Nice, I like seeing a Mercury without a chopped roof for a change. These cars have nice proportions as stock, and cleaned up they can be awesome with little effort.

Looks awesome! I really like your modelcar builds! you have a great style.
Are you gonne make this a real show stopper like the examples you've posted or are you gonne make this look used to? I would love to see this with some awesome graphics.

curious to see what you make of it.

Greetz

thnx guys and yes it will be more show , no weathering just glossy

changed the hood line below


before




cut out this part





because the body became a tad instable i already glued in the radiator for stability



glued it on the bottom of the hood and let it stick out just a hair .. so i could sand the transition better with minimal bondo



i sanded it and even sanded a more extreme shape to the bottom , like prowling lips haha and gave the sanded seem a rough layer of bondo to make sure its gone when thats dry i can sand everything smooth





fitted the bumper and grille to see the look now



here you can see the result best flows so much nicer now

sanded it flat and it looks great on the right side it looks odd but thats the chrome bumper reflecting on the hood , i have halogen spotlights on it

whow did hours of dryfitting today , making like a plan how it will al go together later on after paint

i already used the kits flathead so i had the second engine option left a chrysler 440 v8 , ford dryfitting in the kit form but i will change some stuff later

also you can see the cleaned firewall , the rest on the wing where the molded battery is will be cleaned next and i want a cleaned enginebay with the engine as a centerpiece





het the famous flying belt and alternator (not on) whow how ..... need to change that off course and build a nice bracket





after a few hours of removing material and dryfitting and getting the body a tad lower on the chassis just by making everything fit well .. this became the ride hight .. so this is the first time everything is together , chassis (on the wheels) with body and interiour on / in .. ride hight to me is perfect



suspension still is 100% in tact , everything runs free and the wheels still steer ..



the nose job hood sanded .. on the inside i put spacers to get the hood flush with the wings



next up the interiour shell , that is sticking a bit above the window openings .. i will ater that



the seem where the interiour shell in sitting will be cleaned after fitment , my idea is to mask and bondo the seem and then hand paint over it

due to the changes i needed to glue in the dash now and in between teh sides instead of on the front where it should go , with the lowering and all the tub just needed mods to fit ...
left a gap for the glass



placed the shocks



glued on the rear of the bench .. and after this shot flattened that and sanded the seems



first paint sand color interiour , i will ad a second color ...

still glossy i just sprayed it on so that will dry completly matt



and i know the dash need to be the bodycolor , but since it needed to go in already ... so that will be painted whatever color the body will be

and if we go clean and glossy why not make the enginecompartment even cleaner > just a start will get more detail

interiour dryed up nice and matt





more work on the engine compartment

i went on with the engine bay , its become a puzzle lol

first dryfitted it with the chrome covers to see how much room there was for a master brake cilinder





tight but there was room , i used a master brake cilinder from revell and added some bras wire



then decided to build the engine to my own liking .. also because of fitment .. i went trhough my engine / parts partsbox
and found a intake manifold , that was way to big but that was good i could cut it to size and it was a clean looking manifold ..
made way for the top coolant hose (that will become a real hose later instead of styrene)
and cut the pullys , that will become different with a real belt .
found some headers that fit perfect



dryfit to see how the hose fit when putting it together , later i can change the hose to something nicer



altered the roud strip now it only go's around the opening and not run trhough along the firewall



still need to make a carb or .. so this will sit higher but found the perfect top plate for a air cleaner !
later i can paint the middle the cars bodycolor .. and i like how the shape is similair to the engine compartment