49 Mercury ute

Here's a couple of photos of a 49 Mercury ute conversion I've just finished.  It's been an on again off again project for a few years now and I finally got sick of looking at it on the shelf so decided to get on and complete it. Paint is done with a purple crackle nail polish with clear over the top.

is this a homemade conversion or a resin body ? looks good whatever it is

It's a home made conversion that I ended up moulding and casting up, the actual model is resin.

That's cool,diffrent paint work on it could see one candy red

Very nice mate, love the paint effect, i have some of that in blue, just never got around to using it, WAY COOL!!

 

  That looks very cool, and that paint work is awesome 

Nice conversion work, cool looking car

really nice conversion and the the paint job is super cool 
nice job

Thanks guys for the comments. Reckon I'm going to try another lot of this crackle polish, only with a candy over the top this time round.

WOW I like this a LOT. That paint is spectacular. Brilliant job mate.

 Nice!

Looks neat Charlie.

That looks like it was a big job. You should add a 55 Ford front end on to one of those. make it a Mainline.
that paint is whacky. I like the rims too

Well, that's different.

Love it !

"You should add a 55 Ford front end on to one of those. make it a Mainline"

Why bother, I did the 56-57 Mainline conversion around 10 years ago. The photos below was the first out of the moulds.

that looks sweet

Gee how did I miss this one? Cool paint scheme and those rims where did you get those from?

Which rims, the Merc or the Mainline?

Nice work on both models, that paint is far out.

Does it crack up like that as it is applied, as it dries, or is there a special technique?

No special techs, simply apply one coat with the brush supplied in the bottle and as it dries, that is the result. I made sure that all brush strokes were in the same direction though. Because the surface is rough when dry, there needs to be quite a few coats of clear applied and then polished out to give that looking into water affect.

The rims from the merc I haven't seen them anywhere that you could buy them from are they off a kit?

They're an old set I found in the spares box, exactly what they're off of I can't remember, but do know by the tyres and backing plates that it's one of the old Monogram kits before Revell took them over. The plastic is red under the chrome and for some unknown reason a Corvette keeps flashing through the mind.