CLASSIC TOM DANIEL CUSTOM-CAR DESIGNS TO 1:32 SCALE
IT’S TIME TO HAVE a break from the Covid-19 gloom and doom. So here we have two reissues from Atlantis Models, model cars that are light-hearted caricatures of what were basically caricatures in the first place. Mat Irvine: These kits are based on a pair of Tom Daniel show car designs, the Red Baron and the T’rantula. They were first made by Monogram as conventional kits, reproducing in styrene what Tom had drawn as if they were actual cars. But then Tom did another version, distorting their shape as if they were tearing off the start line, and these cartoon designs are what are in these boxes. Kit history Monogram issued the toons in the 1970s, but just once. The tooling stayed in Monogram’s, then Revell-Monogram’s mould store for decades, until 2018. At that time Revell was bought by a German company that didn’t want all the tooling, which would have been scrapped. Fortunately, Atlantis Models - run by Pete Vetri and Rick Delfavero - stepped in and bought the lot. Since then, Pe...