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Ha! The very reason why I think it's funny. Right up there with the Taco Bell "Run For The Border" ad campaign... And why White Castle started to call their burgers "sliders" after people named them that because..
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WOW,,,,,,,,,,Is all I can say .
Tom Geiger replied to gtx6970's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
One of the bidders is a guy in my club. I know that because he sent the same link above to our club email chain, and said he was out at $1000. And why shouldn't a nicely done model pull big money? It's about time our craft was recognized as art! Still, with the man hours I'd have to put in to build a model of that caliber.. it still wouldn't be worth it to me! -
rebuilds and "glue bombs"
Tom Geiger replied to tom.ulmer's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
I have an old built up where the builder did not understand what decals were... he carefully trimmed all around them, then GLUED them, paper back and all to the model body with model glue! -
http://www.professionalcarsociety.info/ Per the Professional Car Society... " A professional car is loosely defined as a custom-bodied vehicle based on passenger car styling and used in the funeral, rescue or livery services. Such vehicles may be hearses, flower cars, service cars, ambulances, limousines, or cars which are specially built to combine two or more of these functions, such as combination hearse-ambulances, sedan ambulances, or invalid coaches."
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I'd vote for the bears on the toilet paper commercial!
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1977 Volare Messenger Car - Under Glass 1-27-14
Tom Geiger replied to Tom Geiger's topic in WIP: Model Cars
Thanks guys! That's the motivation I need to get 'er done! I have to go to a neighborhood holiday thing tonight, and same for my model club tomorrow... maybe get back to the bench on Sunday! -
My introductory topic: why are you here?
Tom Geiger replied to poptones's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
I see my response was lost! I build because it's my art, my sanity and the center of my many friendships. I love when the image I have in my head slowly appears in 3D plastic on the bench in front of me. It's exciting and fulfilling. And to share that work with the small band of like minded crazies really brings it home! -
1977 Volare Messenger Car - Under Glass 1-27-14
Tom Geiger replied to Tom Geiger's topic in WIP: Model Cars
Here's some under the hood progress. I took a bunch of photos more to see the issues I don't see with my naked eye, than to post so please bear with me. My first impression on finishing up this ancient project was to glue the hood shut. Research photos I have show huge amounts of wires and plumbing under the hood of a 1977 Volare. Then I stopped to think maybe I'd try to duplicate some of that. Part of the sparseness of the engine bay was that the top of the firewall was just flat plastic. I couldn't create the actual pieces that should be there so I went with the 'something is better than nothing' and the piece you see in there is actually cut from the side of one of my wife's throw away razors. You can see some of the pink showing through, I need to give it a better coat of flat black. I like to fiddle with small shapes, so I made a coolant bottle from scrap in my junk box. Same with the charcoal canister in the front corner of the bay. I'm not adding every single wire and hose, just filling up as much bare space as I can without over doing it. Another view, I see I need to do some more detail painting on the battery. You can see the charcoal canister better in this shot. It has three hoses. I goes back to the fuel tank so that just dead ends out of sight. The other two go to a round piece that sits up next to the valve cover. The two battery cables will also dead end out of sight. I am pleased with the way everything in front of the radiator wall came out. There was nothing there before at all. The top bracket came from the AMT '58 Plymouth and I made the lower bracket. And I added a horn from my parts box. Here's my reference shot. This car is actually a Dodge Aspen. On the Volare, the directional is next to the headlight so we won't see that area. We will see from the horn over to the left. I haven't added A/C to my car so I don't need the condenser. But the horn and bracket will be visible. I am currently working on the engine wiring and hoses. I should be able to get the engine in the bay this weekend. Once that's in place, I'll make an exhaust system. I'm not doing much detail on the chassis. Onward! -
The Tri-State Scale Model Car Club would like to invite all area modelers to attend a meeting! We meet the second Saturday of every month at 1pm in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. This is a convenient location where many of NJ's highways come together. We are a few minutes from the Outerbridge Crossing to New York and we are walking distance from the Perth Amboy train station. Our meeting address and detailed directions are on our club website http://www.tssmcc.org Save this link, it lists our meetings for 2015, and we keep it up to date. Please do check the website prior to attending, since we have several off-site meetings each year. Further information can be had by mailing to: tssmcc@aol.com Hope to see you there!
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rebuilds and "glue bombs"
Tom Geiger replied to tom.ulmer's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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The Tri-State Scale Model Car Club presents 29th Annual NNL East. The show will be held on Saturday, April 18, 2015 at the PAL Building, 1 PAL Drive, Wayne, NJ. Theme is "Life's A Gas And Then You Die" - Gassers & Professional Cars. For complete information go to our website at www.nnleast.com Learn about the Tri-State Scale Model Car Club! www.tssmcc.org
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The Tri-State Scale Model Car Club presents 29th Annual NNL East. The show will be held on Saturday, April 18, 2015 at the PAL Building, 1 PAL Drive, Wayne, NJ. Theme is "Life's A Gas And Then You Die" - Gassers & Professional Cars. For complete information go to our website at www.nnleast.com
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1977 Volare Messenger Car - Under Glass 1-27-14
Tom Geiger replied to Tom Geiger's topic in WIP: Model Cars
Thanks Frank. I will do that! I think I need to darken the top of the seat back a bit too. You are too kind! I'm not all that talented, most of what I do is just simple stuff that I learned from modelers in my club and on the boards! -
1977 Volare Messenger Car - Under Glass 1-27-14
Tom Geiger replied to Tom Geiger's topic in WIP: Model Cars
I was a bit worn out on my Trabant postal van project, so I pulled the Volare project down off the unfinished project shelf one more time. I remembered that I got the original kit from my friend Todd Koncsol who died this past year, so I decided to buckle down and finish it! Within short order I had the interior finished. I was stoked! Previously all I had done was mock ups and now it's done. The mail tray on the back seat is a G Scale product that actually is an exact replica of the hard plastic mail trays that USPS used in that era.. I have a few in my garage, left over from bulk mailings I did back then. The mailing tube was made from the remains of a golf tee I had tossed in my scrap box after making rat rod headlights. It was already white and had a company logo on it. I just cleaned up the ends and gave them red caps. Never throw away anything! I made the rest of the mail. Can you see the over flowing ashtray? The kit didn't have any pedals so I stole a pair from my parts box. I also added the shifter and blinker. I can't fault them for not having a column shifter since it was console mounted. Next step was to figure out what stopped me the first time! I was modeling this without a grill and you'd see the inner structure, which of course wasn't there at all on the kit. The top bracket was from the AMT '58 Plymouth, and you can see my mock up of the bracket. It's significantly improved now, I take these photos as I build so I can see my issues. Now I'm under the hood. I had the Lindberg '64 Dodge / Plymouth kit's slant six already painted, so I went directly to assembly. You can see why my models take a long time! I pin everything! This will allow for a very solid build, and I won't have to worry about the manifolds coming off as I man handle it getting the exhaust in place later on. A funny thing is that when I pulled this down from the shelf last week, my initial plan was to glue the engine in place so you could see it from below and glue the hood shut. But you know how these things go... now I'm working on detailing out the engine bay. -
Here's something I started eons ago. I had gotten a Volare junker from a buddy of mine back when they were worth less than $5. I had been interested in beaters and weathering from my friendship with Joe Cavorley. I had found a Floquil / Polly S weathering colors set, and needed something to play with. This body represents that, my very first attempt at weathering, probably around 1990. Originally I wasn't planning on building a model, I was just learning and practicing the skills of denting and weathering a model. Friends liked the results and encouraged me to build it. I decided to go Light Commercial and do a period messenger's car. This car would have been 13 years old then, and reasonable that it would be in service. And I gave it 13 years worth of New York City abuse. The lettering on it is from a dry rub sheet as we needed to do back then. The brand was Better Letter, so I used their logo off the top of the sheet as our fictitious messenger service. That's a rag for a gas cap and I lost the rear side light. I opened only the back edge of the door, as if it was ajar. And I gave the hood that bad hinge bend that we saw on a lot of cars of that era. This car resurfaces on my work bench every few year. The work you see above, is from the initial session. It came out of the box a few years later, I believe this was in 2007. I decided to cut out the console and add a bench seat like most Volares were sold. I went through a couple of failed attempts at making a bench seat. So it was back in the box, until Revell came out with the '66 Chevelle wagon. I grabbed the bench seat from that kit and successfully modified it to be what I wanted. I also noticed the interior tub had no sidewall detail so I made that from Evergreen. I carved the arm rests from a toothpick. The window winder is resin from Norm Veber. And it went back in the box again! I got back to it in 2012 and added interior details. And I love creating little details from nothing! And that's about as far as I got on this outing! This post is a replacement to the thread that was lost in the board server incident. The car is out of the box again, so next post will be current progress!
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rebuilds and "glue bombs"
Tom Geiger replied to tom.ulmer's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
A good source for cars never done as kits. I've collected a whole series of Ramblers... You'll quickly see that these both have busted posts... complete trash for a promo collector, no problem for us model guys! -
Anyone ever heard of ESCI models?
Tom Geiger replied to buxxx69's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
n I do have this Landcruiser in 1/25 scale. It's a Polistil diecast. Yes, they did their diecast in 1/25 instead of 1/24, which is odd for a Euro company. I also have that Mercedes G Wagon. I have the Landcruiser Philippine Taxi version too. -
Kinda like this Dan! I took this picture from my kitchen window just for you!
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Anyone ever heard of ESCI models?
Tom Geiger replied to buxxx69's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
I have one of the Landcruisers in a different box. Note that this is a long body truck. Did they do a short version too? I know they did an open top military version. -
rebuilds and "glue bombs"
Tom Geiger replied to tom.ulmer's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
There's nothing wrong with Modelhaus chrome. In fact it's better than kit chrome. Don usually sands off any mold lines and imperfections. And nothing leaves their shop unless the chrome is perfect. Certainly a bargain with all the work involved by them! I'd suspect that the guys who are selling worn chrome parts on eBay have bought Modelhaus chrome for their model, and are selling the old parts to try to recoup some of the cost! I do know a guy who will have 2 of the same old built up model... he'll cherry pick the best parts for his build, then sell the other one off on eBay. So you are buying the worst of 2 kits there! -
rebuilds and "glue bombs"
Tom Geiger replied to tom.ulmer's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
Value has been defined as a price established by the meeting of two minds. That is, when an item changes hands at a price that is acceptable to both the seller and the buyer. Apparently that's been happening at higher numbers. What is relative value? Back when I got into the hobby 28 years ago, I was buying new kits for $6 each, and I'd regularly buy old kits in the $5-10 price range at shows. I'd buy old built ups in the $5-20 range. I'd really have to do some thinking on that $20 purchase! 28 years have passed and I'm buying my new kits in the $20 range. It's only reasonable to agree that older kits and built up prices would have risen too. Looking at the change in the new kits I buy, that $20 built up of a 1950s annual should sell around $66. I see that at shows, and certainly eBay. When people are asking $100 for an old built up, I'd opt for a clean ModelHaus resin kit instead. Still, I'm not beyond spending $100 for a model I want. Still, nobody says you need to participate in this frenzy. I'm content bargain hunting and recently at shows I was able to buy some nice old 1960s annual built ups in the $25-30 range. Sometimes a guy will have something priced high, but once you start talking the price descends rapidly too! Or it may be time to go through my collection of rebuildables and decide what I no longer need. Maybe I can go fishing for $100 bills on eBay too!