AMT 1963 Mercury Monterey Revival

[LennyB]

2 minutes ago, customline said:

Hey, I did that to a company vacuum pump. More than once 🤫

Did it to a Dremel about 30 years ago.

[LennyB]

Did some interior work as I needed to remove the console for the bench seat to fit. But as I was working on that I came to the conclusion I better mock up the chassis at the same time. Good thing I did, hadn't thought about it previously but as I'm using the chassis from the AMT 1960 Starliner it required a bit more surgery then just a consolectomy. The Starliner's chassis is also the floor of the interior. So out came the floor and then the inside of the firewall. Hence this is what's left.

 

But it does fit together in the end.

 

And our 64 Marauder arrived today with the decals.

 

This will give us replacements for the worn and tired front fender scrips as well as the trunk and fender badges. Plus some other usable items.

So now back to work...

[customline]

Yay 😄!  Hey keep the decals, I'll swap you a complete '58 Edsel w/ con. kit &skirts 🙂....or a still sealed '41 Plymouth! 

[LennyB]

8 hours ago, customline said:

Yay 😄!  Hey keep the decals, I'll swap you a complete '58 Edsel w/ con. kit &skirts 🙂....or a still sealed '41 Plymouth! 

What's a '41 Plymouth?

[customline]

On 9/30/2025 at 7:48 AM, LennyB said:

What's a '41 Plymouth?

Oh....yeah. I don't know where that came from.....

[LennyB]

Been making some minor progress on the Mercury. At present adapting the chassis from the AMT 60 Ford Starliner kit. The wheelbase is spot on and the chassis fits quite nicely in place. Had to shave a bit off the rear edges of the chassis so it would slip into the Merc body. I also added some alignment pins at the rear that will fit into the screw posts on the body.

I was in a painting mood this past weekend and wanted to get some color on something so I could get an idea of how the paint would look. Which by the way is Scale Finishes 1963 Ford Tuscon Yellow.

Sprayed the underbody with some red oxide primer and then dusted the edges with the body color. 

Finally added some body schutz to blacken the wheel wells in the form of Behr textured flat black spray. Probably put it on a little too neatly as it wasn't this clean at the factory. But then again this is the higher end Mercury😁

And then we have the frame sprayed gloss black and resting in place.

The top-side of the bottom-side is also the bottom of the interior. Just going with a simple black interior to set off the yellow paint. So the floor has been dusted with some black flocking.

The original interior of the Merc has really faint impressions of door handles. Those are going to be shaved off and replaced with a set or resin handles.

 

I also started on the engine which too is from the Starliner kit.

But that has a 4-speed toploader which I will swap out. Not technically correct as it didn't come out until 1966 I am waiting for a C-6 to arrive from VCG resin.

 

Last entry for tonight is a sample of the paint. I couldn't resist shooting the hood to get a real feel for the color.

Now the whole rest of the body needs the same treatment. Hopefully soon.😀