GeeBee Posted June 2, 2014 Posted June 2, 2014 Looking good, I've only ever painted one model in black, and your right, it shows every little fault in the paint, not sure I want to do another ...
Ron Hamilton Posted June 2, 2014 Posted June 2, 2014 Yes! Yes! Yes! I love the cars of 1960. .. all I need is the Olds, and I will have all of the GM Convertibles. .. and here are two ex glue-bomb '60 Mercs waiting... .. a T-Bird 'vert to be worked over, ... ....as well as a Lioncoln Continental. Your Merc is absolutely beautiful!!!!!!!!!
StevenGuthmiller Posted June 3, 2014 Author Posted June 3, 2014 Yes! Yes! Yes! I love the cars of 1960. .. all I need is the Olds, and I will have all of the GM Convertibles. .. and here are two ex glue-bomb '60 Mercs waiting... .. a T-Bird 'vert to be worked over, ... ....as well as a Lioncoln Continental. Your Merc is absolutely beautiful!!!!!!!!! Glad to see some one else as "enthusiastic" as I am about these old kits Ron. I have the Johan '60 Olds, as well as the Merc hard top, the Buick & the Pontiac, (both hard tops) as well as the Lincoln. (also a hard top). Unfortunately, if you want a '60 Olds convertible, you'll have to go resin or chop the top off of one. Johan never produced a convertible version. I have all of the 60s from Chrysler, ( New Yorker, Imperial, Dodge, Plymouth & Desoto) All of the Fords, ( Ford, Lincoln, Mercury & Edsel) & all of the GMs, minus the Caddy. Oh, I don't have the T-Bird either......Yet! Steve
mod3l Lover Posted June 4, 2014 Posted June 4, 2014 Steven, That Merc looks amazing, I would be thrilled to have one of my black finishes come out that nice! Also you made a great choice of color for that car for sure, it jumps up and slaps you in the pie hole that one does!! I love it, and look forward to seeing it all done. David S.
StevenGuthmiller Posted June 4, 2014 Author Posted June 4, 2014 (edited) Steven, That Merc looks amazing, I would be thrilled to have one of my black finishes come out that nice! Also you made a great choice of color for that car for sure, it jumps up and slaps you in the pie hole that one does!! I love it, and look forward to seeing it all done. David S. Thanks David! It is coming along quite nicely I guess. I did make a slight change in the color scheme. I was originally doing it in black with a red & black interior, black wheels & a black top boot. Decided it was too much black & made the executive decision to change the interior to 2-tone red & the wheels to red. Thought it needed a bit more color. The top boot in these photos is un-painted. It won't stay that way! Steve Edited June 18, 2014 by StevenGuthmiller
1 bad55 stan Posted June 4, 2014 Posted June 4, 2014 Those red wheels is perfect with the two tone interior!I love these early kits.The fiftys an early sixties cars Rock...
PappyD340 Posted June 4, 2014 Posted June 4, 2014 Steven, that paint looks extremely good over here at my house, keep up the great work!!
TFchronos Posted June 4, 2014 Posted June 4, 2014 Looks good to me too, very nice project you have here.
StevenGuthmiller Posted June 4, 2014 Author Posted June 4, 2014 Thanks guys! It's getting there. Still hoping to finish it up in the next week or so. Glenn, you'll have to forgive this old fogey who's not really up on the techno age acronyms. I don't know what KUTGW means! Steve
DynoMight Posted June 4, 2014 Posted June 4, 2014 Thanks guys! It's getting there. Still hoping to finish it up in the next week or so. Glenn, you'll have to forgive this old fogey who's not really up on the techno age acronyms. I don't know what KUTGW means! Steve Keep Up The Good Work
John Goschke Posted June 4, 2014 Posted June 4, 2014 (edited) Stellar job, Steven! I love what you did with the interior in two-tone red! Definitely the way to give a black car some impact! I have an original '60 Merc color and upholstery book and was struck by how unimaginative the interior color combos in the Park Lane ragtops were when I was considering building this kit (especially compared to medium-priced cars from GM!) – solid colors only and no leather available! Wonder if it was Bob McNamara and his bean counters keeping a tight rein on the choices. The Olds 98 convertible was a better buy, apparently ,in spite of its higher price... 7,284 built - base price, $4,362 vs. 1,525 built - base price, $4,018. Pontiac did even better with 17,000+ Bonnevilles built (base $3,476), with leather standard! Edited June 4, 2014 by John Goschke
StevenGuthmiller Posted June 4, 2014 Author Posted June 4, 2014 Stellar job, Steven! I love what you did with the interior in two-tone red! Definitely the way to give a black car some impact! I have an original '60 Merc color and upholstery book and was struck by how unimaginative the interior color combos in the Park Lane ragtops were when I was considering building this kit (especially compared to medium-priced cars from GM!) – solid colors only and no leather available! Wonder if it was Bob McNamara and his bean counters keeping a tight rein on the choices. The Olds 98 convertible was a better buy, apparently ,in spite of its higher price... 7,284 built - base price, $4,362 vs. 1,525 built - base price, $4,018. Pontiac did even better with 17,000+ Bonnevilles built (base $3,476), with leather standard! So true Froghawk! I know the combo I'm doing on this Merc is not "strictly" stock. Most photos I've seen of the interiors were pretty boring. Even the "cross hair" pattern on the seat backs, if anything, should be the secondary color of dark red instead of bright red. I decided I'd add a little interest by leaving that section red & maybe give it a dark red wash to bring out the pattern a bit. Oh well, I guess with these old kits, you make due with what you get. Steve
StevenGuthmiller Posted June 4, 2014 Author Posted June 4, 2014 Keep Up The Good Work Thanks Glenn. I'll make sure to remember that one! Steve
DynoMight Posted June 4, 2014 Posted June 4, 2014 Thanks Glenn. I'll make sure to remember that one! Steve haha no problem. Glad to help.
John Goschke Posted June 4, 2014 Posted June 4, 2014 So true Froghawk! I know the combo I'm doing on this Merc is not "strictly" stock. Most photos I've seen of the interiors were pretty boring. Even the "cross hair" pattern on the seat backs, if anything, should be the secondary color of dark red instead of bright red. I decided I'd add a little interest by leaving that section red & maybe give it a dark red wash to bring out the pattern a bit. Oh well, I guess with these old kits, you make due with what you get. Steve I think what you did is great! A little artistic license keeps things from getting stale. That's why I went over to "the dark side" and started doing traditional hot rods and customs instead of replica stock. That, and looking at the info from a friend's '59 Merc C.&U. book and realizing AMT has the pleats where the buttons should be and the buttons where the pleats go in their '59! May as well make it a custom!
StevenGuthmiller Posted June 5, 2014 Author Posted June 5, 2014 I think what you did is great! A little artistic license keeps things from getting stale. That's why I went over to "the dark side" and started doing traditional hot rods and customs instead of replica stock. That, and looking at the info from a friend's '59 Merc C.&U. book and realizing AMT has the pleats where the buttons should be and the buttons where the pleats go in their '59! May as well make it a custom! I Know what you mean. I've never been a huge "stickler" when it comes to being 100% accurate with my builds. I just like the "stock" look. So I build them to look stock with maybe a few personal "embellishments". I've always just loved that pastel paint, wide white, dripping with chrome look & I always will. Never been a big custom guy. If I go to a show, while everybody else is drooling over the tricked out '32 Ford, I'm out in the parking lot staring at the so-so '56 Plymouth one of the other show goers arrived in. Steve
StevenGuthmiller Posted June 7, 2014 Author Posted June 7, 2014 (edited) Just a couple of scratch built pieces I did for the '60 Merc tonight. Shift lever, rear view mirror & antenna. Debating whether to put forth the effort to shoot them with Allclad, or just paint them with Testors chrome silver. Hmmmm. Steve Edited June 18, 2014 by StevenGuthmiller
StevenGuthmiller Posted June 7, 2014 Author Posted June 7, 2014 Thanks guys. All is going pretty well except my usual "window tinting" issues. For the life of me I can't figure out why I've been having such problems with coming up with a good system for tinting windows. I've tried acrylic & enamel paint & have had no luck lately. I'm thinking I'll just go back to the old tried & true system.....Just leave it clear!! It'll save me a lot of frustration! Steve
impcon Posted June 8, 2014 Posted June 8, 2014 This will be a beauty, Steve!!! Yjy carin black is gorgeous, to saythe least. I really appreciate those cars as the first car that I licensed and drove was a '60 Monarch Sceptre 2 door hardtop - white, 430 2bbl, dual range automatic,factory skirts, power windows and seat. It was, as I was to learn years later, one of just over 50 Sceptre 2 door hardtops built that year. I've been watching to a 60 Mercury hardtop to do in white like my car was. For anyone not familiar with the Canadian built only Monarchs, they were basically a Mercury in those years with some restyling. Here's a picture of what my car looked like except it had a black and white interior and it was the cream of the crop -
StevenGuthmiller Posted June 8, 2014 Author Posted June 8, 2014 This will be a beauty, Steve!!! Yjy carin black is gorgeous, to saythe least. I really appreciate those cars as the first car that I licensed and drove was a '60 Monarch Sceptre 2 door hardtop - white, 430 2bbl, dual range automatic,factory skirts, power windows and seat. It was, as I was to learn years later, one of just over 50 Sceptre 2 door hardtops built that year. I've been watching to a 60 Mercury hardtop to do in white like my car was. For anyone not familiar with the Canadian built only Monarchs, they were basically a Mercury in those years with some restyling. Here's a picture of what my car looked like except it had a black and white interior and it was the cream of the crop - That's a beautiful car Gary! Sometimes these Canadian versions were nicer looking than their American counterparts. I'm thinking, this may be one of those. The Parklane may have been what you might call, a little "over embellished". This one looks so clean, almost "racey". I saw "almost" because, after all, it is still a monsterous automobile! Steve
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now