51 Merc.
Cruiser "Satans Terror"
Satans Terror was a AMT 49
Mercury kit. It was a model I had built when I first started building again. I had put some
flame decals on
it, and one day I decided I wanted to take the
decals off, well I tried
removing them and ended up messing up the paint job on it. I had painted the Merc
with a metallic lacquer, and it was thick, well to strip it I couldnt
use lacquer thinner or acetone because they would melt the plastic, and
then I remember
what brake fluid did to paint, so I tried it, and
it worked! It took
about 24 hrs. and a little scrubbing, but I got
all the lacquer off, and the body was
in perfect shape.
Now, what to do with it, I had already built a stock,
custom convertible, woody
and a chopped, channeled, section, and shaved AMT 49
Mercury, I want
something different. A 51 Merc, yeah thats it. Well I
brought out the saw &
body filler and away I went. First things first, off with the roof,
I dropped it 3
scale inches, slanted the B pillars, and to see if people
would
notice, I left the 49 rear window in it. Next I had to
build up the rear quarter
panels, BONDO to the rescue, I keep putting it on and sanding it down until I got
it just right.
The tail lights are from a piece of spruce, filed down and
polished. Now it was
time for the front. I frenched the head lights, molded the top
grill section and
turned it upside down for the grill opening, puttied that and the
roll pan to the
body. I sanded the Merc down, washed it, and primed it, its
time to paint it a
sapphire blue over the black primmer, or so I thought.
Time to paint, Ive got the paint mixed, airbrush
out, and ready to go, NOT,
I start painting, and the model falls off its holder onto the
floor, the hole
roof section has broken off. OK I put every thing away, went back
and fixed it.
A few days later, Im ready again, NOT, I drop it again, I
dropped this sucker a
total of 4 times, all right before, or while I was painting it. Well
by the 4th time
I was ready to slam-it. Up to this point I have never dropped a
model before,
at least not by accident, so my wife says to me "maybe
its possessed or it just
doesnt want to be painted" and I thought about it for
awhile, maybe she was
right. I got it all fixed up and shot it in black primmer and left
it alone. This is
how it got the name "Satans Terror".
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