Tom Geiger

eSnipe is cheap enough. I bought 100 bid points for $10, been bidding for a year without thinking about it. Surely worth the money.

This one showed up in my mailbox today, 1978 Chevette. I'd been shopping them for awhile, hoping to get one to recreate my sister in law's lime green first car. Of course it's missing the stock wheel covers and single carb setup I need to build the stock vehicle!

You are correct Bob! That is one of the four cars on the box, built from a test shot. Dave told me to build it red, with some mud, and a little custom was okay, but only using parts from the kit. The test shot had no chrome so I did the grill in body color to make it a bit different than the 3 other trucks on the box. Thanks for noticing!

that looks great Tom as a beige every day car. When I was growing up my next door neighbor had one of those in blue. It was usually parked at the curb and died a cruel death because of it. We lived on a semi-main road that fed into the development. Although it was a 25 mph zone, that was merely a suggestion. Cars would fly through there at 50. The neighbor lived at the exact point that this straight road took the slightest change to the left, so slight that you'd not even notice it when driving, but enough to mess with drunks who would continue to steer straight and right into the back of the blue Chevelle! That happened at least three times. One of those times the car was pushed forward into my '77 LTD II, putting a minor dent in my back bumper. The final time the Chevelle got hit, the drunk hit it hard enough to send it up the curb into a telephone pole, totaling it. I guess we all have these stories!

Cool. A lot of those big old classics made their way to truckdom since they were huge, powerful and essentially built on a truck chassis to start with. I have a '27 Lincoln on it's way to having a huge wood truck body on the back.

Looks great. I've always wanted one of those in 1:1.... in that same exact color scheme!

The old Revell '57 Chevy Nomad! When I was a kid that beach scene on the box top got me every time. I'd buy the kit and try with all my might to build it and fail since it didn't wish to cooperate. Each year I'd reason that I was a year older and should be able to build it. Nope! Repeat of the past year's performance. I did this at least three times. I do have one I started as an adult maybe 25 years ago... nope never did get 'er together!

Sounds like a pain in the neck. I use Fotki and have two paid accounts. One is my personal stuff and the other one is my club's site. Both are paid up for the next several years. To get one year of the premium account, it's around $20. and it drops down to $15 a year when you subscribe for multiple years. I dunno, for $20 a year, it's not worth the hassle of trying to get it for free. I have unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth. I have thousands of photos in albums.

I got an email from Al saying he has been away on business for the past 3 weeks. He missed our club meeting last weekend too. He's a busy guy!

I collect a certain series of American stamps from 1903-09. In 35 years of collecting, my collection had big holes in it, and I hadn't even seen some of the items in person. With 15 years of eBay, I've managed to find all the rare stuff, and then some things I never knew existed. Last week I found a postal marking I had never seen before and bought it for $6. Can't beat that.

Amen. A funny thing happens when you list all the collectibles in the world in one easy index! eBay made it easy to find things that we used to have to search long and hard for. Not only models, but other types of collectibles as well. I make a game of it. I decide which kit I'm currently after and have the search agent set to find them. Then I bid a certain low amount on each one that comes up until I get what I want at my price. For instance, I love those old Heller Citroen trucks from the 1920s-30s. You can easily hit the Buy It Now on them around the $100 mark. I watch and when I see one going low, like in the $20 range, I bid. Not that long ago I wound up with an extra Bordon's Truck and one of the Normandee woody pickups. Message boards also make modeling much easier. I was always reluctant to buy a kit or built up that was missing stuff because it was so hard to find. Now, you post your need for a rare part on a board and someone out there usually has the piece and is happy to send it to ya!

Thinking about the heating part... should we be concerned about models out in heat or sun melting the embossing powders in our models? I'm thinking about Tomo's VW as a worse case.

I had searched all the craft stores looking for fabric with a small enough pattern to be used in scale. I even struck out at Joann's, which is a fabric store. Then I was in Walmart looking around and found that they had most of the supplies that the others had but cheaper. For instance, I was looking at pins with different size heads including the round glass ones for shifters. The packs (which will last a lifetime) were at least a dollar cheaper at Wally's. Then I found they had small pieces of fabric for crafts and patching in different colors and patterns. The price? 99 cents! Here's one that worked on the sofa cushions in my camper. And I still have enough to do another 100 sofas! and lets not forget the stuff from the other aisles of the hobby shop. Check out the big rack of model ship building supplies. I have two different color/texture rigging ropes that I use on my light commercial projects. There are little eyelets that are perfect for routing brake lines and the small brass ship nails in the above photo. I've used them as dash knobs and all the pulls on the drawers in my camper projects.

Very nice. I have an old resin body of that somewhere. Just the poorly cast body, none of the other required parts. The big question - Why hasn't anyone mastered a Sportabout??

Welcome Otto! This is a great place to be among friends and learn new skills. Ask any questions and the folks here will be happy to help you along! You will also see others from Europe here as well.

Keep going Dave! I just saw the thread and am rooting for ya! From what you've posted in the past, you've already conquered addictions that are greater than this. You can do this one too! And a good distraction? Model building. I can go up to the model room with a new cold beer and I never even remember to take a sip. It just goes warm and gets wasted because I'm focused on the plastic.

Which is why I added two scale feet to the rear. Still my door is only 64" high, but folks can duck a little.

that's a shame. I go to shows to meet people, look at the models and buy things. I don't even enter contests anymore, but may put a model or two on the table just to participate. There is another style of show called the "NNL" which is a non-competitive meet where everyone is free to display their work in a non-confrontational environment. I don't know where in Australia you are, but a couple of my mates in Perth run the "Super Saturday" show there, and knowing them as I do (both have been to my house in the USA) I can't imagine their show being anything but quality!

There has to be a small tire manufacturer out there that would see the wisdom in letting a model company put their logo on the tires for free! It's good publicity. Even store brand tires like they sell at Pep Boys would be something on the sidewall. Heck, most of us can't read that small anymore anyway!

An interesting part of this thread is the people who enthusiastically show models that wouldn't interest me at all. I'm sure my posts are the same to others. It's fun to see the diversity in tastes and kits that are out there!

And here's an ancient tri-five back at ya! 55 and 56 promos, 57 original release of the AMT kit

Sniping? I use a sniping service for all my bidding. I put in my bid and forget about it. Guaranteed six second snipe every time. It doesn't guarantee I win if someone bids higher than my proxy bid. The other good thing about bidding on the sniping service is that your bids aren't permanent like on eBay. For instance, when I won the above mentioned Chevette, I went in and cancelled my bid on another upcoming auction since I didn't need it anymore. One time I was looking for the '50 Ford diecast large panel truck. They were all going around $50. and I wasn't winning. I bid $22 each on about 5 of them, hoping to win one... well when I looked, I had won three.

Yes! The back door is something like 40" tall before I modified it. And still my people need to be 5'-6" or less! The bed area above the cab is submarine like quarters. Nobody is sitting up in bed there! I just got a resin order of a few details for the camper. I soaked it all today and am ready to work. I got a propane bottle, a camp cook stove and some minor accessories I'll be using from Escort's Resin.

It's been near 100 here in Philly the last two days. The news said with humidity it felt like 106 today. I was at a business appointment and my Caravan sat out in an unshaded parking lot. I got in and quickly turned the key to get the power windows down and the first blast from the a/c was so hot I thought it burnt my face!

Agreed. I was looking for an early Chevette to duplicate the car my sister in law drove when she was young. I put an eBay Search Agent on it, so I'd see each kit that came on the market. There was one for $100 in someones eBay Store. Then I bid and followed a few that sold for $40-60. This past week I won one for $20. So it's patience and sticking to your guns. Eventually you'll get what you want at your price.