- AMT ECTO 1A MODEL MOVIE
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Downside is that the going prices for these mean that you are gambling a bit if you are a novice builder, your results are NOT apt to resemble the image on the box. If you take your time and move things slowly you should be left with a pretty nice looking car to display. Either level, you will want to do a lot of surfing the web for images to guide your build to increase accuracy of the details, colors, etc. If you are not very experienced then understand the instructions for this kit are not the best. If you are an experienced model builder you will navigate most of the difficulties with relative, though time consuming, ease. Many of the parts do not fit together (pegs too big for holes etc) As a model goes it is ok, not good, not great.
AMT ECTO 1A MODEL MOVIE
A few of the details are not correct for one who wants EXACT movie specs for the Ecto 1a from GB II. I enjoy building models and as glue-together models go this one disappoints on a number of levels. Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned Perhaps a potential buyer will see an ambulance possibility with the interior chopped down, and a Limosine possibility for the Chassis. I will sell the kit interior/chassis, as it is too long and specialized to even use in a Suburban build.
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The V12’s will each have 7” Pro Chargers and straight pipes. I’m creating a Hearse and calling it “Undertaker”. I just spray adhesive on th e narrow tires, then roll them in Baby Powder. Now I could put my baby moons to good use. Now, what do you do with a 2 V12 ‘59 Caddy ambulance ? Make it a Salt Flat Racer. What better cradle and body ? I had to modify the Alison wheelbase, as the kit body was a ‘65 Thunderbird. I already had a frame from an Alison V12 that I was saving for a Hydrogen Peroxide Rocket car. Even on a Lightning they would look ridiculous because the closest that airplanes get to 1:25th scale is 1/32nd, a few scales smaller, or G scale. I don’t build airplanes, and the engines would have been huge, awkward, and overscale. The AMT Ecto-1a kit comes with a step bumper in the rear, but if you want a more stock looking rear bumper, the Polar Lights Ecto-1 has that, and it's a clean fit into the AMT body.What to do with a ‘59 Caddy ambulance ? Build by the kit ? I’m not that vanilla. I seem to recall a lot of discussion in that other magazine when both the Ecto and Eldorado kits were first on the shelves, and guys discovered that some of the front end trim from the Monogram kit would fit pretty easily into the Ecto body, if one wants to get rid of the strobe lights in the Ecto grille. This can be done, I am pretty sure, by using two Revell-Monogram '59 Cadillac chassis.
In the case of the '59 Cadillac "Hourglass" frame, the stretch done by GM for commercial use would have been done in the center "box", the front and rear ends being left standard.
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M-M, as with other professional car builders, had to create their own rear side doors, roofs, extended floor pans back door, and perform such modifications to the otherwise standard Cadillac rear quarter panels.
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The firewall/windshield frame assemblies were, I believe, made by Fisher Body Division for the low-production, but prestigious Cadillac Series 75 Sedan Limousine, as more than likely were the front doors. Ecto-1 (and -1a) started out as Miller Meteor Limousine Ambulances, M-M using 1959 Cadillac commercial chassis, standard Cadillac firewalls and front end sheet metal, and Cadillac provided 4dr sedan front doors. You can stretch ONE chassis like Tom shows with cleanly-done sheet styrene parts and achieve an effect very similar to what a coachbuilt stretch job might look like underneath.Ĭadillac actually offered a "commercial chassis" for years aimed at ambulance and hearse builders, before the rise of commercially built "stretched limousines". Independent coachbuilders used to do limo and ambulance conversions of the big Caddys. My guess is that the Ecto wagon would have started life as a custom stretch-job in real life. I work in scale, so I will tell you that the ambulance is 26 scale inches longer as you can see in the above picture. You may have to fiddle with what the chassis will actually look like since you have those seat buckets in the section you will be adding.
Measuring it off, if you cut one Revell chassis at the tail end of that straight section, then cut the other one near the beginning of that same member, you should be able to get that extra length into the chassis. The 26" in length was done on the center section of the X Frame. You can add plastic on each edge to fix that and it wouldn't look any different than the AMT chassis at that point. The Revell chassis is also 8 scale inches more narrow. Your question is doable, but you will need TWO Revell chassis to accomplish this. Above is the AMT Ghostbusters chassis on the left, and Revell Caddy convertible one on the right. A few quick and dirty photos to give you your answer.
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