AMT 1925 Ford Model T Builds
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ธ.ค. 2022
- Here is a pair of AMT 1925 Ford Model T's that I built some time ago. These are easy kits to build and have many extra parts. I built these as stock versions and really like to go into the history of the time period.
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Love the old AMT Model T kits. Built 8 in the last 2 years.
Very cool!
Ralph, Nice builds!...Thanks for sharing...Reminds me of August, and the fireman's field day parade!...All old time cars!...I was really taken with them.
Thanks! I remember the circus 🤡 having one as well!
Nice looking model"T"'s. Cool little history lesson. Thanks
Thank you!
Love to see them built stock for a change!
Thanks! I enjoy the street rods, but sometimes seeing an original car and hearing it run is a treat! A few years back 5-6 years ago. I was working the parts dept at the Buick dealer. I sold a cust a battery for his Buick. He brought in the old battery and car was stuck home. He asked me if I could help him get the old batter out of the trunk of his car and put the new one in the trunk. I said sure. He said he drove his grandfather’s car. He was over 55. So I was a bit surprised to see an unrestored Model A in our parking lot! It was a 29 and his Grandfather bought it new!
Love these, esp the Doctor’s coupe.
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Those are two cool little Ts. Thanks for sharing them. Your history was fun even though I knew it all. That's what happens when your old like Me. LOL. Ron
Thanks! LOL! I loved talking with my wife’s grandmother. This was when we were dating. I would sit with her and she would tell us what it was like growing up on the farm when she was a kid!
Two very nicely done Model T builds!!
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Nice clean builds. You did a great job building those. Great history lesson on the early days of the automobile. Thanks for sharing.
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Well, this was quite interesting. Thank you.
I generally prefer to build stock, showroom new, original parts and paint colour, etc. Occasionally, I might add some dust and wear, or in the case of a work-related vehicle (e.g., a dump truck), perhaps some dirt or mud.
Several years past, I had a couple of these, including the car version of the pickup truck, in which one simply exchanged the cargo bed for a “boot” (which many of us today would call the “trunk”), and I had wanted to add to them. However, I had not been able to find the “Tall T”. (All that is a long story.)
I mean to build several 1:25th-scale scale streetscape dioramas of modest-sized, urban settings of generations past. One would be in a vibrant Roaring ’20s milieu depicting the mid- to late-1920s a year or so prior to the Wall Street crash of October 1929, featuring kits of 1a) the various versions of AMT’s Ford later Model T kits available; I think I have counted at least five conventional manifestations: roadster, coupe, pickup truck, depot hack, Tall T, and possibly others (I discount the later one-off modifications the owners had made), 1b) MPC’s 1921 Oldsmobile (as in the BMCK channel as “GRANNY'S HOT ROD” [of The Beverly Hillbillies television programme in the 1960s], TH-cam build video, Saturday, 6 November, 2023), 1c) Lindberg’s three 1926 Mack trucks, 1d) MPC’s 1927 Lincoln (as in “TH-cam build video, Part 1”, Dansmodelworx channel, Monday, 7 August, 2023), 1e) Revell’s Duesenberg CJ, 1f) Monogram’s Packard, 1g), Lindberg’s Cord and Auburn, among others.
ICM in Ukraine has begun a series of earlier Ford Model T kits. I have yet to see any of them, though from what I have seen in these TH-cam videos, the detailing is excellent, complex, and sophisticated, with a far more intricate parts breakdown and assembly. They are rather more expensive, too.
Of course, these urban streetscapes will require possibly dozens of buildings, many of them familial and commercial establishments: a general store, a tailor’s, a smithy, a grocer’s with his fruit stand, a butcher-shop, with a shoe-shine boy, a barbershop, a hairdresser’s, a hotel, a chemist’s or an apothecary, and many more. To these would I add figurines to represent the scores of patrons, shopkeepers, and passers-by bustling about their various errands. Telegraph or telephone poles, signposts of every sort, trees yet fresh in their springtime verdancy, and more will crowd one another along the verge bounding the sidewalks and the lawns. At both ends of the gently curving street will be a number private homes.
That sounds like quite a project and sounds fun! I’m not much for building dioramas. I do like reading about the time period and looking at dioramas like you are describing. I was recently reading that it took 13 years for the car to replace the horse as the main transportation in most major cities. Reading about how technology can change the world is fun but was a major shift at the time. If you were into horse shoes or saddles you probably went out of business. Car repair was expensive and a new business and with little competition was expensive! I saw receipts from 1925 for replacing a battery in a car at $125! Batteries were new and few cars then used them! That is about 1/7 the price of a Model T at the time!
On a scary note. We will probing see the merger of Robotics and AI. With the advancements of sensors and AI combined with robots. It’s amazing what they can do now. But as AI learns at a rate never before seen by humans. Manufacturing of components gets cheaper. I’m sure we will see robots replace humans in a major section of the labor force in the next 10 years.
You have an impressive knowledge of these too!!
Thanks!
I never was much of a model t enthusiasts until I saw one of these model t in 1 1. They are really a incredible example of craftsmanship and history. Just incredible piece of history. Also the first automobile fatality was a electric car in nyc in the very early 1900s . In nyc there is a sign there to memorialize the incident at that location
I read about a horse station that was converted into a station that they changed batteries to keep them running!
Thank you for sharing! It’s cool to see specialty when it’s what’s on your bench. Research and history very cool. What a awesome hobby!
: ) JC
Thanks! I really enjoy thinking about what life was like when these were new.
Love the T. It was my dads first car. Love your builds. Thanks for sharing
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They look great. Nice work. 👍
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Excellent job building and painting your AMT '25 Ford Model T's, Raoul! I have seen these kits you built on ebay before and now that you have posted your video looks like I'll end up buying one myself! And there's nothing like the sound of a Model T engine running too!
Thanks. I have heard a few run. They are different!
@@TheMuscleCarModeler No doubt about it.
very interesting … thanks for posting the video!
Thanks for watching!
Great history lesson Raoul. In a way it seems not much has changed in 100 years. Nice looking Ts you have there also.
The parallels are quite interesting! Thanks!
I like the paint job, " period correct "
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I was born in highland park Michigan witch is a city inside Detroit. Where the first assembly line made the model t and also it was on Woodward and Woodward between 6 and 7 mile was the first paved road in the US.
Very cool! Fun piece of trivia: What is the most common street name? Just about every city has a one….
Did some research that would be maple.
Really nice looking builds Raoul, great history, I think I had read that the Model T was originally offered in six colors and the reason he changed to black was he found a specific black paint that dried faster then other colors and it sped up the assembly process. Henry Ford was a fascinating man. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks you. I remember reading something about offering black only helped lower the cost as well!
Going to all-black was because of material cost savings. Black is cheaper than other colors, even today. It was still being brushed on in multi-coats in the factory, no improvement in labor time in going to all-black. Even though black dried slightly faster than other colors, it was still too slow. Then a change to lacquer paints reduced drying time versus the previous linseed oil paint from two weeks to 2 hours. This eliminated a huge bottleneck in the plant and allowed production to go up much faster.
Thanks. That makes a lot of sense!
Nice builds! They look great. Love the history lesson. Not sure of all these electric vehicles coming out. I think Id rather have a Model T. LOL
Same here but it was all new back then and no real track record for any of it.
The reason these cars had more wood is that the consumers wanted it to be like the ox carts they drove. The roofs were taller because gentlemen wore top hats. Fords' first body was HEMP not steel but it was decided by higher ups to use steel to create that industry. There also were attempts at hydrogen (water) powered without heating it into steam and there was magnetic cars but they were pretty much for royalty. Did I hear you say ludicrous instead of lucrative about the Dodge brothers contract with Ford? LOL!
Yes you heard me right. I let it slide when I was editing!
Cool
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Raoul, what kind of paint did you use, obviously black, is there matte and semi gloss and what brand of paint, they look like those cars from the Franklin Mint only better, I just ordered the same kit and I wanted mine to sort of look like yours.
I’m sorry but I don’t remember what I used. I think it was just Testor’s black and air brushed. But not sure.
Very nice models of the ‘T’. Speaking of EV’s, we are no where near replacing the ICE’s with electric. Batteries are still not there technology and we don’t have the infrastructure to charge EV’s on a mass scale.
Thanks. I’m with you on that one. GM sells a level 2 home Charger kit. It requires a dedicated 60 amp circuit. Most homes do not have this!
Oh I love those and they were so super cool and I would give about anything to have a real one. 🙂Thomas over at The Model Hobbyist
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I'm a Ford retiree. Dodge was a contract supplier to Ford. They were a machine shop enterprise who had building space available to expand Ford's production. They were NOT building Dodge engines or chassis that they supplied to Ford. Henry Ford designed his own motors and vehicles. Also, Dodge did not end the relationship, Henry bought out all the outstanding shares of Ford at the time to take it private. Corporation law in the US was taking control away from Henry, so he ended the corporation. At that point, with lots of cash proceeds in hand, the Dodge's went out on their own to make their own cars. (Ford Motor's corporation structure did not come back until 1956, while under Henry II's leadership) The debt story and issuance of early Company stock to the Dodge brothers is accurate, but that was because sales were so high and there were so many vehicles in transit to dealerships, the Company was slow to recover cash from dealers and could not re-start the process of paying suppliers quickly enough for non-stop production. The Company was always highly profitable. The issuance of stock solved the biggest supplier's (the Dodge's) headache with Ford's cash flow.
Early Ford models did come in colors. The decision to go to all black was the drive to reduce cost of production and make price lower. Black is the cheapest color paint (even today). So the decision was made to build all T's in black. That limitation ended when the Model A's came out, and Henry's son Edsel was taking over running the Company.
Henry Ford owned vast tracts of wooded land, to be used in the Model T's structure. But Ford even used wooden boxes to transport parts into the factory, that were then torn apart to be used in the car's body.
The electric car was the leader in sales in the US from roughly 1900-1910. The leading electric car company was called, simple enough, the Electric Vehicle Company. They were based in Connecticut. The Model T was just one of the gasoline cars that ended electric vehicles. Customers were fed up with the inconvenience of electric vehicles, and were already flocking to more convenient gasoline cars. Almost all electric vehicle companies had gone bankrupt by 1910. The invention of the electric starter by Charles Kettering in 1912 eliminated the need for the hand crank. That is what actually killed the electric car, but gasoline was already winning the sales race easily by then.
The first drive-in gasoline service station opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1913. It was a Gulf Oil station. American motorists had been able to pump their own gas at filling stations since 1905, but those were little more than a pump at the curbside (often near car dealerships). Before that, motorists bought gasoline in cans from places like neighborhood groceries, pharmacies and blacksmith shops and filled up themselves. Self-serve at gas stations came back in the 1970's.
These Model T's on your table were the first plastic kits I ever built, back around 1965. I bought the re-issues a few years ago, for nostalgia reasons.
Thank you. I enjoyed reading this. Most of the info I read about the Dodge brothers was written from their point of view. I didn’t find much info on who designed what for the model t.