49 Merc "The Illuminator"

My version of Revell's '49 Merc.
Body has had a pie chop with a slight roof chop. Removed the B pillars and most of the trim, only leaving a chrome strip along the top of the doors. Interior also had to be chopped to fit into the body.
It's lowered with the rear wheels off-centered so it has a parked height and a cruzin' height. Body colour is...well I'm not sure, what would you call it? Dark pearl mulberry?
Lights are wired to the wooden box in the boot. The twin frenched antenna's are 2 sepparate switches made from styrene and a guitar string. Pull the taller atenna and the car's lights came on, pull the shorter one and the blue light in the boot turns on.There is 2 blue bulbs in the back, one on each side of the box. But one has a bad connection. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't...today it doesn't. With all the drama's I had with the lights, to have only one light in the boot that doesn't work is no big deal.
The light base is basicly a pine frame, a cut to size mirror, scale mahogany veener and a dismantled small Led flashlight.

In total there's 16 Led bulbs, 3 sepparate switches, a handmade base with lights and a custom built model. Fare enough one light doesn't work but I couldn't give a rats arse! I'm just glad to have built what I have.
Hope you all enjoyed the build, I enjoyed the company.















Joe

AWESOME

I've already said it all in the Workshop thread but no harm in repeating one word - AMAZING!

top job clutch, looks frikin flawless!

lol as if it wasnt cool enough.....then he turns the lights on. Awesome stuff Joe.Arent you glad you persevered? cause we are.

Absolutely amazing Joe!!!!!

I've said this before too, "Thanks guys, you've made my day".

Towards the end, I hated this fricken model but now, I'm glad I didn't pike out. I know there's brillant models everywhere but personally I'm stoked with this one.

bet there is still a big smile on ya face,great job.

Mate............ .....maaaaate.......... ............................ Sorry, can't get anything else out, freaken beautiful. Tell me you won't be making it to next years QMHE

Not much left to say Joe, it's all been said, TWICE
Be proud,you earned it, now enjoy it

Well done Clutch - you really pulled this one off. Particularly impressive considering you've never tried this style of model building before. Great job. Can't wait to see what you come up with next.

Clutch---Your Merc is simply Amazing ! Great Job! Are we going to have ascend to a different level to match that? I have started on a few superdetail cars and a couple are still in boxes , Because I Hated them because I was trying to get absolute perfection, then bad things happen. Well done , you got through the frustration and finished it. Thankyou for that! Can you top this one?

Cheers Ron

Bryce wrote: Particularly impressive considering you've never tried this style of model building before.

...and you've certainly raised the bar around here when it comes to working features, those lights are spectacular mate

Bryce wrote: Particularly impressive considering you've never tried this style of model building before.

The inspriation and styling came from you guys and your builds. Without it, there's no way I would've even tried.
So a big thankyou to everyone for showing their work. We all learn from each other in some way or another, I'm just glad to be apart of it.

Having said that, this custom work is hard goin'. Hats off to you guys that make it look easy....I'm going back to "boxstock" for awhile, less stressful.
Cheers for all the support.

Haha, you'll be back, you've been bitten mate, you won't be able to leave anything alone anymore.

Wow!!!! Awesome!!! Well done on such a fantastic build Clutch. It's good to see some personal boundaries being pushed and to have something so wicked come out in the end, that's where true inspiration begins.

Glad you persevered?

Spot on without the lights. They just take it over the top.

what they all said

is it just my old eyes or is there major colour change when the light is different, I reckon the colour is spectacular

Everyone else has said it Clutch, but an amazing job on the Merc. The colour is beautiful. There's no way I would ever try anything like lighting. I'm definitely glad you got this finished so I could see it. Well done.

TIS TRUELY AMAZING.............words cannot describe what you have achieved.

Thanks guys!

It's all been said already, amazing model, definitely worth the effort.

I've only just caught up with this one being finished now , WOW , amazing work and detail . Well done .

beautiful models clutch well done.

i saw this at the rocky model show in this year and it was AWESOME!!!!! love the trunk loved the stand it was just one awesome model to see up close nd personal