Boothill Express kitbash ideas

[Jantrix]

I got a sorta-started-and-then-stored-for-20-years Boot Hill Express in a trade with a co-worker. Several missing pieces but it looks like the hearse parts are still there.

So here's my idea - stay with the hot rod hearse show rod theme. Add a Model A roadster pick-up cab or maybe a c-cab from the Tom Daniels beer truck. Use the engine from the Express in the front, some white wall slicks from the new AMT pack. A tombstone shaped front grill. And of course the hearse section behind the cab.

I'd love to hear some additional ideas from the rogues gallery here. Sort of a modeling think-tank so to speak.

And no...............it's not available for trade.

Edited September 26, 2011 by Jantrix

[Nitrozilla]

Coincidence, a BHE took 3rd place custom at yesterday's Henderson Super Run model contest. I think a C cab is a great idea and as far as the engine set up goes, may I recommend a car I saw at the 1:1 show?

[Jon Cole]

Coincidence, a BHE took 3rd place custom at yesterday's Henderson Super Run model contest. I think a C cab is a great idea and as far as the engine set up goes, may I recommend a car I saw at the 1:1 show?

Goes like heck... until it slams into the first thing the driver fails to see.

[Art Anderson]

I've got a couple of Boot Hill Express kits saved here--something about a wild idea of mounting that hearse body on say, an AMT 1907 Thomas Flyer, make a believable "brass era" hearse out of it (those early motorized hearses used bodies that were taken almost directly from the plans used for horse drawn units only a few years before.

Art

[Jantrix]

I've got a couple of Boot Hill Express kits saved here--something about a wild idea of mounting that hearse body on say, an AMT 1907 Thomas Flyer, make a believable "brass era" hearse out of it (those early motorized hearses used bodies that were taken almost directly from the plans used for horse drawn units only a few years before.

Art

That sounds cool Art. That would make for a particularly long vehicle too.