3. 49 merc

hey started this bout 3 hrs ago, gotta love aircon and a owning a mini spraybooth. got the undrcoat and base down. its faspearl silver over black.not sure about the louvre hood may jus run the stock hood





started doin the interior flat black with red embossing powder, heard bout the powder last week and found it in spotlight.works alright if you spray down light coats of contact adhesive






thanks for looking

This will come out wayyyyyy nice, keep us posted...

ooo purdy! the bonnet would look great either way mate, love that powder idea... info? :S

Nice work! I guess you spray the adhesive first and then sprinkle the powder over it? Looks a bit like suede leather or velvet.

THAT IS REALLY COOL

M

Seriously, you've been building cars all your life, haven't you?
Think I'll give up now...

I like the wheel colour!

seriously this is only the 3rd detailed car model. what got me into this was a moebius "eye gone wild kit"
my first kit was a hilux drag car with 13b turbo, and i thought you would obviously build a scale car with detail straight off the bat (never seen a real car without plug leads,water hoses fuel lines, ect) so i jus done what i thought was right and it worked ok, then i found SAE mag and that was it, hooked big time!

now jus gonna have fun and see where this fine hobby takes me.

here is the hilux i actually entered in a buildoff earlier this year for minitruckin magazine and place first. i also scratchbuilt a trailer out of evergreen too. enjoy
the surf is just the body and interior with cut wheels underneath some thing i put together jus to pull the trailer.

holy moly! man, those models are awesome! love the decals on the drag hilus... from a 55 chev drag car kit?

yeah they were i seen the chevy kit at hobbyco and had the aoshima hilux and thought 'hell yeah doin that' then found the parts box and ordered some braided line a couple of turbos and the 13b motor and thats the end result. so yeah jumped into this hobby full tilt and have no intensions of stopping.

welcome aboard some real sweet builds there injoy

cool merc,like the drag pickup.

cool stuff, you have a good eye for colour and detail.

...your pumping out some seriously cool work man, welcome aboard

Very nice.....love the Mercs..

OMG!! Those Hilux's are awesome! The merc is looking great too man, those colours go really well together.

well had a change of plans with colour, decided to paint it gold flake over black and gonna run red steelies with white walls.
also finished the interior jus gonna run it rat looking with the black dash and wheel. overall it looks great and i hope to have it finished this weekend so i can finish off the mini that im building for my oldman

thanks for looking

bloody brilliant mate, beautiful colour!

second colour look's better

Surprisingly, it does look a lot better, very nice.

Thats turned out to be a very nice colour. Great work.

That's gorgeous.

Very nice colour dude, its shaping up Very nice

Lookin' good, think it's about time I did one of these.