AMT '49 Mercury

[sbk]

I've been working on this '49 Mercury for a little while now, & I finally almost have the interior done. I reshaped the seats & door panels & used acrylic paint as the tuck & roll inserts. The armrests, door handles, window cranks & steering wheel are resin copies of pieces that I scratchbuilt (except the steering wheel rim). The side panels & front seat still need to be glued to the floor, so please excuse any gaps that are visible.

The dash is from Replicas & Miniatures of Maryland. The dash & shift knobs are made from laminated purple & white plastic.

Here is an older photo of what it's going into. The body has since been painted purple like the dash, & awaiting polishing.

For those interested in seeing more photos, including step by step photos of the top chop, check out my FB album.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Steve-Boutte-Kustoms/136565936448460#!/media/set/?set=a.141065212665199.23984.136565936448460&type=1

[cobraman]

Beautiful interior.

[Zman]

Awesome!

[slusher]

Interior looks excellent...

[doggie427]

Stunning !!

[Lunajammer]

Steve, that's got to be about the cleanest, most precise interior I've ever seen.

[Eric N.]

I was lucky to me Steve at the IPMS Nats. in Oklahoma City back in 2003-Fantastic work-nice guy too!

On a side note Mark Jones won Best in Show w/ a Super 7

Eric

[Ira]

Beautiful Work Steve!

[shucky]

Steve awesome work as always. I've been following along on your FB page. Neat idea using the acrylic paint like you did to create the tuck n roll inserts. Wonderful!

[Deathgoblin]

Gorgeous interior. I can't wait to see the rest of it.

[JasonC]

Love the details

[Gluhead]

Beautiful work as always, Steve.

[geemoney]

excellent!

that interior.............................................................................!

[Geeti]

Awesome work ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

[Ace-Garageguy]

I'm awestruck. I've never seen anything even approaching that quality on that kit interior before. Beautiful.

[crazyjim]

Fantastic interior. Where did get the purple plastic for the dash knobs? I really like them.

[CrazyGirl]

How did you take a real car interior and make it look like it's a model , cause Holy Cow that is unreal

[John Goschke]

Best of the best! That interior is simply surreally realistic (if that makes any sense at all.) Don't think I'm going too far out on a limb saying this is the definitive chopped scale Merc. Looked forward to seeing the finished product and am really happy we get to see photos of the interior before it goes inside the body!

[Scale-Master]

Clean crisp and superb Steve, as usual...

[gwolf]

Wow...that is also the best interior I've ever seen. Amazing work.

[CrazyGirl]

Actually he needs to build two interiors , one to use in the car and one along side the car , I am still blown away

[Jantrix]

That is a work of art. Beautiful!

[crazyrichard]

whhhaaat thats just soooo

[sbk]

Thanks everyone, I appreciate it!

[dino246gt]

Steve, WOW! I've seen some of your other interiors which are also mind-blowingly fabulous, like the green and white '49 Ford, you ARE the interior man! Of course the rest of your models are just as nice, so can't wait to see more of this sled!!! FANTASTIC!!!