Tom Geiger

The original '61 had two issues. There was the annual and in 1962 they did the customizing version. Yes, it was curbside with the hood being molded as part of the body. The other differences between the originals and the later issues, aside from the open hood and the Chevy engine... the chassis on the original is curbside with a single exhaust on it. The later issue has a cut out for the Chevy engine and dual exhausts molded in. The original has screw posts and the front and rear bumpers go on those posts. The later versions don't. The original also has two part tail lights with a chrome surround and a red clear lens. The later issues have a one part chrome tail light.

I created this one from the tutorial and two rear fenders from the AMT '53 Ford pickup. I had it on the car, but went with a traditional Model A grill shell instead. It just looked too much like a character from CARS for this build! It's sitting on my shelf and eventually will wind up on a build!

Very nice and it looks good in red. The '32 was my grandfather's first car. My great grandfather had a jewelry store in Jersey City, NJ and all three of his sons left school to apprentice in the trade, and worked there for their entire careers. When my grandfather was young, one day his father pointed out a car that was sitting at the curb in front of the store. It was a '32 Chevy Cabriolet like your model, only yellow with black fenders. He asked my grandfather if he liked the car, and he replied that he did. His father then said, "Good because it's yours!" He had bought him the car. It was a year old and he got a good deal on a repo. I have a picture of my grandparents leaving on their honeymoon behind the wheel of that car. I'll have to build one someday!

I saw a post on another board. Apparently the new 1960 grill is very nice and has separate headlights and directional lenses. The new stock hub caps are nice too. And it sounds like they opened up some runners and there's some more of the early custom parts and accessories. The gas cans were mentioned.

Yea, I do that. I figure they're just lost travelers. So I send them on their way. This summer we had several huge spiders set up shop out and around the house. Interesting to watch but the webs were in the way. So I relocated them to the woods out back. Nobody came back so I guess all's well. I had the T'rantula as a kid and the only spray can we had was Christmas green so I used it. I remember being very pleased with my overall results. So anytime I think of that kit I picture it dark green. Maybe I'll do that someday.

Guys - every post has LOCATION: in the lower left corner! As long as you haven't typed something goofy there, we can see where you are from. And yes, shipping cost is a problem. I just paid $20 to mail a $5 Geo Storm promo to my friend in South Africa. Not that I minded, he wanted it and I was happy to send him one.

I don't think Patrick said just how much paint he needed to brush on. Is this automotive paint, like Duplicolor? And did you indeed want to empty the entire can, or did you just need a small portion to do touch up work?

I use the Bounce sheets out in my pool shed, especially inside the refrigerator since I have to leave the door ajar to avoid mold etc. Seems to work. John you picked the perfect day to put the 'cuda away... since it is snowing right now!

That's pretty cool Harry. Thanks for the history lesson, I hadn't heard that before. I look forward to the build.

And that's the way these stupid Internet news stories usually go. The gay waitress who didn't get a tip turned out to have made up the whole story. I watch the news less and less. With this guy previously being told not to use the tennis courts without permission, he should have simply been charged with trespassing. Easy enough, not the silly debate the electricity bit has generated.

Cool. I have an original Cheesecast from back in the day. I'm hoping that Gregg offers the half cab version soon. I need one of those. My high school had that as their utility vehicle. And for cross country the coach would have the custodian drive and he'd sit in the back and watch us all run behind him. Man we hated that truck! LOL

The good part is that you are varying the colors on your 50s collection. It will be representative of the era. Personally, I tend to see cars in the same colors over and over so I have to watch myself!

Yea! Check it out on the 'bay! It's not as bad as the GM Diesel full size cars, at least this was an Isuzu diesel, which may stand a chance at not tearing itself apart, but surely won't set speed records. I remember that a guy on one of the boards said his first car was a diesel Escort and it couldn't get out of it's own way. I accidently rented a regular Escort back in the 80s and zero to sixty was probably a minute! I felt so bad I wanted to go apologize to all the Escort drivers I had yelled at for being in my way... they couldn't help it!

I once had to fire a guy from a good paying job for stealing coffee. As he was passing the guard house in the parking lot, he reached into his pocket for his keys and a few packets of company bought coffee fell out. Security saw it and he was fired on the spot. No worries on my end, as you can figure, he wasn't all that great an employee anyway!

Ha! Started out like every simple project and slowly went down the merry path to a super project! I'm glad ya did, it's really nice!

Don't worry, they'll make more! Seriously, anything they have the tooling for will return.

and it's a diesel!

Very, very nicely done weathering / aging done on the engine.

When a seller says that you can usually be sure it's missing some stuff! I remember one auction in particular that said something like "I know nothing about models so I'm not sure, but it looks complete to me!" I couldn't find the body in any of the photos! The kicker was that the seller had another 50 models for sale! LOL

and for tiny imperfections and scratches I fill those in with primer. I take my standard Duplicolor grey and spray a little in a small bathroom cup. I let it sit for a while so it starts to dry and gets thick. Then I'll take a little and dab it over the spots I need to fill. I overdo it, leaving a bit of a bubble because it will lose a lot as it dries, and even then it will sand at the same rate at the rest of the primer around it. Works well for fine prep.

I recently shooed this one off the workbench which left me with.... Open space!... I cleaned up a bit and was ready for a new adventure And I pulled out this one from the unfinished model archives. I probably doubled it's completion this week. Will keep going.

I think the fact that nearly every recognizable word is already copyrighted has something to do with it. For a while the Japanese were making up pleasing sounding names (at least to their ear) phonetically that gave us Camry - Stanza - Sentra. And I'll bet they even ran out of those syllable jumbles by now! Does anyone remember the Utopian Turtletop?

Terry, that car, your Cowboy Cadillac and the work of Joe Cavorley were very inspirational to be back in those days. Weathered models were pretty much frowned on back then. There was pretty much a bias, if it wasn't a street rod or muscle car, well it wasn't acceptable. In my early days of building weathered vehicles I was used to contest organizers pulling my cars out of the categories I chose and putting them in the "Misc Class" where they could compete against tanks and motorcycles. Yes, my weathered trucks couldn't be in the light commercial class, but street rod trucks with slicks could! We've come a long way!

I've been working off a box of old business cards. I have a small open box on the bench where I keep my supply of putty spatulas that I've cut from these. They work great. And since they are a porous paper, they also are good for sopping up extra glue. If I find I've put a bit more Zap-a-gap than needed, all I have to do is put the edge of one of these up against it and it soaks right in and off my model!

Because they don't have to! The mere mention that Modelhaus has a new kit immediately causes more orders than they can fill!