Behind the Incredible Acme City: 1/64 Dioramas & Custom Drag Racing with Tom Kalinowski

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Tom. I am thrilled for myself, who is new to
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the channel and getting to know your content. I'm pretty
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excited to see a full blown tour of Acme City
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and David. I. Just while I was putting Tracy down,
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I saw this on my phone. This is from Jerry
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Wayne Longmire. Those are all cars for driven dreams.
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Oh yeah, he says they went to the post office
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today and his wife called him in shock.
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Pretty sure this is all cars for driven dreams. Day
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of giving. It's an overwhelming active kindness. It's a bit
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of a rarity these days. I've teared up a few
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times trained he wrap my head around the amount of
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joy this is going to provide. Yeah, it's a really
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cool I got to show that to Mark because that's
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really awesome.
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A he's a good dude. I'm glad he's taken up
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that that thing. All right, well we'll do We'll do
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our intro real quick. All right, all right, I'll choke.
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Okay, I need to update the one in our doc
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because it is not.
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Im bad.
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That's okay. I need to go through our.
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List of patrons anyway, because.
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I'm pretty sure that some people have come on or
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dropped off since I last updated it, which happens so
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all right? And three two.
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No, well, hey there, folks, Chuck here and welcome to
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that's going to be very important for today's episode. But
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before we get to that, I am going to introduce
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my colleague, my co host, my friend, mister David John's David,
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how the heck are you today?
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I'm doing great, Chuck pomped for this episode.
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I am too. Tom has been all kinds of things
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for me, an inspiration, a challenge. I daydream about having
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that level of space, and folks, you're gonna love seeing
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a tour of Acme City here in a little bit
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it's amazing what people are doing in the hobby. And
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Tom's got something really cool beyond the diorama, which is
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hard to believe. But there's something even cooler behind that,
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and we're going to get to that in just a
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little bit. But first I'm going to introduce Tom Kalinowski,
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mayor of Acme City, mayor of possibly the greatest one
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sixty four city in the Western Hemisphere. Tom, Welcome to
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the show. We're so glad to have you here on
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Diecast Breakdown. Thank you for having me so Tom, for
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those who don't know, tell us all a little bit
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about why you chose one sixty four and why you
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dove so hard into the world building side of one
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sixty four die Cast.
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Well, I've always, I've always when I grew up, of
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course hot wheels and matchboxes, so the size was very
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familiar to me, and I always collected one sixty four
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on and off for a number of years. I had
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the cars in a box in a closet, but I
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found like the larger scales.
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One twenty fours and eighteen s were just too big.
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I couldn't get all the cars I wanted, So one
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sixty four fit best for my size requirements.
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I like variety, as you can tell.
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Sure, And you've got kind of a theme going with
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your with your diorama, You've got kind of like an
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era specific to yours. So tell me a little bit
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about when you started to build Actmcity and what the
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thought process was behind creating such a large display.
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Well, when I first started, I did the only thing
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I wanted to build was a TV stand, a coffee table.
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Basically was I used to ride motorcycles for years and years,
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very involved in a club member all that, and my
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back went out and my balance went out in around
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two thousand and seven two thousand and eight, and I
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couldn't ride anymore, and my whole life was basically motorcycle, motorcycle, motorcycle.
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I needed something to do, so I started building furniture.
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But then I ran out of room and gave away
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at your and I got I got to the point
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where if I want to build more, I'm gonna have
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to sell this stuff, and I didn't really want to
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do that, and I just decided I built this little
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coffee table. I really liked the Miller engineering science and
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I wanted to have some so I thought this would
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be a good way to display that, plus the die
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cast I had, so I made a little Chevy dealer
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and but that didn't That just started the itch. So
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then I went to the two by four foot section,
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which i'll you'll see in the upcoming the tour. And
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that went to another two by four section, and then
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to another two by four section, and then another two
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by four section, and then I went to some two
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by eight sections and then finally eight by fours. But
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the places is built that you can move it. That's
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why I built it modually. All the unit, all the
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sections have their own independent power systems, so you can
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run them independently. You can just take that two by
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four section and display it by itself if you wanted to.
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Nice. So do you take these on the road? Do
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you do like mobile displays?
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I have a few travelers, the Waffel House you'll see
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that later and the Texico station that goes along with it.
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Those two are.
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Built specifically to tour with. I'm hoping that maybe next
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year I'm going to do the Farm Toy Show the
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National I was going to be able to compete in that.
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I have a few more buildings I need to build yet,
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so it all depends on whether I get them. I
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just have so many projects in a way right now.
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But I also wanted to take some traveling dioramas to
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like nursing homes stuff like that, and show people can
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look at it reminisque kind of thing.
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That's a really cool idea.
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Yeah, and you know the setup that you have, like,
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is there kind of like I mean, you can really
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get lost in the amount of different diorama type techniques
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and different buildings and kits and stuff. Is there is
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there a specific criterion that you look for when it
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comes to adding a building or adding a section to
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Acme City.
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I do put a lot of thought into it. I
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will think about a project. Some of these projects I've
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had in my mind for years, Like the drag strip.
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Started it last November, but I thought about it for
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at least three or four years before them. Basically, my
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criteria is I have kind of in my mind a
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general plan of what I want and what buildings, what
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businesses I want to represent, and I got to go
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from there. I also like, if I'm looking at a kit,
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I want to make sure that that kit has everything's
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proper on it, all the portions are right, the door
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window proportions are correct, it doesn't look toy ish.
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But most of the.
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Time I've built by scratch, though, I'll look at a
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building think about it, like the truck stop is actually
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based off a real truck stop and Bloomington, Illinois called
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the five Star and it's still standing, but it's not
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a truck stop.
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Anymore, and they just use it as a warehouse.
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But what I did is I used Google Earth and
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street View to get the general idea and the general
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measurements of the building. And then a friend of mine,
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Sandy sand from Decatur, he's a big one sixty four
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scale and other scale creator. He went, He took a
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trip up to Bloomington for me and measured all the windows,
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got all the measurements and that I couldn't get off
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street View, couldn't get off off Google Earth. And so
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I based that and plus a couple of pictures that
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I found on the Internet of postcards of the place,
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and I built it from there.
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Very cool, very cool. What year is it in Acme City.
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Nineteen sixty nine? The Summer of Love, more specifically August.
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It's right about the time late summer when the new
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cars are coming into the dealerships, and it's right about
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the time of Woodstock got the hippies running around.
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I picked that. I picked that year mostly because.
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Well, the amount of available vehicles for that year was
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one influence, but also that's the time that they started
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transitioning from a lot of the neon lights into the
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back lit fluorescence. But you have some of both, and
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it was kind of like the last hurrah a way
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for the traditional neod off in the areas as a
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science before they started gentrifying all that stuff.
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Sure believe now.
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Every town looks every town looks like like another town.
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Back back in the day sounds look different. I mean,
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they had similar stuff, but it was was different.
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Yeah, I do want to do a diorama at some point,
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like a large scale one, and I've always thought that
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mine would be because I'm a millennial and this was
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kind of like my coming of age time would be
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like nineteen ninety eight, nineteen ninety nine, because that was
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also kind of the last gasp for me of like
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there were still kids in high school that were driving
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muscle cars and there were still so and it gives
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me like that leeway of I can have more modern
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stuff in there. But at the same time, it was
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still not unheard of to see VW Beatles driving around
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like the old VW Beatles, or like I drove my
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sixty four Valiant to the Tech school for high school
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classes and then parked it next to another kid who
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had a sixty eight Chevelle and another one that has
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seventy four trans am, so it was still not unheard of.
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And now back to Diecass breakdown.
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Let's do a little walk and talk. Why don't you
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take us down the road, down the street and give
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us a little history as we look a look at things.
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I guess we'll just start here in the old city.
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But I love it.
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There's a shot down the whole length. It is forty
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feet long, good gracious buy four feet deep. And it
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started all started with a coffee table.
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That is something.
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There's the bus station that's sus scratch Bill. Most of
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the buildings are scratch Bill. I do have some kits,
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mostly scale kits that I've acquired. I also have.
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Some h O gets that I modified shot down here.
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And just to clarify as we're looking, this is one
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sixty four scale.
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Correct, Yes it is? Yeah, one sixty all.
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Right, So do we have a is this the origin
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like the beginning table that you were mentioning the first
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the first part.
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Let's move down here. We'll go to the first one. Actually,
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the coffee tables down here, I've repurposed it.
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It started all out with a coffee table and I
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was going to use it for a TV stand, and
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I fell in love with.
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The Miller engineering signs and this I did that.
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I wanted to have a little place to display my
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small collection of die cast and I was building furniture
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at the time.
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So I built this little table and it didn't it
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wasn't enough.
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After a while, I got kind of bored with it,
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and I thought, well, you know what, I'm just going
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to build a two by four foot section, something I
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can carry around, maybe take two shows or something like that.
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And I started with this. And this was the first
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building that I built. And this is a twin Whistle kit.
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And at the time it was like the one of
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the first ones he sold because he just came out
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with him. And then we built the second. I built
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the second kit, which is over here. This is another
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twin Whistle kit.
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So twin Whistle is a is that a customizer, a
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diorama maker.
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They make buildings for the model railroad, mostly wind Whistle
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all right, wind Whistle yep. They specialize at fire stations,
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but they also have a really great little gas station kit,
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which is pretty easy to put together actually, and then
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they have harder kits like the ANW ropper, which basically
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comes as a box of plastic but if you follow
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the instructions.
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But with that, I learned how to scratch build with that.
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So this was the first section.
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Then I decided to build a second section and we
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have the Texico station there and that's a scratch build, Tom.
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Do you find most kit makers prefer the fifties and
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sixties style buildings architecture.
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Well, as far as.
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The railroad guys go, there's two major factions. It doesn't
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matter what scale. Either you're a steam guy or you're.
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A diesel guy.
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Well, those are two different eras, but they did kind
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of commingle in the fifties and sixties when they were
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phasing out the steam locomotives and bringing in the diesels,
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and so yeah, a lot of them do are kind
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of stuck in the fifties and sixties and older kind of.
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Sure, yeah, well, I'll tell you. I mean, it looks
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great with all of the amazing die cast cars that
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we have from that era.
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This on here is originally was a kit and it
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was from Pine Canyon, which isn't in existence anymore. And
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when I got this one, it was basically somebody put
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together and didn't do a good job of it. It
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was really badly warped right righten her out a bit.
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This is another another Pine Canyon kit there.
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So I got to ask, what is the cotton?
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Is?
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Is that a rocket taking off? What we what do
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we get going on there?
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All that here? There you go.
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It's kind of hard to see, but there's a little
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wiley coyote up there?
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How about that?
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And this was originally a Wather's to scale building mm hmm.
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And I do have several videos where I show how
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I turn it into a one sixty four scale by
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adding height.
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To the walls.
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I got you, And there's there's a lot of a
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lot of ho kits, not all of them, but you
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can mess around with them and add some heights of
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the walls and maybe add better regular proper sized doors,
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and you can you can come up with something, because
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when I first started eleven years ago, there was virtually
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hardly anything in one six four as far as bill go.
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You basically, green Light was just starting to come out
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with their their garage, which isn't very prototypical, it's not
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very accurate. It's kind of a toy piece. I mean,
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I kudos to them for release and buildings, but they
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are a bit toy like in my opinion, right, So
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I had to do a lot of scavenging. I had
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to do learn how to build. And that was the
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big thing, was learning how to scratch build. Because most
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of these buildings are either scratch built or they're heavily modified.
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I want you to touch on that a little bit more
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because to a die cast collector that may not mean all.
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We can't appreciate the extra amount of work that is
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when you when you say something is scratch built versus
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just putting together a kit and maybe doing some weathering
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on it, how much more is it.
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I'm going to do a little illustration here, right, I
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do have I do have videos of what I what
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I how I dealt with the scratch scratch bland add
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But this is what I start out with. Sorry, the
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light's not the greatest here, but this is what I
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start out with, which is polystyrene sheets.
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And I cut them.
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They have shapes too, They have girders, rods, all kinds
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of different shapes. So basically what I do is I
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start off with a pile of plastic that looks a
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lot like that, and then I spend about sixty hours
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to one hundred and eighty hours cutting and.
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Making parts and.
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Put it all together until you get something that looks
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like that over there.
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That's that's crazy Tom sixty eighty. I mean, that's that's
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two full work weeks to crank out a building.
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Yeah, yeah, it takes a while.
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I mean, I've been working on us for eleven years now,
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and it depends on them how complicated the building is.
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That's how long it takes.
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So, Tom, you built all this stuff.
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You you've had this this thing going for for quite
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some time now how many years? Those eleven years, and
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then you had like probably one of the biggest disasters
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that could possibly happen to a display like this. So
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tell me about that, and tell me about the recovery.
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Oh the flood, Yeah, the great flood. That was a
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very dark day.
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What happened was is I had we were having our
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kitchen remodeled, and the contractor, when he reinstalled the dishwasher,
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the hose, the grain hose, slipped off of the dishwasher,
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and so it was pouring into the back of the
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wall and it followed the wall down into the basement
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and it rained on a good section of the diorama.
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Basically, it was this area.
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Right here that took the head of the water and
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it worked the table so bad. This was up about
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an inch this curve and there was just like wavy.
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The building was tilted backwards. That building over there was
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puffed up because there was a big warf underneath it.
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I lost some of my electronics through that damaged a
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couple of the signs. I had removed one of the
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signs that was up there. I had the girl diving
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off the diving board Motel sign up on top of there,
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and that got destroyed, did a lot of damage. But
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the contractor was a great guy. He brought in a
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huge industrial dehumidifier and that helped, actually an immense amount.
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I was able to get this flatten out again. Oh wow,
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you didn't have to replace it. No, I was surprised.
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And then this building here, I basically shimmed it. It's
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still the ground is still bent underneath it. But I
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just basically My wife had a great idea. She was like,
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why don't you put a planter in.
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Front of it.
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That way, when you raise it up, you can make
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it level and it looks natural. So that's what I
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did with that. The insurance company was great. The guy
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had good insurance, They didn't question my claim, and I
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got a nice little chunk of money for it. I
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was able to not only fix the damage, but I
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was able to buy a bunch more supplies, and it
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helped propel me a bit forward.
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Actually it was.
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It was kind of a blessing in disguise. It was
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a horrible thing to happen. It was a lot of stress.
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Oh yeah, when you see your your your your baby
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get hurt, so to speak, and it's like I was like, oh,
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oh my god.
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Yeah, no, I was grieving for you. When I saw
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the Facebook post, I was like, oh man, all that work.
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I just was I was so disheartened for you, and
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I'm so glad to see it all back together now.
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I kind of ask, we're looking at these these amazing
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late displays and stuff when you're making stuff from scratcher,
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are you doing like these traffic lights and stuff too,
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or those kits that you incorporated into the mild the
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like the street lights are actually from a eBay seller
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called We Honest m H from China and I and
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then the name is strange. But when I when I
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was looking for LEDs and street.
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Lights and stuff like that, I discovered them and they
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were like one of the only guys that had them
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at the time, so I decided to take a chance
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with them, and they're Drake Company. They've grown a little
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bit since then and I've bought most of my LEDs
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from them. Some from Evans Designs, like that chain of
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lights that you see on the used car lot, that's
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from Evans Designs. And then that flickering I'm gonna do
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a slow pants so don't get anybody sick. You can
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see that light flashing over there by the hotel of
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the hotel.
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Yeah, the TV lights, Yeah, yeah, that's Evans Designs also,
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that's cool.
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Yeah, So but that stuff I don't. I don't. I
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haven't made them. This is stuff is actually it's eh.
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Oh.
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I could shim it to get it up a little higher,
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but it's close enough. The street lights are about four
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inches tall, so they scale out, Okay, I mean my
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semi trucks clear them pretty well.
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Yeah.
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Well, and two you got to kind of work with
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like realistically, Like we're not used to seeing street lights
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and traffic lights from above, so they don't seem like
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they're that high when we see them, right, But if
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you were to like like actually looking like especially if
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you were going down like the Interstate or something, you
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look at some of the lights that are over the
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Interstate that are just incredibly tall, Like if you were
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to put them in a display like this, they would
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might even look a little goofy because you'd go, why
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are they so much taller than everything? Like they would
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stand out above everything else. So like these feel more
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like they're sitting naturally in the display.
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So I think that's really cool. Yeah.
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And so these different like the motel and the OKA
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used cars, I assume those are also kits.
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The okused cars as a sign, Well, they don't make
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it anymore. It's been discontinued, but Miller Engineering made that one,
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and that is actually what the one we're looking at
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is the very first sign that I bought. Okay, that's
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what started at all. Is that particular sign right now?
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I can see why.
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It's a gorgeous sign.
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So that was the first sign. Now, the Motel sign
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over here is actually a kit from Miller Engineering. It's
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a universal kit and it comes with a basically a
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rectangular sheet of el with a bunch of power leads
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on them so you can cut different pieces off of it.
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And I just basically cut out the letters and put
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some gel overlay on it.
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No, that's awesome, and that's their ani.
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They call it the animated sign, okay, And so yeah,
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the Miller Engineering stuff is pretty good. The only problem
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with electro woman essence is it has a half life.
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They call it where it goes dim. Sure this is
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the original sign, Yeah, okay, Now I'm going to rotate
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to the newer sign that I bought later.
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You can the difference in the brightness.
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Yeah, it's significantly different.
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Yeah, that's one of the reasons why I don't run
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my diarrhema very much. As far as the power on
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because you got about anywhere from about six hundred to
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fifteen hundred hours before the signs go dim like that,
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and I don't want my signs to go dim.
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Yeah, well, we appreciate you putting it on for us.
491
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So it's it's getting preserved here for posterity. On the
492
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Dice Gass breakdown. Now, I'm seeing a lot of AutoWorld
493
00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:40.599
and a lot of green Light, a lot of M two. Yeah,
494
00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:43.240
there are there any other any other brands that you
495
00:26:43.279 --> 00:26:45.759
really like working with with your with your diarhema.
496
00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:49.960
Well, first of all, is auto World all the world is.
497
00:26:50.519 --> 00:26:55.839
I mean they're the most consistent, properly scaled cars out there.
498
00:26:56.480 --> 00:26:58.880
I mean the other companies are getting better, but you
499
00:26:58.920 --> 00:27:01.400
see used to see a lot float as far as
500
00:27:01.400 --> 00:27:04.279
the scales, like MQ's tend to run a little large,
501
00:27:04.759 --> 00:27:07.160
Johnny Lightnings tend to run a little small and all
502
00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:10.119
over because they're like ten different companies castings all mixed
503
00:27:10.119 --> 00:27:13.440
in green Light is hit and miss. They've gotten better
504
00:27:13.519 --> 00:27:18.240
over the years, especially they're later offerings like the Cadillacs
505
00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:24.279
and the the Apollas. Those are excellent and they're properly scaled.
506
00:27:24.519 --> 00:27:27.960
Han't things in proper scale is important because I'm trying
507
00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:32.200
for ninety percent realism in about ten percent of whimsy.
508
00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:34.920
Right, and I love it.
509
00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:36.440
I have a different selection of cars. I mean, I
510
00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:37.400
got a little bit of everything.
511
00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:40.319
There's even some hot wheels in there, but most of
512
00:27:40.319 --> 00:27:42.599
the hot wheels or matchboxes they would have, they'd be
513
00:27:42.640 --> 00:27:45.720
heavily modified, or if they're like a hot wheel one
514
00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:48.079
hundred series one hundred percent series.
515
00:27:47.839 --> 00:27:51.960
Or they called that yep, I remember, yep I have.
516
00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:54.359
I have a few of those, but I would say
517
00:27:54.400 --> 00:28:00.680
the majority is from AutoWorld, green Light, and M two.
518
00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:04.480
I think I'm going to put one on your radar
519
00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:08.960
if you weren't aware it so America. I so, oh yes,
520
00:28:09.400 --> 00:28:13.440
very well, absolutely going to be perfect for the for
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00:28:13.480 --> 00:28:13.960
the city.
522
00:28:14.279 --> 00:28:17.359
I think, oh yeah, I definitely planned on getting some
523
00:28:17.359 --> 00:28:18.279
some of their products.
524
00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:18.480
One.
525
00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:22.039
I especially the trucks once I start, once I get.
526
00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:25.400
Some money, I'll tell you, Tom, I am loving the
527
00:28:25.880 --> 00:28:29.640
diversity of the vehicles. I mean, we've seen buses, we've
528
00:28:29.680 --> 00:28:34.279
seen tractor trailers. Those are some of the pieces that
529
00:28:34.359 --> 00:28:36.359
maybe we don't see in a lot of collections. Who
530
00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:37.960
makes that bus? For example?
531
00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:42.119
This bus is actually a what is this forgot the
532
00:28:42.200 --> 00:28:46.519
name and Surry White Rose. White Rose, Okay, White Rose.
533
00:28:46.559 --> 00:28:52.519
It's say an American Eagle bus and I modified it.
534
00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:56.119
It was originally a Penn State team bus mm hmm.
535
00:28:56.880 --> 00:28:58.680
And I had a friend of mine who does custom
536
00:28:58.920 --> 00:29:06.440
decals our Yeah, so I had to make the details based.
537
00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:08.880
I sent them a bunch of pictures and they did
538
00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:11.039
a great job on the decals and on the White
539
00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:13.480
Rose buses. They don't have the back windows because they're
540
00:29:13.480 --> 00:29:16.519
set up for like tour buses, right. They did a
541
00:29:16.519 --> 00:29:20.960
lot of tour bus sports teams commemorations, so I did
542
00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:24.359
want to go through the I was afraid my skills
543
00:29:24.400 --> 00:29:28.920
and metalworking it weren't the right color, so I had
544
00:29:28.920 --> 00:29:30.400
them just do the windows in black.
545
00:29:31.839 --> 00:29:35.279
Yeah. I would assume if they're kind of a marketing thing,
546
00:29:35.359 --> 00:29:38.319
that's where you'd slap a big old logo of whatever
547
00:29:38.680 --> 00:29:42.240
entity you're trying to market. But those windows look great,
548
00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:43.200
well done on that.
549
00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:47.640
Yeah, they're on eBay. I'm trying to think of the name.
550
00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:50.920
Of the First Response or not First Response, but they
551
00:29:50.960 --> 00:29:55.119
do a lot of police decals. Rondick Curly is the
552
00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:58.119
name of the person that runs it, but she does
553
00:29:58.319 --> 00:30:01.319
a lot of my custom work stuff like that, because
554
00:30:01.359 --> 00:30:04.480
she has an alp sprinter and it could print in
555
00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:09.079
white where most speak. Most people can't print in white
556
00:30:09.119 --> 00:30:12.720
real well, and so it's it turns out better with
557
00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:16.119
an alf sprinter. But she's been a big help as
558
00:30:16.119 --> 00:30:20.000
far as getting the proper decals for things, and because
559
00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:22.000
I've had to make I've had to make a lot
560
00:30:22.039 --> 00:30:23.839
of stuff for this. I mean when I started, there
561
00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:27.240
was very very little available in one six.
562
00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:33.559
Right now, this this seems like a place that every
563
00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:38.640
diecast collector could have on display in their own collection.
564
00:30:38.759 --> 00:30:44.200
We've all got cars that we've cannibalized for customs, or
565
00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:46.640
we we we've just messed them up trying to make
566
00:30:46.680 --> 00:30:49.559
into a custom So how fun is it to have
567
00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:50.240
a junk yard.
568
00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:53.799
It's entertaining.
569
00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:56.759
I actually have a lot more junk cars, but I
570
00:30:56.880 --> 00:31:00.000
weathered probably about thirty or forty cars, but I pulled
571
00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:01.720
most of them out so that I could take them
572
00:31:01.720 --> 00:31:05.400
to shows, and so my junkerd's a little empty right now.
573
00:31:05.480 --> 00:31:11.559
But yeah, basically, let me grab this one here, pull
574
00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:14.319
it to a camera properly and get it focused here.
575
00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:15.880
This is them too.
576
00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:20.799
That is extremely well done. You did all the weathering
577
00:31:20.839 --> 00:31:21.079
on that.
578
00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:24.279
Oh yeah, yep, I did the weathering.
579
00:31:24.359 --> 00:31:28.119
The break drums are from a guy off eBay name's
580
00:31:28.119 --> 00:31:33.359
Pixel Jinkowski. Don't remember his eBay name. Improbable Garage I
581
00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:36.079
think is what his eBay name is. But he has
582
00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:37.160
the break drums.
583
00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:41.480
That's crazy. They look amazing.
584
00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:45.759
This was done with the mostly weathering powder mm hm
585
00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:50.400
and then basically had a clearcoat. They call it dull
586
00:31:50.480 --> 00:31:52.079
coat tester's dull coat coat.
587
00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:52.440
Yep.
588
00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:57.599
But I have videos on my channel that I show
589
00:31:57.680 --> 00:31:59.920
exactly how to do it. So if anybody wants to
590
00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:01.759
learn how to do it, all they really have to
591
00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:05.359
do is watch the channel. If they have any questions,
592
00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:07.880
they're always they can always ask them.
593
00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:11.640
Look, we'd be we'd be remiss to not one more
594
00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:14.680
time plug the name of the channel while we're touring.
595
00:32:14.599 --> 00:32:18.599
The name of the channel is acme City Acmee City
596
00:32:18.680 --> 00:32:21.279
on YouTube, acme City on YouTube, which is also what
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00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:23.319
theyame of the Diarrhma.
598
00:32:26.160 --> 00:32:29.359
Oh I love this. The lights or what's getting me? Tom,
599
00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:33.240
It's just it's next level. When it's lit up, you
600
00:32:33.359 --> 00:32:37.240
get the I assume they're all LEDs that they look
601
00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:37.880
like neon.
602
00:32:38.920 --> 00:32:41.960
They tell us about the lights, Let me tell you
603
00:32:41.960 --> 00:32:44.519
about the lights. I'm sorry up yet, these are actually
604
00:32:44.559 --> 00:32:49.160
electrical luminescent, which is similar to what you would see
605
00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:50.000
you remember the old but.
606
00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:51.160
A time next the glow.
607
00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:53.799
Yes, absolutely, those.
608
00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:56.759
Are electrical luminescent. Yeah.
609
00:32:56.880 --> 00:33:00.920
It basically it's just basically a panel, add electricity to
610
00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:03.119
it and lights up and they can it can then
611
00:33:03.160 --> 00:33:05.960
the filaments and they can make it in the panels
612
00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:11.039
and that's what above the Eric sign is the filament,
613
00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:15.200
and then the bottom is an EL panel sign, and
614
00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:19.559
the panel signs are from Miller Engineering and those are
615
00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:22.319
the only guys that make them.
616
00:33:22.599 --> 00:33:23.519
And excuse me.
617
00:33:23.559 --> 00:33:26.279
The wire, I got a couple of different places. I
618
00:33:26.319 --> 00:33:29.920
get the wire from Cool Wires is one, and you
619
00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:33.400
just buy the kits and it's not really super it's
620
00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:35.960
a little finicky, but once you get used to working
621
00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:38.839
with it, you can have some really great results.
622
00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:42.119
Can we hop back to the donut shop and maybe
623
00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:46.359
keep going down the street. I just love kind of painting. Sure,
624
00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:49.680
almost like we were a drone coming over the town.
625
00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:50.400
Sure.
626
00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:55.839
This is a matchbox service station from the nineteen sixties
627
00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:59.519
that my wife bought on eBay and it was all
628
00:33:59.559 --> 00:34:03.960
broken cracked, but she really liked the roofline, and so
629
00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:08.559
why basically cut it apart and added some other pieces
630
00:34:08.599 --> 00:34:10.440
to it, Like part of that is from one of
631
00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:15.840
the old Mortarmacs dioramas. They did those little dioramas probably
632
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:19.360
twenty fifteen twenty years ago, right, and they'd have like
633
00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:22.199
a face, little building, several tiny little thing. But I
634
00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:27.079
cut the doors and everything off of the hatt and
635
00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:28.599
that it's been heavily modified.
636
00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:31.719
Car lots are are a must, right, you got a
637
00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:35.800
heavy r loot. Show more diecast cards?
638
00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:39.599
Oh yeah, we have a few of them. This is set.
639
00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:42.239
These are nineteen seventy, but I have it set in
640
00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:46.239
the summer of sixty nine, so the seventies are are
641
00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:47.119
in early this year.
642
00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:50.159
This is the project that took the most time and money,
643
00:34:50.440 --> 00:34:51.920
and that is the truck stop.
644
00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:55.400
How long did that one take?
645
00:34:56.199 --> 00:34:57.440
One hundred and eighty hours?
646
00:34:57.760 --> 00:34:58.920
Yikes?
647
00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:02.280
About twenty five hundred dollars?
648
00:35:03.199 --> 00:35:06.039
Oh my gosh. Okay, so let's get into that a
649
00:35:06.039 --> 00:35:09.519
little bit. As you're talking about it, give us kind
650
00:35:09.519 --> 00:35:15.280
of the un expected cost associated with doing projects like this.
651
00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:19.840
Well, I'm used to doing it now, but you know
652
00:35:19.880 --> 00:35:23.719
your material costs, I mean everything's gone high. So one
653
00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:26.000
thing that you'd probably be mostly surprised about is the
654
00:35:26.039 --> 00:35:30.920
cost of the plastic. Building like this would have probably
655
00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:34.599
about maybe one hundred dollars of plastic into it, plastic
656
00:35:34.679 --> 00:35:38.239
sheets and various shapes in that. And that's just where
657
00:35:38.280 --> 00:35:41.880
the building shell. That doesn't include the paint or any
658
00:35:41.920 --> 00:35:47.039
of the details or any of that signage. So it
659
00:35:47.159 --> 00:35:53.480
cost the materials is probably about the biggest surprise you hit, right, Is.
660
00:35:53.400 --> 00:35:58.480
There a structure behind those walls or does this styrene
661
00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:02.960
support itself like the supports itself.
662
00:36:03.239 --> 00:36:05.679
Okay, all right, Yeah, each of these buildings can be
663
00:36:05.960 --> 00:36:08.519
Each of these buildings can be picked up. They're not
664
00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:11.280
glued down. They're basically just held held to the table
665
00:36:11.320 --> 00:36:12.079
by their wiring.
666
00:36:12.760 --> 00:36:15.000
Mm hmm. They'll have a apport going through.
667
00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:16.760
Some of these have Some of these buildings have their
668
00:36:16.760 --> 00:36:21.360
own power supplies and some have a shared one. This
669
00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:24.119
one I believe has at least two power supplies inside
670
00:36:24.119 --> 00:36:24.400
of it.
671
00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:34.880
So how have you how have you not been tempted
672
00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:39.519
to run a train track behind that or run a
673
00:36:39.519 --> 00:36:40.320
circle around it?
674
00:36:41.239 --> 00:36:44.239
I get that question a lot from especially the model
675
00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:47.039
railroad guys, are like, man, I'd be just so much
676
00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:49.000
more or listen, if you'd run a train on it,
677
00:36:49.039 --> 00:36:51.599
and it's like, well, there's a couple of reasons. I
678
00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:54.199
mean I started. When I first started, I looked at
679
00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:57.800
the price of model trains in s scale, and it's
680
00:36:57.840 --> 00:37:01.119
extremely expensive. I mean, just to get a decent looking,
681
00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:06.239
decent running locomotive and cars, you're talking thousand dollars plus.
682
00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:08.079
I really wanted people to.
683
00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:10.920
Look at this and go, this just looks exactly like
684
00:37:11.599 --> 00:37:15.440
Main Street back home, back in the early seventies, late sixties.
685
00:37:15.559 --> 00:37:17.719
I mean, yeah, you can you can hear the music,
686
00:37:18.039 --> 00:37:23.440
you can feel the breeze. It's just something. Yeah, there's
687
00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:28.199
just something inside of us that all loves stuff in miniature.
688
00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:32.360
I'm convinced love the drive in theater.
689
00:37:33.199 --> 00:37:35.920
The drive in theater is made to take an iPad
690
00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:38.360
in it, so you can.
691
00:37:38.360 --> 00:37:40.239
Sure we'll be done well played.
692
00:37:44.840 --> 00:37:47.159
If I would have done the drive in theater again,
693
00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:51.719
I'd probably use the Walters a joke kit and make
694
00:37:51.760 --> 00:37:54.800
it make it a little bigger. Maybe it's that one
695
00:37:54.920 --> 00:37:58.400
set up for older, smaller pads though, so I probably
696
00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:00.079
would have to make my own anyway.
697
00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:04.960
As we as we traveled through here, was there a
698
00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:07.320
specific city that this was modeled after.
699
00:38:08.360 --> 00:38:12.440
Not really, it's it's Route sixty sixtemed and it's awful
700
00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:16.920
main street themed, So but it could be anywhere America.
701
00:38:17.679 --> 00:38:21.119
Every city had had places that looked pretty much like
702
00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:24.800
this had every every business had a flash of neon
703
00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:28.599
or a backlit fluorescent er, some kind of large sign,
704
00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:35.480
brighter colors. So this could be anywhere USA. I have
705
00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:40.760
it's located in central Illinois along Route sixty six. Gotcha,
706
00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:43.119
And one of the reasons comes, well, I live in Illinois,
707
00:38:43.719 --> 00:38:47.800
but also Illinois is flat, very very flat, especially in
708
00:38:47.840 --> 00:38:50.400
the middle of the state. Not so much where I live.
709
00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:52.119
I live in the only hilly part of the state,
710
00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:55.199
but the rest of the state is pretty flat, especially
711
00:38:55.239 --> 00:38:58.519
where Round sixty six goes through. Have forty six feet
712
00:38:58.559 --> 00:38:59.119
of basement.
713
00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:04.280
Let's pad, We'll show you the rest. There's the drag strip.
714
00:39:05.480 --> 00:39:07.400
What's what's the future look like.
715
00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:10.639
Well, the future, I'm hoping is going to be across
716
00:39:10.679 --> 00:39:13.480
the road where you can see those tables are, and
717
00:39:13.519 --> 00:39:17.039
that's where the drag strip is currently located, which is
718
00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:19.639
something I'm going to be adding to the channel. And
719
00:39:19.639 --> 00:39:23.519
we're going to do regular drag racing, die cast drag racing,
720
00:39:25.400 --> 00:39:28.199
just like the gravity racers. I'm sure you guys are
721
00:39:28.280 --> 00:39:31.239
were those guys, and they're they're doing pretty well as
722
00:39:31.239 --> 00:39:33.440
far as views and that, and people are really getting
723
00:39:33.440 --> 00:39:35.760
into it. I remember when they when they first started,
724
00:39:35.800 --> 00:39:37.960
like three D bot Maker, I remember when he was
725
00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:41.719
just starting how crude a stuff was. And I got
726
00:39:41.719 --> 00:39:45.320
better and better better over time. But I was like,
727
00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:46.880
I could do something like that, but I didn't want
728
00:39:46.880 --> 00:39:50.280
to do gravity racing and I wanted to do drag racing.
729
00:39:51.199 --> 00:39:52.519
There's the inside of the club.
730
00:39:54.079 --> 00:39:55.920
Look at that, get out of here.
731
00:39:58.360 --> 00:40:00.599
I show it closer. But there's new ad in there.
732
00:40:01.039 --> 00:40:05.079
So that Yeah, that is so well done that that
733
00:40:05.119 --> 00:40:07.559
would be that would be one of those unexpected costs
734
00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:10.119
when you have to buy what is that one hundred figures?
735
00:40:11.239 --> 00:40:14.320
Yeah, figures have always been a challenge. I'm lucky now
736
00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:18.880
that with three D printing and basically companies like me
737
00:40:19.039 --> 00:40:21.960
jow that have come out with the American A series
738
00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:25.519
that's really saved my bake and so to speak, because
739
00:40:25.519 --> 00:40:28.000
it was always hard to get figures.
740
00:40:29.360 --> 00:40:32.199
Now, who does the scooters? Those look cool? In the bikes.
741
00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:34.800
The bikes, they're a mix. Some of them are three
742
00:40:34.880 --> 00:40:39.280
D printed, some are green light, some are micromachines.
743
00:40:40.280 --> 00:40:40.760
Mm hmmm.
744
00:40:41.559 --> 00:40:42.960
Just a different selection of them.
745
00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:46.599
Any times I can find a decent motorcycle, I generally
746
00:40:46.679 --> 00:40:49.559
pick it up because I'd like to I'd like to
747
00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:53.239
build the club, so to speak. I was, I'm still
748
00:40:53.239 --> 00:40:56.880
a member of a motorcycle club. I'm just retired, gotcha.
749
00:40:57.039 --> 00:41:01.280
Motorcycle and biking was my life for up to about
750
00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:04.800
ten years ago, and my health my back went and
751
00:41:04.840 --> 00:41:08.119
I couldn't ride anymore. So I had to find something else,
752
00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:09.400
and that's how I got into this.
753
00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:17.639
It doesn't look like you do anything halfway, both feet
754
00:41:17.679 --> 00:41:21.599
in the deep end. This is it's spectacular. Seeing a
755
00:41:21.679 --> 00:41:23.760
little bit of the behind the scenes that's really cool.
756
00:41:24.280 --> 00:41:28.440
Some people are scared off when you look at this.
757
00:41:28.559 --> 00:41:32.119
It's overwhelming and you're like, I can't I'll never get
758
00:41:32.159 --> 00:41:36.639
something this amazing. So why bother? But talk about how
759
00:41:36.679 --> 00:41:40.119
someone could get started. What is the easiest way to
760
00:41:40.119 --> 00:41:42.639
get started and not be overwhelmed. You don't have to
761
00:41:42.679 --> 00:41:44.599
have the lights, you don't have to have the weathering.
762
00:41:44.719 --> 00:41:48.880
Right out of the gate. What would a beginner be
763
00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:52.480
able to handle on their first build?
764
00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:56.880
Start with something like this the Twin Whistle to Bay
765
00:41:57.119 --> 00:42:03.320
gas station. It's basically four walls, a roof, everything is
766
00:42:03.880 --> 00:42:06.840
cut for you. You'll have to do some violin trimming.
767
00:42:06.920 --> 00:42:09.400
But if you could put together a model car kit,
768
00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:13.760
you could put together that easily. It's an easy kit.
769
00:42:14.039 --> 00:42:18.159
It's basically building a box. When you're building a think
770
00:42:18.159 --> 00:42:21.480
about when you're building a scratch built building, you're basically
771
00:42:21.559 --> 00:42:22.599
building their boxes.
772
00:42:23.679 --> 00:42:23.880
Yep.
773
00:42:24.320 --> 00:42:27.199
They're just filled with people and our stuff. So four
774
00:42:27.239 --> 00:42:32.000
walls in a top, you're building a rectangle. The portant
775
00:42:32.039 --> 00:42:36.719
thing is basically getting your your sizes, your proportions right.
776
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:39.519
And that's one thing I see with with some builders
777
00:42:40.440 --> 00:42:42.400
is that they do good work, but then when you
778
00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:44.719
look at their doors, their doors are just way out
779
00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:47.880
of scale, or they use h O and they don't
780
00:42:48.159 --> 00:42:51.239
they don't modify them. But I would say probably the
781
00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:55.039
easiest way really is if you wanted just to get
782
00:42:55.039 --> 00:42:57.960
started as a diorama, is to get like was it
783
00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:02.440
a GT they had that shell station and the Starbucks
784
00:43:02.440 --> 00:43:05.320
and or Monster Coffee or whatever, and you could buy
785
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:08.559
stuff like that. There's the three D printer. Guys on
786
00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:12.199
Etsy and eBay are starting to come out with better,
787
00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:13.199
better stuff.
788
00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:14.159
I still haven't.
789
00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:17.159
Used a three D printed buildings yet, just because I'm
790
00:43:17.199 --> 00:43:20.760
not I'm not satisfied with the details, and I'm yet
791
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:24.199
there's still, in my view a little crude, and I
792
00:43:24.199 --> 00:43:27.960
could build it so and so that's what I do.
793
00:43:28.079 --> 00:43:31.199
But just start off with something something small.
794
00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:35.559
I started off with a building, a gas station, and
795
00:43:35.599 --> 00:43:37.920
then it went to a couple of other buildings, and
796
00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:41.719
then it went to another section, and then to another section,
797
00:43:41.960 --> 00:43:47.239
and and on and on and on and on right.
798
00:43:48.559 --> 00:43:54.000
So so so don't go buy five ten foot tables
799
00:43:54.039 --> 00:43:56.239
and throw them in your basement to start.
800
00:43:57.239 --> 00:43:58.599
Start with something small. Start.
801
00:43:58.719 --> 00:44:02.679
I would start with a simple one building, one parking lot.
802
00:44:03.360 --> 00:44:06.239
You could build it out of plastic like I do, styrene,
803
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:09.039
or you could build it out a cardboard. The photo
804
00:44:09.119 --> 00:44:13.119
real stuff that they got out now is pretty good
805
00:44:13.119 --> 00:44:16.239
as far as showing detail, but it's flat. It's not
806
00:44:17.079 --> 00:44:20.079
it's all printed flat. So what I've seen was his name,
807
00:44:20.199 --> 00:44:25.320
Frank Mobius is from Scale Art. He takes that photo
808
00:44:25.360 --> 00:44:28.920
real stuff and then he cuts it apart and makes
809
00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:32.960
it three D. You'll cut the door and ress the door.
810
00:44:33.360 --> 00:44:35.840
You'll cut around the rim and bring that out a
811
00:44:35.880 --> 00:44:39.719
little bit, cut the windows out, change things to where
812
00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:43.880
something that's basically made out of paper actually looks pretty good.
813
00:44:44.840 --> 00:44:47.360
I enjoy his I do it joint his work, and
814
00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:49.480
it shows you what you can do. You don't have
815
00:44:49.559 --> 00:44:50.559
to go a whole hog.
816
00:44:50.679 --> 00:44:53.679
And yeah, and then here's the dragstrip.
817
00:44:54.840 --> 00:44:56.719
I want to add one thing. When you're when you're
818
00:44:56.719 --> 00:45:01.000
thinking about building, is there any truth? And I've always
819
00:45:01.239 --> 00:45:06.159
wondered this myself, that sometimes it's just the suggestion of
820
00:45:06.280 --> 00:45:11.079
the detail as opposed to sitting there with a magnifying
821
00:45:11.119 --> 00:45:15.199
glass and getting every precise detail that you think you
822
00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:18.239
need to have on there that honestly may not even
823
00:45:18.239 --> 00:45:21.960
be visible. Is there is there a little bit of
824
00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:26.519
grace that builders can have? You don't You don't have
825
00:45:26.599 --> 00:45:29.280
to have everything to where if you zoomed in a
826
00:45:29.400 --> 00:45:33.079
hundred times, it's going to be perfect. Sometimes you can
827
00:45:33.159 --> 00:45:38.599
get away with just making someone's eye think that they're
828
00:45:38.599 --> 00:45:39.559
seeing what they're seeing.
829
00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:41.360
Oh yeah, definitely.
830
00:45:41.800 --> 00:45:44.599
My My role is if you if you can't see it,
831
00:45:44.679 --> 00:45:47.519
I'm not worried about it, amen.
832
00:45:47.719 --> 00:45:49.519
And that that'll free up a lot of that'll free
833
00:45:49.599 --> 00:45:50.400
up a lot of builders.
834
00:45:50.599 --> 00:45:53.320
I've always said it's all mind over matter. If you
835
00:45:53.320 --> 00:45:54.400
don't mind, it don't matter.
836
00:45:55.119 --> 00:45:56.440
So there you go, and.
837
00:45:56.440 --> 00:45:59.360
You can always cover up your mistakes. That's one thing too.
838
00:45:59.599 --> 00:46:01.599
If you are on making up building and say you're
839
00:46:01.639 --> 00:46:04.320
building like I do, scratch building with styrene, and you
840
00:46:04.360 --> 00:46:04.960
make a mistake.
841
00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:06.400
I make mistakes all the time.
842
00:46:06.639 --> 00:46:09.440
Mess up a wall, well, you can always get other
843
00:46:09.559 --> 00:46:12.599
piece and put it over the top of the wall
844
00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:16.639
and it's hidden forever. You know, you miscut a window,
845
00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:18.920
but you can't get rid of the wall. Well, you
846
00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:21.039
just put a new wall over the top of the
847
00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:22.679
old wall with a properly cut window.
848
00:46:24.119 --> 00:46:26.360
Oh yeah, I've done that many times.
849
00:46:26.519 --> 00:46:29.800
Are any Easter eggs in there? Anything that's a little
850
00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:32.719
personal that that you've hidden?
851
00:46:32.840 --> 00:46:34.480
What isn't an Easter eggs?
852
00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:36.039
Yes? There are.
853
00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:39.239
I don't know if I can mention it, because I
854
00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:43.440
assume that you This is a family channel generally speaking.
855
00:46:43.960 --> 00:46:46.679
Going back to the club on that one, Yeah, well
856
00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:50.000
there's there are certain things that are behind closed doors
857
00:46:50.079 --> 00:46:52.800
that oh I should stay there, I.
858
00:46:52.760 --> 00:46:55.920
Go tell no, tell mot That's exactly what I was thinking.
859
00:46:56.400 --> 00:46:57.280
But yeah, there are.
860
00:46:57.400 --> 00:46:59.480
I mean, if you Yeah, the thing is is you'd
861
00:46:59.480 --> 00:47:01.639
have to ask me to show them to you, because
862
00:47:01.679 --> 00:47:04.599
I don't have them where somebody would see them unless
863
00:47:04.599 --> 00:47:05.159
they were.
864
00:47:05.039 --> 00:47:06.960
Really really looking hard.
865
00:47:08.119 --> 00:47:11.679
Because I have kids that come through here, occasionally family
866
00:47:11.719 --> 00:47:14.800
members and that I don't have regular tours, but once
867
00:47:14.840 --> 00:47:17.239
in a while when somebody asks that a friend or whatever,
868
00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:20.320
I'll have them come down and look. And so I
869
00:47:20.400 --> 00:47:24.000
want to keep it, you know, outwardly rated g for
870
00:47:24.039 --> 00:47:25.760
the most part, but I also want to show the
871
00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:26.920
grittiness of the city.
872
00:47:27.039 --> 00:47:27.199
You know.
873
00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:30.480
I mean this was back in the sixties. Cities were
874
00:47:30.519 --> 00:47:34.280
gritty back then. I used to drive taxi cab in Madison, Wisconsin,
875
00:47:34.320 --> 00:47:38.159
and back in there I did just up to up
876
00:47:38.159 --> 00:47:41.320
to twenty twenty is when I retired. But I started
877
00:47:41.639 --> 00:47:44.880
back in the eighties and then quit for like twenty
878
00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:46.679
five years, did a bunch of other stuff, and then
879
00:47:46.800 --> 00:47:49.400
came back to cab driving. But one thing I loved
880
00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:53.400
about cab driving was the grittiness of the city the night.
881
00:47:53.639 --> 00:47:56.000
And I wanted to kind of show that in the
882
00:47:56.039 --> 00:48:00.000
dioram on that because not everything's clean. You got dirt,
883
00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:03.280
you got crime, you got crime, you got working girls
884
00:48:03.320 --> 00:48:06.039
on the street, So you got all kinds of things
885
00:48:05.719 --> 00:48:10.880
in a city. And I try to reflect all that
886
00:48:11.559 --> 00:48:16.360
in the in Acme City, True to life.
887
00:48:16.519 --> 00:48:18.800
What was the story behind the name Acme City?
888
00:48:20.280 --> 00:48:23.440
So I had a company then I tried to get
889
00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:27.559
going about fifteen years ago, and I took the name
890
00:48:27.639 --> 00:48:33.559
Acme because I loved the cartoons, the American bodies, and
891
00:48:33.800 --> 00:48:37.440
I thought an Acme makes everything. So then it was
892
00:48:37.519 --> 00:48:39.519
like one of those companies that it used to be.
893
00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:41.960
They picked to Acme because it was like you'd go
894
00:48:42.039 --> 00:48:46.480
early in the phone book. Sure, because AC's, yeah, would
895
00:48:46.519 --> 00:48:48.400
be earlier than a lot of other people.
896
00:48:48.159 --> 00:48:51.480
So laut repair and all that. Yeah, Yeah, that's why I.
897
00:48:51.519 --> 00:48:53.239
Acme became a real common name.
898
00:48:53.280 --> 00:48:56.679
And then the cartoonists grasped on that made it so
899
00:48:56.719 --> 00:48:57.760
everything became Acme.
900
00:48:57.920 --> 00:49:00.400
So I just thought it was a good name for city.
901
00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:01.199
Oh.
902
00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:01.920
I like it.
903
00:49:01.679 --> 00:49:06.519
It's it's appropriate, it feels vintage. It also kind of
904
00:49:06.559 --> 00:49:10.760
has a little winking and nod to that cartoonishness, the
905
00:49:11.239 --> 00:49:16.440
whimsy of having your own little world, and it's funny.
906
00:49:16.639 --> 00:49:19.119
I love the drag strip. I've been following the drag
907
00:49:19.159 --> 00:49:22.280
strip as you've been posting more more stuff on that,
908
00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:24.280
and I think it's it's so cool because I live
909
00:49:24.719 --> 00:49:28.840
just down the road here from Gainesville Speedway where they
910
00:49:28.840 --> 00:49:31.519
do the Gator Nationals every year, and you can hear
911
00:49:31.679 --> 00:49:36.679
the top fuel dragsters from miles away. When it's in town,
912
00:49:36.880 --> 00:49:39.880
so I've spent plenty of hours with my buddies in
913
00:49:39.880 --> 00:49:42.519
a parking lot. Looks just like that. Doing tested two
914
00:49:42.679 --> 00:49:46.320
nights and I love the detail with a little different
915
00:49:46.320 --> 00:49:52.159
concrete colors and it's just a wild, wild setup that
916
00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:53.039
you've got going on.
917
00:49:54.760 --> 00:49:58.960
I'm hoping to start doing regular racing on my channel
918
00:49:59.280 --> 00:50:03.639
starting Proble mid mid December. I'm gunning for right now.
919
00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:07.519
Right now, I'm in the testing and the testing stage.
920
00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:11.199
I'm running the cars, trying to get the times figured out,
921
00:50:11.559 --> 00:50:15.320
troubleshoot the cars, make sure that they're reliable. They're all
922
00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:18.079
custom made, so it's every time you get you're working
923
00:50:18.119 --> 00:50:20.880
with custom you're going to deal with problems. Yeah, and
924
00:50:20.880 --> 00:50:23.440
then I had to modify the tracks several times because
925
00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:27.079
it wasn't long enough. Like a standard slot car stops
926
00:50:27.079 --> 00:50:31.440
pretty quick. But these guys are metal and their they're
927
00:50:31.480 --> 00:50:34.440
die cast. This is a this is a green light.
928
00:50:35.119 --> 00:50:36.360
Oh wow, I get explain this.
929
00:50:38.920 --> 00:50:41.280
Okay, well what this is? This is a green light.
930
00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:44.639
And I don't know if you've seen the slot car
931
00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:45.880
conversions that people are doing.
932
00:50:46.039 --> 00:50:48.679
I haven't followed that one night closely. Now it's starting
933
00:50:48.719 --> 00:50:51.280
to pick up. But what most people do is they
934
00:50:51.320 --> 00:50:54.880
take a slot car chassis and they put it. They
935
00:50:54.880 --> 00:50:58.159
take the shell of the die cast and they just
936
00:50:58.360 --> 00:51:04.639
mount the slot car chassis underneath. Where these are totally different.
937
00:51:05.360 --> 00:51:07.840
This is not a slot car chassis. This is a standard,
938
00:51:08.039 --> 00:51:10.760
the standard green light chassis that came with him. What
939
00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:14.639
he did is he cut it apart and he used
940
00:51:14.639 --> 00:51:18.920
the chassis as the frame, m pot electric mortar ring,
941
00:51:19.400 --> 00:51:22.960
whether whether you're rear drive and everything, and he was
942
00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:24.679
able and he does it in a way that he
943
00:51:25.039 --> 00:51:27.400
most of the time he keeps the interior intact.
944
00:51:29.119 --> 00:51:32.440
Wow. Yeah, this is like out of this world took Like,
945
00:51:32.760 --> 00:51:38.480
imagine your favorite die cast car now you can drag
946
00:51:38.559 --> 00:51:38.840
race it.
947
00:51:39.639 --> 00:51:40.719
That's that's pretty wild.
948
00:51:41.159 --> 00:51:44.800
The name of the guy does it is Dale Dale Jones.
949
00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:50.159
He runs DJ's die Cast Conversions. He's out of Chicago,
950
00:51:50.679 --> 00:51:54.519
and I've been a long time admirer of his work
951
00:51:55.920 --> 00:51:58.760
and I always he wouldn't sell his cars at first
952
00:51:59.360 --> 00:52:02.559
mm hmm, And then I asked him last year, I said, Hey,
953
00:52:02.599 --> 00:52:05.119
would you be willing to do a bunch of cars
954
00:52:05.159 --> 00:52:08.239
for me? And he said yeah, And so then I
955
00:52:08.280 --> 00:52:10.159
came up with the money and he made them for
956
00:52:10.280 --> 00:52:12.880
me and I sent the cars in because I wanted
957
00:52:12.920 --> 00:52:15.000
to pick the cars. But he has like two thousand
958
00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:16.599
of them that he has for sale right now.
959
00:52:17.119 --> 00:52:20.239
Oh wow, he's a busy gay. He is a busy guy.
960
00:52:20.320 --> 00:52:24.360
Oh yeah, do you mind divulging what they cost.
961
00:52:24.199 --> 00:52:27.079
With shipping in that about seventy five dollars a piece?
962
00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:28.280
Okay?
963
00:52:28.320 --> 00:52:31.280
Do they they all have the same motor, they have
964
00:52:31.360 --> 00:52:35.039
different mortars. He puts different mortars into for different cars.
965
00:52:35.239 --> 00:52:37.320
Some it depends on the size of the car and
966
00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:40.760
how he can place it. But he has several different
967
00:52:40.920 --> 00:52:45.920
mortars that he does to. Like, I'm trying to figure out, guys, like,
968
00:52:46.280 --> 00:52:49.800
how to make my car faster? Are we like messing
969
00:52:49.880 --> 00:52:51.079
with the width of the tire?
970
00:52:51.199 --> 00:52:54.320
We would probably be one. Wind resistance would be another
971
00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:59.840
m h yeah wait wind resistance. How the car rolls?
972
00:53:00.159 --> 00:53:02.840
I mean, you guys noticed that some die cast rolls
973
00:53:02.840 --> 00:53:03.679
better than others.
974
00:53:04.360 --> 00:53:04.599
Yep.
975
00:53:04.960 --> 00:53:06.639
Some, some of green lights you can take out of
976
00:53:06.639 --> 00:53:08.440
the package. You can roll them around like a hot wheel,
977
00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:09.880
and other ones they don't roll at all.
978
00:53:10.599 --> 00:53:13.360
So does the base have to be plastic or can
979
00:53:13.400 --> 00:53:13.920
it be metal?
980
00:53:14.559 --> 00:53:15.800
It could be metal too, They're both.
981
00:53:16.239 --> 00:53:19.039
Here's a chuck, chuck, I need that die cast breakdown
982
00:53:19.119 --> 00:53:21.559
stock car to be on this track.
983
00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:26.920
Here's a I do offer sponsorships. You can sponsor a car.
984
00:53:27.599 --> 00:53:30.360
I noticed you had a space for rent billboard. I
985
00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:31.079
was intriguing.
986
00:53:31.159 --> 00:53:35.519
Yeah, yeah, that space is for rent. I'm looking for sponsors.
987
00:53:35.960 --> 00:53:36.320
Mm hmm.
988
00:53:36.440 --> 00:53:36.599
Yeah.
989
00:53:36.719 --> 00:53:39.920
If you guys want a sponsor, we'll we can talk definitely,
990
00:53:40.280 --> 00:53:43.239
all right, we get your up on the up the billboard.
991
00:53:43.400 --> 00:53:45.639
We'll take that discussion off line if you don't want
992
00:53:45.639 --> 00:53:47.960
to talk shop in the middle of the recording.
993
00:53:48.039 --> 00:53:49.119
But yeah, that's.
994
00:53:48.960 --> 00:53:52.320
That's really fun, flying flying down the truck the track, Chuck.
995
00:53:52.800 --> 00:53:55.840
Yeah, you could send me Tom has Tom has standards, David,
996
00:53:55.880 --> 00:53:57.760
I don't know about putting a PG Cruiser on.
997
00:53:57.719 --> 00:54:00.239
The I'm going to do some really weird racing too.
998
00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:02.599
I mean, I'm basically most of the cars that I've
999
00:54:02.599 --> 00:54:06.800
got right now are period correct for the diorama, but
1000
00:54:06.840 --> 00:54:08.960
the drag strip is kind of on its own, and
1001
00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:11.360
it can I can. I can do cars in the seventies,
1002
00:54:11.360 --> 00:54:12.760
I can do cars from the eighties, I can do
1003
00:54:12.840 --> 00:54:15.199
modern cars on this because it is separate from the
1004
00:54:15.239 --> 00:54:18.360
other diorama. You guys are familiar with the dragula right
1005
00:54:18.400 --> 00:54:19.639
from Johnny Lightning.
1006
00:54:19.400 --> 00:54:23.920
Oh sure, yeah, yep, or the Monsters Show, but yeah, yes,
1007
00:54:24.039 --> 00:54:24.960
and the Monsters.
1008
00:54:25.239 --> 00:54:27.360
Yeah, he put a mortar in one of these.
1009
00:54:27.719 --> 00:54:30.559
Wow, I don't know where that thing's tiny.
1010
00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:34.840
And yeah, exactly he put a mortar in it. Not
1011
00:54:34.960 --> 00:54:36.840
this one particular, but in one.
1012
00:54:36.639 --> 00:54:39.440
Of these works. That's amazing.
1013
00:54:39.679 --> 00:54:43.639
He also did the same with the Monster the Monstermobile. Also, yeah,
1014
00:54:43.679 --> 00:54:45.519
that something, coach, I can't remember it.
1015
00:54:45.679 --> 00:54:46.119
Let's coach.
1016
00:54:46.280 --> 00:54:50.400
Yeah, you can do the same thing with that. So
1017
00:54:50.519 --> 00:54:53.440
what what me and him are kind of in a partnership,
1018
00:54:53.480 --> 00:54:56.199
a strategic partnership in a way. He's gonna send me
1019
00:54:56.360 --> 00:55:00.199
cars that I could use for specific races, Like I
1020
00:55:00.280 --> 00:55:04.719
might do US station Wagon shootout one week, maybe the
1021
00:55:04.760 --> 00:55:07.440
next month, I might do a mini van or suv
1022
00:55:07.880 --> 00:55:14.719
shootout or whatever, Mustang shootout on and on Camaro whatever.
1023
00:55:15.079 --> 00:55:18.679
So during the season, there will be the regular races
1024
00:55:19.000 --> 00:55:23.199
and there's sixteen cars in the field, and it'll run
1025
00:55:23.239 --> 00:55:26.400
for about six months and then we'll start a new season.
1026
00:55:27.280 --> 00:55:29.840
But we'll alfull have a couple of special races in
1027
00:55:29.880 --> 00:55:31.840
there with the Goofy stuff just for.
1028
00:55:33.280 --> 00:55:35.840
Well, David definitely has the Goofy stuff.
1029
00:55:35.960 --> 00:55:39.199
See Tom, I think you've You've carved out an entirely
1030
00:55:39.280 --> 00:55:45.519
new niche in in the hobby. We've got gravity drag racing,
1031
00:55:45.920 --> 00:55:50.840
we've got slot car racing. We don't have the hybrid,
1032
00:55:51.480 --> 00:55:55.480
self powered, self powered your favorite Dike. As you spend
1033
00:55:55.480 --> 00:55:58.360
the money, you get your die cast car that you love,
1034
00:55:59.199 --> 00:56:01.519
You get this kuy of to motor in it, and
1035
00:56:01.639 --> 00:56:05.000
you get to watch it on the track. That is amazing, Chuck,
1036
00:56:05.119 --> 00:56:07.480
you imagine one of your customs.
1037
00:56:08.039 --> 00:56:08.960
Oh, I'm thinking about it.
1038
00:56:09.480 --> 00:56:14.320
Yeah, I just got a whole of Dale. Yeah, I'll
1039
00:56:14.360 --> 00:56:15.320
give you his information.
1040
00:56:15.400 --> 00:56:19.159
I'm very curious. It takes him to actually do that,
1041
00:56:19.239 --> 00:56:20.719
to sit down and do it. I'm sure he's got
1042
00:56:20.840 --> 00:56:22.920
it down to a science now that he's gonna a
1043
00:56:22.920 --> 00:56:25.760
few thousand. Yeah, he'd definitely be somebody we'd love to
1044
00:56:25.800 --> 00:56:26.320
him on the show.
1045
00:56:27.119 --> 00:56:28.519
He's a genius, he really is.
1046
00:56:28.639 --> 00:56:28.840
Yeah.
1047
00:56:29.000 --> 00:56:31.519
I can't be Khylie enough of the guy. He's really
1048
00:56:31.719 --> 00:56:34.400
made some neat stuff and he stands behind his products.
1049
00:56:34.400 --> 00:56:36.960
I've sent a few cars back to Chicago to have
1050
00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:39.559
him fix something, and the center them back just have
1051
00:56:39.639 --> 00:56:43.880
to be the The shipping.
1052
00:56:42.519 --> 00:56:44.719
Is the track up and running. Tom, have you do we.
1053
00:56:44.679 --> 00:56:47.480
Hit you to it? It is I just showed a
1054
00:56:47.519 --> 00:56:48.039
car going down.
1055
00:56:48.079 --> 00:56:50.480
You probably missed it because it was so fast, which
1056
00:56:51.159 --> 00:56:52.559
I got to make sure I'm not going to crash
1057
00:56:52.599 --> 00:56:54.039
into the car that's already gone at the end.
1058
00:56:54.039 --> 00:56:55.760
Otherwise I'd have to walk. I got to walk all
1059
00:56:55.800 --> 00:56:57.519
the way down. I didn't even hear it, it was
1060
00:56:57.880 --> 00:56:58.280
I did not.
1061
00:56:58.960 --> 00:57:00.679
I literally missed it. I thought you were joking.
1062
00:57:01.000 --> 00:57:03.119
Yeah, it was like a magic trick. I saw you
1063
00:57:03.119 --> 00:57:04.320
setting them up and then all of a sudden they
1064
00:57:04.360 --> 00:57:04.679
were gone.
1065
00:57:04.679 --> 00:57:05.599
I was like, what happened?
1066
00:57:06.039 --> 00:57:08.760
Well, the problem is is the problem is is the
1067
00:57:08.800 --> 00:57:11.280
car is will do it the best in a second?
1068
00:57:12.960 --> 00:57:15.199
I mean that was the quarter mile time right there,
1069
00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:19.960
zero point nine six' one well basically nine and a
1070
00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:24.400
half tenths of a. Second, yeah a quarterbox a little
1071
00:57:24.440 --> 00:57:28.119
faster than. Irl, yeah you're looking at. THEM i did the,
1072
00:57:28.159 --> 00:57:32.719
math and a one second car is traveling about nine
1073
00:57:32.800 --> 00:57:35.039
hundred and forty seven scale.
1074
00:57:34.719 --> 00:57:39.800
Miles for away. Down that's, yeah that's like a. BULLET
1075
00:57:40.239 --> 00:57:44.719
a bullet goes about that. Past that is real speed is.
1076
00:57:44.679 --> 00:57:48.800
About fourteen, yeah fourteen to fifteen, Hour but you're getting
1077
00:57:48.800 --> 00:57:51.800
that in twenty one. Feet, sure the acceleration of these
1078
00:57:51.840 --> 00:57:54.199
THINGS i put one of these little electric cars up
1079
00:57:54.199 --> 00:57:59.599
against The. Ferrari sure no in a zero to fifteen.
1080
00:57:59.239 --> 00:58:03.840
Race Tom TOM d FOUR. Ce having multiple cameras set
1081
00:58:03.920 --> 00:58:05.519
up when you get this thing up.
1082
00:58:05.480 --> 00:58:05.960
And, running so.
1083
00:58:06.039 --> 00:58:08.440
Exactly that's one of the things that's taking time IS
1084
00:58:08.880 --> 00:58:12.199
i have four go pros And i'm working on camera
1085
00:58:12.239 --> 00:58:16.320
angles on. Depositions that's one of the Things i'm doing
1086
00:58:16.360 --> 00:58:17.800
with the testing and the tuning right.
1087
00:58:17.800 --> 00:58:22.119
Now and then my wife is learning the video. Editing mm.
1088
00:58:22.199 --> 00:58:24.719
Hmm so, yeah we're gonna Have i'm. Trying i'm gonna
1089
00:58:24.719 --> 00:58:27.960
try to film it like you would see it ON.
1090
00:58:28.079 --> 00:58:31.119
Tv all, Right i'm gonna have. It there's.
1091
00:58:31.239 --> 00:58:34.920
Voice i'm gonna do my announcing through a modulator changer
1092
00:58:35.000 --> 00:58:39.360
because this. Voice but, anyways, yeah so we're getting it.
1093
00:58:39.400 --> 00:58:42.679
Together we're gonna have multiple. Cameras we're probably gonna film
1094
00:58:42.679 --> 00:58:46.760
it in slow. Motion that's fun because it really it
1095
00:58:46.880 --> 00:58:49.519
actually looks a lot better in slow motion and you
1096
00:58:49.519 --> 00:58:51.679
can see the cars act and you can see those
1097
00:58:51.679 --> 00:58:57.639
sparks fly out the. Bottom let me, reset reset the,
1098
00:58:57.880 --> 00:59:02.800
timer AND i got this timer off of. eBay a
1099
00:59:02.840 --> 00:59:07.440
guy down In columbia makes these slot car LUCIER.
1100
00:59:07.039 --> 00:59:10.079
I think is this. Scandal there we go. There he
1101
00:59:10.239 --> 00:59:14.599
is the slot Car lucier mm. Hmm and it's a
1102
00:59:14.599 --> 00:59:15.159
pretty good.
1103
00:59:15.280 --> 00:59:19.400
System it has some, glitches but he's he's very proactive
1104
00:59:19.480 --> 00:59:23.000
working with. You if it's, glitches you just run another.
1105
00:59:23.039 --> 00:59:26.159
One but it's a it's a pretty stumm and it
1106
00:59:26.199 --> 00:59:28.519
wasn't really super. EXPENSIVE i think it's it was under
1107
00:59:28.559 --> 00:59:31.480
two hundred dollars, okay but that was just for the.
1108
00:59:31.519 --> 00:59:33.920
Timer then you got to buy the, track the. Control
1109
00:59:34.239 --> 00:59:38.519
where is the power supplies and this one runs dual power.
1110
00:59:38.559 --> 00:59:43.719
SUPPLIES i think there's thirty bowld power. Supplies, well, yeah
1111
00:59:43.760 --> 00:59:45.360
you're going that, fast you need a lot of. Power,
1112
00:59:46.159 --> 00:59:49.440
yeah and they do so right now we're at a
1113
00:59:49.559 --> 00:59:52.840
we're at pre. State So i'm gonna push the cars up,
1114
00:59:52.840 --> 00:59:54.320
here trying to do this while looking through the.
1115
00:59:54.360 --> 01:00:00.840
Camera now we're In. Stange well that's, cool and NOW
1116
01:00:01.039 --> 01:00:01.760
i gotta grap The.
1117
01:00:04.400 --> 01:00:06.840
Oh, okay they gone.
1118
01:00:07.480 --> 01:00:10.079
There it would be that would be so cool and slow.
1119
01:00:10.119 --> 01:00:13.639
Mo, right and that's their. Time we'll show you again
1120
01:00:13.639 --> 01:00:14.079
real quick.
1121
01:00:14.119 --> 01:00:16.559
Here, yeah it happened so, quickly it just kind of
1122
01:00:16.840 --> 01:00:17.400
blew by.
1123
01:00:17.519 --> 01:00:20.079
Us so we're gonna. Stay i'm not gonna run these
1124
01:00:20.079 --> 01:00:21.920
cars BECAUSE i got cars on. THERE i don't want
1125
01:00:21.920 --> 01:00:22.559
to collide into, it.
1126
01:00:22.639 --> 01:00:25.719
Sir of, course it's expensive that these guys. Are, OKAY
1127
01:00:25.719 --> 01:00:27.039
i see like a little mark on the.
1128
01:00:27.079 --> 01:00:27.360
Track.
1129
01:00:27.400 --> 01:00:30.440
There we're in a we're in a pre stage right.
1130
01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:31.760
Now, okay nothing's lit.
1131
01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:34.440
Up and then you can see the sensors right.
1132
01:00:34.480 --> 01:00:37.639
Here, okay so you have to leave the cars off
1133
01:00:37.639 --> 01:00:40.320
the sensor so that the sensor can calibrate mm.
1134
01:00:40.360 --> 01:00:43.559
Hmm and then we're gonna shove the cars up. Here
1135
01:00:43.679 --> 01:00:43.920
there we.
1136
01:00:43.960 --> 01:00:47.639
Go we'll looking through the. Camera so it's all. Right
1137
01:00:47.679 --> 01:00:51.599
so now we're. Staged, Okay so now it's time to.
1138
01:00:51.760 --> 01:00:58.559
Zero all, right boom, Yep, okay there it. Is that
1139
01:00:58.719 --> 01:00:58.920
is so.
1140
01:00:59.000 --> 01:01:03.639
Cool pardon Harden A nube asking, This but if If
1141
01:01:03.719 --> 01:01:07.320
tom is running races by, himself does he have two,
1142
01:01:07.360 --> 01:01:11.039
triggers one in each, hand or does one trigger just
1143
01:01:11.519 --> 01:01:14.199
activate both sides of the. Track, okay we'll get two
1144
01:01:14.199 --> 01:01:15.400
triggers righting.
1145
01:01:15.440 --> 01:01:17.079
Them i'm doing. Them it's.
1146
01:01:17.159 --> 01:01:20.719
COMPLICATED i have to hit the, reset push the cars,
1147
01:01:20.800 --> 01:01:24.599
up grab these in one, hand hit the hit the
1148
01:01:24.599 --> 01:01:26.960
start button on the, cameras.
1149
01:01:27.840 --> 01:01:28.960
And THEN i don't have much.
1150
01:01:29.000 --> 01:01:33.280
Time so because when's it's when's it's, staged and those
1151
01:01:33.320 --> 01:01:35.000
things are so fast you can't just have them like
1152
01:01:35.119 --> 01:01:37.599
inch up to the. Line i'm sure they just if
1153
01:01:37.639 --> 01:01:40.440
you tried to manually bring them.
1154
01:01:40.480 --> 01:01:44.639
Up you got to do technology to activate both with
1155
01:01:44.800 --> 01:01:45.280
off of one.
1156
01:01:45.320 --> 01:01:49.280
Trigger, well, ACTUALLY i can wire in a button and
1157
01:01:49.320 --> 01:01:52.119
that's one THING i was thinking about, doing is put
1158
01:01:52.119 --> 01:01:54.239
it in like a doorbell button or something like that
1159
01:01:54.400 --> 01:01:57.400
into it where you just push it and both both
1160
01:01:57.440 --> 01:01:57.920
tracks come.
1161
01:01:57.960 --> 01:02:02.159
Out, yeah all about whichever car was, faster.
1162
01:02:02.039 --> 01:02:04.199
And so we can switch, back and THEN i can
1163
01:02:04.239 --> 01:02:07.079
switch back to the standard controllers for if we want
1164
01:02:07.079 --> 01:02:07.760
to play with the.
1165
01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:12.360
Track so are you just letting off the the gas
1166
01:02:12.559 --> 01:02:16.000
at the end or is there a spot at the
1167
01:02:16.039 --> 01:02:18.079
end of the track where it loses.
1168
01:02:19.480 --> 01:02:22.679
Like how did the car? Stop the cars don't. Stop
1169
01:02:23.639 --> 01:02:26.079
that was part of the. Problem they don't stop on their.
1170
01:02:26.079 --> 01:02:29.599
Own they run out of gas. Eventually but right here
1171
01:02:29.719 --> 01:02:32.920
is where the last power. Is this is the finish line.
1172
01:02:32.920 --> 01:02:37.360
Here so from this point down to the, end which
1173
01:02:37.400 --> 01:02:44.119
is another nineteen w they they coast. Mh and let's
1174
01:02:44.119 --> 01:02:46.960
go find the. Cars you can see how far some
1175
01:02:46.960 --> 01:02:50.599
of these cars will coast mm. Hm we have the
1176
01:02:50.639 --> 01:02:55.400
one the auto world right there and then we got
1177
01:02:55.440 --> 01:02:56.880
these other two guys.
1178
01:02:58.000 --> 01:02:58.280
Back in.
1179
01:02:58.400 --> 01:02:58.599
Here.
1180
01:02:59.599 --> 01:03:02.960
YEP i have these walls up because sometimes the cars
1181
01:03:03.039 --> 01:03:05.599
when they hit the, end they would bounce.
1182
01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:08.920
One of these things hitting the.
1183
01:03:08.960 --> 01:03:11.559
Floor that's seventy five dollars. Car, yeah you.
1184
01:03:11.559 --> 01:03:12.000
Don't want that.
1185
01:03:12.039 --> 01:03:14.960
Happening and THEN i have a bunch of pads at
1186
01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:17.159
the end that they could run into if they go
1187
01:03:17.199 --> 01:03:17.599
all the way.
1188
01:03:17.639 --> 01:03:20.320
Down you can see that the vet down there is
1189
01:03:20.760 --> 01:03:24.079
all them a. Wall so do you have any house?
1190
01:03:24.159 --> 01:03:27.599
Rules like we're not having plastic wheels on this. Track
1191
01:03:27.719 --> 01:03:28.920
everybody has to have rubber.
1192
01:03:28.960 --> 01:03:31.960
Tires, well if you don't have rubber, tires you're not
1193
01:03:32.000 --> 01:03:32.320
going to go.
1194
01:03:32.360 --> 01:03:34.760
ANYWHERE i was gonna, Say, david this is actually where
1195
01:03:34.760 --> 01:03:36.920
you do want rubber, tires because.
1196
01:03:36.719 --> 01:03:38.840
Now, YEAH i guess you gotta have rip.
1197
01:03:38.800 --> 01:03:42.159
Right completely different thing you. Want you want friction, nuts
1198
01:03:42.360 --> 01:03:42.639
lack of.
1199
01:03:42.679 --> 01:03:45.199
Friction telling you this is a whole new genre of
1200
01:03:45.320 --> 01:03:46.519
racing AND i love.
1201
01:03:46.519 --> 01:03:49.760
It, Yeah i'm not the one that invented. It i'm
1202
01:03:49.800 --> 01:03:51.920
just the one that's kind of bringing it. Out there's
1203
01:03:51.960 --> 01:03:54.199
a guy Named Danny cove that does a lot of,
1204
01:03:54.440 --> 01:03:57.559
conversions which ACTUALLY i can show. YOU i don't want
1205
01:03:57.800 --> 01:03:59.800
more like what they their style.
1206
01:03:59.880 --> 01:04:00.159
Is.
1207
01:04:00.719 --> 01:04:04.000
Now this car here just has a standard chassis underneath mm.
1208
01:04:04.079 --> 01:04:08.519
Hmm AND i use the front and back pieces of the,
1209
01:04:08.599 --> 01:04:12.840
chass the original chassis to pin it in and that's
1210
01:04:12.840 --> 01:04:14.920
why a lot of guys do. It but the problem
1211
01:04:14.920 --> 01:04:16.599
with this is the car you can see you can
1212
01:04:16.599 --> 01:04:17.239
see the chassis.
1213
01:04:17.320 --> 01:04:19.840
Stick the wheelbas isn't perfect, either, yeah.
1214
01:04:19.480 --> 01:04:22.760
Yeah and you got to adjust for the wheelbase the
1215
01:04:22.800 --> 01:04:26.119
way That Dale baltze they sit like a regular. Car
1216
01:04:26.159 --> 01:04:28.280
does they have the right stance the right?
1217
01:04:28.320 --> 01:04:28.599
Look?
1218
01:04:29.320 --> 01:04:29.599
Sure?
1219
01:04:29.800 --> 01:04:30.039
Sure.
1220
01:04:30.159 --> 01:04:33.119
Yeah AND i love the guys At Auto world for
1221
01:04:33.239 --> 01:04:36.840
keeping slot cars alive for the general public like they have.
1222
01:04:37.000 --> 01:04:39.400
Been but you, know they're operating with kind of like
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a universal, chassis so nothing ever looks right right because
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01:04:44.400 --> 01:04:48.920
they're adjusting the car bodies to fit the, frame not
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01:04:49.039 --> 01:04:51.519
the other way. Around, so AND i.
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01:04:51.440 --> 01:04:51.920
Think those are.
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01:04:51.960 --> 01:04:53.800
GREAT i think those are a great thing for getting
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01:04:53.800 --> 01:04:57.159
people started in them in the hobby And i'm thrilled
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01:04:57.199 --> 01:04:59.800
that they're still out there that you can get those
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01:05:00.400 --> 01:05:02.840
your hobby shops and, stuff because that used to be
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01:05:02.880 --> 01:05:05.280
my thing growing. UP i had The tycho tracks AND
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01:05:05.320 --> 01:05:07.800
i thought those were like the coolest, things and THEN
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01:05:07.840 --> 01:05:09.639
i started to dive into it a little, bit and
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01:05:09.639 --> 01:05:12.280
THEN i saw like an actual competitive race where the
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01:05:12.280 --> 01:05:14.920
cars were moving so fast that you couldn't even see them,
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01:05:15.119 --> 01:05:18.199
practically AND i was just like, that that just doesn't
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01:05:18.239 --> 01:05:18.840
feel like.
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01:05:20.280 --> 01:05:20.559
Racing.
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01:05:20.639 --> 01:05:23.440
Anymore THAT i get it's, racing but it's it's it
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01:05:24.039 --> 01:05:27.679
doesn't feel like you're racing cars. Anymore you're just racing
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01:05:27.760 --> 01:05:31.599
a piece of electronics around a track that's going so
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01:05:31.599 --> 01:05:34.719
so unrealistically fast compared to what the car actually would
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01:05:34.800 --> 01:05:39.239
do that it JUST i don't. KNOW i, mean, yeah
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01:05:39.440 --> 01:05:41.760
but like like you said years, ago nine hundred miles an,
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01:05:41.760 --> 01:05:43.639
hour which in slow motion that would look, Great but
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01:05:43.840 --> 01:05:46.679
in the moment when you're doing like a less than
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01:05:46.719 --> 01:05:51.079
one second, run it's but that is so. Cool i'm
1248
01:05:51.119 --> 01:05:55.599
impressed that they're doing under one second with full metal metal.
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01:05:56.320 --> 01:05:59.320
Setups So i'm seeing a lot of really cool different.
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01:05:59.320 --> 01:06:01.719
Buildings a lot those are, These these are scratch?
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01:06:01.760 --> 01:06:07.360
Built are these from? Kids this one here.
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01:06:05.760 --> 01:06:08.239
Is a scratch built. One this is the ONE i
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01:06:08.599 --> 01:06:11.719
featured in how To Build Scratch. BUILD i actually built
1254
01:06:11.920 --> 01:06:15.519
that building for my YouTube channel to. Teach, okay, yeah
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01:06:15.760 --> 01:06:18.360
there was a teaching. Building this one up here is
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01:06:18.440 --> 01:06:21.679
a what is it trying to think OF. Dsl, yes
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01:06:22.800 --> 01:06:25.760
guy out Of. Chicago another guy out Of. Chicago but
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01:06:26.000 --> 01:06:29.800
he made really nice KITS. Thesl you can still find
1259
01:06:29.840 --> 01:06:33.760
them On. eBay but he went out of the kit building.
1260
01:06:33.840 --> 01:06:37.360
Business he just decided want to do it. Anymore AND
1261
01:06:37.519 --> 01:06:40.239
i acquired a bunch of kits On eBay and other,
1262
01:06:40.320 --> 01:06:42.880
places and SO i started making.
1263
01:06:42.920 --> 01:06:46.039
Them and these are actually dioramas THAT i sell.
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01:06:45.800 --> 01:06:49.079
WHEN i go to toy. Shows, okay, COOL i have
1265
01:06:49.159 --> 01:06:52.519
some little little dioramas THAT i. Sell there's another one
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01:06:52.519 --> 01:06:54.000
down here in the, box ready to.
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01:06:54.039 --> 01:06:55.480
Go, yeah just a.
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01:06:55.480 --> 01:06:55.760
Little.
1269
01:06:56.400 --> 01:06:59.199
Yeah there's a guy THAT i really. Like his name Is,
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01:06:59.239 --> 01:07:02.559
jimmy and he has this thing Called Monster Model. Works, well, yeah,
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01:07:02.639 --> 01:07:05.599
YEAH i. HAVE i have every scale kit that he,
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01:07:05.679 --> 01:07:09.679
sells and, YEAH i one Day i'll put them. TOGETHER
1273
01:07:09.719 --> 01:07:11.360
i haven't a chance to build any of, them But
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01:07:11.400 --> 01:07:13.639
i've looked in them and they look really. Nice and
1275
01:07:13.679 --> 01:07:17.199
he takes the models that he's shown photos of they look.
1276
01:07:17.280 --> 01:07:20.599
FANTASTIC i keep telling him to do. More he's. Done
1277
01:07:20.679 --> 01:07:22.519
he has actually done a few more, flats AND i
1278
01:07:22.599 --> 01:07:25.320
think that's because every time he does a new, BUILDING i,
1279
01:07:25.360 --> 01:07:27.039
Said i'd love to see a flat version of that
1280
01:07:27.800 --> 01:07:31.880
for those of us who have limited, space having a
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01:07:32.159 --> 01:07:34.440
having a flat that you can put against the that
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01:07:34.519 --> 01:07:37.320
sticks out maybe three quarters of an inch an inch two,
1283
01:07:37.320 --> 01:07:39.960
inches and you can have it on the shelf on.
1284
01:07:40.000 --> 01:07:43.519
Display BUT i mean one day dioramic goals for. Sure
1285
01:07:44.000 --> 01:07:47.559
With Acme, CITY i JUST i just love it And
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01:07:48.119 --> 01:07:51.239
i'm thrilled to finally be able to talk with you about.
1287
01:07:51.239 --> 01:07:55.039
This and it's just it's so cool all the the
1288
01:07:55.039 --> 01:07:59.199
the intricacies and the wiring and the, lighting and that's
1289
01:07:59.239 --> 01:08:01.599
that's SOMETHING i have and duved into yet is actually
1290
01:08:01.599 --> 01:08:03.679
doing like lighting on a.
1291
01:08:03.760 --> 01:08:07.360
Kit so that's SOMETHING i want to get to. SOMEDAY
1292
01:08:08.760 --> 01:08:10.840
i teach how to do it, all. RIGHT i fout
1293
01:08:10.960 --> 01:08:15.280
my YouTube. CHANNEL i EXPLAIN i have TUTORIALS i teach.
1294
01:08:15.719 --> 01:08:16.800
How to build all.
1295
01:08:16.840 --> 01:08:18.960
This so if you want to learn how to build
1296
01:08:19.079 --> 01:08:22.399
HOW i, BUILD i teach it pretty. MUCH i went
1297
01:08:22.560 --> 01:08:26.079
pretty much step per, step step by. Step but if
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01:08:26.119 --> 01:08:28.960
you watch the, videos you should have a pretty good
1299
01:08:28.960 --> 01:08:31.159
idea what to, do and then you can always ask.
1300
01:08:31.279 --> 01:08:35.119
Questions i'm always open to give out. Information i've helped
1301
01:08:35.159 --> 01:08:37.960
a lot of. People in, Fact i've even done videos
1302
01:08:38.039 --> 01:08:40.560
just because one of my viewers are, like.
1303
01:08:40.479 --> 01:08:43.199
Hey how did you do? That how did you build?
1304
01:08:43.239 --> 01:08:45.960
That and Then i'm, like, okay well let me explain
1305
01:08:46.079 --> 01:08:49.000
AND i shut shoot a video and show exactly HOW
1306
01:08:49.039 --> 01:08:50.960
i did. It AND i did it just basically for one.
1307
01:08:51.000 --> 01:08:54.600
Person that's. Great so, yeah anybody. Can if you have
1308
01:08:54.720 --> 01:08:58.399
just basic, skills you'll you'll learn skills as you go,
1309
01:08:58.520 --> 01:09:01.960
on and don't be afraid to make. Stakes you'll make
1310
01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:04.720
a mistake and you'll be, like oh, Man i'm terrible at.
1311
01:09:04.760 --> 01:09:08.359
This so now just set it, aside, go relax a little,
1312
01:09:08.399 --> 01:09:10.800
bit come back to it and look at how you
1313
01:09:10.800 --> 01:09:13.520
can fix. It and if you can't fix, it well
1314
01:09:13.560 --> 01:09:14.079
then you learned.
1315
01:09:14.119 --> 01:09:15.079
Them you learned from your.
1316
01:09:15.119 --> 01:09:17.680
Mistake no, mistakes just happy.
1317
01:09:17.720 --> 01:09:20.439
Accidents. Yeah SO i love.
1318
01:09:20.479 --> 01:09:23.399
It Well, Again, tom thank you so much for taking
1319
01:09:23.479 --> 01:09:26.920
us Around Actme, city and, again, folks check out that YouTube.
1320
01:09:26.960 --> 01:09:30.359
Channel we'll link to it in the. Description but this
1321
01:09:30.439 --> 01:09:33.239
has been something that we've been in contact for a
1322
01:09:33.279 --> 01:09:35.319
while And i'm glad we were finally able to get
1323
01:09:35.319 --> 01:09:38.680
this all together and see everything as it sits now
1324
01:09:38.720 --> 01:09:42.439
and get a little glimpse of what's ahead with the
1325
01:09:42.800 --> 01:09:47.319
drag racing and just so, cool such a fun, thing And,
1326
01:09:47.520 --> 01:09:49.359
TOM i can't thank you enough for spending a little
1327
01:09:49.359 --> 01:09:51.800
bit of time with. Us and, again, folks check him,
1328
01:09:51.800 --> 01:09:54.800
out visit his channel and you'll learn a lot From.
1329
01:09:54.840 --> 01:09:57.279
Tom you'll see him all Over facebook as, well and
1330
01:09:57.399 --> 01:09:59.520
a lot of the various GROUPS i. See tom's supposed
1331
01:09:59.520 --> 01:10:02.319
to all the, time so he's more than happy to
1332
01:10:02.359 --> 01:10:04.159
share his, knowledge AND i think that's one of the
1333
01:10:04.239 --> 01:10:06.960
best parts about this, hobby is us sharing knowledge with each.
1334
01:10:06.960 --> 01:10:08.399
Other, YEAH i want to.
1335
01:10:08.439 --> 01:10:10.319
TEACH i want people to learn how to do WHAT i,
1336
01:10:10.399 --> 01:10:12.520
do And i'm more than willing.
1337
01:10:12.319 --> 01:10:12.920
To answer any.
1338
01:10:13.000 --> 01:10:15.520
Questions So i'll watch the videos and if you've got
1339
01:10:15.560 --> 01:10:18.600
any questions about anything, particular just give me a, shout
1340
01:10:18.720 --> 01:10:20.439
put it in the, comments AND i will.
1341
01:10:21.000 --> 01:10:22.439
Respond i'm also On.
1342
01:10:22.600 --> 01:10:26.560
Facebook Aqui city has its own page M, hm so
1343
01:10:26.680 --> 01:10:29.239
you can check that out On facebook. Too but YouTube
1344
01:10:29.319 --> 01:10:31.560
is probably WHERE i post most most of my.
1345
01:10:31.600 --> 01:10:35.239
Stuff all, right all, right check him out on, YouTube,
1346
01:10:35.279 --> 01:10:38.760
folks and check out Driven dreams dot org as. Well
1347
01:10:38.880 --> 01:10:42.159
that's a YouTube. Channel and twice diecast is still doing
1348
01:10:42.159 --> 01:10:44.800
stuff every now and, THEN i, think but so check.
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01:10:44.880 --> 01:10:48.000
That check out twice diecast and thank you for checking
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01:10:48.079 --> 01:10:49.960
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01:10:50.000 --> 01:10:52.479
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01:10:52.600 --> 01:10:55.000
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