Jim B

Nicely done. For a minute there I thought that you might have painted it in black & white to match the TV show. Then I realized that they were black & white photos.

I like it. Well done.

Great looking Thunderbolt. Very nice.

Brian, I hear you on the "more inspiration than time"!

Greg, I had forgotten about White Line Fever. Carol Jo and his "Blue Mule". I actually have decals for the "Blue Mule". I just need a Ford W-Series cab! Pete, box-art is also an inspiration for me at times, but sometimes it's not. Just depends on the kit & the art, I guess. It sounds like people are drawing inspiration from all sorts of places, and that's really cool. My problem is that my inspiration comes from all sorts of sources, which is a good problem to have I guess. For example, I am correctly reading Spearhead by Adam Makos, so now I want to build a T26/M26 Pershing tank & a M4 Sherman tank. When I read To Wake a Giant by Jeff Shaara, I wanted to build the USS Arizona: and I'm sure when I read The Eagle's Claw, I'll want to build a carrier. I've even started building/collecting some of the cars from Cars. I think I have enough "inspiration" to last me until the next century.

So, just as a general question: where do you draw your inspiration for your builds from? Since I brought it up, I'll go first. When I first got back into modeling, and truck modeling in particular, back in 2000 or so, I was a member of the Yahoo! Model Truck Discussion Group. Anyone here remember that? At that time I drew inspiration from the other modeler on the Group, and Tim Ahlborn specifically. Hey, I'm not afraid to admit it, I was seriously impressed with his builds! Another inspiration for my truck builds was Hank's Truck Pictures (R.I.P., ?), which was a Black Hole of Time, but there were a lot of great photos of trucks on there that would keep a builder busy for about a century! I also drew some inspiration from TV shows (Movin' On) & movies (Smoky & the Bandit). There were also a couple of ProBoards Forums that I belonged to were I got some ideas. More recently, I have branched out into cars, aircraft, & ships. Inspiration for these can come from a wide variety of sources like songs (G.T.O. by Ronny & the Daytonas), books, TV shows (Dukes of Hazzard), and of course fellow modelers on the Forum. It was a friend & fellow modeler that got me interested in muscle car builds. Ok, I shared. Who's next? Where do you draw your inspiration?

Your trailers look great. And you tractors, too!

It's this another case of Revell putting a 379 on the box, but a 359 in the box?

This is going to be nice!

Nice looking Chevrolets. Well done.

If you're still looking, I have a set of the Baby Moons from the AMT KW kit if you need them.

Oh, right. Thanks. I built the Monogram kit a while back.

Thanks, Rick.

Nice looking G.T.O. Your skills are improving. Is this the Monogram kit?

Thanks for all the input, guys. I appreciate it. Rusty, there was a snap stock 1957 Bel-Air? Didn't know that. I remember from the thread where the AMT 1957 Chevrolet Bel-Air was getting bashed (by a particular member who will remain nameless) that several kits were discussed, but I don't recall that one. Thank you for the offer, Richard. I appreciate it. Good information, David. Thank you.

Great looking gasser. Well done.

I have been thinking of picking up the Revell Snap 1957 Chevrolet Bel-Air, but I want to do it stock. I have a set of the stock wheels from the AMT 1955 Chevrolet Bel-Air around here someplace. Are they the same?

How do you do it? Did you have a bunch of decals made up? Did you download the license plate from the Web & just print it out?

That does look pretty cool. You put that on all of your builds somewhere, don't you? I remember commenting on that on one of your previous builds.

Nice looking Bel-Air.

Great looking GT. The black came out super shiny!

Your police car is coming along very nicely. I've built this kit a couple of times, and it's always gone together super nice.

I think that's $115.99 Canadian, which is $95.76 US. Still quite expensive.

Cool looking build. Did you try Gary Wallace at GW Trucks for your 6-71N?

That Mack Bulldog looks promising. Might try to do a US Army truck from WWI.