Tom Geiger

That’s exactly what it is! From inside the Pharma industry, there is intense pressure to sell since the US government gives a limited period of drug exclusivity. The Pharma sales organizations sell to doctors. They can actually see who and where prescriptions come from. Hitting consumers to ask for their product helps.

Thanks! I have tons of interesting kits and resin and you see what I play with! Im that kid who gets an expensive toy and plays with the box!

This old relic had been hiding in my 50s Ford Pickup junkyard box for a long time. I don’t even remember it’s origin. In model room maneuvers it wound up sitting on top of my TV where it sat and taunted me. So with the consensus of some Facebook friends I decided to bring her back over this rainy holiday weekend. Brish painted, chassis and all under hood panels painted silver... And some serious glue welding! There is no way to get it apart. That leaves me working around fixed glass and interior. It had no suspension at all. I did get the bed off and engine out. Some kid’s best work. So let’s see if we can make it smile... A bit of quality time at the sink and I wet sanded all the lumpy brush paint. I found an additional coat of dark blue underneath, which works fine for our intent. Added some more blue paint, and gave it all a coat of Testors Dullcote to see where we stand. I thought I’d leave a few of the signature bits.. kept the hood scoop and Chevy rear fenders with custom tail lights. It will retain the Desoto Hemi. My goal for today was to get it up on wheels. I went fishing in my parts box for new suspension parts and that’s when I found two issues.. our model’s chassis was broken on one side and it had no rear suspension mounts. So I fished out a new chassis and spliced the back half in. Note two things in the above photo.. I cut the chassis at two different points.. the break was the one closest to the cab, while the other was directly in front of the suspension mount. I wanted to eliminate a weak point on the frame from parallel cuts. I also drilled and pinned, then glued it all with gap filling thick CA. And all fixed! Splice is probably tougher than the rest of the frame. I will pop on the suspension in the morning.. I want to fiddle with ride height a bit! Just having fun...

Here’s one I saved this morning! More Desoto cabs!

Today was our 40th Anniversary! My wife did a Facebook photo video, man talk about your life flashing before your eyes!

A valid question. There is a pod cast done by the stamp collecting community on this subject. There are a lot of valuable studies that are recorded on the Internet and no cohesive effort to capture and preserve the data as websites go away. I immediately thought of this hobby and the similarities.

Who will worry

Having strip steak ?

What Hobby Lobby needs is a knowledge category manager for the plastic kit area. They have a huge opportunity if they did it right. I was there again this week and still, nobody was feeling “hankful” !

And stolen peanuts ? ?

Cool! I’m watching! Most interested on how you manage thickness and parts interactions.

When I first saw the photo I thought someone had unearthing an old kit version I never saw before! ? As far as Turtle Wax, I’ll betcha they ponied up for the project.

John, I know you are pretty new here so I suggest you read the posts about the model companies and current state of the market. The companies are smaller and the market for kits is minuscule next to when we were kids. The Revell kits you mention are old tools done in the 1960s. As with kits we can buy today with AMT, MPC and a few other brands, there are tools that go back to the late 1950s to date and are limited by the molding technology, expectations of their intended teen age audience in those eras. Yelling at the current staff is like yelling at me about something from my grandfather’s store. With Moebius, the only way to fund new tooling today is to get multiple kit versions out of it. The market isn’t large enough to absorb enough kits to make one hit wonders feasible.

Junior high school, we actually had a period called Hobbies. I was in the model club of course. We built an hour a week, there was the issue of packing up stuff with wet glue and paint to put back in your locker. We had a display at end of the year.

Mouth gets small ?

When sat upon

Neat! I love the early Monogram Model A series. I have several built and many more planned

And often exploded

but accepted kits

The US dollar tanking against the German Mark was the end of Opel in the USA. They just became to expensive to sell here.

Ya know, just today I was explaining to a group of managers that their plant was only 5 years old and there was no way they should be at 80% reactive / 20% proactive maintenance!

Our dog Teddie would sleep across my wife’s body as the two of them were asleep on the couch. Just to make it interesting every so often, I’d lift his sleeping ear and whisper, “Look, cats”. He’d jump into action, leap off her torso and go nuts at the back sliding door!

Hmmm. When Hobby Lobby puts the 40% back on next week I’m gonna grab another Revell Land Rover. I have an idea that involves cutting one up and I don’t work without a safety net!

Has no money ?

Looks great! My favorite kind of car.