Obviously this isn’t a showrod, but it is another Name Game Contest entry that has made it’s way here. I was thrilled with this name, and immediately the “Roth Wheels” started turning! There was a Roth t-shirt design, actually two, one named “Mothers Worry” and the other “Mothers Trouble”, that led to my inspiration. The Mothers Trouble shirt featured a kid on a 60’s Stingray with a steering wheel on it, doing a wheelie. That was me as a kid! I also hung around an airbrush shirt shop called the Rat’s Hole in Daytona Beach, so the build became a diorama of sort’s, and a tribute to me and my friends in fink form!


I modified a Roth “Mother’s Worry” monster kit first. I got this bright idea that it would be funny to have him picking his snotty nose, not figuring on how much work it was going to take to reposition his arm, hand, and fingers to have him picking a winner correctly! I spent the better part of 2 months fiddling with this thing! I had to cut, sand, and fill it endlessly to make it look right! I also added some warts, trimmed off his clawed finger and toe nails, and made all new teeth for him to give him a more friendly look, like one of the Varmints from Cartoons Magazine! Once I got all the body work right, I primered him up and airbrushed him completely with some nice bright Createx AutoAire paints. I used about 20 different colors to give him lot’s of depth and tones. (look closely for all kinds of gross veins and skin blemishes….) 2-part epoxy was used to make lifelike snot and tongue drool. A couple of plastic flies mounted on ultra-thin guitar string’s are flying off of him. I made his hat from felt, and his yo-yo from some old 1/25 scale hubcaps.


The Ratfink is a resin item from Eyeball, and he was done the same way as the big monster. The tiny R.F. on the handlebars is from one of the Roth car kits
The chopper tricycle is an old and rare Pyro kit called “The Curler” , and is built right out of the box. I airbrushed it with a variety of HOK Kandy colors, and added some shifter and brake lines. 


I have a display box this all fits into, and I printed some color photo’s of the original 60’s Rat’s Hole shirt shop I found on the internet, and I have them as a background in it. It makes it look like they are standing on the corner, in front of the window, where my friends and I spent many an hour watching the artists airbrush all those crazy monster T’s we all loved as kids!