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I painted the van this morning. Right up until I picked up the can it was going to be white or black but for some unknown reason I knowingly picked up the gold pearl instead followed by hok brandywine. I guess this means the interior is going to be tan leather with a matching dash (onlt because I forgot to paint it and matching the body will be near impossible now. Not easy to get a good pic of the colour but it closer to the dark pic where you can see my attempts to block the flash after i gave up trying to figure out my camera, lol. I'm going to let it sit for a couple of days before I clear it but I hope to get a decent shine out of the can

Nice work, it looks like one of the Aussie show cars

If it evergreen strips ordinary poly cement bons pretty quick so you wouldn;t need to worry too much about bending it if its thin strips, Just hold it in place for a few minutes with clamps and within ten mins you can take them off. It doesn't seem to work with plastruct though so I would use super glue there if its not too tight and rought up both bonding surfaces first so it bonds better. Be sparing with both cos it can be a pain it it squishes out and wastes a lot of time

I only work one week (84 hours) in four including a couple days to get used to days again, I'm at the bench every day. I dont have a seperate model room, my living room is my model room and I got rid of my tv to make room for my bench

My custom order wheels arrived from Dimitry at diolex production today. He already does these rims in15" sizes but I asked if it would be possible to get them in 17" for the radas and raiders (both sets of 5 spokes) and 18" for the brms I also got one of the mk2 golf rallye 3d prints which is for the fujimi golf kits And from ARM in france I got a 3dr mk3 golf resin but the rear windows look too short to me

I assure you its not, the guy doing the work is using all the original parts he can. Sure theres a lot of new metal but mark spicer is not someone that replaces the entire panel, he uses the new panels for patches but most is original metal and more original paint than the as found pic would let you think. I reccomend taking an hour or two to read through it, theres much more work than just driving a new one under it

Thought this might interest some of you. This is the second vw samba ever built and it is being restored in a very different way. It was found after being left for decades in a german forest/field so it was in a very poor state. The resto is different to most as they are saving as much original metal and believ it or not paint as possible. In the pics of the resto all the sealing wax red areas are original paint. When you see the as found pics its hard to believe anyone would restore it https://blog.entfallteiledienst.de/ Its a german site but its all written in english

I've done it, I used grey primer then white primer followed by the top coats

Nice job, I didn't realise the parts to build it stock were included. Still have a soft spot for the euro fords. Is it 1/25 or 1/24?

maybe usps are in charge of delivering them, lol

I think I'll stick with my vented outside booth, the vent is why i have it cos the fumes hurt me

The first vehicle I drove was a early 60s fordson tractor. I was around 12 and the lesson consisted of thats the steering, thats the throttle and those are the brakes but you dont need to worry about them cos they dont work anyway. OK I'll see you there.... and the guy cleared off and left me with what amounted to 4 wheels and and engine with a seat rusted on the back. The first road vehicle I drove was a 1971 vw bus that was lhd. Surprised a few farmers whn it would go most places their landies could, and got stopped by the cops loads cos whys a kid driving

Got another tamiya karmann ghia, unfortunately the roof got damaged in the post but the seller was 100% and gave a full refund. I've also got more tamiya bugs and a revell mk1 on the way along with a 3d printed golf rallye body and some special order air cooled type wheels in larger sizes. Theres a recent arrival foose pick up that came with a nice set of tweezers free from davecoleysemporium ebay shop and a box of goodies from spot model. also a resin mk3 golf 3 door since the one I'm building from the fujimi kit has snowballed into a bigger project and some mr weathering pencils. I think that it for now

If you right click the pic on your host site it should have an option to copy image url or something similar, then just paste what it gives you into the image link on here and it should work

never seen that toy before, do you know who made it? I'd like one for my vw diecast collection

C1 resin trans kit but I didn't us the interior as it left no room for an engine. Since its a van I used a late model aircooled engine from the t3 bus so its double the usual horsepower for a beetle and a lower engine so the floor isn't too high. Speaking of the floor it a very heavily modifed one from the t3 camper so i could use the engine bay. I've also modifed a set of 70s beetle bumpers to look like early golf gti bumpers. I'm not sure what the wheels are from but they are heavily modified at the rear for maximum dish. Its also slammed but I'm sure you expected that, lol. So thats the 5th vw project i have on the go just now and i think I've managed to keep them all different enough to keep them interesting

Very nice, I like the look of the earlier side vents on the late body. I'll probably have to steal that idea from you

You'll probably find the pegasus brakes are for big diameter rims so you might be better just using the calipers on some appropriately sized washers or even just making your own calipers to use on washers.

Nice project, I think it will work pretty well on the camaro. Are you going for the stupidlong n tall exhausts too?

I build a lot of vws and the whole v.a.g. family of vehicles is my preference. I do build other stuff too and like anything custom. Just now my bench is weighed down with multiple vws but I have a speedboat and some USA pick ups next in line

Further to my post in what irked you, a few months ago, I am pleased to announce that the local council have suspended charging for new bins. This isn't jus a benefit to me, there are hundreds of other people that now wont have to buy a new bin when the binmen damage them.

off the top of my head this one stands out in my memory

I've seen them done with the elements from car headlight bulds and it looked pretty convincing

Not at all sir, I havent tried it on resin though so it may soften it