Ed "Big Daddy" Roth Tribute Thread!

[weldonmc]

THAT is a nice piece! ....The colors are excellent, love the hair detail ...heck ...all of the details are excellent. I wonder why they didn't do something with the seam up the sides?

[Hepcat]

It was evidently Revell PR man Henry Blankfort who tagged Ed Roth with the moniker "Big Daddy" as a kit marketing ploy.

While longtime Roth employee Ed Newton was the one who transformed Ed Roth's air brushed fink designs into the finished drawings we see on T-shirts and decals, Revell employee Ricardo Diaz was the one who did the marvelous box art for the "Big Daddy" Roth fink kits.

The sculpts for these kits were done jointly by "Big Daddy" Roth and another Revell employee, Harry Plummer.

You can vote for your favourite Revell "Big Daddy" Roth kits in the following thread:

http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=17103.0

[jimm]

Plenty of cool showrod stuff in this one, figured it belonged on Big Daddys thread.

Awesome kit Hep.

[Hepcat]

Awesome kit Hep.

It certainly is!

Unfortunately it's not mine. I just lifted the picture off the net as a visual aid.

[weldonmc]

I'm painting a RAT FINK SURFER resin statue for a friend in NJ and though I would post what I do on it here.

The piece is a pretty rough casting ...lots of pin holes. Some will be repaired and some will be left as they are. The first photos here show that the area around the left side of RF's mouth needed some attention. Aves Apoxy Sculpt was used for the fix along with filling the eye dimples and making a larger nose.




A WHITE enamel primer was used. Next acrylic craft paints were brushed on for the basecoats.

[Hepcat]

I'm painting a RAT FINK SURFER resin statue for a friend in NJ and though I would post what I do on it here.

The piece is a pretty rough casting ....

You're right. It was indeed a casting that needed work. But you've done a good job whipping it into shape.

[weldonmc]

I have a few more pics of the RF Surf statue:




Looks like the next challenge will be detailing the surfboard, dry brushing the figure then I want to stain the whole piece.

[Hepcat]

Any progress on the surfboard?

[bigbud]

AW! A thought! Since the wife won't let me do a life-size Frankenstein in concrete for the front yard maybe I'll work up to suggesting a concrete Rat Fink! We'll see..........Buddy

[Hepcat]

Tasteful and unique too! You'd probably have the only Rat Fink on your stretch of road.

[weldonmc]

Not much progress just more clean-up and some paint touch-up here and there.

[FrankiesBride]

I am getting ready to put together some old convention kits of Flip Out and Speed Shift... I am very excited to find this thread.

Resin mold kits in bags... no color pics or directions....   Living with Frankie the collector..   Making models as he wants, throwing in my
special effects.

I did some Wolfman, The Mummy and The Creature from the Black Lagoon....

[Hepcat]

What do you mean by "old convention kits"? Are these the original issues? How many do you have?



Here are better threads for the Monogram Fred Flypogger kits though:

http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=12255.0

http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=17113.msg272171#msg272171

[weldonmc]

Here is an update on the Rat Fink Surf Statue. Still struggling to get finished with it.
I made then base a little bit larger with some Aves Apoxy Sculpt ...I wanted to add some tall beach grass behind the surfboard. An EBONY stain was used to cover the entire statue and I didn't like what it did to the color on the surfboard. I tried to remove it and I guess you can see what that did to it. My plan is to use the same base color and use a MOHOGANY stain next time around.


   

[Hepcat]

The shark is a nice added touch.