COOL LINKS
Added 04-15-07: And as if the world wasn't cool enough, now George Trosley is selling all kinds of killer artwork and prints too! Below is a link to his site. His prices are unbelievably cheap and his work is HOT! Also check out the link on his site to the CARtoons web site, that brings back many memories for those of us that grew up reading CARtoons in the 70's!
What the heck? How did this monster get on my Harley? Check it out, it's the killa artwork of John Detrich! He was kind enough to generate this and one other piece of artwork for me on a commission basis. I sent him photos of my rides, he cranked out this awesome artwork! John is a total pleasure to work with and his prices are waaay cheap. Click here or on the pic to visit John's site: "Artwork by John Detrich"
Model- related
Eggstreme Machines Thanks to Keith for tipping me off to this awesome egg plane site!! After you feast your eyes on his incredible builds, follow his links page to even more cool egg builds!
Round 2 Models has reissued 7 of the original 8 MPC Zinger models! YES!
Retro Hobbies has reissued all 4 of the original MPC trike kits! See link below:
Funky Japanese site I ran across this site on a web search. Its a Japanese site with some really cool computer animated Deal's Wheels type cars. Be sure to click on all the links, there's one link that goes to a page with some awesome caricatures of Speed Racer!
UPDATE: it turns out the above site is owned by a guy that goes by Marshmallow! He's a nice guy and does some really great work and has created a whole series of Deal's Wheels type cars in Hot Wheels styled blister packs!! See them by clicking the banner above.
Bonedigger's Styrene Archaeology NOTE- this site is still there but has not been updated in many years. Another guy that loves Deal's Wheels kits! Thomas has a nice site that has an online magazine type format. He also has an all-inclusive set of links for modelers.
Zoids related
http://www.smeat.net This is the site of a Zoid buddy of mine. He is a master of the manipulation of HTML, and his site combines nice pics with a very artistic approach to site design! Check out the "wind-up toys" and the Zoids pages!
Mr. Hook's Zoids & Robostrux Site Check it out, the first English language Zoids site to make it onto the Japanese Zoids web ring. My site was 2nd!
Jeff's Robots You like robots? Well even if you don't you probably will after checking out Jeff's super cool collection, it rocks! He's got some nice Zoids too.
Other model related sites
www.jdetrich.homestead.com This site is by John Detrich, the fantastic artist responsible for the Hot Rod Super Freaks card art! His site has but a small sampling of his killer artwork, and the really groovy news is that he does commission work for a very reasonable price!! Check him out by all means!
http://www.geocities.com/vincecrain Check out Vince Crain's super cool artwork and check ebay seller "syncromon" for great deals on his prints, you'll be glad you did!
Other fun sites
HTBomb's Magical Hot Wheels We all love Hot Wheels, right? Of course we do! Check out Harold's Hot Wheels site!
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THE DEAD LINK GRAVEYARD
Below are links that apparently are MIA, dead, kaputt, AWOL... or in other words no longer working :-)
CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK, YOU'RE LIKELY TO GET.... WELL.... NOTHING! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED....
Added 02-12-06: A gentleman by the name of Keven Ellis has just made Deal's Wheels restoration projects a little easier, he is making reproductions of the decals!! A couple of people that have used them report them to be of very high quality and perfect reproductions. If any of you have built the plane models, you probably have noticed that the original peel-and-stick decals are terrible. They don't conform well to the shape of the model, and most of them have also developed age spots over the years. Scrap them and buy some of these quality decals from Keven, your model will thank you! Below is a link to Keven's web site and to his eBay auction page:
Added 07-06-03: Check it out, a new Deal's Wheels web site! Thanks go out to Tony Shepard for letting me know about his new site. He's got some great pictures of his complete collection, have a look!
BigDeal.org This site was built by my buddy Mitch Carley and is a joint venture in sales with Deal himself. Mitch has all kinds of cool Deal emblazoned memorabilia to sell you- check it out and buy something!
3OnTheTree.com Brian's site now has a new Deal's Wheels section that shows his collection of built-ups. In addition, he has one heckuva collection of Wierd-Oh and Roth stuff. Although models are shown, the real appeal of the site is the huge array of related collectibles he has amassed.
http://www.artvilla.com/wakefield/zoids/ John's Zoids site, a great resource for the Zoidaholic in all of us! John has it all: pics, stats, old Zoids, new Zoids, catalog scans, story lines, it doesn't get any better than that!
http://woodstock.csrlink.net/~anthonyj/mine AJ is a good friend and a long time collector. He has a nice site for vintage Tom Daniel kits as well as the Mattel Rrrumblers, but I assure you this is the tip of the iceburg of his collection!!!
http://home.earthlink.net/~goodstuffinc/ Jim Kampmann has set up a site for he and his partner's (Jim Johnson) company "The Good Stuff". These talented dudes have brought many cool things into the modeling world including resin designs that became the basis for the Polar Lights Snap Draggins!