has your traveling influenced your building

Yes, and it works both ways. I have seen stuff on travel that I think would make a neat model subject- I grab lots of photos.

But I have also traveled to distant cities to visit a museum to shoot pics of a subject for an important build.  Have done this for several models.

Once you get retired like me, you are free to spend all the time modeling you like, without being interrupted with the pesky traveling!  I love it!  Hated travelling.

Not really, but when the America's Cup came to San Francisco last year, I was really taken with the replica of the original yacht. So I picked up the old Revell kit.

Gees;

 That is about the way it's done isn't it? I travel around even now and find boats in the oddest places .Like in a farmers field even ( in great shape I might add!). Now that's why I keep a disposeable in the van .        T.B.            P.S. When I worked for B.P I always had a camera as part of my port uniform ! Lots of ships from many countries got their picture taken.

Anne and I travel from place to place using the motels or family camps on US bases. At each stop we snap the gate guards and whenever we stop at one place for pictures, we ask what else is around. Heck, we broke down in the California desert once, and got towed to "Desert Center",,,,,,and a Patton tank museum is located right next to the restaurant parking lot I fixed the truck at. So, after I put away the tools, I "took the camera for a walk"

I take a lot of photos on our trips, and those get used for motivation at the very least, if I don't decide to outright build a gate guard. Sometimes when we get home, I start a build of something that Anne thought was neat on the trip.

I have photos of aircraft ranging from the FJ Fury in the USS Little Rock Park in Buffalo, to the Phantom on base at March AFB in California, and the J-79 in the hangar deck of the USS Midway. We run around and shoot it all, tanks, planes, ships, old stone forts, even hot cars, if we see one in time.

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I specifically packed my 1/144 Revell B-52H ( I think) because of my proximity to Barksdale, I also have an A-10 (Tamiya) in the truck. For me travel just enhances my collector abilities. I guess travel has influenced what I build.

Heck yes! I haven't done anywhere near as much traveling as Tankerbuilder, but what I've done has had a huge influence on all my hobbies. (I have too many for my own good.)

I was working on my model of the Revolutionary War frigate Hancock while I was in grad school, writing my dissertation on the British Navy in the Revolution. As I was making the rounds of documentary repositories I was often able to squeeze in an extra day for Hancock research -or at least to wander around maritime museums staring at old ship models. And in some cases looking over real ships. In my free time in London I got to see the Victory, the Cutty Sark, the Belfast, and several others.  (The Mary Rose hadn't been raised yet.)

I got interested in ships real early, but as a kid growing up in central Ohio I'm not sure how long that interest would have lasted if my parents hadn't organized trips to the east coast. 

my next model is going to be a Gloucester fishing schooner. Thank you, Mystic Seaport.

Yes !

   I believe all my travels, both military and civilian, strengthened my love of anything that floats .From the great Liners to Aircraft carriers and all the vessels in between .Of course nothing from our maritime history should be left out ( if possible )