Re: Odd request, not for the faint of heart!
Today was a good day. Let's see how the hearse is coming along...<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/011.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>I made a cardboard template to fit just inside the rear windows and used that to cut out these two pieces of styrene. They were glued in place with cyanoacrylate, because two hard perfectly smooth surfaces against each other is what super glue is best at.<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/013.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>Here's a cardboard template for the window itself fitted once the backing plates are glued in. That detail with the vent lines aft of the window is recessed somewhat, but the overall thickness between the outer surface proper and the inner surface is constant. That allows us to fit....<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/014.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>...styrene plates whose thickness matches the thickness of the pillars, cut to match the cardboard template and glued in place. Super glue or plastic cement will work here. I used a little of both. I've also cut two tiny rectangles to fit the notches I left in place to frame the new back door chrome.<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/015.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>Another view.<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/016.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/017.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>Putty! Don't worry that it's not very neat. It'll get at least three or four layers, and probably more like six or eight before it gets primer. Putty is all about smearing it on, sanding it off, smearing more on, and sanding almost all of it off. After a while you get all the holes filled in and the shape right.<br><br>This is 3M prosumer level solvent-based putty. It says it's sandable in half an hour, but not with the grits you need to use on something this small. With 60 grit, sure, you can be working at it on the 1:1 car in half an hour, but I let it dry over night before I start to shape.<br><br>- E<br>
Re: Odd request, not for the faint of heart!
<!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/018.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/019.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>After first sanding....<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/020.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/021.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>After second putty application and second sanding....<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/022.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>Third putty application...<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/023.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/024.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>While waiting for the third coat of putty to dry, I modified the base to accept the wider tires.<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/025.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>The body needed to be mod'd too to accept wide tires in front.<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/026.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>Some built-up bits in the nose to hold the new straight front axle.<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/027.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>Proportion and appearance check! Third coat of putty sanded down. For this coat, I did all the sanding with an emery board -- a dozen two-sided, two-grit boards come from Target in the cosmetics section for about a buck! It's important that the later putty coats come down with a board -- or with sandpaper on a solid backing -- for the same reason that you block sand a 1:1 car with a 2x4. If you don't, your finger/hand conforms to the surface and you get waviness. You want FLAT, so you make the putty conform to the abrasive. Note the small darker red spot just over and to the rear of the door handle. That means it needs a fourth coat...<br><br>Hmmmm... y'all notice that the doors in back have handles but the doors in front DON'T? That's not right! Should I...<br><br>(a) Smooth the rear handles.<br>(b) Make tiny little front door handles to match.<br>(c) Smooth the rears and fab more modern units.<br>(d) or, ahhhhhhhhhh.... smooth the rears and fab more modern units in a suicide door configuration????<br><br>- E<br><br><br>
Re: Odd request, not for the faint of heart!
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Re: Odd request, not for the faint of heart!
<!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/028.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>Looked at engines from the Morris Wagon, Flattery, Tooned Impala, Altered State, and Shift Kicker. The Altered State has better proportion, but the blower on the Shift Kicker is sized correctly for 1/43. This is the Shifty Kicker engine with the bottom half, front axle, and Moon fuel tank ground off.<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/029.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>Had to grind a lot more of those steering linkage posts out. All of them, in fact, to clear the engine.<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/030.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>Sixth coat of putty and blower hole.<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/031.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>Gonna try to find a better blower scoop with some carb detail and grind this one off. This is the best blower and the best blower drive pulley detail... but with a trade off as far as the scoop goes. Original rear door handles gone. Putty ready for paint on the sides ... just needs one more block sand on top. Putty around new rear door opening now.<br><br>- E
Re: Odd request, not for the faint of heart!
~Ed <br><br>Don't forget to check out www.theredlineworld.com for more redline fun!<br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v36/fairy***mother/Nothing%20Important/Edward.jpg"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END-->
Re: Odd request, not for the faint of heart!
Saw that, Ed. She has our best wishes for a speedy recovery. I've been fortunate to never have suffered kidney stones... partly because I've had *three* close friends who did. Their experiences convinced me to drink lots and lots of water.<br><br>Here's some more....<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/032.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>Ah, now here's the perfect engine! Big, ornate, dual quad Holley float bowl detail, good blower belt. Seems like it might befit a hearse. This is from the Tee'd Off, also called Fore Wheeler...<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/033.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>Some bits to hold the front axle in place an to hold the engine up.<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/034.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>Ready for primer, the Fore Wheeler engine in place.<br><br>- E<br>
Re: Odd request, not for the faint of heart!
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Re: Odd request, not for the faint of heart!
That Mercury's looking phenomenal!
Re: Odd request, not for the faint of heart!
Thanks for the comments guys.<br><br>I did a little diecast huntin' over lunch at a local Walmart, and I found some wheels that are a bit Old(er) School. I think they're perfect. They give the car a nice classic Fantastic Plastic sort of rake when the car is sitting on them. What do you think?<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/035.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://eric-peterson.org/images/MercuryHearse/036.jpg" style="border:0;"><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>This is the body-in-white, ready for a wet sand. Doesn't look like it needs any more putty.<br><br>The little bit of roughness visible inside the roof to the rear will be hidden by the curtains and photoetch frame of the new tailgate window.<br><br>I have an interesting design for the landau bars that will grace the blank panels. Have to find a way of presenting that sub-task work-in-progress....<br><br>- E
Re: Odd request, not for the faint of heart!
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