Foxer

The devil is in the details and I suspect you are on first name basis. Simply beautiful and convincing detail and finishes!

The Show of Shows. I'm planning to be there again this year. Hope to meet a lot more of ya all.

Awesome looking. That guy DOES keep up with the wash and waxing. The engine is spectacular looking.

Us New Englanders know what you're talking about! I like the flying shovel!

That doesn't sound pleasant .. hope you're doing ok.

Not too many photos at all. I think many will appreciate the detailed procedure you've shown on how you did the top chop. and all is looking good!

Very nice! Detailing looks well done.

Congratulations .. that's a major rush!

I feel the 356 style rims are a much needed item for older VW's. They are done so well and have so many possibilities.

The imaginations working in this build are running way over the top and I'm loving every bit! Everything looks fantastic in here.

I like how all of those are looking. Nice bodywork. I'm a loving this busmania going on here too!!

Woot! Glad you got it and that Mustang in the works photo was worth it!

That's looking great. One long frame with nice looking details. and a perfect perch for that Allison!

I'd suggest making sure your browser is the latest version. There was a lot of problems people were having when the forum software was updates recently. That could explain the problem seeing an attached image. Otherwise, some good advice here. It's usually just some "minor" thing so don't give up.

That sounds like a great project! Would love to see a WIP of this puppy. The new Revell Samba is defiantly a well detailed kit.

ah ..the Gunze rims. They do match the ones I measured off the kit I have ,, and the tires you sent measure MUCH better the real ones as can be seen in the chart!

that's defiantly REAL snow you all got down there! Here in New England there's patches of grass showing through the snow cover .. MODEL!

I'm getting back into this one and, while waiting for some paint, I investigated the wheels and tires in various kits to determine which is the closest to the originals. The various Type 2 kits are all a 1963 model year which appears to have had the same size tires as the ’56 I am modeling. The original tire size in 1956 appears to be 560-15's as close as I can find. This is a '56 Bug standard tire and unless someone can confirm the Type 2 used a larger tire, this is what I'm using to check available tire sizes. The '63 Beetles also had 560-15 tires according to Coker Tires and possibly a 80 aspect ratio. VW Dave graciously sent me a set of rims, tires and hubcaps that are void of the wheel slots and seems to scale out close to the actual tire dimensions. The rims are resin cast and possibly are copies from the Herbie kit, but Dave will have to confirm this. At any rate, thanks Dave and these will be mounted on my ’56. The chart below lists all the tire info I could locate and measure on the VW kits I have here plus some 1:1 tire dimensions. As you can see, dimensions are all over the place. Hope some of you VW crazies can get something out of this. (unfortunatly, I couldn't find this table when I updated to Fotki)

Very nice job on the sectioning. This is not the easiest thing to learn bodywork on and I commend your work. Th ecar looks great with all that height removed!

these are looking cool. Jack um up and get in the dirt!

and, it came with the duct tape already in place? Nice buy!!!

Been watching every step of the way. Awesome build, Shane. It came out looking fantastic!

Good luck with all the snow DOWN there. We UP in New England are wondering what you all are talking about as we bask in the SUN! Hope the one on the way, which won't be touching us either, doesn't do any damage. Weather is weird.

Looks as clean when just off the showroom floor. Very nice build!

It that an ENGINE in the Aston??!!! Looks very nice.