My attempt at "the young American" FED

[sflam123]

While I was fighting with the decals for the "Trojan Horse" I built the re-released MPC 'the young American" FED. There has been a fair amount of negative comments about this kit, and while there were some aspects of it that were difficult and frustrating, overall I thought the kit was a little above average. The body is painted with Testor's Pearl White and the frame is painted with Testor's Sapphire Blue. The front wheels were brush painted with Ruby Red Metalflake. Color pictures of the car are somewhat difficult to come by on the internet, but those I did find showed the car had a rather unique gold colored blower and timing cover plate, so I attempted to replicate the color with a mix of lime gold and champaign gold. Unfortunately, it doesn't show up very well on the pictures. I took one picture of the car with the front body panels off just because.

Thanks for looking! Comments welcome.

Steve

[Daddyfink]

Nice! I think you succeeded rather well in your attempt!

[Old Buckaroo]

What a beauty, Very nice work !

[cobraman]

Sweet !

[Big Daddy]

very nice

[PappyD340]

Looks like a success to me also, great job!!

[oldscool]

I think you did a great job. I built one of these when I was a kid and it was a real bugger.

[High octane]

Nice build, and I used to be a young American at one time myself.

[slusher]

Very nice build...

[Speedfreak]

Very nice Steve. Way cool.

[sflam123]

Thanks for the comments guys!! I appreciate them!

Steve