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I am close to finished with this 1972 Mercury Montego GT master. I'm getting older, and 3D printing has hit it's stride, so this will be my last master. I've given you close up shots, so some things may not look as good up close as in real life viewing. I have worked with Kevin Lutz for many years and hope to continue in other capacities. Kevin (Missing Link) will be getting this master soon. I know he's very busy so it may be some time before the resin offering becomes available. I'd also like to mention Kris Morgan at M.A.D., who did a great job on my various pickup masters. Motor City (now gone), did a great job on my 1974 Econoline master. I've been happy with the castings from them all. Mostly, I've mastered for Kevin, and it's only fitting he gets the last one. Thanks to Yellowsportwagon on this board for his help with references. I hope this is a popular offering for Kevin...I'm pretty happy with the results. There is some scribing I purposely didn't do on the hood around the scoops because the area is delicate, and on the body because I kept digging up the bodywork. Since the hood won't be composed of many pieces in resin, I hope it's possible with the resin hood. I'm not quite done yet, but this is pretty much what the resin kit will contain. The Revell 1976 Torino is the donor kit.

As the crew of the Excelsior found out.

I'd also like to thank Curt Zahn and DRIPTROIT 71 for helping me with this truck.

I've been steadily working away at this project. Here's where I am currently...

Yes, I did the bed and the cab, and MAD did a great job on both.

Looks great! I mastered the thing, and you STILL got yours built first!

Nice job on the weathering. I see this truck has been repainted at some point in it's life.

I'd be happy to look at any photos you may have. I'm still looking for an underneath-the-cab shot. Thank you, and thank you all for the kind words. I appreciate it.

I've got the cab pretty much done. Time to start on the interior.

I owned a 1976 Grand Prix. Why wait? I converted a 1977 Monte Carlo kit into my Grand Prix.

Motor City is out of business, and I have no access to the master, if it still exists.

The yellowish parts are resin (copied from 3D masters), and the white parts are styrene. The roof is made from sheet styrene and evergreen shapes.

Now I feel like I'm starting to get somewhere with this.

My 3D parts were very well done, but they wanted to curl up. I was able to super glue them to a flat surface and make resin castings of them. The cab work is underway. When I'm in "The Zone", it's hard to make myself stop and take pictures, but I managed to get this one. Updates to come.

I'll be picking up the printed parts Tuesday, and then I'll get started on the cab.

I have to wait for parts for my White 7000 project, so I pulled this back out and finished the underside.

What he said.

I thought there was an "Eleanor" version in the works, with the flat hood.

I used this over the Revell Chrome, and it solves the durability issue. I sprayed the part with chrome, set in dehydrator for a day, sprayed generous coat of clear, sat in dehydrator another day. Couldn't detect any loss of shine.

I don't know if there's anything you can do about it, but the vents at the base of the windshield are different from 1979 and up. They would extend right about to the hood's character lines. The unobtainium Fire Fighter Dodge pickup kit (and one other version that I can't remember) had this feature. Not that big of a deal, but I thought it worth mentioning. Truck should look pretty good when done!

I decided to do a White 7000. I have rudimentary skills drawing for 3D printing, so I decided to do the grille that way. While I wait for the prints, I decided to start the chassis. I chose to make the hopelessly convoluted Velvet-Ride suspension. Here's what I have so far: I notice in my grille drawing I forgot to round the outside edges. I can always sand the part to fix that.

Thank you for the kind words. Gives me a little more confidence!

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Really nice looking truck. Just like my Ford W, this kit renders my scratchbuilt GMC obsolete. I do think this model was built very well. looks great!

I really like the look of this model. It's got that fleet truck "something".