AEC Regal IV Build This blog will describe building a Weico Models AEC Regal IV. It's a HO kit 1/87 scale. I had this kit lying around and I'm trying to clean up my build skills before I attack the 7mm kits.

In the beginning - Out of the Box

I opened the box to find a kit of very sparse parts.  A white metal floor, seats, wheels, bumpers, and then a one piece resin body.  The body came with a lot of flash and I could see this would require a lot of very careful filing.  See the picture here.



And after the cutting and filling and sanding of the flash I had this 


and after some filling, sanding and priming I had this 

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