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thanks guys. I cant take the credit for the roof conversion though, i'm using the same parts Claude did as they worked so well on his

A couple of years back Claude Thibodeau shared a custom new beetle van he had built. The idea has sorta festered until a couple of days ago when my alpine hit a pause (i like to do foil in the sunshine)so it hit the bench. I'm using the rear roof from a revell pt cruiser snap kit and the rest is mostly tamiya new beetle. Now in the vw tuner scene theres a custom style called oem+ and means all the parts come from mostly higher end vw group cars, though some ferrari and mercedes wheels are ok, so thats the style this will be getting. To acheive this i have removed the rear seat from an audi e-tron and used 3d printed seats from blackbox for the fronts. The wheels will be resin bentley continentals. at the moment i'm filing the body to match the bug as the cruiser is much rounder than the bug and this has to look unmodified. The engine is a 3d printed vw r32 vr6 and i might canabalise a fujimi kit to get the 4x4 parts. i want this to appear stockish when its finished

cool wee (small) off roader. my local bus company used one of these as their tow truck for the buses even though they had a proper old army scammell tow truck

if your kit is anything like their a truck you have lots of test fitting to do. every part needs some extra work and your very likelly to find some parts are incomplete on the sprues. my truck had one door that was incomplete too and the front wheels are too small. i've seen some built up nice but with all its problem mine went back in the bx

the ww1 british army used cut down rolls royce as trucks and ambulance. the over engineering worked well and they also armoured them

norm should have got his own show instead of frasier

get one of these and you can brush resin on to repair it. its as easy as brush it on, cure for a minute and repeat until its built up enough. the best bt is it wont fall off and no problems with filler sticking and all for 3 bucks. you can also use the same method to stick back the delamination and if your worried about further delamination you can brush a skin of resin over the inside of hiddens areas https://www.amazon.co.uk/Light-Foldable-Chips-Salon-Narootedkv06rt38e-13/dp/B0D2WLW1FB/ref=sr_1_18?crid=19FAHG0ZITCZE&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.uLR2khOvP01OyiGyO4nUD0lcnMxwmGf9Ho9o9MbPXGy6CVAlFeFlesYg-9OH7R0r0nr2IpzKsMBd7plIFKILYYQWSn8iah_KQWjwGEy27AxYrIJ0pvGjEqSz0YqL20ltzMw__CskEH2x5RlHAXmm2wZ4Vi5T3RH2GkQX0gxFvbeTt_8GmRjHNU5XRbHs7aEvXNbRZWNv6lsFOUlqcXko28aP3UniucjRroYoz7LcsI7nixzdSeufjs9rbIgu6P2ZYd1Pwh_aRkv7a2iR7fl4VINwBRCC6HrGFYRifG6Pzes.CFDyKN3dsMgiJTyx8VYhnAUMzW5mhjO269lslKrygY4&dib_tag=se&keywords=uv+nail+lamp&qid=1727642873&sprefix=uv+nail+lamp%2Caps%2C338&sr=8-18

If i was doing this i'd probably leave the trim and just fill the door gaps as the trim itself looks pretty close and may be correct once the door is stretched. But the top fin i would replace from front to back just to make it one piece and it would allow it to be shaped off the car which would be simpler initially.

perhaps the most famous robin

except for the foose version, its 1/25

yes but use the back edge of the scalpel blade. it holds the line better and is less likely to wobble and slip. if you work slowly and leave the corners til last (makes the rest of the cuts easier as its a little firmer) you should manage it in an hour or two. you might need to add some small tabs behind the dash when you go to remount them so check for anything they might interfere with later. good luck

if you peel back the blue label end, they still do have multi languages. its too small to read without a quantum microscope but it is all there still.

from pics on the internet it looks like you could swap the glove box and gagues around. it would take some careful cutting but both look to be square and the same size which makes it easier. the centre console would also need altered and that is more difficult but not impossible. also maybe theres another version of the kit has both dash included such as an american race version

calling it done for now. a friend is going to help me wire some leds in later to make it a photobox. Tractors are revell and heller with one fergie converted to a 35 like my grandads as a near finished resto

violin s is never the answer

nahunelcustoms on cults does a few and amt did a pymouth

i'd look at z forcemodelworks, they have a load of resized stock rims and being printed you can do them any size

arrrived in scotland today still no sign of 222 though

shouldn't ben dover be a customs agent?

Nice work, i just saw a load of these at a show but my pics didn't turn out very well. your game parts look great when they're all painted up

a ford freda and i'd never heard of it either. i guessed at australian or south african but it turned out to be japanese. pic from interne t

the local model club had a show today. only a couple of cars but plenty armour and military stuff and for the purposes of this post i'm calling the dolls houses dioramas as these def aint toys now. over 300 more pics here https://freeimage.host/album/GQ3zb/?sort=name_asc&page=1&seek=d8pHyt1 i only found out about the show earlier in the week so i didn't display this time but might next time. there one model pictured twice with a lighter in the second pic to show how small it is. the fun fair is all scratched as most of the large action man/ gi joe army vehicles

thanks for the pics, looks like a fun show

cool, these were proper little sleepers

i used tamiya under hok but i put a barrier of automotive clear between them. i also let each layer sit for a week so it was an 8 week process but its worth it for hok