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MTB.com Admin Blog
 

Who's Casey and why MTB.com?

Who am I and why have I created MTB.com? I guess the first thing you need to know is that I am not a skilled writer/blogger so please forgive me if what follows is a bit clumsy.  Second, I am not an expert model builder.  In fact, over the past 20 years, I have only completed two model trucks but I have just recently started two new builds.  Third, I am not a truck expert but I am a huge truck fan.  My uncle is an owner operator and from an early age until I joined the Air Force at age 18, I spent every moment I could on the road with him or at the garage helping him work on his trucks.  He has owned many makes; Mack, GMC, International, Autocar, Ford, Freightliner, Peterbilt, Kenworth, and multiple models of most of those makes.  I was bit early and I have never lost my love for trucks.  I picked up some truck knowledge along the way but that knowledge is fairly limited.  I know enough to sound smart to the complete novice and little enough to sound stupid to the experts, so I will spend a lot of time in the "Tips, Tricks and Help" forum. Early in my career, I learned that models do not fair well during military moves and thus, I decided to save model building for a later date.  However, thanks to the internet, I have been able to keep up with hobby and with the works of builders like Kuenn McClinton and Tim Ahlborn, I remain inspired to built my own model truck fleet.  I completed what is likely my last cross-country move earlier this year and now it's time to get started! I obviously don't need to operate a truck modeling website to build my fleet but having picked up some webmaster skills during my 8 years running C-130Hercules.net, I thought I would try to build a site for the model truck community.  A site where builders can have their own photo album(s) to display their work, find reference photos, chronicle their builds (blog), download kit instructions, share their WIPs, get feedback on their completed builds, and get tips, help and more.  Wish me luck! Thank you for stopping by, please join and contribute to the community, and let me know if there is anything I can do to improve your MTB experience. --Casey          
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MTB.com Admin Blog
 

A few thanks are in Order

I just wanted to make a quick note to say thank you to the admins at Model Truck Discussion, Model Truck Mafia, Building Big Rigs Tips and how did you do it and Model Trucks Other Than Pete or KW for allowing me advertise MTB.com  in their Facebook groups.  Thank you to those that have given me permission to post images of their builds in the gallery, to those who have added their own images and to those who have posted in the forums. Finally, thanks to all who have visited and/or registered.  I hope you find your way here often, contribute content when and where you can,  and most importantly, find the site useful and enjoyable. Please do not hesitate to let me know what I can do to make MTB.com better. --Casey
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MTB.com Admin Blog
 

Welcome to MTB.com

As you can see we are just getting started but with some behind the scenes work from the MTB staff and little help from you, we hope to make CHN the go to web site for the truck modeling community!   Since we are asking for “a little help” from you, we thought it only fair that explain why there is room in the truck modeling community for a new site and what our plans are for the site.   As you browse the web, you will find a few modeling magazine websites, some individual truck builder websites and several social media website relating to model truck building.  We have been visiting them for years and they each have merit.  However, they do have their drawbacks.   Magazine websites predominately focus on models other than trucks and typically have a small truck section at best, individual truck builder sites are most often centered around one builder and do not allow others to join the fun, and with social media sites it can be very difficult to impossible to find old user posts.  We are not looking to replace these sites and we realize that it would be impossible to offer everything that they do collectively.  However, we do intend provide many of the same options and most importantly, we hope to provide several that they do not.   MTB will focus solely on model trucks.  While many details are still to be ironed-out, below are several of the features we intend to provide.   Registered members will be allowed to create and reply to posts in the forums, participate in live chat, send private messages to other members, view/download gallery images, view/download hosted files, more.           Forums: finished model show room, WIP workbench, tips and tricks, reference discussion, general discussion and more.         Galleries: model truck gallery, reference image gallery and more.        Downloads: Kit instructions, decal designs, and more.        Personal Blogs for those who wish to chronicle their builds.        Personal Gallery for those who wish to show off their WIP/finished project images.        And you guessed it, much more…   Based on the info above, we hope that you will jump in, join the fun and help us grow MTB.com.  Please visit frequently, join the discussion and tell your friends to stop by for a visit!   --Casey
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