1958 Edsel Pacer - AMT

[rodrigo]

Hello again friends

After finishing the 1958 Caddy, I decided to start another assembly, before I get sick of Mustangs.

The 1958 Edsel was chosen, practically the other side of the coin of the automotive industry in 1958.

But why the hell of an Edsel? I'll explain later, but first let's go to the kit.



I think because of the awful quality of the Cadillac 58 kit, I have found this AMT kit practically a Tamiya.

Joke, the kit is very good, has more than 130 pieces, virtually no burrs and only some brands that almost any kit has.

The fittings are all very good and the kit is very faithful to the 1: 1 car, but nothing is perfect and the AMT always has some exaggerations that I will show later.



First of all I want to say that I started this kit 20 days ago, and I'm trying to assemble it as soon as possible (I'm testing myself a bit), so all the work that has been done so far is the last 2 weeks, and a lot happened.





-The kit is this one from the picture below, I bought new and sealed, but it came without the decals. But for the manual the only decals that come in the kit are the front and rear plates that have a two or three options, so no problem, because I was not going to use them anyway.





-Body











-A cool part is that the chassis comes separated from the floor, which greatly facilitates (100%) the paint job.







-Other parts of the kit.













-By the time I started the Caddy, I had almost chosen to ride the Edsel, and by that time I had glued some parts of the engine. Detail of the valve rockers on the heads.





-A curious fact, 4 tires and 5 white wall tires.





-Photos of the manual.







Okay, but why an Edsel?

I have a project in mind and I would like to assemble the cars that appear on the cover of the magazines Classic Show, and as magazine number 1 has an Edsel on the cover and was the main subject I started the project now with Edsel, simple.





-I found good photos of the car below, which I am using as a reference.























-And the inspiration that is always good





In the next post the assembly.


PS: The magazine Classic Show, is a Brazilian magazine about old cars and that I love. I have the complete collection and I intend to assemble the cars of the magazine cover or some car that appears in the magazine, since there is no kit of all the cars that left in the magazine, mainly the cars here of Brazil

[rodrigo]

Giving sequence to the assembly.


-I started by pre-assembling the main parts and everything fitted perfect.




-Analyzing well, a mold mark in a very annoying place to move.


-A hood full of ripples because of the frame that sits on the inside of the hood.



-A hole for an antenna, which I closed.




-And a pretty ugly grille in front of the car. lol


-Looking at the photos of the cars, I noticed that some cars do not have the frieze on the side skirt below the door.


-So I rubbed the frieze and smoothed the body, it will make me easier at the time of painting, after all it's a frieze less.


-I took advantage of it and made the low relief line that separates the fenders from the body.



-I also refaced the low relief line of the wind break and the doors at the base of the window, which did not even exist.



-I refitted the low relief lines of the headlights that were practically nonexistent.



-I sanded the hood to take the brands and lined it with the rest of the body.


-And I glued the back panel of the bodywork to line up and take off the seams before painting.




-Doing a preassembly.



-I applied barel metal on the badges before the primer, still under test.



-Body ready for the primer.


-Painted chassis.



-The rear axle has two holes that I had to cover. I think it's because of the excess plastic inside the shaft.



-A curious fact happened when I went looking for the exhaust manifolds in the kit trees and could not identify the parts, I was looking for a long time. Since I had already moved the engine last year, I wondered if I had already taken these parts off the tree until I saw them in the kit tree. Look at that beauty.



-I painted the interior. The floor is still missing.




-I finished the sides of the interior.


-I painted the front suspension and pasted everything in place. Missing small details.


-I finished the floor with rusty background and over spray in red of the color of the body, but you can barely see the difference.


-I painted the rear axle parts. Thank you AMT for making these separate pieces.



-The engine was a separate case, as it is yellow and I had no yellow paint, and I was not going to buy paint just because of the engine I had to improvise.
I remembered that I had some old super ordinary spray cans, more than 10 years standing in a corner of the garage full of cobwebs and I found two cans of yellow paint.
I decided to do a test, I shook the cans well and tested on a piece of sprue from the kit, one of the ink was a very light yellow and did not even get the plastic, in a matter of minutes the yellow color disappeared almost everything, even applying 3 layers very heavy.
The second spray had a well-yellow egg yolk and the paint caught on the plastic.
Then he would use the yellow egg spray. I was able to take some of the paint out of the can into a glass and mix it with a little white paint to lighten a bit and dilute it with thinner and apply the paint with airbrush to the engine.
And the result was this.


I liked the result the paint was good it seems that it adhered well in the plastic, even though I fumbled and forgot to apply the plastic sealant before, it only took a long time to dry, thing of 1 day.

-Chassis with rear suspension glued in place. I really like these kits that have the separate chassis.






-I started painting the dash.



For now that's it, from now on there's body painting.

[rodrigo]

Let's go for another update.

-Fire wall painted. Now we need to clear and detail.


-Beginning of dash painting and detailing.


-Air filter and valve covers painted white.



-Detail of dash instruments.


-Start of body painting with red.



-Body masking to paint the other two colors.


-Body painted and ready to receive clear.




-I finished the engine painting and transmission



-I made a pre-assembly to see how it is getting.


-Ready dash.




-I made a modification in the distributor to put the cables


-I replace the top distributor for a piece made by hand.


-To make the holes I use a tattoo needle as a drill.


-That has the same diameter as Mr. Model's cables.


-And to centralize the holes, I use P.E. as a template.


-I make the holes in a 2mm sheet of styrene.


-Engine with cables in place.



-Body with clear




For now

[Nacho Z]

I took a few enjoyable minutes to read through your new posts. I really, really like the way you photo-document the work you do, both the before and after pictures. Great job on the interior! Also, great work on cleaning up the body. Nice job on everything! As always, looking forward to more progress updates.

[Eddie]

Awesome, your work is inspiring!

[rodrigo]

Hi friends, thank you very much for the messages.

Small update

-I finished polishing




-But I burned the paint and I have to do a touch-up.


-Emblems.

[Nacho Z]

That black paint is stunning! How do you like doing the Bare Metal Foil under paint on your scripts? The results look very nice.

[Eddie]

Looks great. How do you remove the paint of the BMF on the badges?

[oldcoyote]

You do beautiful work sir .......... most impressive.

[rodrigo]

Hello friends, after a long time without update finally we are going to another update in the assembly.

I finished the interior of the car, in the photos still missing the steering wheel I have to finish some details.




-I finished the chassis and pasted the floor in place.




-I finished the details of the fire wall.


-I painted the pieces that should be chrome plated.




-The wheel spiners who did a little bit of work to get them out of the crate of parts, look how beautiful.


-It worked, because they are small pieces and very delicate, in the photo above you can see that it already had a broken one, (it broke when I went to remove another piece that was in the same grid), now only chrome is missing again.


-The painting of the bodywork that caused the delay in the assembly, because after touching the painting of the fender that I had burned in the polishing, the same thing happened in the second attempt, then I decided to repaint the fender and it did not work too well.
In order not to lose much of the work on the body I decided to repaint all the red again, I painted over the already polished clear, just masked the roof and the sides and sent paint on the body again and then applied clear again.



-And it worked, painted body, clear and polished.



-The hudcaps painted the center of black and applied clear.



-Black paint on the engine compartment and hood details.


-And finally the painting of the chrome body details.







-I finally closed the car.


-Engine details.


-Engine compartment ready.


-Front grill detail.


-Car closed and 97% ready.


As soon as I finish the missing details I post new photos with the car 100% ready.