Lobo2me

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

Nice job! Creative subject.

Hi Tim. Nice work! Prock & Howell cars were my inspiration. Thought you'd like to see a third cousin. Best regards...

Wow...amazing...very cool...thanks!

My all time favorite car! Nice job and a big project.

Bought a beater 1965 VW bus from a neighbor's dad. Turned it into a surf van so I could spend summers back at the beach while in High School. Surfs up...gotta go.

Good looking trio!

Love Challengers and your shop diorama is very cool! Good job!!!

Nice job Marc. Really like the color combo and the engine bay detail is the bomb.

Thanks Dan...great to know someone is looking out for my goof-ups!

Thanks guys. The '49 Ford was the first build of this bunch...and I like it the best...too.

Great work! One of the cleanest jobs I have ever seen and excellent photography!!