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Very nice work! I love the color and the engine detail! Dave

Nice work! I really like what you've done so far! Dave

Wow, amazing weathering! I love seeing your work! Dave

Nice work! I love it! VW's are so versatile! Dave

Interesting weather in Prescott. I live in Dewey which is about 15 miles away and a few weeks ago we had the worst monsoon ever. 3" of rain in a hour with 2" of hail. Some of the hail was 1 1/2"! About 100 homes in our development are getting roofs replaced this week. Mine has some pock marks but it held up.....I had it replaced last year. Dave

stavanzer, Thanks for the nice comment. The grill is from the Lincoln Futura. Dave

I have Exactos and they are great! I also have a couple of those cheap ones and the blade keeps loosening. I will try your fix. Thanks for the tip! Dave

Here's another one. Its a shortened van.

Here's my '53 with slight modifications.......

No I dont. Just use either water based or acrylic paint.

I've used very thin foam plates from the Dollar store they seem to work fine. The plate bottom is very thin and you can do a tuck and roll, diamond pleat or any other design. If you think foam is too thick you can grind some of the seat down smooth and add the foam. Paint with acrylic paints as any oil paint will melt the foam. Dave

This is my daily ride.

Thanks for your comments! Dave

I had bought most of an AMT School Bus that was a total mess of a glue bomb at NNL East about 15 years ago and it sat in my parts box since then. Quite a bit of it was unsalvageable due to a huge amount of glue someone used. Much of the plastic had melt marks from the old glue. I took apart as much as I could but the plastic was very brittle so I was only able to save parts of it. Since I retired four years ago and moved to Arizona I have been going to coffee with a bunch of other retirees. Most are car guys and they love my model creations. We call ourselves the OGCC (old guy coffee club). I decided to build a courtesy bus model to honor the members. I took what I could salvage from the School Bus and altered it quite a bit. I added part of the roof from the Tom Daniels Street Fighter and the front from his Paddy Wagon. The headers, rear tires and wheels are from the 1/12th scale Popcorn Wagon they seemed to work. The engine needed to be large so I used a Ford 426 and the criss-cross carb set up from the Paddy Wagon. The pics are an early mock-up and I’m not using the top of the engine and headers shown. I also made some rear fenders that aren’t shown. The front fenders (also not shown) will be widened front fenders from the Paddy Wagon. All I have left to do is everything else! Thanks for looking and I hope you like it. I am always open for constructive criticism. Dave

Beautiful work! Great patina and design. Dave