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Ed Boll's 1/48 Scale FE8
« on: June 15, 2014, 12:31:35 PM »
1/48 Lone Star Vac-u-form with Vector engine, carved prop and scratch built interior.










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Re: Ed Boll's 1/48 Scale FE8
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2014, 01:22:14 PM »
   Very impressive, especially for a Vac Kit, Beautiful detail and rigging, a real winner! Thanks for posting this!
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Re: Ed Boll's 1/48 Scale FE8
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2014, 03:08:14 PM »
Very nicely done, the overall finish is excellent and you have done a brilliant job on the rigging, well done with the interior.

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Re: Ed Boll's 1/48 Scale FE8
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2014, 03:53:27 PM »
A lovely piece of work and a powerful reminder as to what skilled hands can still achieve with a vac form.

Best wishes
Nigel
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Re: Ed Boll's 1/48 Scale FE8
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2014, 07:33:00 PM »
Very nicely made ​​model.
Congratulations !

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Re: Ed Boll's 1/48 Scale FE8
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2014, 08:26:02 PM »
Great build and paint.
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Re: Ed Boll's 1/48 Scale FE8
« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2014, 09:20:58 PM »
Bud, Thanks for posting Ed Bolls Fe8! My difficulties with the pictures still haven't been overcome!
Ed, This is your usual brilliant work! Lovely all the way around from construction to rigging!
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Re: Ed Boll's 1/48 Scale FE8
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2014, 10:05:32 PM »
Bud , thanks for posting pic's of Ed's FE-8 . Very fine job on a not so easy kit .





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Re: Ed Boll's 1/48 Scale FE8
« Reply #8 on: June 16, 2014, 01:33:59 AM »
Quote from: Terri on June 15, 2014, 10:05:32 PM
Bud , thanks for posting pic's of Ed's FE-8 . Very fine job on a not so easy kit .





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Yeah, you should know!  For those of you who haven't seen this kit prior to Ed's or Terri's TLC, it is an utterly useless slab of styrene with some vague bumps on it.  Now, don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of Lonestar Models and Mike West has produced some excellent kits.  This was not one of them.  I bought the kit on ebay and ended up just tossing it without ever attempting to build it then sent the decals to Terri for her wonderful project.  What Ed has done here is nothing short of miraculous.  I'm not sure how much of the kit he actually used, hopefully he'll chime in with some build commentary, but I know that Terri's was essentially scratch built.
Ed, thanks for submitting these photos.  Truly remarkable work, Amigo.  Makes me regret tossing mine.
Cheers,
Bud
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Re: Ed Boll's 1/48 Scale FE8
« Reply #9 on: June 16, 2014, 02:30:55 AM »
A really good build of a not very well known type. Great to see another pusher. I am not a fan of vacuforms so I am even more impressed with this one - especially in such a large scale. Many congratulations.
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Re: Ed Boll's 1/48 Scale FE8
« Reply #10 on: June 16, 2014, 06:15:53 AM »
Great work of something a bit different.

Regards

Dave

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Re: Ed Boll's 1/48 Scale FE8
« Reply #11 on: June 16, 2014, 11:58:14 AM »
Pretty amazing work on a Vacuform kit. Truly a wonderful bit of modelling.
Thanks for posting, Bud.

Cheers,
Ernie :)
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Re: Ed Boll's 1/48 Scale FE8
« Reply #12 on: June 17, 2014, 02:51:16 AM »
Bud and Rick, Thank you my 2 amigos for work in posting the pics.

To all the above comments, Thank you all Lady and gentlemen.

Yes, it is pretty much all redone- sat around for years in various stages, finished it as sort of a prayer in hope that WNW would do one in 1/32 . (The latest WNW release of the ALB DVa OAW is a reminder of my how they eliminated most of my plans for some 1/28 scratch builds) There are still some rough spots on the Fe and need some touch up as the close ups show.

Ed
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Re: Ed Boll's 1/48 Scale FE8
« Reply #13 on: June 17, 2014, 08:12:27 PM »
Very nice build. Yet one more motivation to think of building a FE8.
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Re: Ed Boll's 1/48 Scale FE8
« Reply #14 on: June 18, 2014, 08:00:11 AM »
Quote from: PrzemoL on June 17, 2014, 08:12:27 PM
Very nice build. Yet one more motivation to think of building a FE8.


Thanks Prez,  love to see anything you do.
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