ChainsawMike

hope they re release this kit soon! it's a very nice car that NEEDS to get made available for an average price again. Happy building!!

love the grill on that car! your detail on that engine is immaculate!!

looks amazing!!

looks amazing, the paint job goes very well with the chrome. excellent work buddy!!

wow!! paint looks crisp, the tires and rims look very very clean too, goes well with the paint job. and I love that little AMT sticker in the engine bay.

I hate when kits have smaller and very precise windshields. dunno how to word what I'm trying to say here. but I enjoy when kits have the glass either in one big piece that you can easily glue to the ceiling of the interior, or when they have like holes that fit into small kind of nubs in the roof of the interior to fit even better, like the 59 Chrysler kit or 63 Chevy II station wagon.

I hear lots of things about this kit, some say its an amazing kit, no issues at all. Some say its awful, terrible flash, warping, and just awful fit, and some are in between like me, not too bad but not the greatest quality.

I used q tips dipped in a bottle of tamiya panel liner and rubbed it along the body in a down motion (Like if rain had came down on it and dripped) then I wiped the wash off the body after half a minute or so and repeated it multiple times. and then for the rust I used a hobby knife and some sprue cutters to make kind of a rotted metal by the fenders. and after it looks messed up enough I used a bottle of rust colored enamel and dry brushed multiple layers near that area for a rust effect. after my brush of that color was kind of dry, I rubbed it along areas and stippled it along the body for a subtle rust tone on the paintjob. keep in mind that I did this on the base plastic color of the body since it was molded in blue, so I'm yet to try this on a body painted with a rattle can or airbrush. I don't think My method would work too well for a glossy, smooth paint job as the body was molded in kind of a matte blue. My instructions here aint the best but it gives an idea of what I did. Hope it works out for you!

a modern tooling would be amazing

Anyone know or think we will get an Edsel reissue again from AMT??? really wish we could since it's such a unique looking car, and some new vintage style boxart would look lovely. As compared to the older release of the edsel pacer.

The kit that has probably had the most mixed reviews I've ever seen, lots of the complaints about it are true, fitment issues, warped plastic, so much flash that you melt it all down and cast an entirely new car . The kit was terrible and not that many parts. the only complaints I have are the windshields had little excess so that I can glue it into the body without the glue staining some of the windshield. The engine needed some tinkering so it would fit under the firewall, my hood wasnt even and just didn't fit correctly, the rear bumper wouldnt fit evenly. Since there was some issues with parts on the outside, I decided to take a chance and try weathering and rust for the first time ever. I think weathering and the rust effects came out very nicely for my first attempt at it.

very nice build!! the paint and chrome trim looks amazing! and that engine block detail wow!!

couple of bottles of this and a nice brush does the trick

Get it 100%! especially if its on sale at your local hobby lobby or so. Everything went together very well except the front bumper, but that was due to the Tamiya cement kind of roughing up the plastic in the front for me. quick fix if you got some super glue handy. Very fun kit with little to no issues. Front and back suspension is easy to build aswell.

had a fun time with this kit. Paint is a testors light blue enamel. Very happy with how it came out by brushing the paint on. Fitting the frame into the body with the firewall was a bit iffy, had some trouble with that. Front bumper also had a hard time, the radiator was preventing the grill from fitting for me so I had to do a little chopping and such. Nothing too harsh on any visible or engine bay detail. The bumper wouldn't stay on with just Tamiya thin so I had to use some loctite super glue. for some reason my kit didn't come with the tree for the red tailights. Oh well . the rims and tires are either from the Revell 49 mercury kit or the AMT 70 Monte Carlo. Cant remember. but they look super nice!! Happy with this and I just adore the box art on here!!

The AMT kit is my best bet, I've built one before and just hated the front suspension on it. But that was awhile ago and I'm a bit more skilled than before. I will probably pick another one up.

shes in a body shop right now! should come back looking like she just rolled out of the factory haha

Photos I took of some of my favorite cars I saw at this show, enjoy!

would love to try and build a kit to look like my car, Dunno how I would do that dent though on the front. I've built one of those AMT kustom cruiser Monte Carlo kits and the suspension and frame fit was awful. might try again soon.

thank you! this was a fun kit to do

My most recent kit, trying to get photos of the kits I've built in the past few months uploaded to here in the next week or so.

Testors glosscote in the little glass bottle always gives a vinyl look to interior paint that I really like.

EXTREMELY! quick build, takes like less than 20 parts to put together a stock car. I didnt have a Tamiya can of a color I wanted to go on this, so I decided to try and brush testors enamel on. I had probably less than half a bottle left and some more coats of it could have made it look better. but I'm very pleased with how this came out, and I'd like to try brush painting more kits in the future. I don't know why the front bumper wasn't fitting right, there's a gap between the body and the bumper piece for whatever reason, I couldn't squeeze it to fit correctly.

this was my second kit, so a lot is kind of sloppy. But the front end looks great on display.

very nice paint! looks fantastic bud!