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Episode 7 - Good Gosh! The Group Builds!
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Episode 7 - Good Gosh! The Group Builds!
Jodi gives us a recap on the Valley Con Show, while Jason gives us a recap on the 3 hour group build from the Sunday Live Cast. The guys then dive deeper in the group build world. A fun a enjoyable time, so take a listen and enjoy....
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Do we know if Mikey is Mikey coming for sure or is he out? Nobody's heard from him. Have we looked at the headlines to see if there's any uh short mad dog going up the uh I-95 on a fucking bulldozer or anything like that?
SPEAKER_03I'm crazy, I'm crazy, I'm crazy. Florida man, fan on bulldozer.
SPEAKER_02Welcome to Model Car Mania, a modeling insanity productions podcast dedicated to everything automotive and car modeling. Here are the hosts of the Model Car Mania Podcast. BG, Jason Hanscom, Justin Ryan, Mike Outlaw, and Jody Doyle.
SPEAKER_05Hello and welcome to the podcast for Model Car Maniacs by Model Car Maniacs. This is your good friend, Mr. BG, along with several guys that are extremely talented in the fine art of automotive modeling and BS. First off, we have Jason from Blue Ox Model Shop. What's going on, everybody? Next up, we have Justin from Ryan's Randall Model Works, aka Captain Meh. Hello and welcome. And finally we have Jody from VW, Jody on the gram.
SPEAKER_07Welcome back, everybody.
SPEAKER_05And uh unfortunately, Mr. Mikey is under the weather, or at least under something. We can't get a hold of him right now, so we uh we hope he's doing better by the end of this podcast. Anyway, let's get on to what's on our benches, and we'll spend the way on the start with Jason. Okay.
SPEAKER_06Before I forget to say this again, shouldn't we be actually checking on Mikey? Because like nobody knows where he is. Are we good friends for like just being like, eh, he'll be fine. It's a gnome holiday. Um find his way out of the coma.
SPEAKER_05Yes, it's a gnome holiday. He's he's he's he's uh got starry eyes and he's heading out to the forest. Exactly. He'll be fine.
SPEAKER_06I hope so. I hope so, Mikey. Uh so on my bench, uh I have started the Saturday night short track group build, uh, which I am currently hosting with the now possibly missing scale model outlaw. And I've started this Ravel uh Superflow ASA Camaro kit. And it's going pretty well. It's going together really good. The body's nice and clean. Uh it doesn't need a lot of work. Getting ready to be put in a primer. I rushed through, well, I didn't rush through, but I'm really focused on finishing my flip nose Malibu. Because I want to bring that to uh a couple of shows that Jody and I will be attending in a couple of weeks. However, I can't show it to anybody because the mystery individual who I am doing a buddy build with is behind on his and w would like me to not debut mine until he's done. So, it's gotta be hidden in the shadows until that show date, I guess. He's got two weeks, he better get to getting. He's got two weeks. Um he says he's gonna bring it. It's gonna be in Maine, so we'll see. We'll see what happens. But uh Yeah, that that's about it for me, actually. Okay, that's a good deal.
SPEAKER_05I mean, you got plenty going on anyways, you know. Uh I got a lot going on, actually. Just not a lot of model building. Right. Oh my god, tell me about it. Okay, cool. Thank you very much, Jason. Jody, what have you got on your bench?
SPEAKER_07So currently, so I just finished Rolls Royce. Um, you know, I've been kind of building that a little bit on the Sunday live builds. I was able to uh kind of button it up. I say that, but the bumpers needed a little bit of love. So I took it to a show yesterday just to kind of get it out and unveil it and uh kind of show it off a little bit, but I immediately got back, peeled the bumpers off, and threw them in the uh purple pond to strip the chrome off so I can fix them and uh re-chrome them. So I'm looking at them right now, looking at me in the purple pond over there. Beyond that, um, I started this um 63 uh Studebaker Avante, and um one of the classes at NNL East this year is 63 years of 1963.
unknownOh, that's right.
SPEAKER_07Uh I would I would love to get it done for that. You know, there's gonna be lots of um impallas and corvettes, I would assume, but probably not a lot of 63 Avonte. So I'd really like to get it done. You know, I there's the scratch building that needs to be done. The rear end, I'm going with 3D printed modern wheels and tires, LS engine. So got the engine fitted, I got the rear end all narrowed and wheel tubs made, and it's it's getting there, you know. Everything's fitting together really nicely, but it's always uh at the end is where the things kind of creep up. So I would really love to get that done. But at this point in my uh model building career, I'm not gonna rush anything just to rush it. I just started it not long ago, so it's only been a couple weeks, maybe, you know, kind of poking away at it. But I've been trying to get the the rolls done too. So I try to keep two active on the bench at any given time, you know. It gets more than that, and nothing's really getting done. So I've got a bunch piled up over here that I've started that I like to finish, but I get that done, and then you know, the last couple things on the rolls. I think that's I think that's good for now. I want to do the short track group build. I I've got a kit, the little AMT uh gremlin for that, and I'd like to get that actually done. So Tudobaker, focus, and then short track group build, and then and probably the Iceman group build. So group builds on group builds on group builds.
SPEAKER_06Oh, I forgot about the Iceman group build. Yeah, um, I didn't.
SPEAKER_03That was a fantastic segue, guys. Yeah, Justin, how's about you, buddy? Like I said, that was a fantastic segue because right now, right in front of me on my bench is my 53 F-100 for the Iceman Collections Ford truck group build. Excellent. Um, I actually I lost half of the rear axle, so I ordered a nine-inch rear from Iceman. I got a set of wheels for it from it from Iceman and a 54 Ford F-100 grille from Iceman. So there'll be some Iceman touches in this thing. I'm thinking about shoehorning in one of his Godzilla motors, but I don't know. It'll probably have an Iceman motor in there, though. I actually kind of got a little bit of everything going on in my bench, like I said, got the Iceman F-100 working. I have a P38 Lightning from Tamiya that I am uh is now in primer. So I'll be starting the base coats on that shortly. I also have a Tamiya Archer self-propelled gun. Uh it's basically a tank drives backwards in you know the eyes of most armor people. Uh they have it basically where the tank backs into spot, shoots, and the driver's already facing out. So he drives away with the gun facing backwards. Uh, it's one of those cool little little uh self-propelled gun tank things. So yeah, I got the I got the tank. The only thing I don't have working is a ship. So I should probably start one of those. Get your ship together, dude. I do have a 350th scale aircraft carrier that I'd like to build with a full complement of uh I think it's the USS Ranger from World War II. Have a full flight deck for it. I got one 350th scale sailors that are gonna go on it.
SPEAKER_05So that's definitely going to be a long-term project because 350th scale people are like the size of viruses almost.
SPEAKER_06Good luck with that. But I am gonna throw this out there to you, Justin, because you are the you get excited whenever somebody says the words buddy build. I have a titan, I have a Titanic I've been wanting to build. Ooh, let's do some both. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Let's do some both.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Now I do also have to say that there was a um the machinations of a possible buddy build in the near-ish future. A bunch of people on the plastic posse Facebook page apparently have 144 scale B52 bombers. And I actually just picked one of those up the other day, and it seems like that might be a strike package forming, so to speak. So I might be bringing that sucker out too. Oh cool.
SPEAKER_05That's awesome. Excellent. So Justin and Jason are gonna be hosting a bathtub build. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Well, I think we're gonna need a bigger bathtub. I'll be like Francis and Pee-Wee Herman.
SPEAKER_05Pee Wee's big adventure? Francis? I'm uh okay. Uh the only Francis references I have are of uh Deadpool and Stripes.
SPEAKER_03Francis was the bully that stole Pee-Wee's bike. And when Pee Wee confronts him in his house, he's in the giant bathtub pool thing playing with his his ships.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Ah, okay.
SPEAKER_05Well, I guess I should probably watch that someday.
SPEAKER_03Absolutely. You are missing out.
SPEAKER_05Classic. It really sounds like if I get to watch this movie, I'll be able to fit in with all my friends. Okay. Well, Justin, I'm curious to know what you think of that P38 from Tamiya, but that's a different podcast, so we'll move on. Yes. Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were talking to me. Uh the uh so I hear you guys wondering, you know, in your heads, Mr. BG, what are you working on? Well, I'll tell you, I'm working on everything from weeding the backyard to laundry to uh this mother effing DeLorean kit that I picked for the three-hour build, which is still choking my desk and clogging my chakras. So you keep hitting you keep hitting those gigawatts and it keeps taking you back three hours. I yeah, you know what? That's what I put on my vape thing is gigawatt juice.
SPEAKER_07Three hours total with three hours repeating. Right, three hours three, three, three, three, three hours.
SPEAKER_05That's a good that's a good point, Jody. It's the same three freaking hours over and over and over again.
SPEAKER_03Crossed over back to the future with Groundhog Day.
SPEAKER_05Oh my gosh. Um, no, seriously though, I have I have that DeLorean from Polarites I'm working working on, which is cool because it actually does have a stainless steel type body shell. Uh it's like chromed or whatever. And then um I'm working on the 67 Pontiac GT. Oh my. So I'm working on that again. I'm still working on the 66 Buch Wildcat. I'm trying to perfect my bare metal foiling technique with that one because that's got acreages of chrome on it. And then I'm trying to get the desk cleaned off because this week we have two new group builds starting that I desperately want to be part of, but we'll get to that in a little bit. But yeah, I got a lot of stuff going on here. Plus, like more family coming into town on Saturday, they're gonna be here for a week. So I don't know if I'm gonna have to give up the hobby room again because he said my family's coming with me, but he wouldn't he didn't say how many of the family. It could be some or all. And that's that's a difference of two to five persons. So we'll we'll we'll see when they show up, but uh I'm keeping the room on on high alert. So uh also I'm planning on possibly doing a kit sale where I just open up the garage door, invite local folks that are in the model building genre to come over and buy some of my stuff. So um local transients. Yeah, local transients. That's that's the name of our new model club, local transients. Uh yeah, just uh putting the word out to the low key to the low-key modelers and saying, hey, look, I've got some stuff I want to get rid of. Uh you're welcome to come over. Please don't shame my collection, but you're welcome to make offers on it. So we'll see how that goes. We'll keep you guys posted on that. All right, I'll try to make it. Yeah, I'll dude. I'll catch you up with a place to stay.
SPEAKER_03Right? I got a 124-scale cot for you. Yeah.
unknownRight.
SPEAKER_05I got a send the back here that's got a wooden blank over it that says Casa Day, uh Casa Day Outlaw. All right, so that's it for uh for what's on our benches, and let's move on to our show topics, which happens to be a report on the Valley Con by Jody, and then also a recap of the three-hour group build that we had last week. So Jody, why don't you go ahead and take it away, sir?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, so little backstory. So my local club here, Mount Mansfield Scale Modelers, uh, one of the gentlemen in that club, Dave Leslie, was a member of the Wings and Wheels Club for a number of years down there in Massachusetts, and they're the one that hosts the ValleyCon show and um kind of knew about it, had never attended it. And when we covered um upcoming shows, the last podcast, I said, you know, that's in Chickopee. That's not really that far away from me. It's about three hours. So, you know, it's fun trying to get to shows that you haven't been to, and of course it's been a long winter, as we all know, so I've been cooped up. So opportunity came up. It was a nice day for a car ride yesterday. The little lady went with me, and we uh drove down to Chicopee Mass, check out Valley Con 35. Not a huge show, IPMS style. Down in the first first floor level, ground level was the show cars, and up on the second story, uh, which is upper ground level, they had kind of a big gymnasium space that was uh all vendors. It was really well attended. The vendor area was like super, super busy in the morning when we got there, and the vendor area was great. Actually, um John uh Rauscher was there, local, local to us, makes it to all the shows, got got a hobby shop there, and we're in New Hampshire and um kind of vendors vendors at a lot of the local uh New England shows. He was there. Uh, saw another friend of mine from New Hampshire that vends at a lot of these. Uh, they had it really the gamut covered. I mean, there was a ton of military kits, there was a lot of uh automotive kits. There was a really big contingent of Gundam. So there was two different vendors, yeah. So it had basically all the bases covered. And of course, I bought a bunch of stuff that I didn't need uh from the vendor area. The show itself, not overly huge. I'd say 200-ish models. There was like seven or eight tables of display only, but some really nice quality work. There was some really nice figure painting that was done. Uh big Gundam category, as always. You know, that seems to be the the growing thing. Some really nice uh auto models. I was able to put my uh chip down on a couple of uh models that I uh posted over on the AutoCar Mania Facebook page. Uh gentleman John, who is a regular listener of the Sunday Live. Uh he's he's uh he's deaf. And I know his name's come up before. I can't remember one specifically. It was um it was something that we're doing, and and there was a question about communication member with um Yeah, with Brian. Yeah, caption and all that stuff. Yes, yep. So he built this really beautiful 69 Camaro, and he doesn't have a YouTube channel, but he built it kind of as part of the USAC build. And this is the first time this guy's picked up an airbrush. He bought a um gallery, uh Clyde uh what is it, Clido or something like that. Gallery, can't remember the name of the airbrush, but first time picking an airbrush up. And he used the Klido paint, did a nice uh gray paint job, dark gray stripe, a little red outline, did just beautiful work on this thing. 3D printed engine and wheels. So I gave him a chip and we actually spent a bit of time together communicating as well as we could, him being deaf and me not being deaf, but used my phone and he had his iPad, and it was good. He was very uh very thankful. He ended up winning uh second place in the category that he had the model in, which was fantastic, you know. It was like one of the first shows this guy's got to. So that was great to see. And then the second chip I gave to a gentleman that built a uh Mobius uh F-100. It was like a uh uh urban uh firefighter vehicle, so a lot of scratch building, 3D printed parts. It was set on a really nice vignette, uh base, just really, really nice work, really clean work, a lot of detail. It was it was great, it was a good show. I got to see um Mac Johnson talked to him. And he asked about you know the um Granacon show and doing something from there, you know. He kind of asked what we would need for maybe some sort of recording or a podcast or a live or something, and I said, we'll definitely you know follow up on that and uh figure out what we're gonna do. So chat with him, uh Linda and Rue Crummet, you know, they're kind of local to all the shows, part of the classic plastic group. Got to see those guys. So it was it was just a good day, you know. It was a good size show, took first place with the rolls, you know, got got gold with it first time out. Nice. I got a got a third with the uh got a third with the uh petty charger that I built last year.
SPEAKER_06So so let me get this straight. You won gold with a model and then brought it home and stripped parts of it off to redo.
SPEAKER_03Yes.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, you you gotta you that you gotta do what you gotta do, you know.
SPEAKER_06So oh yeah, yeah, apparently you gotta do what you gotta do.
SPEAKER_05Yep. Well, that's so they deal with the seamless cars, they bring them back home and put, oh, I don't know, drive shafts in them or something like that. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, but uh all in all, it was it was a good show, you know. I I always um say it's good to get out, even these shows that aren't necessarily the biggest, you know, but it was it was a well-attended show, it was put together well, good vendor selection, nice models, a lot of great people. What more can you ask for, you know?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, right. Nice, very nice. I'm I'm a fan of smaller shows these days because you get to be with the people more. I mean, spend more time with individuals rather than being pulled in several different directions or whatever.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, so yeah, I I I I'm relishing the idea of I mean I'm really looking forward to NNL East, but you know, it's just such a blur when you're there because it's just so much, it's so busy, and everybody's trying to see everybody, and you know, it's a lot of quick conversations, but no deep conversations, and you know, when it's a little bit smaller, it's just there's more time to do that, you know, which is really what the hobby is about anyway.
SPEAKER_03So yeah, exactly. What you need to do is just pull up a chair and let the people come to you. There you go. That's perfect, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Just stand next to the ATM machine in the lobby, you'll get a lot of conversation. There you are. Yeah, yeah, you will. Yeah. Oh man, that's awesome. So you took a you know, how many did you take up there? Just the two builds?
SPEAKER_07I brought uh I brought six models total, but you know, I was it's an IPMS show, so I was trip doubled up. You know, I had three in one category. I brought the little peach fiat, I brought the nomad with flames, and I brought the rolls were all in the same category. And then the uh Masmanian, funny car, Barracuda, and the Petty Car were in the same uh category, and I brought a couple of the magazine builds in the stock category, but you know, those are you know, one was built in nine days, one was built in 12 days. It's only only as good as they're gonna be. I just brought them to display them, you know. So Steve Mignante was there, got to chat with him, which is great, you know. Um those who know Steve, you know, journalist and hot rod and Barrett Jackson, and you know, he had the healthcare there a couple of years ago, and he uh, you know, him being a modeler on top of all these stuff he does in kind of the automotive industry. It's just great that he attends these shows, you know, and we get to see him and he's like the rest of us, you know. He loves models and he ended up winning first place in the uh the competition class. He built a uh 65 Barracuda gasser, and he actually won Best Automotive with that, and it was just really, really cool, you know, altered wheelbase, hemi wired, you know, two-tone paint job, just had the look, you know. So it was uh it was really good. And he was I think he was pretty surprised that he he won, you know. So it was it was great. It was good to see him out.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. I've heard good things about him, so I've always been curious of meeting him someday. Very nice guy. Very nice guy. Yeah, awesome. Not enough of us out there sometimes. There you go. That's for sure. Word. That was Valicon. Jason, do you have anything you'd like to report on with the three-hour build that we are that you were hosting?
SPEAKER_06Well, the three-hour build, so that was last week on the the Sunday build show. And um, I think that was a huge success. Almost all of us finished our builds.
SPEAKER_05Womp, womp.
SPEAKER_06That's okay.
SPEAKER_05It wasn't I finished mine. I just didn't like how the bumpers were, so I took it all apart again to redo it. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, you gotta do that sometime.
SPEAKER_03Unfortunately, the bumpers were the first thing to go on, so everything else had to come off.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, no, I think it was a huge success, and I think that we as a group proved that you don't have to, you don't have to spend months or weeks building a model. You can just pick one up from the hobby shop, open up the box, get yourself some to mea extra thin or whatever you choose for glue. Are you trying to bait me? No, not at all. Throw th throw the thing together in like a few hours. I had a blast, got mine done, I did the Tamia Nissan something something. It's like a it was a very simple kit, but you know, you don't have to paint them. You can just put them together and have fun with it. Um and I think we had a lot of we had a pretty good following in the chat too. People that were building along with us. Your friend Robert Judson participated. Um we had a couple of people actually paint theirs like paint.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Two-tone paint jobs, right? And still finish them in three hours, which was really cool.
SPEAKER_07Mark Batson, two-toned. He just didn't get the decals on, but he he was done, in my opinion. He oh yeah, he got two two colors on that and had the thing fully assembled. That was a built model, in my opinion. So he did.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, and um yeah, he seemed like he had a blast.
SPEAKER_06He did, and so did so did James Duff. We had him on there with us. He does a little podcast called the Automotive Podcast. That's uh only available on YouTube. But him and uh James Tester and Sean Svenson do this podcast, it's bi-weekly, uh great little show. He he struggled in the recent past with finishing a model, and granted, he didn't finish one still, um, but he did tell me uh that it was like the longest he had sat at the bench in since he could remember working on something, which is in my opinion. I think that's you know, that's a win. So yeah.
SPEAKER_07I mean, the people who were in the chat and following along, I mean, I think a lot of people stayed pretty much the almost the whole three hours, didn't they?
SPEAKER_06They did. We yeah, we gave it um what was it through like a three and a half hours total? It was like a bonus round and a sudden death round, and um but you know the three repeating an infancy round.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, exactly. Exactly. They they kind of ended the rounds when they ran out of terms for extending rounds, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_06It ended up being about three and a half hours, and it's it was funny. It was one of the things that stood out to me was a lot of people beforehand when we were talking about doing this, there were a lot there was a lot of chatter of you there's no way. Three hours, you can't build a model in three hours. I can't build a model in three months, that type of stuff, right? But I think we proved a bunch of people wrong. You can actually just buy a model and build it and have it come out pretty nice too.
SPEAKER_05So, what an alien concept to actually buy a model, bring it home, and then sit down and build it. I mean, that's like like a psychotic type of thing to do, as far as I'm concerned, right?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, right, right.
SPEAKER_05What the hell's wrong with you? You're gonna actually build that like today, you know? Yeah, today, literally, in one day.
SPEAKER_07Why is it when we were young and oblivious and had no cares in the world, we could go to the hobby shop or store, buy a model kit, take it home, and just glue bomb the hell out of it and build that thing in a couple hours with no cares. Yeah, point of having abilities and say, Well, I can't do that now. It's like you could do it when you had no ability, you can surely do it now that you have ability, right?
SPEAKER_03It was poor ventilation and highly toxic products.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, that's fair enough.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_07That was the motivation behind it. There you go.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's that's why it was something that was so fun to do. It was fun to do because we were all high as a kite, right?
SPEAKER_05Exactly. And that's where the storyline from The Matrix comes from. Yeah, closed rooms with toxic atmospheres.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, follow the white rabbit. Follow the white rabbit.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, it was really cool. I mean, we didn't have Justin built a submarine, it wasn't just cars, you can do that with any kit that you want to buy.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, absolutely. So I I I was building a snap together kit, and I thought, oh yeah, this will be a snap.
SPEAKER_06And then I wanted to paint any every individual thing, and I'm like, Well, dang, I am not fast, and then before you know it, you're like, Oh, this is done, but the bumpers look like garbage, so yeah. In the purple column they go, yes, yeah.
SPEAKER_05What's funny is I really don't like how the bumpers look on the door, and so I'm gonna figure out a strip.
SPEAKER_06I think we're gonna do it again. Um, there was a lot of suggestions. Some crazy maniacs suggested doing it quarterly. I don't think that's gonna happen, but um yeah, at least once a year. At least once a year, they think that's gonna be a thing.
SPEAKER_07I think an annual build's good, you know, kind of lead up to the show season. I think the timing when we did it a couple weeks ago, I think was really good. Yeah, because it's kind of in between a lot of things, kind of get you amped up, you know, get people get the kind of creative juices flowing, you know. I think I think I think an annual that time of year would be pretty good, you know.
SPEAKER_03But freak you out of the doldrums.
SPEAKER_05Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the three-hour dust off or something like that, you know.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, write that down.
SPEAKER_05Three hour dust-off. Uh we need to find somebody who's clever with lyrics and write a song based on the Gilligan's Island tune. Uh, three I'm pretty sure chat meets GPT could do that for us.
SPEAKER_06I was just gonna say we could just have chat GPT do that.
SPEAKER_05All right, so speaking of shows, uh Jason, I think that that was uh an excellent idea that you guys borrowed.
SPEAKER_06Very much borrowed. I did reach out. We got the idea from Matthew Inman and Tim Kalankowitz. Uh they did this kind of nonchalant, like two-hour slap something together thing on Matthew Inman's uh YouTube channel, and I that's where the idea came from. And we did reach out to both of them um and invite them to come on. It just so happened that they each had prior engagements and couldn't make it. But I did hear from Matthew, he said uh he said we did better than he did, whatever that meant.
SPEAKER_07So I saw Tim last week with the uh we do a Monday Zoom with my friends over at the Newburg Model Car Club and explain what we did. And Tim was on there and he was he was pretty pumped that we pull it off.
SPEAKER_05So right on. Yeah. Oh maybe next time you guys can get into the magazine of his. Maybe, maybe. And and here's an article of of crap that was made in three hours. Yeah, exactly. Here's a close-up picture of how bad these bumpers look. Yeah, right. It's all about the bumpers today. Cool. That's it. Well, I personally am looking forward to the next one, and I'm gonna keep going on this delivery and be like, Yes, we did this.
SPEAKER_03I've got lyrics. You got lyrics? Well, okay, it is. I'm gonna send them to you guys. Oh, okay, so right in itself, right in itself, chat GPT. I said, you know, I I entered in, write me a song based on the Gilligan's Island theme song around a three-hour build. And it says, Love it. A three-hour build deserves its own sea shanty. And it came up with a whole thing, and then it goes, if you'd like, tell me what you were building a model plane, a deck, Ikea cabinet, engine, and I'll customize a version specifically for that project. So I said, three-hour build was for model cars, and it says, Perfect, model cars makes this even better. Like now I'm starting to get creeped out. This thing is freaking talking to me like it's a best friend, and it says, just a three-hour build, model car edition. Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of glue and thrills. It started with a shiny kit, just a three-hour build. A three-hour build. The box art showed a perfect ride, all polished, sleek, and fast. We said this won't take very long, those famous words won't last. This is this is awesome. I really do like it. This is now we just gotta get this set to actual music and we can have a theme song for it. We're off and run, yeah, and then get taken off of YouTube for stealing music.
SPEAKER_07Okay, we're just running the old vanilla ice and run it backwards or you know, add an extra.
SPEAKER_05Well, see, theirs goes like this, but ours goes. That's right.
SPEAKER_06Okay, as I'm listening as I'm reading this, this is getting better. Yeah, yes. Yeah, that was just the first verse.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, right. Second verse, same as the first, but only reverse or something like that. Fantastic. This is gold.
SPEAKER_07This is gold.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it is. I think we keep a uh it even talks about pinging parts.
SPEAKER_07It does. Yeah, I think we keep an annual annual cadence and uh promote it once we start getting closer. And uh I think a uh a fine little ditty would help push that along.
SPEAKER_06So oh yeah, exactly. Maybe it's gonna be there's gonna be some sort of AI thing that can actually put lyrics like music to that and sing it back to you.
SPEAKER_05I think I think that's how modern music is created now for the radio. Pretty much listen to the radio, uh not much. Oh man, the we had one of the warehouse persons wanted to do a playlist on the the Google box they have back there. Like, you guys mind if I play my playlist? We're like, nah, cool, okay, go for it. So she fired it up, and it was like you know, some country stuff, a little bit of uh 90s music and everything. So it was like it was kind of like honky tonk meets 90s um prom thing. Okay, so it was kind of kind of my jam, and then all of a sudden this song starts, I wanna see your pee cock cock. I'm like, she's like she was running back to the desk to switch the to switch her phone off as she was like red as a beat. She's like, This isn't my playlist. I'm like, uh-huh. Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_06Okay, that's money. When Spotify did their whole like year-end recap for everybody, if don't know if you guys have Spotify or if you remember that they do that, they gave you your average age, right? Mine was 67. What? Or judging on what my play my playlists, the music that was on my playlists, it guessed me for 67 years old. Oh boy, I don't know.
SPEAKER_05All right, so uh speaking of shows and events and stuff, uh, I actually was in touch with Mr. Josh Reese of VCG Residence by Reese, and I was asking a little bit about how his show went up there in the Colorados, or depending on where you're at in the country, it could be over in the Colorados. But uh he he mentioned that they had 175 models on the table this year, which so the model count was up from last year, but the attendance was down just a little bit, he said, and it possibly could have been because they had a 90-degree day that day, 90 degree weather. So lots of folks were probably out taking advantage of that. Also, there was a major car show going on the week after where they have a model car show as part of that. So they probably siphoned off some of the people that would have gone to one or the other and they had to make a choice. He said that they got all new awards this year, which I'll post a picture on the Instant Mania podcast Facebook page. Their awards are stunning, dude. I think he said they're made out of quarter-inch thick plastic that's UV printed. I'm not even sure how that works, but he says it was an amazing, amazing type of thing. And it comes with uh acrylic stands so you can stand them up so you don't have to hang them on the wall if you don't want to. He said there was overwhelmingly positive feedback from the attendees. Everybody had a great time. Again, it was another record day for the Forney Museum, uh ticket sales-wise. And they said that they did a hybrid judging system. This is this is really this is really giving me the uh the goosebumps when he was telling me about this. But they did a they did a people's choice award where of course attendees can vote on something. And then they also did Builder's Choice Award, where if you entered a model, you got a ballot to vote on another model in in the show, and they had it set up so you couldn't vote for yourself. So that's kind of cool. I think that's really great. Uh, which means I would get no votes if I couldn't vote for myself. So and the school bus of people that I brought with me to vote for me, weren't there? Yeah, he said they had it all on a spreadsheet, so they had everything lined out and all and everything. It was really great that the uh builders couldn't vote for themselves. Uh, there was a lot of great feedback on how the judging went. There was nobody was disappointed, everybody seemed like they they followed along with how they wanted to do that because again, they did people's choice, they did builders' choice, and then the actual club itself picked out the master award. So they the the small club didn't have to spend all day long judging, they actually spent just um a fraction of that time picking out the uh the winners of the master awards. Um I think for a small club this is a really great way to do this type of thing. But he had Dan Himmel was a uh an attendee of several shows, and I think also he said GSL style shows and had said that the response from him was overwhelmingly just awesome, and he loved being part of that show. So uh if you know Dan Himmel, he's a really awesome guy and was just over the moon that that Dan was praising them for how well he did. And they did have a fellow, his name is Jimmy, he had actually come all the way from Arctic Village, Alaska. He won the longest distance award for traveling to the show. But uh they're very appreciative of all the sponsors that helped out with the show, and you know, BG Model Workshop was uh sponsoring stuff. Matter of fact, I donated a hat. And Josh said the recipient of the award that we put the hat with was stoked that he got it. He's like, wait, what? I get a hat too. Nice, nice. And other folks are kind of like, Oh, really? Oh man. So that's kind of awesome. I think I might do that again in the future. But they they don't have a date for next year yet, but keep your calendar in March open for 2027 because that's gonna be the month it's gonna be in. Nice. That's that's the report there. And I'm kind of thinking that if I can't get to a show, I'm gonna call somebody who's part of the running of the show and see if we can't interview them and get some notes about how their show went. So yeah, that's a great idea, actually. Well, thank you very much. I also wanted to just get an excuse to call Josh and just be like, hi. Right? We're friends, I like you. Why don't we hear from our sponsor, and we'll be right back after this.
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SPEAKER_07Yes, so um coming up April 11th, Saturday, Canam Con 2026, held by my local club, Mount Mansfield Scale Modelers. That will be over in the Armory Building in Williston, Vermont. Uh IPMS style show. We've got uh a couple good vendors, you know. The whole emphasis on the show is not only US but Canadian. Hopefully, our Canadian counterparts come down and have a good showing this year. But uh it's a good show, not overly big. But uh we've got you know live presenters kind of going over. I'm gonna be doing a little scratch building presentation. One of the guys in the club's gonna be doing figure painting, then Mac Johnson's gonna be covering judging and automotive subjects. So it's kind of interactive, you know. We've got some good uh good lunch places in the area, so kind of looking forward to the show. Mr. Hanscom will be coming up. I believe our friends, the Crummets, will be making their way up. Uh hopefully some of our Canadian friends make their way down this year.
SPEAKER_06So um here's hoping there's not another snowstorm. Do you remember last year, the big snowstorm that skirted south of us?
SPEAKER_07It was, yeah. So we we chatted about that a bit yesterday, you know. Um we had the snowstorm kind of move in the southern part of the territory, ruined Linda left, and they got what two, two and a half hours into the trip. I'm like, I don't know if we should just go back or just keep going, or you know, it's like we're gonna be fine weather going back. So they kept going and they did make it up. And um, it wasn't once you got kind of about 45 minutes out, the snow had dropped off. So it's uh the beauty of Vermont in uh April is the unpredictability of the weather. So it could be 90, it could be a foot of snow. I mean, we'll see.
SPEAKER_05So 90 degrees are 90 inches, yeah. Exactly.
SPEAKER_07And then so that's April 11th, Saturday. And we got kind of a double banger that weekend because the 12th, the next day, Sunday, is down east con in Sanford, Maine. That's held at the uh the the gymnasium over there, I think it's the Memorial Gym, and that's held on by um Southern Scale Modelers, host that. And that's a really good show. I I went last year for the first time and uh had a really good time, you know. It was fairly well attended, good models on the on the tables, decent vendor area. Um Jason can kind of share his experience. Jason's pretty close to that show, so yeah, I'm close on Saturday and I'm traveling Sunday morning. Jason's close Sunday and I'm traveling down Sunday morning.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, the way that the way that weekend's gonna work is Heather and I got a hotel room. We have to drive the three and a half hours to Vermont for the show. And then Sunday, the Sanford show is 40 minutes from my house.
SPEAKER_05So we're gonna keep three hours and forty minutes back to San to Sanford.
SPEAKER_06So what we're gonna do is we're gonna leave right at well, we'll get dinner after the show Saturday and then cannonball back Saturday evening. Um and then I'll make my way over to Sanford the next morning, which because it's only 40 minutes away. Um and it Sanford's a really, really well put together show. Very organized, good size, um always lots of really good vendors there. Uh they had a fantastic food truck last year, so we're hoping that that's gonna repeat itself. And yeah, I forgot that it was actually Jody's first year last year.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it was a good show.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Those, like we said earlier, those small shows, you know. I mean, we get to all hang out, we had a good time and uh you know, good conversation and and uh friendship, you know, it's just it's good. Those are great shows, and uh that's that's that's a good one over there.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, it is. And don't forget, Sanford is where you and myself and Tim Ryan are uh debuting, air quotes, our Easy 8 builds together. Gonna put them all on the table um at Sanford next to each other, which I'm I'm looking forward to doing that. I've done that a handful of times with Tim. So one year Tim and I and my wife built Land Rovers, and we kind of debuted them all at the same time at the Classic Classic Show. That was fun. Uh, and then last year, uh Tim and Jody and I built those little Fiat 500 of Barthes, and we did the same thing, debuted them at the show. Uh hadn't seen them. And now this year, now this time it's the Sherman Easy 8, which is really cool. Uh, I'm actually gonna enter mine. I don't know if Tim is gonna do just uh a display only, but I'm actually gonna try and enter mine and see how it does. There you go. Right on. Good for you, man. Yep.
SPEAKER_07And of course, of course, we can't skip the NNL East. That's coming shortly thereafter. It is, yeah. Yep.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, that's a that's a big weekend. Um, and that's again, that's one of the biggest shows in the country, right? So that doesn't have that small show vibe. That's like you go to that show and you're I feel like I'm I'm running all day when I'm at an at least.
SPEAKER_07It's just an overload of the senses, the amount of models, the quality, the people you get to see, right? From new builders up and coming that just build incredible stuff for the Mark Batsons and Vinny Labosco's, right? The guys that have been around for a long time, that are deeply better than the hobby, and then the uh vendor space is just incredible. It's just that first year I went, I was just blown away. I was I just didn't know what to do, you know.
SPEAKER_06Same thing, same thing with me. My first year was the first, my first year was the year that BG went.
SPEAKER_05Oh, yeah, that was your first year. I didn't know that. Um, but dude, my memory of that was hanging out with you in line and then putting a model on the table. And then next thing I know, people are going, Hey, where are we all going for dinner tonight? I'm like, Yeah, what happened to the day?
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_06So I that was my first experience with NL East, and it was very much sensory overload, A, the line that wraps around the building. Um, you get in there and you've got two. Full gymnasium size rooms that are for the vendors by themselves. The models that were on the table, meeting people that knew me, right? So that was my first and then at least as a as a content creator. Um, I got interviewed by Doug White.
SPEAKER_04It was insane.
SPEAKER_06That day was insane. And then I hopped in the car and drove home that night. Yeah, you guys are nuts.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, that's like the first year I went, I did the same thing.
SPEAKER_06I'll tell you what, it was it that was that made me that was enough for me to decide that now when I go to NNL East, it's gotta be you gotta stay two nights. You have to. I mean 'cause 100%.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Yeah. We we even Ubered in from Manhattan that morning and then Ubered back again. And when we got back to the hotel room, we were like, what the hell just happened? Oh my god. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. That was um that that that first NNL least was full of firsts for me, and it was the biggest memory I have out of all of that is it was Tim T and I believe Pat Wilkins from the Classic Plastic in a Toyota Corolla, and we had all brought huge amounts of money. Right? I bought like I spent five hundred dollars. I bought a bunch of stuff, and we were just going out all day, putting it in the car, putting it in the car. And then at the end of the day, it's like, okay, let's go. We're getting ready to go home. Alright, go in and get in the car in. Where are we gonna sit? Like Pat Pat had stuff on his lap in the back seat, and it was in the back window, and it was I mean, the car was full. That's why it was a pickup truck. With a cap on it.
SPEAKER_05Right. Oh my god. I had to stay honest because I had to get on the airplane and get back home.
SPEAKER_06Oh, that's right.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_06That's probably we found out how expensive it was to mail you your stuff, didn't we?
SPEAKER_05Yes. Well well oh no, that's right. My friend uh Tim Baumgard had moved up to the Delaware area, so he actually drove in from Delaware to attend the show and hang out with us. And uh which was typical uh of you know, like, okay, we'll meet up here i i at the show, okay, great. We get together, we hang out with a little while, uh give out the hugs and everything like that. I'm like, okay, I'll catch up with you later. Same for the rest of the show. You know, because it was just throngs of people going through there. But yeah, no, Tim was like, Hey, um, don't forget, I can take home anything and mail it from my house. Like, because he's got a company, uh a resin casting company. He's like, I can I can ship it and uh for for a better price than you guys can mail it. And I'm like, I turn to Linda, I'm like, oh really? Linda's like, oh crap. Okay. And by the time the packet showed up, I forgot what I got.
SPEAKER_06I don't understand. Was it the when did you come out to was it maybe you visited us and we ended up mailing stuff back for you when it was like a hundred and fifty bucks to mail everything back?
SPEAKER_05That was the most recent trip because Tim gave us a bunch of stuff.
SPEAKER_06That's right. That's right. It was the most recent trip.
SPEAKER_05I uh that's when we went to go see Charlie Mack. And we came up to hang out with you guys. And um God, Charlie was cool. But yeah, it was crazy because I tried not to buy any model kits. I tried very hard not to buy any model kits. And uh we even went to a hobby shop to buy a gift certificate for Charlie as a birthday gift to give to him. And I still left his hobby shop with a model. And oh I haven't seen this one before. Oh my god, I gotta get this. So I got it, it's sitting on the shelf behind me. And um we go hang out with Jason and Tim Ryan comes over and goes, I brought you some models, I am my kind, you know. So he goes out and gets them and comes back in again, and there's a whole stack of stuff. I'm like, Oh, I can I can pick something out of that stack. He goes, No, the whole stack's for you. Take whatever you want. I'm like, Oh Christ. Yeah. Oh yeah. And then we went to that that store you were telling us about. I can't remember the name of it now. No, not that one. Oh, I always buy something from from Brian. But yeah, what did where do we get that? That was a department store in a little town in Maine. Renny's Renny's. Renny's, yes, Renny's. And the town was like Damerisk or something like that. Damerscotia. That's what it was. Damerscotia. And uh we go downstairs, like, let's just see if they have any model kits or whatever, right? Go downstairs to their to their toy area, and there's this whole wall of model kits, and they're all like really inexpensive. Yeah, Renny's is good.
SPEAKER_06Renny's is good.
SPEAKER_05I picked out two and took him up to the counter, and the guy behind the counter was a riot because he's like he looks at me, he squints his eyes, he goes, Do I need to ask how old you are so you can get some glue? I'm like, Oh, I'm not gonna go, good, because I don't trust you. I'm like, oh my god. Jesus.
SPEAKER_04Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_05He was just gonna be a real hard time. He's like, You're buying model kits, huh? And Linda goes, Oh, he's got a YouTube channel channel. He goes, Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, those those main those main folks are kind of, you know, main folks. Maine folk. And I can say that because my wife is a main folk. So she is a main artist.
SPEAKER_05Well, we crossed over the state line into Maine and we stopped at a uh yarn shop uh to go uh buy yarn because we this we have to do, talking to the little couple that run that shop, and they're like, You guys aren't from around here, are you? And they're like, look, stuff, and no, because this is like May. And we're like, No, we're not. And they're like, Oh, cool. So here's some great places to eat, and here's some good places to go to. You need to go to Bajaba, you know, that kind of thing. And um, uh, we're like, Oh, we definitely want to do that, and like, oh, they got really good literature up there, get a lobster roll from this guy, you know, that kind of a thing. And then the the the wife goes, Yeah, but the price of lobsters really gone up because those Canadians come down here and fish our waters, and they're just like they both they just go, they just both go at the same time. Canadians are I'm like, Oh okay, and there's still a war going on, apparently. Yeah, sweetest people in the world, unless you talked about the Canadians. So I was like, oh no. Goodness. So yeah, good times.
SPEAKER_03Justin, what have you got going on for shows? All right, I got some non-automotive related shows. Nice. We have uh Amps Nats is coming up uh April 1516, 17, 18 out in South Bend, Indiana. That is an armor show, armor modeling preservation society. Um, if you're even thinking about tickling your toes with armor modeling, and you are a car builder, swing on by if you're in the area. It's uh it's a pretty good time. Uh, I will be out there. Rob Riv from the Insanity will be there. Uh, that is again April 15th through the 18th. Uh, also, if you're in the Philadelphia area and not going to NNL East, the MFCA show, that is the miniature figures collectors of America show. Uh, that is my home club. I am a member at that club. Uh, our show is the 24th and 25th as well. As uh, same time as NNL East. We do have what they call ordinance, so it's not all figures, and they do want to expand the show. They would love to see car models, tanks, aircraft, all that stuff. So if you're not going to NNL East and you are in the Philly area, uh look into coming to that show. That is again April 24th and 25th. Those are the two that I will be at. Uh, and depending on when this show comes out, um this Saturday coming up, uh, is Mosquito Con at the same location as NNL East. Uh, I will be headed up to that for I'll say a good portion of the day. I'm not entering anything, I I'm kind of like entered out. But you know, you gotta get out there and and see the people, you know, hobnob, you know, kissing hands and shaking babies, all that stuff. Exactly. Um so yeah, by all means, if if you're in the area, swing on by and look for bad Santa. Right on, brother.
SPEAKER_06Um, so before we end this segment, I would like to take a minute to to uh I want to pull a Rob Rev and bust some chops. Oh no. Oh yeah. I'm actually gonna pull a Rob Rev on Rob Rev because I know he listens to this. So we're gonna be at NL East, and he's gonna be driving through New Jersey to go home after NL East, and that guy has got some nerve not stopping and having dinner with us. Just saying, Rob, if you're listening, I'm very disappointed in you.
SPEAKER_04That's right. You got some nerve.
SPEAKER_06That guy's got some nerve. Well yeah, what are you being mean to me for? Yeah, exactly. I gotta be like that. What are you broken? Can't even stop and have dinner with with us. Jeez.
SPEAKER_05Some what you need to do is find out what kind of car he drives, and when he's driving through town, race, get all your friends to race out and get in line in front of him at the local drive-thru and just order a lot of stuff and drive him absolutely nuts.
SPEAKER_03Or do all your banking at the AT, the drive up ATM. I don't know if you guys have listened back that far to the insanity. Oh yeah, oh yeah, we did back in the early stages. He had a he had a rant story.
SPEAKER_05Open a business account, please, through the drive-thru ATM. Also, I'd like to get a business loan so I can start a business through the drive-thru ATM, please. Thank you. Exactly.
SPEAKER_06I mean, I'm just saying, I I had to throw that in there because uh some of our friends, i.e. Justin Ryan, he's making the drive over Sunday morning to have breakfast with us. Have breakfast before we leave. Rob's just driving right by.
SPEAKER_03He's driving literally right by. I am literally driving two hours to have breakfast with you guys and drive two hours home.
SPEAKER_06I know, and he can't stop when he's driving right by.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I have this image in my mind of the uh the the drunk mailman driving by the homestead in um funny farm with Chevy Chase. Yes, yeah, just that's him driving by.
SPEAKER_06Also, we should probably stop saying yeah the name because one more time and he's gonna show up. So yeah, right.
SPEAKER_04We don't need that.
SPEAKER_05Right on. Well, I have a show I'd like to share. Share your show, BG. Thank you, Justin. I appreciate that. So I have joined joined the local uh chapter of Amps, AZ Amps. Great group of guys. Um, I actually already know several of them from other dealings in the area, but uh all of them good. On April 11th, if you happen to be in the Phoenix area, they are uh the local AZ Amps is actually hosting a model expo at Andy's Hobby Headquarters. And it's gonna be Saturday, April 11th, 2026. Andy's Hobby Headquarters, 2150 South 91st Avenue, suite 105 Tolison, Arizona, 85353. And that's gonna be running from about 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. That's kind of when everybody sort of winds down because oh my god, it's already hot here and people just want to get home by then. In progress uh builds and finished builds and stuff like that. So it's gonna be like kind of a mini uh amps show. And um, my good friend John, who runs the club, was asking if we could give a give them a shout-out. So there you go, John. You owe me$200. Payable in model kits. Payable in 200. I would like one monies, please. Uh let's see. I tell you what, why don't we go into vendor spot number two and we'll be right back in just a few moments.
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SPEAKER_05And welcome back, folks. Thank you for sticking around. We had to do mash up our two commercial segments this time. So we got Iceman Collections and VCGs by Reese. That was that's what happened. That's what happened. But hey, Iceman and Reese, they're uh they're good friends, so they're they're potting well. I tell you what, let's move on to a new segment for the show. Good gosh, the group builds. Oh somebody think of the group builds.
SPEAKER_06Holy smokes, there's a lot of those.
SPEAKER_05As of recording, we have uh a couple coming up this week, right? Starting this week.
SPEAKER_06There's a couple coming up this week, and there's one coming up next weekend. It's not really it's kind of a group build. Well, I'll let Justin handle that one, but so starting April 1st for myself and my good friend Chuck from Chuck's Hobby Spot. Um, I don't know why anybody would watch his crap. Um I certainly I certainly know that he doesn't listen to this crap. Uh so uh we're bringing back the Rally Cool Rally Car Group Build. Yep, it's gonna go from April 1st to Sept October 1st. Yeah, April 1st to October 1st. Um and same thing as last year. Uh same rules apply. Uh hopefully we can get a bunch of people in on this group build. Um, you can share your photos, your um what you're gonna build, your entry, and all that stuff on either my Facebook page, the Blue Ox Model Shop, or Chuck's Facebook page, Chuck's Hobby Spot, or do a video announcing what you're gonna do and and go from there. But I'm very happy to to keep this group build alive. I had a lot of fun with mine, even though my friend told me to paint it the wrong color. Last year's build was fantastic, so I'm looking forward to this one.
SPEAKER_05That that was a very popular build, and I'm I'm looking forward. I've actually got a kit picked out. Um the kit I picked out happened to be picked out because I could reach it. So that was the discerning factor there. And and there we go. But I I'm happy to do a uh video for the entry one. Happy, happy, happy.
SPEAKER_06That's fantastic. And then I think the other group build that starts April 1st is um Tiffany over at Dirt Road Cinderella. She's doing a glory days of drag racing group build. She is hosting that with uh Joe from Big Sky. Joe from Big Sky, yes, they're co-hosting that group build, and that's a like a pre-1972, I think, drag racing style group build.
SPEAKER_04Uh-oh.
SPEAKER_06Uh I think so. I think that's what it is anyway. I'm gonna have to check my the rules on that. But I know it's old school drag cars. It's like not a modern you can't like build a modern dragster or something like that.
SPEAKER_05So I'm hoping to do a a gremlin gasser.
SPEAKER_06Oh, I think that would be just fine.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I think the kit is a 70 gremlin. I think I'm gonna.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, no, I think that would be just fine. Yeah, that type of stuff would be just fine. And I think I don't rem so I know that starts April 1st, but I'm fuzzy on the details as to when it ends.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, but I mean you're gonna have a I think it's in September also.
SPEAKER_06I think it is too. And you could easily figure that out by going over to Tiffany's Facebook page uh or your Facebook page. I think she's running both. Or you could subscribe to her YouTube channel, and you'll find all the details on one of those three spots, I'm sure.
SPEAKER_05So there's that. And then um, Justin, what do you have uh for group builds coming up?
SPEAKER_03The modeling insanity is hosting its annual bunny shoot. Uh in the same vein as our turkey shoot, but this time we're shooting at bunnies. It is a three-day build starting midnight of Good Friday for you Christians. That is next uh this Friday. It starts at midnight, and then it goes all the way until Jesus has arisen again. Uh for you Christians. And this is that is not any intended intention of being blasphemous. It does go until Easter Sunday uh at midnight. Any kit, any scale, not about finishing, it's about having fun. I will make sure that we post the Discord links to both the Insanity and the Model Car Mania Discord pages in the Model Car Mania page. Uh, you can also go over to the Insanity page as well to post along and and all that jazz, but it's really all about the camaraderie and the having fun and getting into the Discord room and doing some video chatting and all that jazz. So pick a kit and build it. I plan on doing a Tamia 148 scale fuel truck because I'm also going to Mosquito Con, which is Saturday. So my build time is going to be extremely truncated. So I'm gonna do something I think I can finish, which will be the 48 scale fuel truck. So that's where we're at. That's the one I got.
SPEAKER_06I'm excited for that. I've actually I'm gonna do the swim wagon type 166 from Tumiya. I think that's gonna be something I can get done in three days.
SPEAKER_05I was hoping I could join in, but um we got some family stuff going on. Always with the family. Well, I got a brother-in-law coming in from Alaska at like 5 a.m. Sunday morning, and I don't know how many rooms you're gonna have to give them. Also, my sister's going into surgery on Thursday, so I'm gonna go see her Saturday morning to make sure she's doing okay. It's nothing uh of a serious nature, they just need to check on something.
SPEAKER_03So exploratory. Exploratory, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Like like the British going into France in World War One.
SPEAKER_04Exactly.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, yeah. Holy smokes. Just gonna say I'm looking forward to that. That's gonna be fun. There's so um if this if this podcast drops prior to the bunny shoot, there's um we're not gonna do a live Sunday builds. Um because of the holiday and because of the bunny shoots going on, and because of Mikey being ill, and um, so that means I'm gonna be bouncing between the two Discord rooms, the Model Carmania Discord and the Insanity Discord, most of the weekend.
SPEAKER_03Being Easter Sunday, a lot of people do family dinners and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_05So yeah, yeah. Yeah, you know what? I'm I'll see if I can't drop into one of the Discord rooms also just to hang out, say hi.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, you don't have buildings.
SPEAKER_05Well, I'm so glad that Justin said that no longer finishing, you know, finishing models is no longer the criteria of the of the group builds, it's just more of a fun thing. So I'm like, oh yes, finish right on.
SPEAKER_03Here I go, one three fifty scale aircraft carrier.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_05I think the car equivalent that would be like vintage NASCAR with with uh 35-year-old decals. Yes, whatever I think. Exactly. I'm in.
SPEAKER_06I'm in.
SPEAKER_05I've got a purple pond for stripping the paint and another pond for uh for doing the decals.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. Don't screw them up.
SPEAKER_03The the the theme behind it is having fun, but also challenging you. You know, challenge yourself. Uh see if you find something you think you can and see if you can build it. You know what I mean? Similar to our three-hour build with just a little more time. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Let's just let's just set this record straight. Right now, I'm working on a polar light snap kit, and that is challenging the hell out of me right now. So it's probably funny.
SPEAKER_04That's where I'm at right now.
SPEAKER_06Well, I was so for the bunny shoot, I was gonna do an F-86 Saberjet. Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna have the decals in time, though.
SPEAKER_03So that's right, you just ordered them some Sprue Brothers, right? I did, yeah. Yeah, yes.
SPEAKER_05So who are they? I've never heard of those guys before.
SPEAKER_03You've never heard of Sprue Brothers?
SPEAKER_05I'm just being facetious.
SPEAKER_03I'm glad you are. It's a competitor.
SPEAKER_05Well, what else have we got to talk about today? Uh uh any more group builds going on out there? I'm sure there is.
SPEAKER_03Well, we do have the Iceman Collections for truck build that we're all kind of jumping in on.
SPEAKER_06Oh, that's yes. Yep, we get the uh Saturday night short track group build that I'm participating in. Uh that I love Mikey. So that ends June 1st, and the next one starts the same day.
SPEAKER_04It's not even like an hour bright or something.
SPEAKER_06It's like the group build that never ends.
SPEAKER_05Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. It just hit me. It's a circle track group build, right? And it goes in an annual circle.
SPEAKER_07That's perfect. Exactly. The guys at the flag stand with a checkered flag and green flag both just just whipping them.
SPEAKER_05It's a double-sided flag at the same time. You know, when he's over, he's actually rather clever.
SPEAKER_06Is that pretty funny? Funny. Let's see what else. Uh street machine group build that comes up that's June 1st to uh December 31st.
SPEAKER_07I mean, I'm hoping I can get I'm gonna focus on this Avante I'm working on, but I'd like to get the short track group build done, and then I've got something already slotted I think I'm gonna do for your uh machine group build. So nice. I I I just can't do them all, you know. It just takes focus away.
SPEAKER_03Well that is a thing, you don't have to do every single one of these group builds, listeners. Yep.
SPEAKER_07I mean, once the magazine stuff gets thrown in the mix, that always, yeah. I never know what's coming and when it's coming, so that's priority. So it just it gets in the way, you know.
SPEAKER_05I don't know if I can handle that kind of anxiety. I don't know what's coming in the mail, but when it gets here, it's gonna be a good task.
SPEAKER_03And I'm gonna have two and a half weeks to build it. The good thing is you know it's gonna be a model car. It's gonna be a model car, that's right.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, but it could end up being that trick that Billy Strange had to suffer through, you know. It's like, yeah, get this done in a week. Oh god, no.
SPEAKER_06Oh gosh. Yeah, but he did a good job with that.
SPEAKER_05I've built those kits, and those things are horrible. Horrible kits. I think he said it almost broke them, didn't he? It did. I tell you what, I I haven't been the same with deadlines and group builds since I finished that um Nissan GTR that Tamiya Nissan GTR did for a for a client.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_05That that model kit broke me, and like every build I've done since then has just been like me curled up in the corner just rocking back and forth.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_05It's all coming back, my PTSD's coming back. Yeah, yeah. Cool. Well, um, yes, as Justin's right though, it the there are so many group builds out there. I think the model car world actually has more group builds per capita than any other model building genre out there, as far as I'm concerned.
SPEAKER_06Would have to agree. I really would. Um, and he's right. You don't have to jump into every group build that comes along, you don't have to finish every group build that you jump into. The way I look at it, deadlines are merely suggestions. Thank you. Appreciate that.
SPEAKER_05I use them for inspiration. Jason's like, unless it's my group build, then I want you to get it done on time, please.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, that's right. The benefit of getting the uh street machine group build done on time is I do a slideshow of everybody's completed build, and I and put it in a video, and I don't think anybody else does that with a group build. I think I'm the only one.
SPEAKER_05Uh there's been ones in the past that have done slideshows. Of completed builds with the name next to them? Yeah, because I think Mars did one for his uh Rust bucket challenge that he had done.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Huh. But not to seal your thumbnail with that. Well, no, it's okay. Don't worry about it. Thanks a lot.
SPEAKER_07I think you have to pick it up a notch this year, buddy.
SPEAKER_05Uh Jason's curling up under the desk. Yeah, it's okay.
SPEAKER_07Everybody gets their their their picture, their name on the YouTube channel, and a crisp one dollar bill.
SPEAKER_06Oh that's that's uh that's uh well that could get me in a lot of trouble. I am not gonna agree to that.
SPEAKER_05Hey, wait a minute. This one dollar bill is only one-sided. Uh-huh. Exactly. It's crisp though. Yeah. Participate next year, you get the other, but you get the back of it.
SPEAKER_07That's right.
SPEAKER_05Uh funny. So well, as a matter of fact, I got started in group builds way back in the day because I wanted to get stuff built out of the stash. And I was picking and choosing the group builds because, like, oh, I have a kit that'll that fits that criteria. So I start working on that, and next thing you know, I was Mr. Group Build for a while. I was joining everything, and then one day uh something snapped and I just I stopped.
SPEAKER_07So I mean it's good. I mean, you know, we chatted about this before, but upcoming shows, what are the themes, you know, the group builds. We all have so much in our stash that could motivate us or inspire us, as Justin just said, to uh grab that kit and just build it, you know. And it seems like sometimes the quick builds, not that they're quick, but uh just a thing that's a random thing that you haven't planned uh, you know, over and over in your head, seems to be a thing that's just as much fun and does just as good at shows and gets popularity, you know, versus the thing that we spend all the time toiling over, you know. It's just uh they're fun, I enjoy them, but both the model clubs I'm part of do group builds, you know. So it's like you got six group builds going on at one time plus the things that you're trying to get done, you know.
SPEAKER_06So it is, it gets in the way of building what you really want to build, right? Sometimes it's like with the 66 flip nose. I just one it just one day I said, you know what, I haven't built one of those, I think I want to build it. And I stuck with it, I got it done fairly quickly, and I kind of think it's one of my best builds. Yeah, put no full thought into it, I just grabbed it off the rack and was like, Yep, I'm building this.
SPEAKER_05I fully agree, dude. That that thing is absolutely stunning, and I've put too much thought into mine and it's still sitting here, you know, languishing underneath the desk. So yeah, I 100% feel like I I feel like they're too. All right, cool. So let's move on to the next thing. Um I have a note from Iceman of when his when he's gonna be closed down. Closed 4-8 to 426. 426. Is it a hemi? Okay, I think you got a hemi. Oh I think he I think he does have hemis. He does. He's got some great um old school gasser style hemis with the uh the hillboard injection systems. I freaking love those things. That's gonna be my my my Frank's hot red hot. I'm gonna put that shit in everything.
SPEAKER_04There you go.
SPEAKER_05Did you see his new Volkswagen stuff he posted on on Facebook?
SPEAKER_04Yes, dang.
SPEAKER_05I knew Jody, I knew Jody was gonna be like, I was like, No, what it I didn't see that.
SPEAKER_07He's gonna send you a picture and some wide, like wide five steel wheels, just really cool stuff, yeah. For like uh air-cooled beetle stuff, yep.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, and a and a pretty sweet looking engine too. And I I I I sent Joelle a ski a screen capture from his post, and I was like, this has to happen no matter what. Yeah, I'm not a bug guy, but I've got ideas already.
SPEAKER_07Holy smokes. I smell a group build coming.
SPEAKER_03Volkswagen guy, how would this Volkswagen engine look or work in one of those uh Volkswagen vans? Like a surf van. Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah. Because I have I have the uh machinations to doing a surf van, and I think it would be pretty cool to put in some kind of crazy fucking Volkswagen motor in it.
SPEAKER_07I've got a bunch of those kits, and I've got some Beetle kits, they would be really cool parts.
SPEAKER_03I'd be I'd be down, I'd be down for a Volkswagen group build. You know what's bad? I don't have a Volkswagen.
SPEAKER_04Are they just test prints right now, or what is he doing?
SPEAKER_06Is this holding to me a one? I don't know. I think it well, so what it what did you just say, Jody?
SPEAKER_07Are they is it just test prints? Is it nothing that he's saying for sure he's gonna do or yeah, I don't know.
SPEAKER_05It's a test print. He's uh getting ideas of what he might where he might want to go with something, but uh I'm noticing that the white wall stripe is actually printed separately from the tire. Okay, that's awesome.
SPEAKER_07That's sick.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, that's what I mean.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I mean the Tumiya Beetle Kit. There's a bunch of stuff that you could probably use this in, but yeah, those wheels and tires.
SPEAKER_06Yep. Yeah, so what what I'm taking from this is I need to I need to look for a beetle kit at one of these shows that I'm going to this month.
SPEAKER_04Yep.
SPEAKER_05You want a beetle kit? I can send you a to me a beetle kit.
SPEAKER_06Absolutely.
SPEAKER_03You can send me a to me in a beetle beetle kit. Did the beetle ever work as a rally car?
SPEAKER_04As a matter of fact, yes.
SPEAKER_05Two group builds, one stone. Yeah, there's something called the blue ox paradox, where you're not allowed to do that. The blue ox paradox. I love it.
SPEAKER_03Well, you know what? I would do that then. I love it. I would paint that silker blue, and it would be the blue ox paradox, is what I'd name that car.
SPEAKER_07Two stones, one group build. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_05I got a rock. Uh, I don't even have my watch on. What the hell time is it? Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03What are you looking at? It is 9 30.
SPEAKER_059 30. Well, it doesn't do me any good. I'm on the West Coast timeline. Subtract three, Dingleberry.
SPEAKER_066 30. Wow, somebody's getting froggy. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05It's that stallers for mac and cheese coming back to get him now. That's what's going on. Exactly. Right.
SPEAKER_07So Mikey did check in. He did text us in the messenger and said he is alive. He was in a uh uh medicine-induced coma.
SPEAKER_03Okay, yeah, yeah. No, not a medicine, not a medically induced, medicine-induced.
SPEAKER_06Yes, medicine-induced coma. He said he's alive but burning up.
SPEAKER_03Oh, poor guy. Hunkka hunker burning low.
SPEAKER_07I mean, he may need to go see a doctor about that. Yeah. Specifically, where he was burning.
SPEAKER_06Take a minute.
SPEAKER_07Take a minute. There it is. There it is. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06There it is. Yeah, there it is. And I honestly can't I can't say whether or not that's accurate.
SPEAKER_05Well, I think what? I think we uh I think we covered just about everything, haven't we? I think so. Mikey's gonna do do a double thumbs up next time.
SPEAKER_06Well, he's gonna have to, or we're gonna end up breaking them.
SPEAKER_05I tell you what. Why don't we have Justin do the closing?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, Justin, do the closing.
SPEAKER_03All right, ladies and gentlemen, if you enjoyed this episode of the podcast, don't forget to check out our backlogged episodes. And while you're at it, put your earballs on the modeling and sanity podcast as well. For all of your oral pleasures, you can go to modelpodcast.com and find up all sorts of glorious podcasts. And if your eyeballs work and you can read, you can also find some blogs there to read all about your favorite hobby, the best hobby in the world, model building.
SPEAKER_05Thank you very much, Justin. Appreciate that. He changed that up a bit, didn't you? Yeah, I did.
SPEAKER_06I free I freelance it. I'm actually impressed we have a backlog at this point. It's a short log, but it's a backlog. That's right.
SPEAKER_05Uh when I was doing the outline for it, I was like, oh wow, episode seven, that means one more and we're official.
SPEAKER_03Right. That's right. One more and we're official. Should we roll right into the next one while we're here?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, let's just do that. We'll do a two for one right now. Get it over. Yeah, get it over. Cool. I tell you what, though, before we do that, though, let's do the goodbyes. We'll start off with uh Jody. You look the tiredist.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. No, I'm good. Uh thanks again, everybody, for coming back. You know, it's always good getting together with these guys and chatting models and just having a good laugh. And uh really looking forward to the kind of beginning of show season kicking off and spending time with all my friends up here in the northeast. And really looking forward to NNL East this year and um, you know, getting getting to meet new people. And uh it's great, you know. Uh get get out to a model show, you know. Get out from under the uh the rock you're living under and get to a model show. We'll see uh catch you guys on the next one.
SPEAKER_03I I believe then it's not under rocks, it's in basements. Get it right, usually in basements, yeah.
SPEAKER_07That's fair. Yeah, grab your mother's basement and uh the mother's basement.
SPEAKER_05Wow, yeah, Jody's getting saucy. I throw her a couple bones every month, you know? It's cool. That's right.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_05I had a roommate, but my mom moved to Florida. Mom! Meatloaf! Ah, the meatloaf.
SPEAKER_06What a loser he is, man.
SPEAKER_05Jason, it's time for you to say goodbye.
SPEAKER_06Well, it definitely is time for me to say goodbye. Oh, thanks for thanks for thanks for listening, guys. Um please go over and join our Facebook page, the uh Model Car Mania. We are just about just over 800 people right now, and I'd love to see that above a thousand. That'd be really cool. Um so go over and join that. And the Discord, don't forget we have a Discord. Uh every time I pop in there, nobody's in there. So you're gonna have to do something about changing that. All seriousness though, yeah. Please go over and join the Facebook page. Um do have an email, it's listed in the description of the Facebook page. Uh, I realize lots of people don't email anymore. I don't know why, especially model car guys, but I mean, drop us a line, tell us what you think. Um give us a hard time. Hate mail. Love some hate mail.
SPEAKER_05You can even send hate mail for Chuck. We don't mind.
SPEAKER_06Exactly.
SPEAKER_05Hate mail for Chuck. Yeah, we'll answer forward. Oh, yeah, I'll text it to him.
SPEAKER_04Hey, money, fuck what I got. Exactly. I'll text it to him, right?
SPEAKER_06And you don't even have to watch his crap.
SPEAKER_05Oh, this is such a this is such a great rehearsal. I can't wait till we record the actual I know, right? Exactly.
SPEAKER_03Who would have thought the episode without Mikey was the one that went off the rails?
SPEAKER_05Well, dude, I'm telling you, it's a Monday thing. You'll not have a mic, because every time I send in the the recording, I always get that text like, why the hell is Mikey in here? Uh by the time like he who should not be named.
SPEAKER_06Oh, you mean the the gentleman that's got a lot of nerve? Yeah, very disappointed in it. Yeah, that guy.
SPEAKER_05Mr. Mr. Driveby. I can't wait to send this one in because he's going best episode ever. Yeah. Except that Justin guy.
SPEAKER_06Oh yeah. You need to keep Justin on a longer leash. No, I uh from what I understand, Justin's a permanent fixture here, and they're recruiting for his job as they as we speak.
SPEAKER_04Apparently.
SPEAKER_06Apparently. Yeah. I'm hoping they look at my application. Really?
SPEAKER_03Well, damn. No, no. I'm I'm I'm bad Santa. I'm bad Santa.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. I was like, well, you can't have an insanity without bad Santa. Exactly. No, and you can't have a model Carmania without a meh Santa. Yeah meh Santa.
SPEAKER_03I don't know though. I changed it. This this weekend I was the baddest Santa.
SPEAKER_05Oh, really? All right. Because I'm bad. I'm bad. You know it. Santa? Right, Justin. Say goodbye.
SPEAKER_03All right, everyone. Goodbye. But before I go, modelclor maniapodcast at gmail.com is our email address. ModelCloorManiaPodcast at gmail.com. You had to look that up, didn't you? Yeah.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_05He was waffling that whole time so he could look it up.
SPEAKER_03He was, yeah. No, I I actually, while we were all just bantering with Jason's goodbye, I was actually looking it up to be prepared.
SPEAKER_05Oh, fantastic. I appreciate that. You have finally uh proven yourself worthy of being here. Cool. All right. Well, I tell you what, I will say goodbye also. Uh let's see here. We will say thank you to Iceman Collections. Thank you to VCG Red. Thank you to MCV Model Car Parts and Auto Modeler Magazine. And we'll say thank you to our listeners, to those who also post on the Facebook page. Uh I've been going through the backlog of the Facebook page recently, and there's amazing stuff showing up there from a lot of great builders, uh, a lot of great uh conversations and stuff going on there too. So thank you all for engaging in that. Again, only 200 more bots, and we'll hit a thousand subscribers on the Facebook page. Exactly. We want to say have a good night, have a good day, have a good weekend. And uh final note for you folks is uh building model cars can be a solitary hobby, but it doesn't have to be get your butt to a show, join one of many model building forums online, or look into local clubs in your area. And if you can't find a local club, consider creating one. I can speak from experience. It isn't an easy thing to do, but it can be very rewarding. So give that a thought. Uh, we are re-building a model car club here in the valley. Uh the guys in the group are just absolutely outstanding. All right, guys. That's it for us, and we'll take our leave of you and see you in the next one. Bye now. Bye-bye. Bye. Bye bye.
SPEAKER_04Now we're recording.
SPEAKER_05I've never said that before in my life, and I don't know where the hell I came from.
SPEAKER_06That was amazing.
SPEAKER_02Thank you for listening to this episode of Model Car Mania. For more content, please visit the Model Car Mania Facebook group. Model Car Mania is a modeling insanity production.
SPEAKER_05No recording. The voice of the Cylons right there.
SPEAKER_07I was gonna say it's terrifying.
SPEAKER_05It is actually. No recording. No. It is recording. You never hear the voice of Skynet in the tran in the uh in the uh Terminator movies? I'm sure it sounds like Craig. Hey, you're talking to the guy that thought forever that the uh the Ozzie Osborne song was uh gravy train to hell.
SPEAKER_06Well, at least at least you didn't spend your entire youth singing dirty Steve and his thunder jeep like I did. I would watch that cartoon.
SPEAKER_05Alright, um, you guys having a happy Monday so far? I hope so. No, fuck it. Building with avocados. Put together one hell of a salad. So you know it's gonna it's gonna be a song that. It's three hours long. I hope not. Yo God. This is the build that never ends. On and on, my friend. Yep. That's fine. Uh okay, so I'm just gonna start over here, okay?
SPEAKER_04Hello and welcome to the three hour bills. Right?
SPEAKER_06Oh, hold on. I'm gonna need a bathroom break if that's what we're and uh did we have any emails this month? No emails this month. Nobody nobody is reaching out to us. Okay, what is our email address? It's uh I good question. It's listed in the Facebook page. I think it's I think I think it's Model Car Mania Podcast at this could be why nobody emails us. Oh no, we're getting emails, we're getting emails from people that want it the scam emails, basically. We're getting a bunch of those.
SPEAKER_05Oh really?
SPEAKER_06So I know the email works. Plus, I had Heather Test email it um to see if it was working, and her email came through. Nobody it's just nobody wants to talk to us, dude.
SPEAKER_05We're all full up with Mailwater Brides here, so we don't need more of those.
SPEAKER_06Exactly.
SPEAKER_05Um, which reminds me, I need to go down to this to the storage facility and pick that one up. Okay, so uh no emails. Well, there's holes in the box, they'll be fine. Okay, so I tell you, what we go on to uh go on to vendor spot. I could just forward that person to you, Justin. Um let's see. Can I borrow that one?
SPEAKER_04426.
SPEAKER_05Is it a hemi?
SPEAKER_04Okay, that thing got a hemi.
SPEAKER_06Oh, okay. This is why I lose all the races I get into.
SPEAKER_05I'm so glad we decided not to swear so much in this podcast. So we're gonna talk about other things like yeah. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_03We are swearing with subject matter. Uh where are the we are the audio polluters.