speedy5963

Sweet builds!

Very cool build, awesome job on the detail and weathering!

Clean builds, very nice!

This should be fun to watch, definitely an interesting but crazy build!

One of my favorites - 36 Ford covered in House of Kolors Candy Apple Red!

Really nice build, I like the way everything is coming together!

Killer paint job!

Awesome build, love the detail!

Very cool!

Good looking build

Beautiful work John, great update! That passion purple is an awesome color, my daughter wants to paint her 32' with that, keep killin it!

Awesome work John, look forward to following along

Great looking build here!

Amazing build brother!

Thank you guys, appreciate the kind words!

Thank you Jason, the green one unfortunately will be taken down, the gold one came out pretty good, going to take a little color sanding and polishing but should be solid

Really liking this, great choice in color!

Here are some pics of the 2nd Merc now. This one was cleaned up, sprayed first with some Custom Shop Grey Sealer/Primer, love this stuff, covers fast, pretty easy to work with and did not have much at all pop through. I actually shot a few coats of HOK Snow White Pearl base over the grey to see how it would cover and if anything was going to pop while I was spraying some interior pieces. All looked well, interior pieces came out great, the HOK Pearl White gives that nice pearl white Naugahyde look. The plan was to try some HOK Candy Pagan Gold on this one. A friend of ours had shot some of this and said it was a bit translucent, similar to the urethane would be and taking a number of coats to cover depending on your base. What I did was started with HOK Zenith Gold base as you would use for a urethane candy and it worked out really well! The Zenith gold laid out nicely as did the Pagan Gold. Everything was then covered with some Matrix clear.

Started working on a couple of Mercs, initially I was going to build leaving the body as is and build another with some minor changes. While painting the first one some mold lines popped and the last coat of urethane went on a little heavy in a few spots so I'll be doing some extra work and re-painting soon. Luckily I had the second body in process, cleaning mold lines etc and was able to work on it some while having a couple of days off. Below are some pictures from the last couple of days. The green one started out with some grey sealer, then I laid down some HOK Planet Green base followed by HOK Organic Green Urethane. I love spraying the urethane candies but they do go on a bit thicker than the newer basecoat candies and I was using an older gun, it sprayed very nice but I haven't used this gun probably since 1995 or so, older full sized spray gun so it puts out a lot more material than the Sata touch up guns I've been using for the past 20 years.

great start here, look forward to following along!

Very cool!

For the 2nd attempt at this I am pretty happy, could have been a bit better and a lot worse lol:

Few more pics as the progress is coming along, put down some black flocking for carpet and for the package tray.

Second attempt on the seat cover/blanket. Was not happy with the 1st