Revell 49' Merc(s)

[speedy5963]

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. 

 

[speedy5963]

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.

[speedy5963]

[Jason Foster]

The paint on both of these cars looks amazing!

[speedy5963]

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

[bobthehobbyguy]

Both of those paint jobs look fantastic. Wish my paint came out that nice.

[The Danish sprue wrangler]

ohh that green is beautyful  love it . and the gold one is lookin nice too.

[speedy5963]

Thank you guys, appreciate the kind words!

[Olskoolrodder]

Both are looking SWEET!!!

[GTJUNIOR]

Looking very nice.  Awesome paint work. 

Edited April 6, 2016 by GTJUNIOR

[Mooneyzs]

Paul.... these are looking great man. Glad To See you Getting back to the bench. Any updates on these beauties?

 

Edited April 20, 2016 by Mooneyzs