51 merc custom

Maybe I need a life or to start watching tv again...........nah I'll just p everyone off and start yet another model lol. Jimmy Flinstone, Hirohata merc (I think, had it for a while cant remember). Using amt 49 modified chassis and sectioned interior. This is the ride hight and the spoon is the colour everything above the chrome trim will be, below the trim will be gloss black. Staying with steelies and will add white walls to the tires.

Love the body work, this is going to be a real bitchin Looking Mercury

looking good so far

Nice looking machine - looking forward to more updates.

Should be good. What does the colour consist of?

that's going to wicked,like the colour,The Hirohata merc is an old Kustom lead sled.

The Hirohata merc is one of my favourite custom cars of all time and I like it in the original colours and I always thought that they were the only colour that would suite the car but after seeing that red I am now a covert I think that they will suit it and I can't wait to see it painted
I will be following this built

thanks guys,the red is a nailpolish over black lacquer.

gunna look awesome

Like!

They made copy of the real car some years ago.

go dood, wish I had the time, it sucks that work keeps interferring with my liesure time
I like the spoon paint test, gives a whole new meaning to spooning......................
look forward to this build

Lol. I might have too try the spoon test

Very, very cool...

allan wrote: They made copy of the real car some years ago.

And the guy who has had the original car since buying it off a used car lot in the 1950s has recently completed the full restoration.

To see it up close and personal and then to see the tools that Sam Barris used to build it, gives one a whole different level of respect fpr the crafstmen who built these incredible custom cars back in the day.

Aye that it does Carps, I was taught how to do some of it when I was a teenager including how to cold weld with gas (I can weld panel steel together with little to no warpage , one of my few skills).

Back to the merc, dont know what mold release they used but talk about a bitch to remove, took a couple of attempts to get it to where the primer would stick. Then smoothed off with some 2000 then sprayed the black for the base. Havent got anymore of that red that was on the spoon and worse still have no record of what it was , so sprayed some more spoons black and sprayed each with a different red polish.

from left no.22 then red silk ,then no.14 ,then the original spoon. Went with no.14

looking great so far,you have to write the colour down and put it in the kit box next time have you thought about using some of the bling powder from the parts box,they have a cool range of colours.

One of my favourite cars. Nice start and love that paint colour for it.

thanks Allan, as long as I write it on the spoons, other thing is, as I only buy nail polish from the $2.00 shops they quite often dont get it again. No its too much of a pain in the butt to import stuff unless you're (me) spending a lot to make the postage worthwhile. I have PPG red,white,yellow, green,blue,gold,lilac and russet pearl paints and a few pearl nail polishes as well as Dupont white and black pearls , so have a few to choose from.
The thing with me tho is (and no wisecracks either) in my stash of around 250 kits (roughly,havent counted for awhile) is that 90% of them were brought to build a specific car(at least reasonably closely) including the colour so Its only the other 10% I get to play with colourwise.

no worrys,if I see a colour that I like I buy 2 of them.so many to built so little time.

Well I'll show you the pics of it foiled but its visiting a stripper at the moment,couple of little chips in the red that I wasnt happy with . Not so long ago I would have done a sub standard repair, but not any more( well to be completely honest I did but wasnt happy with it ).



interior shots

wheels and injun


as the hood wont be opening on this Im actually building another flathead fom another amt 49 merc but it will have the stock heads,inlet and carb etc and this one will go into that one.

Bummer on the paint. You sure do work fast though.

I feel your pain, good luck with the stripper!!!!!!