Red Baron

[Silvercreeker]

Finished this last month. Loved this kit as a kid when it first came out. Now I have the time, patience and skill to have a nice shelf display. Stripped all the toy chrome, and used Green Stuff World airbrush chrome. Love that paint. Had a hard time finding good pics of the WW1 Fokker motor. The real 1:1 car ran a Pontiac 6 cylinder. Fun build and always gets extra attention when people see it in the case. 

[raisin27]

Beautiful build of a real classic.

 

[Joe Nunes]

Looks great!  I really like this model and would certainly enjoy building another one.  Well done! ?

Joe

[shoopdog]

Love your take on this build! 

Sure would like to see it released again as my teenage build of it fell victim to bb gun or firecrackers!

Edited January 13, 2023 by shoopdog

[Russell C]

9 hours ago, Silvercreeker said:

... hard time finding good pics of the WW1 Fokker motor. The real 1:1 car ran a Pontiac 6 cylinder...

Nice job! I forget where I read it several years back, but the reason the 1:1 had a Pontiac is because it was built after the model kit came out, and the airplane engine that Tom Daniel put in his kit design would have been way bigger in scale than it is depicted in the model. Or something to that effect.

[Dragline]

Great build of a kit sorely needing a reish. When was the last time? Decades at this point.

[PappyD340]

Very nice build!

[KWT]

Very nicely done

[James2]

Lovely clean build and a classic childhood memory!

[Silvercreeker]

9 hours ago, Russell C said:

Nice job! I forget where I read it several years back, but the reason the 1:1 had a Pontiac is because it was built after the model kit came out, and the airplane engine that Tom Daniel put in his kit design would have been way bigger in scale than it is depicted in the model. Or something to that effect.

Yes. I have the old Hot Rod magazine with the car and an interview with Tom Daniel. He said that the engine for the kit was the WW1 plane motor the model company already had tooled

[doorsovdoon]

Cool! I had a Hotwheels die-cast of this when I was kid, same colour if I remember right.

[Slotto]

Superb job on a classic build

[ChrisR]

Looking great!!

[thatz4u]

Very Well Done nice build...

[Speedpro]

Very Nice! Built one long ago. Seeing this makes me want to build another one. Love the paint color and the engine details. Well done!

[Street Rod]

Great job on this kit! I like the extra plumbing details you did on the engine. I have one of these in my stash that I plan to build very soon, hopefully it turns out as good as yours.

[Zippi]

Great looking build.  Killer paint job.  

[David G.]

Likely the best built version of this kit that I've seen, Well Done!

David G.

[Lucius Molchany]

Nice job!looks like polished aluminum!

[TonyK]

Yep, loved this model as a kid too and built it again as an adult but you really took it to the next level. Great job!

[alan barton]

One of the best I've ever seen!  I love the effect of the Green Stuff chrome.  It looks very similar to the finish on the real car in the American Museum of Speed in Lincoln Nebraska. I took these photos when I visited there in 2017. 

I currently have one of these on my bench and will try to replicate the real car - that was a replica of the model!  I have the Pontiac six cylinder engine but may have to fatten it up a bit.  The biggest challenge will be recreating the headers on the left hand side - right now I have no idea how I'm going to do this! I did find the helmet on an old Matchbox car - a cartoonish VW with a German pilot!

Thanks for the inspiration!

Cheers

Alan

Edited January 16, 2023 by alan barton

[slusher]

Great build of a classic!