Red Baron

isn't that the gun that they played with on the mythbusters TV show it has some wicked firepower

Yeah - 4,000 rounds per minute without overheating. They're normally used mounted in aircraft or military vehicles. They have serious kickback so it would take a "Terminator" cyborg to hold one of these and fire it from the hip.

By contrast the M60 machine gun I used when in the Army fires about 500 rounds per minute.

If you're interested here is a link to a video of the "Gatling Gun" in action (demo) to the strains of music - bizarre!
http://videowap.tv/video/S5Ev19NsDQ4/Gatling-Gun.html

Should look good on the Red Baron though!

Cool video clip Tezza, It's hard to imagine this thing can shoot 4000 fire breathing rounds per minute & without even breaking a sweat! That's a beast!
Not sure if the baron can handle it?

wonder how long it takes to load one of these up,that's cool video,Red Baron with some deadly fire power.

The Red Baron is back on the bench but not for long.
I was going to put alot into the Baron but I've got another project which I want to overload. I really want to finish this one so I'll just assemble and paint it as I seem to loose interest quickly with this build. The minguns are going on my next build.
The idea is someone rebuilt the baron a few years ago and did the body up right but used crap metal for everything else, which has now rusted.
First time rusting anything, I used the salt method. Base colours are dull red and brown, then I allowed the salt to dry, followed with a coat of Tamiya Bare metal.



After I scrubbing off the salt, I dusted it all with different rust and soot powders then sealed it with flat clear.








Made the front leaf spring ages ago.

Gees that helmet looks awesome! How hard is it to do the salt method?

that's diffrent

Finally finished this one.
Cheers Rob and Allan, the salting method isn't that hard to do. Once you give it a go, you soon realise how it works.

There's was a bit more I wanted to do to the Baron, but I was never going to get around to it. So I decided to just put it together and be done with it.



Thanks for following along guys, more pics in the showroom