Jon Favreau Roadster from Iron Man and Iron Man II

[Greg Myers]

With a little licensing, Maybe something to keep the Rat Roaster kit going.

[Toner283]

1 hour ago, Greg Myers said:

With a little licensing, Maybe something to keep the Rat Roaster kit going.

The roadster in your post is not the Tony Stark Iron Man movie car. That is unless the studio did massive changes to the car. It looks very similar but there are some very major differences.

There is a custom firewall in the Iron Man car, different colored interior leather, the wheels and tires are different, the headers are different, the induction is different (4 carbs versus 2 on the movie car), the grille shell on the movie car has flames, the spreader bar at the front of the frame is different, the headlight bar is different, the headlights themselves are different, the movie car does not have split bones front and rear, and the movie car appears to be channeled.

Edited May 11, 2019 by Toner283

[bobthehobbyguy]

Don't see that the Rat Roadster would work. Wheels are wrong, so are headers, and the interior. Would be easier to base the car off the original roaster kit. I think they will make 

I think Revell could add decals and call it something else and be good.  That what they dud with the Charles Carpenter and Softseal kits.

[Rob Hall]

Interesting...been a while since I saw both of those movies, don't recall seeing that car.. must have been in brief scenes..I remember the Audis more. 

[Richard Bartrop]

Didn't Revell release a version of their '32 roadster in the early 2000's that was almost identical to that?

[Spex84]

6 hours ago, Rob Hall said:

Interesting...been a while since I saw both of those movies, don't recall seeing that car.. must have been in brief scenes..I remember the Audis more. 

It has a few glancing cameos in the Tony Stark workshop shots in the first Iron Man movie...and then a very brief front-and-center shot when Tony's deciding what color Jarvis should paint the new suit he's engineered, and says "...put a little hot-rod red on it". Or something to that effect.  I remember being stoked to see a 50s-style hot rod in a movie, because they don't appear very frequently these days!

[Richard Bartrop]

And I suspect most of the people who would want a '32 Ford roadster wouldn't need any kind of licensing tie in to convince them to pick one up.

 

[Mr. Metallic]

On 5/12/2019 at 12:48 AM, Richard Bartrop said:

And I suspect most of the people who would want a '32 Ford roadster wouldn't need any kind of licensing tie in to convince them to pick one up.

 

Yeah, just call it the Man of Iron roadster

With regards to the tooling, the Rat Roaster is all new tooling, separate from the R/M roadster from the late 90's. It's engineered to be in the same "family" as the R/M deuce kits, so parts can swap, but the tooling was all new. So Blitz has two tooling options to base this Man of Iron car on if they ever chose to do it. 

[Jantrix]

Much to my surprise, my favorite detail is the arced windscreen. Much more noticable in Chris' photos. It looks like it is channeled the width of the frame. I think with the standard 32 roadster, the 32 sedan for the engine and the '29 Model A (all from Revell) for the exhaust system & wheels/tires. You could get pretty close. 

 

[Greg Myers]

and Revell could put it all in one box for us and reap the benefits of the comic book movies in sales.

[Matt Bacon]

16 minutes ago, Greg Myers said:

and Revell could put it all in one box for us and reap the benefits of the comic book movies in sales.

...and these days, they could throw in the Audi R8 Spider which is Tony's daily driver...

best,

M