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You mean that bicycle? It's from Fujimi kit. That oil that is draining from engine is just simply heated and streched polystyrene. After this I naturally painted it with black.

With... bare metal foil! After I laid down the foil, I sanded it with fine paper. After that I washed it with very very very thin black. It "turns the shine off nicely. I think it's more realistic that way.

I thought I had a topic about this model but I can't find it... This is a model about a 1:1 car that I owned years ago. After I sold it I built this model. I tried to create all details. I used AMT' 62 convertible as a base. Roof is from some old kit. About those orange things... Those are called vent window reflectors. If you check this link, you can see a photo about 1:1 thing. http://media.photobu...m/020310001.jpg I changed those to orange at my 1:1 car. At model I used simply clear thin tape and orange marker pen. The real thing:

Thank you for asking! I thouhgt I had a topic about this model too, but I can't find it anymore... I created a new topic for this model, there is also explanation about those orange little things

Thank you! Well, headlights do come from Tamiya 1300 Beetle. I just painted those frames black. About taillights... They come from polystyrene. I scratch built those. This car isn't VW Thing, or Type 181. Please Google Country Buggy and you'll get tons of pictures about this rare car!

Thank you again for your compliments! The lettering under the paint is made with Letraset letters. About cooler: it's totally scratchbuilt. I used styrene to make the box itself. Before painting I wrapped it with foil. Then after painting it was easy to get that worn look. Those little metal parts are also scratch built. Couple of those are pe parts. Well, actually I'm going to have these frames for sale. I do have my own little pe brand. I just have a couple of different products, but this will be the next product!

I glued thin plastic rod around tube. After that I used small amount of putty to smoothen that area. I painted these with light brown. I used darker brown at these "knots". I used different materials with these bamboo sticks. Bumbers are pvc-tube. Antenna and gear shift are metal vire. Rails at back are ps-tube.

Thank you. I have been at this forum for some years, but I'm not posting too much I have about 6-7 models at this under glass-section. You can also see all my models from my web site, link below.

Hello I want to share this model with you also. This is Australian made and quite rare car called Country Buggy. I used as much parts from different VW kit as possible, but I also had to scratch built a LOT.

Hello! I have had this kind of painting theme in my mind for a while. I thought that it would fit quite well to a beetle. Also I'm building VW's quite a lot. I chose Gunze Sangyos oval window beetle, because it's curbside. I didn't want to focus on engine. So I tried to create something quite psychedelic, but still realistic. At interior I had somekind of show car in my mind. Once again, I opened the roof and scratch built the sun roof. The whole painting is painted freehand with brush. I used 1-Shot enamels and Alan Johnson brush. I also added some details, such as that eye ball to antenna and that mushroom gear shift knob. Please see also those exhaust pipes Wheels are classic BRM. Those are from Japan, and are made out of aluminium.

Hello! Here is my Hasegawa Type 2 Volkswagen. This is former service car of airport of Easter Island... Now it's owned by a local surf shop. I tried to add as much bamboo as I could. I also scratch built some stuff. That gear shift knob is carved from polyurethane. Hula lady is also totally scratchbuilt. I opened the roof and scratch built that sun roof. Safari frames are photoetched parts, couldn't find any from markets, so I designed my own ones. Totally scratch built cooler. Seats are made out of brass and metal wire Metal wire+little palstic parts+cotton+glue+paint= hula girl You may see that "AIRPORT SERVICE" text under the brown paint just below windshields.

Thank you all for your compliments. I'm visiting this forum too little, so I haven't read this topic for a long time.

Hello, This time I finished this fully scratch-built Finnish Moped from seventies. I used tires from a toy moped, I designed photoetched parts and decals but I didn't manufacture those myself. Everything else is scratch-built. Scale for this model is 1:24, so it's 74 millimetres long. If you would like to see some pictures I took during this project, you can see those at our Finnish scale model forum: FCMA (sorry, text is Finnish only). There is also an old ad about this moped: Tunturi ad

The base kit for this build is Tamiya VW 1300 Beetle. For that 4 door conversion I had to shorten those front doors a bit. I tried to imagine as much accessories as possible. Some are like original VW parts and some not. I had also this idea, that this VW is coming from Lapland (Northern part ohf Finland), thats why those skis, suitcase and horns of reindeer. Almost all additional accessories and parts are scratch built. That Michelin man is made out of Milliput.

I used Revells Westfalia kit as a base, but I scratch built a lot. That rear part is made out of styrene. I I tried to use as much innovative materials as possible. For example those curtains are made out of serviettes... That longest antenna is actually made of guitar string. This model represents Finnish motorhome, so there is a lot of Finnish stuff. I didn't use any particular 1:1 motorhome as example when I built this. Still I tried to pick all the details of these kind of cars.

I actually mixed some wheat flour and water based glue. I used toothpick for "welding". After I made those weld beads, I painted them with gun metal and brown to get that rusty outlook.

This build is one of my numerous VW Beetle based models. I used mainly Tamiya kit but I also took some parts from Mr Hobby kit. Whole bed is scratch built. I tried to create a look how these kind of little pickups were in Finland at 50's and 60's. So there isn't much luxury. That logo in the door is creation of my own imagination. It says "Fruits and vegetables of Karapolvi" ...Karapolvi is my home address.

Thank you all for your compliments! Again some answers to you: horsepower: I'm not so good with Photoshop Peter Lombardo: Before I sold this car I took dozens of pictures because I knew I was going to build a model out of it at some day. crazyjim: Those bullet shaped valve caps are actually cutted from a pin needle. Alyn: The paint of this model is mixed from white and yellow Humbrol. I just mixed those when it seemed to look right. I think, that It's not important to match scale paint to a 1:1 paint, because same colour can look a bit different in real life and for example in 1:25. I think that it's important, that It LOOKS same.

Thank you all! Maybe I dare to show you some other builds as well... Some answers: Yes, those bumber bolts are pin heads. I bought this 1:1 car from Finland, but It was imported by some other guy at 90's from States. (And it was hard to sell it, at least now I have this model...) I don't any particular tip for tha antenna, I used very thin steel wire and some pieces of polystyrene. I don't have any good shot from the interior, but at this picture you can see something. There you also have a bit better view of engine. This is the real thing. Tried to represent it as well as possible.

This is a model made to represent 1:1 car that I had once. I built this model out of AMT kit. I took that roof from some old 1961 Thunderbird kit. Tires came from Replicas&Miniatures and those photoetched parts from Model Car Garage.

This 1:25 diorama was built for a birthday present. I used mainly these following kits: AMT: Dodge RAM Dually Revell: '69 Shelby GT500 Fujimi: Garage & Tools I also used several left out parts and I scratch built parts a lot. This isn't a exact copy of a real 1:1 garage but there is a lot influences. (I hope pictures aren't too big?)

James, I hope you don't mind if I post my version of this technique here? I built this Volksrod a couple of years ago. I wanted to get this bare metal look and decided to foil it all over. I made those weldings out of waterbased glue. More pictures at: http://www.riemudesign.com/pienoismallit.htm If you want to see building process you can find it from this link.: (I'm sorry, it's only in Finnish.) http://www.fcma.fi/FCMABBS/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5038&start=0