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
