Mr. Ed...1958 Edsel

[BUCKY]

I built this from an AMT pre-painted kit. I did a little extra detail painting and added BMF to end up with this:






This kit is well detailed, but a little bit fiddly! The seperate frame is nice, but it was severely warped. Easily fixed with superglue and an ample supply of rubber bands!!!
Thanks for looking!

[popeye]

Not a bad kits is it Bucky, the pre-paint quality is very good, you made a real good job of this one, i've done the pre-painted one and also have the non painted kit in the cupboard somewhere, prob is i stole one of the tail light lenses from it as i broke one on the pre-paint kit so some sort of kustom build for that kit i think.

[BUCKY]

Would love to see a custom Edsel from your bench, popeye, complete with LEDs, of course!!!!!

[olskoolrodder]

That's a GOOD looking Ed,Keith! There was a 1:1 that looked amazingly like it running round here locally a couple weeks ago for that big car show,was one of my favorites!

[BUCKY]

A lot of people think the Edsel was an ugly automobile. I certainly am not among those individuals! In fact, I'd rather have an Edsel than a '57 Chevy!! There...I said it!!!! I have a full glue kit with the custom pieces in it. I may do a period custom with that one, in colors available way back then.

[popeye]

I see a red Edsel on tv most every evening, it featured on a car insurance advert, filmed i think in Cuba, looks like it's doing 5 mph which is probably it's top spped as most of the old american cars there have been fitted with small russian car engines or tractors mill's, as they cant get parts from the US,
my son spent a holiday there, saw lots of US cars, all patched up and kept going with whatever they had to hand
the one he got to the airport looked great, but when he got out at the terminal his butt was wet through, big muddy streak up his back where the rear inner arch was missing allowing road water into the back seat, That was a "Taxi" ;D

[JCON]

Mr Ed rocks dude!!!