echoxrayniner Posted June 7, 2018 Posted June 7, 2018 Man this was a weird one. AMT and MPC had a handful of competitive kits going on through the seventies and I so wish I had a MPC Mustang II to compare this one to cause it felt like such an oddball kit. Opening hatch? Cool and all, but why the smushed micro-interior? Why the oddly open front with no structural support for the airdam and such? Why the absolutely massive tires? Either way, kind of enjoyed it, for a kit from the mid seventies it actually builds up rather alright. Did run into two issues despite it being a still sealed kit from the seventies; one being the metal rods that the wheels would've been attached to had... vanished, or were never packaged so I improvised with four 1.3mm nails. Yeah, this Mustang's sitting on nail axles and **** me sideways it actually kind of works and two is that neither the hood nor the hatch fitted even a slight bit, guessing warping's to blame. The paint's a mix of Skoda's Race Blue and BMW's Atlantis Blue Metallic, the decals I made myself.
vamach1 Posted June 7, 2018 Posted June 7, 2018 NIce color nd yes those tires look big for 13 inches. Perhaps you can swap them out.
TooOld Posted June 7, 2018 Posted June 7, 2018 Hated these cars when they were new but now like many other cars of that era they seem kind of nice . Great looking model !
cobraman Posted June 7, 2018 Posted June 7, 2018 I had two new ones. Bought a 74 Mach 1 ( v6 no 8 till 75 ) and a new 78 King Cobra. That one was a 302 but as we all know HP was way down. Still I liked that car because I almost never saw another one. Your model looks good.
Bob Ellis Posted June 8, 2018 Posted June 8, 2018 Very clean build.The MPC version is a little more detailed but both abot the same
Tom Geiger Posted June 8, 2018 Posted June 8, 2018 6 hours ago, echoxrayniner said: two is that neither the hood nor the hatch fitted even a slight bit, guessing warping's to blame. I don't think they ever fit! And you forgot to mention the molded in dent on the rear panel. You can't fix it because it's under the FORD lettering! When I met my wife she had a '74 Mustang II V6 coupe. It was a decent little car to drive. I took it on a few long trips.
OldTrucker Posted June 8, 2018 Posted June 8, 2018 Would have been better suited if they used the 13" tires from the Corvair kit. (which were closer to what the cars came with) But I imagine they had the wheels tooled up to fit the already existing Goodyears so that they would have that wide, white letter tire look.
Bainford Posted June 8, 2018 Posted June 8, 2018 The Mustang looks great. It's good to see one of these built, and you rarely see one built stock. Too bad about the oversize wheels. This has been a problem since the beginning of model cars. If the 1:1 has wheels smaller than 15", the kit will probably have wheels/tires that are too big, and the model just won't look right. It's still an issue today, though these days if the 1:1 has wheels smaller than 17", you are SOL. My current project is the newly tooled Fujimi Lotus Esprit, which should have 14" wheels, but the wheels in the kit measure over 16". They did such a nice job replicating the factory wheels, but way too big. There is no way to make a stock build if that kit look right.
robdebie Posted June 9, 2018 Posted June 9, 2018 21 hours ago, Bainford said: My current project is the newly tooled Fujimi Lotus Esprit, which should have 14" wheels, but the wheels in the kit measure over 16". They did such a nice job replicating the factory wheels, but way too big. There is no way to make a stock build if that kit look right. Just checking: do you know that the lip that retains the tire on the wheel adds (usually) 1.6 inches to the nominal wheel size? So a perfect scale 14" wheel will measure 15.6", close to the 16" that you quote. Rob
Classicgas Posted June 9, 2018 Posted June 9, 2018 Very nice Mustang II. A couple of minor suggestions. The molding seam on the muffler shows, easy to fix, and sanding the tire tread with some 320 grit sandpaper will remove the seam from them and result in a nice tire wear look.
RAMBENNA Posted June 15, 2018 Posted June 15, 2018 SUPER SWEET great job on this build , love the color
Jim N Posted June 15, 2018 Posted June 15, 2018 Very nice looking model! My wife owned one of these when we were dating. It was so slow, but they all were under powered back then for fuel economy.
webestang Posted June 15, 2018 Posted June 15, 2018 Super nice build! Color is wonderful! Makes me miss my 78 more!
Fat Brian Posted June 15, 2018 Posted June 15, 2018 Nice looking build, I'm working on one of these at the moment and well. To answer your question the MPC kit has a nicer chassis and interior, the MPC guts fit into the AMT body with a little tweaking.
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