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Here's my beauty, photo is in my old model room back in New Jersey. I built this something like 20 years ago and it's been in operation ever since. It started life as a Tucker brand recycling bin. The cover was two part and hinged upward at the mid seam. I don't know where it ever went! I have a good bathroom fan mounted in the back of it. It is lined with newspaper and I clean it out and change the paper once in a blue moon. I take it out in the yard to clean and vacuum out the entire assembly, fan and hose. When I'm ready to use it, I toss the hose out the window, when weather is bad or cold, I just fill in the opening with a towel or two. The lights are just standard clip on units. I have the lights and fan plugged into a power strip so I turn it on and off with a flick of a single switch. I am hoping to build a new and better one in the near future. When I sold my house in NJ, I had to replace the kitchen appliances and the set came with a matching hood. So I have the old hood, which was only a year or so old, set aside. Once I build a better booth, I'll drill a hole in the house and permanently mount the hose!\.
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How close am I? Oh yea, another 27 to go...
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Body and engine from the Beverly Hillbillies kit, chassis is from the old Monogram Green Hornet.
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65 Chevy Step Side
Tom Geiger replied to RocknRolla's topic in WIP: Model Trucks: Pickups, Vans, SUVs, Light Commercial
This is starting to look like something I'd like! Here's mine! -
chevrolet 6 cylinder engines
Tom Geiger replied to azers's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
If you want to have people scratching their heads, put this one in your Nova! I believe you can make this by slicing 2 cylinders off a six! -
R&R Resin still pulling bodies?
Tom Geiger replied to JDS Racing's topic in Car Aftermarket / Resin / 3D Printed
Thank God! And thanks for letting us know the good news Al. Very happy to hear all is well with the Parsons! -
My Geo Tracker had one of those. When my power steering started fading in and out under load, I investigated and found that the shop that recently replaced my exhaust system had unbolted the alternator for access and never bolted it back in. The only thing holding it in place was the pulley weight on the belt!
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Since you liked the pictures and stories - Here's the only shot of one I have in my stalled project file. It's the Jimmy Flintstone resin piece. I spent the summer of 1977 delivering pizzas. This was in Holmdel, NJ and back when Bruce Springsteen lived on Telegraph Hill Road in Holmdel. YES! I did deliver pizzas to his house. NO! I never got to meet him. One of the delivery guys had this old A100 van. He had rebuilt the slant six and riveted panels over all the lower body rust. And then he brush painted the silver and black two tone you see here. Yes, we delivery guys helped him between deliveries! I got as far as painting the body. I do have to build this one someday.
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I see the Omni and Horizon 4 doors on eBay, but no Reliants! Didn't they do a Reliant wagon too?
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Very nice! I will be needing to send Modelhaus some money!
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Dan, here's one I was working on with the '59 Chevy interior and other accessories. The tub in the Buick body is much narrower so you will have to hollow it out a bit on either side. You already have the windshield frame in place. Above are a few photos of my work to date. Mine was a really bad resin body. I also didn't like the one piece bumper / rear pan on the Buick, so I molded in the pan from the '59 Chevy. I used it's rear bumper and even the connie kit. The big challenge in using the Chevy interior will be getting the Buick dashboard in place. I don't have a picture, but I hollowed out the Chevy unit and set the Buick dash inside of it for the extra width and to mate up with the windshield frame. Hope this helps!
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Very cool build! Here's mine. I built it back when the kit was reissued. I didn't have much in the way of reference material, thus the light yellow paint with pearl coat. My favorite part of the build was the Tiki Hut! In speaking with Bob Paeth of Revell, I was able to dispel the rumor a rumor that the Surfite was never reissued due to a spat Revell had with Roth. Bob said that after the initial release, it never got out again because it didn't sell. He also told me that the Tiki Hut was an after thought because the Surfite itself was so small that it looked like you got short changed when you saw the parts in the standard Revell box. So the Tiki Hut was devised to fill up the box! I'm glad they did that. As you said, the kit was typical Revell of that era. Fiddly with tons of ejector pin marks and mold seams on nearly everything. I stripped down all the suspension parts because of that, and before Alclad, painted it all with Testors Metalizers. I do like that you built yours for the body to come off, there is a lot of detail lost when I you glue it down. I never thought of that, I was so concerned on just getting the darn thing built! Other challenges are that the interior had a gap around it when you put it into the body. I remember adding plastic around the edge to fix that. And the hood is just a bit of a potato chip! Once you add paint to the body, it didn't fit at all. Still, it's my favorite Roth car.
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Willys Jeep Panel
Tom Geiger replied to Psychographic's topic in WIP: Model Trucks: Pickups, Vans, SUVs, Light Commercial
Yea, I was thinking that it would just go round in circles! -
The car is sooo far 'out there' that you will never forget it. And with modelers, the first thought is, "I bet I could I build that!" I totally understand!
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Very nice. My favorite blue too!
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I got this neat little drawer unit at Walmart for $8. I made some drawer dividers and am using it to keep my sandpaper organized.
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Rich, I wouldn't try to get the dash free from the body. It looks as if you got the steering wheel out of the way, you could BMF it in place. Just slice the wheel off the column and either glue it back on, or drill a little and add a small bit of pin wire between the two.
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R&R Resin still pulling bodies?
Tom Geiger replied to JDS Racing's topic in Car Aftermarket / Resin / 3D Printed
Yes, Ray is still making product, but he's no longer selling it himself. Seems where he was talking about retiring for a long time, the part of the business that he didn't like was traveling to all the shows and shipping product. Dan is right, you can get his stuff at Resin Realm or on eBay where the seller is Ms Mighty Mouse. You will find a bunch of his stuff up for sale at most times there. Just don't bid much over starting price since the same kits will be available over and over and a lot of them expire without a bid. -
Getting back into building.
Tom Geiger replied to 1990ranger4x4's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
When I decided to get back into the hobby 24 years ago, my goal was to become a good enough modeler to do justice to the two Xerox paper boxes worth of neat kits I had bought over the years. Maybe 16 Mopar kits. Long story short, I joined a club and improved my skills dramatically. And after 24 years of experience, I imagine I could do those kits justice, but to date I haven't touched even one of them! -
Happy Birthday Gregg!
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Classic Chevy caprice
Tom Geiger replied to Kaleb's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
Try this... put a trailer up on eBay by itself. I've seen people bid more for just that than a whole kit! -
Dodge and Plymouth concept cars?
Tom Geiger replied to dimebolt's topic in Car Aftermarket / Resin / 3D Printed
I started this one a while back, looking for a Chrysler show car look. Note that I enlarged the rear window for an earlier Barracuda look. I was planning on using the custom nose from the '74 annual release that did make it into the snap kit. -
Deora - Reissue versus Original kit?
Tom Geiger replied to Ken McGuire's topic in Truck Kit News & Reviews
I dunno! I've been trying to find out for years. I bought it as a box art model at GSL in 2001. I've asked a lot of the folks who built box art and so far nobody has recognized it.