Dodge A100 van, I never intended to put an interior in the back. It was always going to be dark windows and a curtain behind the front seats. Once I got going it was.... hmmm, I could easily add the interior. So I spent a week or so doing that. I am happy I did it but you can hardly see it through the windows. On my current build, the Volare, the old MPC kit didn't have a lot of detail under the hood. To get it done (it's 20 years old!) I was going to glue the hood shut... and now I've spent a few weeks adding all sorts of plumbing under the hood. I never learn! But I wouldn't be happy if I didn't follow the voices in my head. And it's almost a let down when I am finished. -
Caprice and Crown Victoria Interior Colors
Tom Geiger replied to av405's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
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I love seeing this one come together since it's so cool! It's always something... washer bottle... On my current project I went to finish the engine compartment and the master cylinder hits the air cleaner! So manual brakes it is, it fits well without the booster!
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It's all part of the process. I'm trying to button up the engine compartment on my Volare project. I try to put the firewall in place and the brake master cylinder is colliding with the air cleaner. I remove the master cylinder and figure if I lop off the power booster, it will look right... so manual brakes it is! Then still, the firewall won't sit in place, so it's time to carve it a bit to allow for the transmission to fit under it. Still a few silly things to adjust before it will all go together, still a few hours not planned on!
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Don't you get the "Senior Coffee"??
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What Did You Get Today? (Not Model Related)
Tom Geiger replied to LOBBS's topic in The Off-Topic Lounge
My 1996 Dodge Grand Caravan is due for inspection and I noticed a head light was out. I wanted to get those Xenon bulbs, so I popped onto eBay and ordered a pair about noon time yesterday. And guess what? They were in today's mail! They came USPS First Class mail from California to Pennsylvania in less than 24 hours! Frickin Amazing! I also ordered new headlights since mine are frosted over. When I saw I could buy a brand new pair for $63 postpaid, I couldn't resist. Especially since I have to remove the headlight to change the bulbs. May as well put on new ones. I guess those will show up in another day or so! Correction - The headlights are here too! FedEx Ground from Virginia. Just found them outside the garage door! And when model car sellers on eBay get told they were slow shippers (even though they were within the eBay time limits), this is why! -
Great for you Ray! As I sit here I'm waiting for my two daughters to show up, although their two hour drive from NJ to PA isn't as exciting as flying in from San Diego! Enjoy the time together, as you know they were 12 years old, we blinked and now they're adults!
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Caprice and Crown Victoria Interior Colors
Tom Geiger replied to av405's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
This is a local dealer. I've seen these cars in person. They always have a bunch of Vics, they had one with 5000 miles recently. They buy a lot of their cars from government motor pools. I'm sending these since this dealer always has a lot of nice pictures. May be worth saving these to your hard drive for later. A bit later model than you asked for but some decent photos in these two car descriptions... Note that one of them has an all cloth interior, while the other has cloth front seats and a vinyl back seat. This was typical for marked units. http://www.carvision.com/web/used/Ford-Police-Interceptor-2009-Norristown-Pennsylvania/16324955/ http://www.carvision.com/web/used/Ford-Police-Interceptor-2010-Norristown-Pennsylvania/17995555/ This last one is a Police Interceptor as well, but an unmarked car. This one was on my short list when I bought the Buick LaCrosse recently. Wife thought it was too big, but she likes the LaCrosse just fine... http://www.carvision.com/web/used/Ford-Crown-Victoria-2006-Norristown-Pennsylvania/16735825/ -
Those are Jada wheels, and I believe they put them on a number of different vehicles. I believe mine came off a '32 Ford. What kit did you steal that rear roof from? It looks good
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Food Odours ... of the UNpleseant Kind
Tom Geiger replied to 1972coronet's topic in The Off-Topic Lounge
My wife tells her childhood story about her mother feeding the six kids liver once a week, no matter how much they hated it. Her father refused to eat it so her mother would make him a hamburger instead! No leading by example in that family. -
AMT Parts Pack prices
Tom Geiger replied to Ben's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
Commenting on the last two posts... There are three, possibly more, supply paths... 1. Entities large enough to do direct orders with Revell / Round 2. These are larger hobby shops that can move full cases of each SKU, hobby dealers we see at shows that do a large quantity of sales. 2. Distributors - These are the middlemen that sell goods to hobby shops. They'll sell broken cases and whatever meeting of the minds there are between them and the hobby shops they serve. I know of one hobby shop that has standing order of 2 of each new release kit from their distributor. 3, Big Box - For this illustration lets include Hobby Lobby, Michaels, AC Moore, and other large multi state or national companies with many stores. They obviously buy in very large quantity, direct from the manufacturers to their own warehouse and distribution network. And on top of that is Walmart, who basically dictates pricing / terms to their suppliers. The competition to get a product into the big box category is wicked. Each of these has it's own set of numbers and since we are talking about privately owned manufacturers, we don't have access to their costs / sales breakdowns. The business model of markup in retail, marking up something 100% (called marking it up a 'key') is probably out the window in this complex business world today. The cost of a single model to our Number 1 example is obviously less than our Number 2 example since we've eliminated a middle man. The Number 3 example obviously buys at the lowest possible price because of the huge quantities they purchase.