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Since the subject here is scratchbuilding, a short report of a modification job.

This Mercury was a toy from the Big M burger store.
Although a bit too small I liked it because it offers a lot of possibilities to convert it into various rat rods and similar vehicles.
So what to do.
1. Find the two best lines to cut the body
2. Add as many Styrene as neded to get exact dimensions - in this case two sheets of 1.5 mm thickness
3. Glue everything together and let it harden carefully. The filler I used was resolved black styrene. It extends the drying process, but it improves the final shaping because it is black like the body.

On the first picture you see the tools I used, two differently sized Tamiya photoetched micro saws and one of my selfmade razor blade saws.
The latter one I primarily use for surgical operations at plastic people, to change poses etc. It is so thin that you don´t have any noticeable loss of material at the cuts.
The last but one picture shows the primed modified body.
Last but not least the resin cast.

Roland

And it is almost 100 % scale as to the dimensions.

Roland

wow...alot of hours in that dude...great job Roland!

Good work. Now it is up to us who are building in 1/43 scale to post some more stuff. I am betting because the scale is less commercial, there may be more of us then we think. Other scales have the luxury of buying what they like, in most case 1/43 scale guys have to build it.

Anyway good work Roland

Nice! work & pictures :text-bravo:

Mikey

WOW! That is turning out NICE!!!
:text-bravo:

Only a short addition, to save space :

If you want to read a bit about PCB chassis, look there. It is 32 nd scale primarily, but the last picture "story" is from a 43rd scale chassis.
And the basic ideas are the same, no matter which scale.

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Roland