Lobo2me

Very cool! Nice build....love the subject matter.

Wow...very cool! Amazing creativity in a lot of those wild and wacky mind blowers!!!!

Nice!

Viper motor, chassis, power train & suspensions. XKE hood bulge, Speedster bumps, Batmobile windsheild and reshaped tail. Giant wing for serious drifting. Name - what a viper and jaguar have in common. Fun creation, but not wild about the wheels...at the moment.

Wow...beautiful. A worthy tribute to your pal.

Very cool...great job!

Yeehaw!

As a follow-on to the "honor our veterans" theme I created a wild scratch-built Altered dragster named 12 O’clock High. I had a great time inventing unique items and including some nostalgic features - like the vintage looking WWII aircraft nose art, olive drab paint job with kills and bomb raid decals, a polished aluminum wing section with exposed rivets, replica 500 lb. bomb fuel tank and D-Day stripes. Thanks for looking... Donor Kits & Parts 62 Corvette – AMT 1:25 scale Body truncated at the firewall, narrowed approx. 10” scale inches at the tail end and pinched 14” just forward of the cockpit. To keep as much of iconic side scallops as possible - moved them back 12” (scale) to just forward of the modified rear wheel openings. The passenger compartment filled-in with sheet styrene and blended into where the stock windshield would have been Team Scandia’s Purple Sequent Top Fuel Dragster - Revell 1:25 scale 500 cu. in. HEMI Goodyear Racing Slicks & Weld Wheels Windscreen Butterfly Steering Wheel & Hand Controls Trojan Horse Mustang II Funny Car - AMT 1:25 scale Chassis Seat & Dash Panel Drag Team Dbl Dragster Kit – AMT 1:25 scale Front Wheels & Tires Monogram B-17G Flying Fortress 1/48 scale Fuel Tank (500lb. Bomb) Scratch-built / Modifications: Engine Dual MSD Magnetos w/ Red Spark-plug Wires Pro Tech Supercharger 3pc Pulleys & Belt Fuel Block, Fuel & Oil Lines scratch-built w/ AN Fittings Chassis: Logghe chassis from Trojan Horse kit w/ scratch-built roll cage, engine mounts and fuel tank (bomb) bracing from styrene rod Driver Seat w/ 5-point Racing Harness “Posable” Front Suspension scratch-built Coil Over Shocks front & rear scratch-built Misc: Top & Side Wings – sheet styrene & rod Parachute scratch built balsa wood & masking tape Wheelie Bars – scratch built from some other kit, styrene rod & masking tape Paints: o Tamiya Olive Drab (TS-5) spray - Body o Tamiya Pearl White (TS-45) spray - Body Scallops o Tamiya Clear (TS-13) spray - over Pearl White o Testors Dullcote (1250) spray - over Olive Drab o Testors Gloss Black (1247) Chassis o Testors Flat Black (1249) spray - Under body & D-Day Stripes o Testors Flat White (1258) spray - D-Day Stripes o Tamiya Dark Gun Metal (TS-42) - spray o Tamiya Bare Metal (TS-12) - spray o Tamiya Titanium Silver (TS-88) spray - Engine Block, Transmission & Rear End o Testors Brown (mix) Driver Seat o Rostellum MetalicFinish Chrome for Front Suspension, Linkage, Front Wheels - spray o Molotow Chrome – pen o Dupli-Color Metalcast Red & Blue for AN Fittings – spray o Testors Med. Silver – brush o Testors Gloss Red – brush o Testors Flat Black – brush o Testors Gloss Black - brush o Testors Flat Bronze - brush o Custom Ink Jet decals Build Time: 3 months

Well done Mr. Moto. Nice builds and crazy creations! Very cool!!!!

Slammed...very cool!

Great rust and weathering...well done!

Nice job...love the interior!

Nice job! Good looking engine compartment!

Clean build...well done!

Nice builds. My kind of cars!

Nice job. Looks great. Functional door handles and all!!!

Thanks David G. Three coats of Tamiya Bare Metal (TS12) silver. Scribed panel lines with the back side of an Xacto blade. Used a straight edge where I could and plastic label maker tape where I couldn't. Punched (pressed) the more than 500 rivet heads by hand with a 1.5mm hole punch. Washed it with Tamiya panel wash (black), then hit it with 3 coats of Tamiya Clear (TS13). I was very happy with how it turned out. I like to give them that rode hard and put away wet look with just enough grunge. All the best....

Crazy...love it! Great job!!!

Beautiful paint! Love the color...

Very cool barn find! Well done...

I was lucky enough to have traveled extensively before retirement. On my first trip the China, friends and colleagues kept asking what sign I was. Just for fun I'd say I was a Corvette. As they scratched their heads, I explained that Chevy's first sports car and I were born the same year, 1953. I had to build this one. Honestly, I am a Snake.

What to do with a left over Willys P/U cab, a top fuel chassis and a bunch other fun stuff...I'll be back!

Very cool Tom. Really like the detail (down to the tranny) and great job on the weathering. So...a possible scenario to a follow-on.... Some years later. Funny car fiend Lobo2me (because he's nuts) bought this rode hard and put away wet Willys P/U from Tom to complete The Terminator....

Nice! Love the window tint!

Thanks! Here you go... The Red Baron Build Sheet 06/2020 As a follow-on to Thunder Belle (a ’40 Ford Gasser built in 2018) and the more recent 12:00 O’clock High (a ‘62 Corvette Altered) and in keeping with the “nostalgic aircraft” theme, I created a crazy rear engine “flopper” I call Red Baron. This was by far the most diverse and creative kit-bash project I had ever attempted...so far! As an anti-hero to the two previous American Hero builds the name choice was a no-brainer playing off the origin of the 1963 23 Window VW Samba Bus, the Fokker DR1 top wing with Iron Cross decals for my Prussian ancestors. Donor Kits, Modifications & Part Contributions Body – 1963 23 Window VW Samba Bus (Hasegawa 1:24 scale kit) Modifications: Roof chopped approx. 6” Body shaved approx. 8” front, 4” rear Shaved - Door Handles & Panel Lines Side Exhaust Vent Breather Cutouts Front Side Vent Windows removed Front wheel openings reshaped and moved forward 6” Rear wheel openings enlarged Front Spoiler scratch-built from styrene sheet & rod Chassis - Team Scandia’s Purple Sequent Top Fuel (Revell 1:25 scale kit) Modifications: Chassis shortened to just forward of driver’s compartment “Posable” Front Suspension w/ coil-over shocks scratch-built Rear Disc brakes from MPC Avenger GT-12 kit Engine Chrysler “Fire Power” Hemi from AMT 1:25 Scale Drag Team Double Dragster kit Twin “Double Trouble” Blowers from AMT 1:25 Scale 1962 Corvette kit Pro Tech Supercharger Pullies & Belt – 2 Sparkplug Wires & Braided Fuel Lines & Runners, Cooling & Oil Lines w/ AN Fittings - Pro Tech & scratch-built Wheels & Tires: Fronts: Team Scandia’s Purple Sequent Top Fuel (Revell 1:25 scale kit) Rears: Goodyear Eagle Slicks & Wheels from AMT 1:25 scale Trojan Horse Mustang II Funny Car kit Tin Work: Styrene sheet w/ simulated rivets - 2mm hole punch Rear Wing: Top wing from Revell 1:72 scale Fokker DR 1 Tri-plane kit, inverted and shortened approx. 18 scale inches Paints & Finishes: Tamiya Mica Red (TS-39) three coats over three coats of Bare Metal Silver (TS-12) – spray Tamiya Black Metallic (TS-40) -Body accent stripe Tamiya Clear (TS-13) - 3 coats Tamiya Titanium Silver (TS-88) - Chassis Tamiya Pearl White (TS-) spray - Wheels Testors Dullcote (1250) - tires Tamiya Dark Gun Metal (TS-42) - spray Tamiya Bare Metal (TS-12) - spray Rostellum MetalicFinish Chrome on Front Suspension, Linkage - spray Molotow Chrome – pen Dupli-Color Metalcast Red & Blue for AN Fittings – decanted spray Testors Med. Silver – brush Testors Gloss Red – brush Testors Flat Black – brush Testors Gloss Black - brush Testors Flat Bronze - brush o Decals - Custom Ink Jet Build Time: 3 months