ICM Ford Ts

[stevez]

Just saw the review of kit on hyperscale: 1913 Model T Speedster, they have several variations, and it is well reviewed.  I could not find any info on this forum.  Any info?

[stavanzer]

Art Anderson did a complete build review in the "Other Magazine" a few years ago.

I did read the review you saw. As a former Model T Speedster owner, let me share my 2 cents. ICM has tooled a decent(but not great) kit of the Early T. My Favorites are the pre-1914 Brass Era' Model T's. However, for whatever reasons, ICM made some rookie mistakes in this tooling. The Tree with the radiator and headlights was brass plated in earlier versions of  this kit. Due to complaints about poor plating, flaking and falling off, ICM listened to their customers, and stopped plating these parts. The headlights are (as usual), molded in two halves. This leaves a hard to fill seam right on top of the light. Sad. The radiator is molded to the shell. The prominent filler neck is molded to the shell. This leaves a large parting line around the perimeter of the shell, and right up the sides of the filler neck. On the plated parts, removing this seam removed the plating. Now, You just have to sand the seam smooth and plate the parts your self. The Large Ford Script on the center of the Radiator is on only about half the real T's I have seen. Would have been better as a PE piece, with the part left blank. Lastly, molding the shell and radiator together was, IMHO, a truly bad move, cheapening out for no reason. Just lazy tooling. Many other T kits render ti assembly as two separate parts. For a kit tooled in the 21st century there is simply no excuse for this. Especially when you see the other tiny details ICM tooled in other parts of this kit. Art's build showed that  many assemblies were not well thought out from a tooling standpoint. Meaning that many smaller parts, that will have to be painted in many different colours, have to be put together in order to move forward, making it harder to assemble then airbrush. It is almost as if the kit is meant to be built, and then brush painted. Odd, considering that ICM is primarily a 1/35 Scale Armour company. The rear axle assembly is just weird. Not bad, just a really unusual way of molding.

Lastly, the reviewer got so many things wrong about Speedsters in his write up, I don't know where to start. The wiki excerpt he cites is bad for starters. And, sadly, much of the description he writes just doesn't apply to the kit, as molded. I'll be getting one of these myself after Christmas, and I'll try to give further comments then.

[Casey]

1 hour ago, stevez said:

I could not find any info on this forum.

 

[stevez]

thanks, I did a search on ICM and nothing came up for me, odd!

[Casey]

2 hours ago, stevez said:

thanks, I did a search on ICM and nothing came up for me, odd!

This works great for searching this forum:

 

[dimaxion]

I did buy the 1913 and 1911 Kits from the first go around . Yes , I would but more . On SS , disgreessional money is a trickle .  I build Factory Stock . I am admittedly retentive . Yes , I will put forth much effort . Yes , Art's WIP will help , thank you Art .  Thanx ..