Red Baron

[oldscool]

What's up everybody? Haven't posted anything for a couple of months until last night due to starting a new job on the graveyard shift (there's a reason they call it the graveyard shift!) and getting sidetracked by airplanes. I like to switch back and forth to keep from getting burned out on one subject.

Just finished this one and it brings back a lot of memories of the one I built as a kid.

The chrome on the top was too damaged to save when I took it out of the box. So what you see is Testors metallizer aluminum plate from spray can. Turned out OK after the second try and looks more like the real show car this way. Body is brush painted with Model Master red acrylic. Brush painting worked on a body this small. Engine, seats and front axle are Acryl gloss black. Painted the scoop red because there was a bad seam in the two part scoop that had to be sanded. This is the first T bucket style rod I have built since I was a teen and I forgot how fiddly the suspension is on these things. Anyway, hope you like it.

oldscool - night stalker

[JayC]

That's one good looking hotrod. I've been wanting to see what this one looked like. I've seen the other two in this series and have to say all of them look great.

[Custom Hearse]

Cool looking Baron! You did a great job on it!

[Harry P.]

it's an aircraft insprired hot rod! very cool build

the plated helmet isn't actually accurate, the painted one is.

Dave

The "real" Red Baron was actually built after the model came out. Usually a show rod model kit was a copy of the full-scale car, but in the case of the Red Baron, the model kit (designed by Tom Daniel) came out first... then the "real" car was designed and built to copy the model. The kit had an aircraft engine, the real car used a Pontiac OHC six. And the real car's helmet was made of fiberglass, and painted silver, because at the time nobody had the capability to chrome plate a piece that large.

[Terry Jessee]

The "real" Red Baron was actually built after the model came out. Usually a show rod model kit was a copy of the full-scale car, but in the case of the Red Baron, the model kit (designed by Tom Daniel) came out first... then the "real" car was designed and built to copy the model. The kit had an aircraft engine, the real car used a Pontiac OHC six. And the real car's helmet was made of fiberglass, and painted silver, because at the time nobody had the capability to chrome plate a piece that large.

Yep--what he said. By the way, that is Monogram's top-selling kit of all time (or was in 1998 when I interviewed people for HRMK). I think in the SAE story about Tom there's a photo of him sitting with Monogram's president Bob Reder. After the kit sold a million copies, Monogram presented him with a gold-plated build-up of the Red Baron.

What was the FIRST Monogram Tom Daniel kit? (Hint--it's not the Red Baron)

Terry

[Jon Cole]

Nice show rod build up. It's so iconic, I almost feel obligated to buy the kit. If that is an aircraft engine, I just may buy one!

[Harry P.]

For those of you into show rod kits...

http://www.showrods.com/home_page_links/alpha_list.html

[70elcamino]

Great job on the Red Baron, Show rods are my favorite.

And I would guess the Beer Wagon as Tom's first.

Russell

[imatt88]

How's this for resurrecting an old thread!

Great job on the Baron....I just picked up a 1/12th scale junker off of eBay....

The engine needs a lot of work, pretty simplified....but otherwise a nice kit!

Cheers, Ian