Is this the worst box art build ever?

[mr moto]

Saw this on Ebay and I've never seen a worse build displayed on a model box.

Have you seen any worse ones?

[Joe Handley]

Let me guess, it's a Palmer designed kit.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Maybe it's just "truth in advertising" showing what the AVERAGE builder will most likely end up with, complete with poor-fit and a big thumb print, rather than a pro-built and air-brushed teaser. As is, it looks WAY better than the majority of built-ups I've bought over the years to restore.

Edited May 13, 2013 by Ace-Garageguy

[W-Machine]

Looks like it was painted with a whisk broom.

[sjordan2]

In answer to the question in your title: Yes, yes and yes. Looks like an insider job with somebody's relative doing the building.

[Harry P.]

And that "professional looking" nameplate doesn't exactly help...

PS: Gotta love a model where the gap between the door and the body is a raised line!!!

[Fabrux]

Ugh, raised panel lines are the bane of 1:2500 scale Star Trek modelling.

[Maindrian Pace]

Looks like a $3 eBay glue bomb.

-MJS

[Guest G Holding]

Well I got fooled along with a few others...The hook was a complaint that Revell was putting too many special editions out, for just about any reason. This was pictured as the "Donn Yost" edition...What it really is is a PHOTOSHOP PHONEY ! So don't trust pictures of "box art" as it might be just that !

[Guest G Holding]

And that "professional looking" nameplate doesn't exactly help...

PS: Gotta love a model where the gap between the door and the body is a raised line!!!

That's a Door MOLDING Harry...........

[sjordan2]

At least they had the guts to show them as they really looked, even though this Cord is absolutely the worst. Here's more, and I built almost all of them under the Gowland & Gowland label -- my entry into model building.

http://members.ziggo.nl/dwijsman/Invoegen/dapolinsert.htm

[Taxdude]

Um...lets see...something nice to say....the background sure is blue

[Modelmartin]

I love the convert top cover behind the top painted the same tan as the top!

[pharoah]

Hey,c'mon guys! I was commissioned to build that. I can't help it....

[John Goschke]

Yeah, that's pretty awful all right! Shame of it is that kit actually has a lot of potential in spite of its age. Looks way more like a Cord than does the 1/24 Pyro kit.

[chepp]

That's a Door MOLDING Harry...........

Door molding? It's supposed to be a gap.

[Deano]

G Holding, on 13 May 2013 - 7:13 PM, said:

That's a Door MOLDING Harry...........

Door molding? It's supposed to be a gap.

See ... even smiley faces don't work. It was, I say it was a JOKE, son!

[Art Anderson]

Let me guess, it's a Palmer designed kit.

Nope!

That Cord was tooled up by Revell back about 1954 or thereabouts, in 1/25 scale.

Art

[Fabrux]

Too bad that "Bronco" is a Ramcharger....

[Joe Handley]

Too bad that "Bronco" is a Ramcharger....

Could be a special "Used Cars" issue.

[Deano]

Nope!

That Cord was tooled up by Revell back about 1954 or thereabouts, in 1/25 scale.

Art

You sure about that scale? I thought the Highway Pioneers series were closer to 1/32 ... maybe 1/48?

[Harry P.]

You sure about that scale? I thought the Highway Pioneers series were closer to 1/32 ... maybe 1/48?

A Cord was never a part of the "Highway Pioneers" series. The Highway Pioneers were all brass-era cars.

[Rob Hall]

Says 'Highway Pioneers' on the box..must be a different Highway Pioneers series.

[Harry P.]

Says 'Highway Pioneers' on the box..must be a different Highway Pioneers series.

It's a Photoshop job.

[Rob Hall]

Ahh...more fake stuff on the forum, like some of the fake posters...