Quest Intruder Kit Bash, Background

You should be familiar with the Interceptor, the fiftieth kit produced by Estes. 

A fiftieth kit is a milestone and had to be special. It was! 

I remember first seeing it on the cover of the 1971 Estes catalog - CLICK HERE

Quest had their own version of the Interceptor - The Intruder!

The Estes Interceptor was larger, BT-55 based and had a new plastic  nose cone with canopy and detail pieces. The water slide decals sheets were big!

The Quest Intruder was smaller, with a 25mm body tube, close to a standard BT-50 diameter. The decals were peel and stick and followed some of the Interceptor red, white and blue decor. 

Originally I picked up two of the Quest Intruder kits. One was re-sold on Ebay. 

A few years back, I opened the remaining kit. The peel and stick decals were off the backing sheet, stuck to the instructions and  unusable.

I set the kit aside until a few days ago.

I'm going to "kit-bash" the model making it a look like an Interceptor downscale - sort of.