Resin Kustom 49 Merc

[Lanny Haas]

I picked up a Jimmy Flintstone 49 carson top Merc a long while ago and with our club topic being customs a few weeks away I decide this is what I'll bring. Anyway I cut out the doors and the trunk and opened the hood...Im past the point of no return, what was I thinking, the plan is to have everything hinged and workeable! Even going to build a 45 rpm record player for under the dash (and It wont work)...............hummm with an Ipod and some wizardrey.....could have some 50's rock going on in there......Naw....) (had one when I was in high school in the beloved 59 impala).........Sigh.....*wipes a tear*

built the chassis pretty much out of the box, will pick out the details with the brush, using Cad hupcaps in the fronts, and no caps in the rear as the skirts will cover them

hand painted the white walls, and has the Chrysler 440.

using the old AMT 49 Merc kit as my base kit, cut out the front fender wells

filed them to fit the resin body .

using small 1/2 round I'm going with a white tuck and roll to go with the metal flake blue and silver body color

Edited April 26, 2014 by Lanny Haas

[Belugawrx]

Always liked that tuck and roll look

I need to try that one day

Looking good

Cheers

[Mike Kucaba]

WOW! cutting the hood and doors out of a resin body took some moxie. Nice clean work!

[slusher]

Looking really good. Nice interior work..

[1 bad55 stan]

very cool,

[Danno]

Good looking project, Lanny!

Another winner, for sure.

I have a 'Customs' project on the bench, too, but since you're not going to be out of town, I'll just leave it in the box . . .

[BIG NICKY]

lookin real nice im definitely pulling up a chair for this one

[Lanny Haas]

Thanks guys. Hey Dan ya never know, should keep building. this thing might go south ,.....

Edited April 27, 2014 by Lanny Haas

[crazyrichard]

whouw awsome !!

[rustybill1960]

Lanny

Very Kool Kustom

I am really enthralled with Your interior work!

It's the Bees Knees Man!

Your color choices are different, can't wait to see them come together

Thank You for sharing

Later

Russ

[Lanny Haas]

Thanks for looking. worked a little more. Started thinning the body a little more to scale, and to get the chassis to fit the body

lots of resin dust, but chassis fits now. had to do a lot of grinding on both body and chassis to get it all to fit. stll needs some work

also fit the firewall and fender wells.

coming aroud little by little

this is how thick the hood is. thinking of using the kit hood. the body has a shaved hood, but I what the peak down the middle so well see. how it works. have to pancake the kit hod to fit body

and while grinding I did were a mask. don't need to ingest resin dust.

[Lanny Haas]

Started working on the hinges....this is for the trunk about a 4 thousand wire and I used square copper tube to fit the wire.

I used copper tubing for the trunk to slip into

thined the doors more to scale, only what will show anyway

little trial fit. have to leave room for the paint

seems to swing ok...

going to let the hinge slide in the tubing on the door, so it will open and close, and I can move the door back and forth so it fits nice

this is the paint im using. you can get it a hobby lobby, water base, after thinning, it will spray thru an air brush, it works better with a color base, in this cane a blue base silver base and like real metal flake you have to bury it in clear. I use Future. when its all said and done you need a good week for it all the dry,... only have 20 more days.....sounds like fun. more to come

Edited April 28, 2014 by Lanny Haas

[mrm]

This is starting to take a great shape Lanny. I have to admit, that when the thread was first started, I was kinda pessimistic about this project, but now I see it going in great direction. Can't wait to see it finished.

[Wonderbread Kustomz]

Very nice work! Man that took some huevos to cut the doors and hood open, but you pulled it off..

[DriftingRookie]

What do you use to thin those out?

[Customman]

Oh yeah excellent work ! Nice clean execution, you made working with resin look so easy. Old Scool !

[rustybill1960]

Great body work there Lanny

The color choices look very cool too,

can't wait to see the body with paint on it

I really like what Your doing

Thank You for sharing

Later

Russ

[Lanny Haas]

What do you use to thin those out?

I just use water just untill it sprays without splatter

[slusher]

Real nice work opening the doors and trunk. Great hinges also..

[Bill J]

Had the pleasure of hanging out with my old buddy Lanny all day Saturday while he worked more on this Merc. It is definitely looking great, Lanny is very dedicated to making things work. Always fun to have a model day with Lanny and see what he's doing.

I worked on a plain old Polar Lights Talladega that's been half started for a decade and Lanny can knock out a super cool custom car from a RESIN body in a month. Inspirational to me

[Lanny Haas]

Thanks Bill.....It was a productine day...aside from sticking fingers together with the super glue and losing parts on the floor. Anyway, got the roof painted last night, and the engine alcladed "chromed" . built my little record player, and the door jam"s

from this parts box battery, well build the record player. I still have a real one, to check by, but this is the basic shape.

thru sanding and wittling, I got the trun table and the tone arm in place..something that will never be seen, but its there.

set it into the center consol with a few records to warp in the sun..

got the body and parts primered , and going to paint the top first Light Ivory, than dull coat it, as its a carson top

painted the silver base for the silver flake paint, than mask the top and the silver and do the blue.

Should take most ot next the week to finish the paint. only 9 more days..

[Danno]

That's looking great, Lanny!

[Lanny Haas]

this is the real recorsd player

[Bill J]

ummm Lanny, they have satellite radio these days & MP3's or even CD players. Ya need to get into the 21st century my friend

The record player is cool along with all the rest of the Mercury. Look forward to seeing the finish on this beauty.

[Danno]

Next we know, you'll tell Lanny about cell phones, too, Bill!