Tom Geiger

or will there be a increase in the birth rate nine months from now? Nah!

Looks good! You captured the theme well!

Note that the trucks came from the factory with the wood bed painted black. It's only a hot rod / over restored thing to finish the wood and add chrome strips. I did my '65 pickup bed in black. If you want to do the wood thing, PM me your email addy and I'll send you a tutorial on wood graining that Irv Arter did a while back.

I know how you feel. I haven't really done any work in two weeks. I got to the point with the '51 Chevy Wanderer that I needed some accessories, namely a propane tank. I ordered a bunch of stuff from Escorts Resin and got it today. Really good service from a guy who was in constant email contact and delivered the order within 2 weeks. So the stuff is soaking in Wesleys tonight and I'll rinse it in the morning and I'm good to go. Looking forward to seeing progress on the '58s!

I still love that seat! I went to Wally's and bought ten different colors of the DMC Embroider Floss to try them out. At the same time I found they had small fabric bolts for 99 cents for crafts and patches. I found two different ones that looked like they'd work in scale. Here's one on the seats in my latest camper.

When I was a kid I left a bag of Gummi Bears on the dashboard of my father's car. They melted and went down the defroster vents. Car smelled great for a long time, especially with the heater on!

Or it could be like in my family... my folks had the nerve to die on me! I'd be happy to have a bit of an argument!

Bill I think the paint scheme looks good. Figure that in real life the body and the box would have been painted at different times. It would have been very difficult to order the box in two tone to match the line on the body since it wasn't on the chassis when painted. This looks like the proper solution.

Figured we could use a cool image on a hot summer night!

Did that ever work? I've never gotten them!

Small country somewhere on the wrong side of the Earth where their national economy is based on stealing your Paypal password!

That sounds like one of the Russian States!

I doubt anyone is going all the way to Outter Slobia to track them down! Heck, I even joined a Jaguar forum just ot get a fix! Glad we're back up! Kudos to Greg and the staff for getting it all back in place!

Let's not forget that some of the early 60s customs in 1:1 didn't run or move on their own power! They were just someone's fantasy build. So why can't people build a model that way? And when we were kids... my main concern was how a car looked. I didn't know what was under the hood, nor did I care to know. I wasn't wasting an hour building that engine. I'd glue that hood shut just like the other 10 year olds in my neighborhood did! I wasn't one to build a model in bare plastic though. part of 'how it looked' was to paint it in my favorite colors. I had seen the old movie "The Yellow Rolls Royce" and was inspired by it to paint man of my models yellow and black with those little Testors 15 cent jars of paint. Both of those colors were thick and never dried quick enough for a 10 year olds patience so you can track those old builds back to me through my finger prints!

Very cool build. And it's nice that it's a four door as well as having stock wheel wells. The Revell version has those huge flares molded in! Is this a current kit? Even one that's not current but reasonably easy to find? I had one of these for a few days in 1978. I was renting an apartment on a farm and there was a yellow 510 sitting next to the barn. I asked the property owner and he said that a previous tenant had left it because it didn't run. He said I could have it if I could make it run. So I spent a few afternoons on it and managed to get it running again. I drove it around the farm in victory! Then I came home one day and it was gone. I asked and my landlord said he sold it to our mail man!

Yes! And the longer you procrastinate, the more likely it is to happen. In fact, I've procrastinated so long on body conversions that kit manufacturers have actually produced them as kits! Tomo, wait until you are our age... ideas I remember as just having, I realize are 10 years old! Kits I remember just working on but put aside, also 10 years old!

Wow! I thought I had commented on this thread but my post isn't there... Peeves... guys using doll house accessories (1/12 scale) on models and dioramas.. Since junkers and beaters are my area... builders who rust out cars in places the real car would never rust. For instance I remember a '57 Chevy that was rusted through on the center of the roof, but the places the cars actually rusted, like the tops of the headlights were pristine. Do some research, it's pretty easy today with the Internet. Dioramas with tires and rims sitting on the ground with the lug nuts still on them. Junkers with missing front and back windows but the chrome surround that holds in said window is still intact. And the biggie... junkers being offered for sale on eBay that are nothing more than an old built up some kid built a long time ago that the opportunist has smeared a bit of mud and red primer on, including on the glass and interior and calling them PRO BUILT junk yard relics. That just cheapens the art of those of us who do it right!

each side's attorney has a certain number of dismissals, people he can choose not to be on the jury 'without prejudice' , which means he doesn't have to give a reason. Picking jurors is a skill. If the person you are defending is a young girl, you want people like her on the jury who will be sympathetic. The defense attorney is more concerned than the prosecutor. The attorney wants to have people who don't have professional knowledge or other preconceived ideas either about the subject, or know of the case already and may have heard opinion. They do have a need to have somewhat intelligent people who can understand the story they are putting out there, and who can make a reasonable decision. You don't need to have a masters degree to be a juror, plain normal folks are just fine. When jury selection begins, they bring up a pool of 20-25 people to choose from. The proceeding starts by the attorneys explaining the case to the jurors. Then they put the first 8 in the box and each attorney can ask them questions. In the first case, when my number was called, I had to stand up and excuse myself because I knew one of the parties. They thanked me for my honesty and I sat down to watch the rest of the selection. The case was a lady I knew who was suing her accountant for screwing up. The attorneys questioned the jurors if anyone was an accountant, then if anyone had any accounting background. One guy said he did tax returns for H&R Block during the tax season. He was dismissed. And it went from there until they had their jury of people they felt didn't have professional knowledge or any kind of prejudged ideas. People left on the jury were an 18 year old grocery clerk, a secretary, a fork lift operator, a house wife and a few others. The next time I got up for jury selection, the case was a lady suing a store, a strip mall and a construction company. She fell and broke her leg outside the store during a construction project. I got into the box and when I answered that I was an investment property owner and supervised construction projects, I was dismissed. I can understand that they'd think I'd automatically side with my peers. I didn't see what happened past that. I did get on two cases on two other occasions. First case was a young girl who was charged with cocaine possession. They set the jury so that there were a lot of sympathetic parent types on the jury. This girl was the age of my daughter at the time. Going through the case, we had to find her guilty due to the evidence and the law. Still a few mother types held out in the jury room because they 'didn't want to send the poor young girl to jail'. The judge then told us she wouldn't see any jail time, probably probation and some substance abuse help. Then the mothers gave in and found her guilty. I was on one other case, but the jury selection was uneventful so I won't go through it again here. I can say that the attorneys need to be careful when they dismiss jurors because they only can dismiss so many and the next person in the box could be a worse juror. They do try to tailor the jury to the case, but have to keep some jurors that they're not totally against so they don't run out of dismissals before the jury is complete.

One sixties detail would be to sink the license plate into the trunk lid, and then smooth out the rear bumper. That front end is really cool, as is the side trim.

Looks super for not having touched a model in 15 years. Seems like you haven't missed a beat!

Very nice model and the color is cool. I have a thing for old Johan kits too... because I have short legs!

and the same goes with model cars! A few years ago a guy in my club found someone who was selling their model collection. He bought some stuff from him, then told our club that we could go to this guys house with him after our next club meeting to share in what he had. This guy had a habit of telling everyone everything he knew, especially if he had a juicy bit of information. Long and short of it, he mentioned it to the wrong person and a local model dealer went and bought the entire collection before we got there!

There are always shows that don't have enough models in specific categories, so the two models that are there win first and second, no matter how bad they are! We have a running joke in my club that you need to build a model for every category and keep them in your car. When you see that say, small scale only has one entry, you run out and get yours... the ultimate trophy whoring!

Nice scratch building on the convertible. I did recognize the Open Road Camper in the background though!