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And heres the body pics and the first mockups, the rear end will be coming down to about half the height in the pics

So what do you do when you have a very poor resin body, in my case you build something thats completely out of my wheelhouse so i'm going pro street. The chassis is from a monogram53 vette but its be heavily reshaped to fit the ol' moggy. I'm using the rear tyres from a beretta pro street kit and the front from a revell pop. The engine is the amt parts pack chrysler but I'll be cutting down a water pump from another kit to make it at least look a little more street. I've filed off the rain gutters, and in the process lost a lot of air bubbles (yay!), and using some thin styrene sheet added in some new ones. I also cut out one of the top bars from the rear of the body and replaced it with some styrene as the original bit was near unusable. The floor and tubs are from the vette also but again chopped about to fit. I tried a straight axle on the front but it didn't give me the look i want so it was replaced with a dropped axle from the parts box. I'll be using a set of Ed Fluck's wheels. Much more bodywork to follow...

From that pair i had to go with the A, might be different with another pair though

Nice work, the now roofline looks great

Not very detailed really. Thie was more about building a transformer style lowrider. The only change from what was in the box was I swapped the wheels for those from the cougar kit. Theres lots I would do differently now such as opening the doors and I'd give it a more fitting interior

That looks good, I'd forgotten just how wide these are

a few more sacriligeous mercs,

Neat build, the proportions look great

Looks like the furball has made itself right at home already

Oops, the red and gold hot rod is an alfa, could an admin delete it please

Now most of my merc pics are stanced so I'll try to only post the more interesting cars and classics. I have loads more if anyone want a specific colour

I've oly had one mistake from ebay. One store i bought from sent me the wrong kit but they let me keep it if i paid the postage for the correct item. The wrong item ended up with a member here (revell model t ambulance) so it worked out well.

Neat project,

Thanks, thats how the belkits decals are done too, makes it easier to apply the big decals

Nice work. I have a question about the decals in the nunu kits, are they done like the belkits decals or all one part?

Cool, going to have to follow this. Some of the tamiya mercs have engines bt its mostly the larger sedans. The revell brabus sl has a nice straight 6 in it too

Pretty cool, i like the resto vibe it has

Cool project,

Theres at least 2 from tamiya of the 956, if you look on ebay uk theres loads to choose from

Nice work, especially on the ill fitting top

BMW have won their 20th 24hr race at the Nurburgring. Theres an interesting article on speedhunters telling the story and it has lots of pics of the cars. http://www.speedhunters.com/2020/11/decade-waiting-bmws-return-n24-glory/

Thanks guys,

I'm wary about using baking soda, I've had problems with it coming through a few months after the builds are finished. It has sent some of my finished builds to the scrap box. I appreciate the suggestion though

it would be the brand name and licensing rights. In the vw world having an official part gets more show points. Its the same with empi parts and brm wheels. Genuine is always better. Even the fwddrive lot look down on non branded bbs. I know Bruce Mayers has licensed bodies being made in australia and somewhere in europe (or was in the last few years) for sale in those markets. I can see the new owners going something along the lines of the von dutch clothing brand as well as hopefully continuing the licensing agrrements. With a bit of luck it could even be done similar to moon

I never even thought of that, thanks