Unca Roggie Scores at WALMART!

I’ve got the FLU big time, now, but despite the mental fog, I think I recall reading in here, someplace, that someone found a decent vehicle model, in Walmart, of all places. So I scurried over there, recently, finding a motherlode of stuff, at ridiculously low prices.

I wrote an article, with lots of photos, on a program called ZOHO, which you can see for yourself if you clik on this link:

http://writer.zoho.com/wo/jsp/guestView.jsp?PG_ID=Kx67120x67020x67020I7C28r-d6DQ9N6D6b6x6ct62B97vb6bd89

(It was a LOT easier doing the article and inserting photos with that program, than it is, doing so on this website…so if anyone wants to hear how it works, let me know.)

I am definitely going to Walmart soon…

Thanks for the heads up!

Yep! Got two big shoe boxes FULL of Wally World cars waiting for the day their new home is finished and ready for them!

TNX for the heads up!!

I guess I shoulda mentioned that there aren’t any of these items left, in the Palm Springs Walmart!

(Well, that isn’t completely true: I left behind some real lame ones like a modern race car and some other stuff that HIDDEN UNDER a huge block of paint, would still not look very real.)

Nice article. I’d be interested in learning how to do that. Also, could you make a thread that goes into a little more detail on your weathering techniques please?

Man, I wish they made models like those in N scale, lol.

Thanks…I’m a little too under the weather at this moment, to try to sound coherant, about using the ZOHO WRITER method of sending out text and pix…I came across it by total accident, and was so pleased to find such an easy way to write out something, then sock photos right in the story, where you want them.

Even better: when you email that LINK they provide, to share the item, it can have LOTS of photos, yet only take up some tiny space as an email.

I’ve never given thought to teaching myself how to create a full WEBSITE (maybe ONE day) but the main thing I’d want one for, is to be able to share little stories and pictures like this ZOHO site allows for, for free, and with VERY little hassle or know-how.

As to the weathering “method”—as mentioned in the article, its mainly just taking a very cheapo paintbrush, like from a kid’s set, and jamming it around on those tempera cakes of watercolors…then slopping it on the model.

You can’t put “too much on” as a simple wipe takes it all OFF. The ONLY problem would be if you accidentally dropped a model in the toilet or something, in which case, you’d lose your “artwork” and have to start over. {So, I guess mentioning not doing weathering in the bathroom, is a given, right?}

My wife, who calls what I do “playing with choo-chooze” to give you an idea of her true feelings for the hobby, got sucked into how much fun it is to weather stuff.

I gave her an Athearn tuscan red stock car, explaining what it “does” and how it can be expected to be “pretty crappy looking” (a more polite expression than I really used.) She spent about two hours trying to depict manure and other stuff that may have gotten stuck both to the inside floor, and especially the lower half of the railcar itself…feeling quite proud when she was finished.&n

Oh, I thought you’d met a new girlfriend…

Yeah, these cars come and go at Wally World. The one local to me never has any of them. I find them sometimes when travelling, but they cost a lot more at train shows or my LHS. Although most of mine are still shiny, they do weather up nicely. I use Dul-Cote and weathering powders on mine, after taping the windows.

Eleven bucks for the 55 Chevy? I got about 10 of them and payed 2.99 each for them. I really like the Malibu cars, for the price the detail on them is great. I have 2 photocopy paper boxes full of Malibu and Wild Cherry cars. For you Canadian guys, check out the Norscot transport trucks with trailers and heavy equipment loads. Home Hardware sells them for 14.99. Walmart sells the Norscot trucks as well minus the trailers.

I first had the TITLE set up for this thread as: Unca Roggie Shoots and Scores at Walmart…but was afraid that was too long for the whole thing to show up on the entry page, and could come out as: Unca Roggie Shoo

I was also leery of using a hockey term, on a mostly American forum (especially after realizing, when talking to so many people about the watercolour cakes that are just the size of hockey pucks, that very few knew how big that WAS.

I started using the term URINAL CAKES to better describe it…most every guy has noticed at one time or another they were aiming down into a drain almost blocked by a pink, hockey puck sized thing that helped make the area smell less like urine, and more like cherry flavoured urine…didn’t help with the WOMEN I would come across, in the art supplies world, however)

Now and then, in the Walthers ads that come in the mail or online, I see they have $10.99 items like that Chevy, on for $3.99 (and I think that was when this Scotchman broke down and bought a couple of them)

But there’s nothin’ better than finding something you LIKE, being sold for under a BUCK, huh?