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Added some chrome and some screen to.the windows so nobody tries to escape on the journey down under

Looks good doc love it true cranky style

Thanks guys its turning out better than i thought. Here are some updated pics. I've been doing alot of painting this weekend and started to put it together getting close to be finished. i have a question this model kit came with metal pegs so that the wheels can turn what kind of glue would you use so that the wheels will hold on tight.

Thanks tony this is the first merc. that I've built and im enjoying this kit..

Doc. that front end is mean looking it looks like its gonna eat up everything in its path i love it

Starting to look like a cranky model to me

Starting to look like a true taxi from hell now!!

I watched the unboxing of this model and i was getting excited and i don't even have that kit lol. ill have to invest but i love the way your taking this one Doc. its looking great

That's a excellent looking model i love what you've done to it flames are awesome.

Painted the bottom half with a flat black. and im wishing i would of decanted the yellow i used for the top and used the airbrush. that flat black when on so much smoother than the yellow, o well i guess you live and you learn. other than that it turned out fairly nice for a car that takes daily trips to hell. Im working on putting some metal looking bars which are actually toothpicks acrossed the windows so nobody tries to escape on there trip.

Very nice detail i love it

Very nice love the way it turned out

Thanks guys im hoping to get the bottom half painted this weekend depending on the weather that is

I actually didn't know that, i just looked it up and saw that the 37 ford pickup does have the checkers that is very helpful. i wasn't quite sure how i was going to do the checkers but this helps me out big time thank you Tom

Here is the upper half of my taxi rat all rusted up so far the bottom half i believe im gonna do a flat black. Im hoping that when i tape up my model to do that bottom half that the tape doesn't rip off my yellow top half fingers crossed i guess..

Taxi is a primed. went with the ruddy brown since its gonna be weathered. have to have a couple of bullet holes in there, and took the fender skirts and made some rust threws on them. the engine i was thinking of keeping it the rusty primer color then just adding the chrome peace to it but not sure yet. and the wheels will be black instead of the chrome. hope you like so far. O and I've decide to change the name of the build from taxi crappy to TAXI RAT. i like the sounds of that better i wish there was some way to change the topic title o well.

Thanks guys. that was an awesome kit to built went together smoothly for me im gonna pick up any willys kit i see now.

So i was wondering I've never mocked up a model before. do you just use elmers glue so mock it all up then when everything look ok wash off all the glue?

Tom thanks for all the advice this is going to help me out a bunch

Cool thanks guys. any idea were i can pick up some sheet stryrene never gotten any before?

Thanks guys.... and yes there is some shiny there. i originally wanted this to be my first shiny model but im addicted to weathering my models, plus you can see some flaws in the paint toward the bottom from the sand marks that wouldn't come out i think i should of used a finer grit of sand paper.

Has anyone ever made a topper for the bed of a truck? If so how did you do it ?

Haha nice i think before. man i was worried that no one would have seen that movie.... but it looks like i was the only one who didn't see it

Ya that color was pretty neat when i saw it, mine is actually nail polish an i just fell in love with that color that's cool that you have one the same color. and this build was actually suppose to be a shiny build which it is.....well kinda i think im addicted to weathering my models.

Here is a picture i drew of the "taxi BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH from hell" 49 merc. Its just a rough sketch not very detailed but i wanted to see how it would look and from just the drawing its just how i envisioned it, just add a little rust here and there some burn marks since its a taxi from hell.