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Nicely detailed, looks great. Fantastic color choice.

Nice! I like it Roger. The display is really cool also.

I’m in!

Cool concept, always nice to see something that is not the usual, often done . It definitely works! I’ m watching

Thank you! I’m shooting for something so out there, that you would never see again. I wanted to paint a cow howling at the moon on it, but I couldn’t get permission, so I scratched it. I will have a couple surprises along the way. I’m also trying to re- hone my airbrush skills, since I got away from custom painting over 30 years ago.

Cool project, following

4 coats of Mr.Color GX112 UV Cut clear. This is where I am caught up. More progress to come soon

I taped out a would be hand painted peace sign on right side and a sun on left, so that the gold/ silver blend would show through. I the made some ghost flames with some light/ dark highlights over a black metallic base, then blended MCW Candy fire red and candy tangerine to complete the 4 color candy blend

I do have a weird sense of humor, more to come

Staying with your every day beater paint job, on to the body. I started with candy hunter green from MCW, blending into MCW Candy lime gold

On to the roof, a little candy hunter green cosmic graphic over silver/ black, skull under gold peal graphics and candy tangerine for the rest of roof

For the canopy roof, your everyday Candy blue fish scale over silver base

Now that I have the basics of what needed to be modified for the chassis to fit, I am going to start on your basic, everyday VW bus paint job. The body has to be together for it to work out properly. After prepping the body by, removing flash, smoothing, I primed and then laid down a base of MCW bright gold metal flake and ultra silver blend

I am going to have all the doors open, and hinge the body. I cut the stock bus floor to fit chassis fairly snugly. I also intend to have as much stock interior as possible to fit the theme.

The chassis is a very different wheelbase, I dissected the funny car chassis to get proper wheelbase, reinstalling differential below driver to accommodate and raise driver to be able to see out window.

I sourced the slightly upgraded power plant and chassis

This build I am starting is part of a Secret Santa build on another site. It is a VW Samba bus that will have a slight alternative to the usual air cooled engine. This will be a very generic, conservative build😁

Great work on that B-1 Francis. By the time you are done, it will look like it was in Wayne county’s shop! Make sure your windows are locked tightly, don’t need anybody smashing that beauty🤣. Seriously though, awesome machine work on those heads. The spark plugs look right at home. Are the headers going to bolt to the heads also?

Spectacular!!! The intricate machine work in the timing cover area, the brass expansion plugs, mounting bosses, just WOW! I haven’t touched a model in months now, this is certainly stimulating those needs again Francis.

Wow Francis, that looks so real that I can smell the racing fuel from the Southern US!

Warps aside, it looks great! Your applications of paint, details far outweigh AMT’s quality control. I would certainly display it! Well done, indeed!

Awesome work on the tray Francis. I love the terminal ends, much better than the photo etched I used.

Very nice. Great work with headliner, brake lines, wiring!

Outstanding work Tim! Sorry to hear about the bicep, may you get through it quickly

Incredible work Francis! I have been away for a while, so did not see your progress for a couple months. All I can say is WOW,WOW , WOW! Between the brakes, suspension, radiator and styrene work, all amazing!