NEXT up for October release!....
The Hemi Semi by Tom Daniels
Back when the Dinosaurs roamed the earth...around 1969
...I was a kid into Hot Rods, Show Cars, Hot Wheels and plastic models.
I also loved art, cartoons and caricatured Hot Rods.
As a result, I especially loved Tom Daniels' designs for Monogram and Revell plastic models.
One of my favorite series were the Snap-Tite cartoon Cars and Trucks
...later rereleased as Revell Snappers and TD Snappers, and then Monogram Snap-Draggins.
The original line inspired some of my own early hot rod cartooning.
I loved the elongated Wheels and stretched Slicks...
I loved the leaping bodies and wheelstanding poses.
One of my favorites, that I owned and built at that time, was Tom Daniels cartooned Mustang...the Boss Mustang.
It was also the inspiration for my KoolWheelz Boss Stang, and Mach One Mustang models.
And I decided I wanted to do more Tom Daniels Snap-Fit designs, in KoolWheelz style...
and so I have continued with this one... the Hemi Semi.
Not every design lends itself to my KoolWheelz style.
Some are easier to conceptualize than others.
I always liked this wild Big Rig cartoon and it seemed like a good candidate.
But it turned out to be more complicated than I had anticipated...I had to get creative with an original chassis/internal former design.
I simplified the overall shape of things to make it easier to build,
but I had to make it a bit smaller than originally intended so I could get all the parts on one page.
Its not exactly the same as the Monogram kit...but its very close to Daniels' design.
The model is not hard to build, but does require some patience.
I've created an assembly sheet for this one too.
You can find Hemi Semi in the Tom Daniels Tributes collection (ShowRodz)
and in the Cartoonz section.
