Mr.Zombie

They moved the forum to a new server. Many topics got lost, don't worry, not only yours. If you can please restore at least the pics. It's for sure a unique subject, I love the car, never seen a built one of these.

The wheels are painted different depending on the year, according to the instructions the outer ring should be white and the inner part black. But that's Deluxe or export versions as far as I know. I found this pic: And thought that it was a great color combo that is a bit funky. And I dig the rusted hubcaps. So since wheels are not welded on a car it is probable that in the past 20 years someone just bought good tyres that happened to be mounted ob green wheels...

When I was a kid my uncle had a bug. It's my earliest automotive memory, I have pics with that car when I was maybe 2 years old. And this bug was red and had eyes on the hood, at some point the car got a respray and I've never seen pics of it with those eyes, but I remembered that it had some. As I built "Mothers Worry" I had eye decals left over and thought of them as I put this one together. Only because of those eyes this model is red, I planned to build a friends bug out of that kit, changed my mind after I pulled those eyes out of my stash. Later a guy from Poland etched the numberplates for me, I modeled the bear after my bear that I have for years now, and the newspaper on the passengers seat is from 1981, the year I was born... The original bug never was that rusty though. Thanks for your kind comments.

I did, was perfect, but left some BMF glue on the windows, I put them in thinking that I will clean them once in place but alcohol didn't work, I just scratched the windows and destroyed the BMF. Lucky me, 1966 bugs chrome trim is metal and rusts.

Nope. There were more things planned for the interior but I just tried out some things like the ripped front seat, carpets, hornring out of a paperclip (because painted looks dumb, and paperclips aren't round but square, perfect for hornrings), scratching the dials and that's it, I could go further but you don't see a single thing thru the windows. Nothing. Bumpers... Strangley those are the details where I'm most pleased with the results. Dunno if they look painted. Thanks for your comments. Glad you enjoy it.

Here's some detail pics I made during the construction. The Teddy was modeled after a real Teddy I have since I was little, the suitcase is just a generic item, buit out of plastic and metal scraps... Engine got wires and hoses... Somwhere it the middle of the build... Thanks, have a nice day.

A few more...

More pics.

Hello, This is my 1966 Bug by Tamiya. Very nice kit, only the rear window was difficult to fit in and I had trouble removing the glue from Bare Metal Foil from the windows, and almost destroyed the glass. I replaced few elements, superdetailed the engine and scratchbuild a bear and a suitcase for the interior. Painted with spraycans and Tamiya acrylics, rust made using Mr. Satoshi Arakis method of scaring plastic with a knife, but refined a little to make it a bit more believable.

Great as is, cream wheels would make it a toycar. This is real right there.

Cool! I love the real thing, so fresh.

Great model Harry, awesome to see it again. I'd like you to make some kind of tutorial about the paint. I love the "reserved" shine and how clean you paint. I simply can't achieve shiny surfacers...

And the rest. Thanks, have a nice day. My car, just for comparsion...

Here is a few more, thanks for looking... Engine details...

Hello, My original post was lost during the move, I can't restore it, but I can restore the pics. So here she is again, my 1929 Tudor Jalopy. Conversion of Revell and Monogram 1929 Pickup and 1931 Sedan to get a 1929 Tudor. Modelled after my real car, 200+ scratch build elements, heavy cutting, painted with Citadel acrylics and artsy oils, weathered with pastel chalks, pencils, oils. Check out the keys in the ignition...

My ain't a rat rod.

I guess this is the last post in the workbench. I still have some tiny details to finish, but I'd say I'm at 99% with this build. The engine is complete, and between kit parts and tons of scratchbuilding I came to a point where I can't add a single detail, as everything there is on the real car, I managed to scale down and add to the model engine. The interior got a detailed steering wheel, shifter, handbrake... Needs just seatmounts and it will be done... I filled the seam between the body and the mudguard with stretched sprue, built a light and license plate holder... What's left: - Seat mounts - radiator cap - gas cap - door detail - paint corrections - dusting Thanks for looking, see you in "Under Glass".

Well, the wheels were brand spankin' new, with quite clean tyres when I had it running first, so I won't do much more than add some dust on those. But the car needs a full treatment with dust to kind of put it all together.

Hello. One might think not much happened over past days, but I did alot of tideous things. I managed to connect the fenders and the frame after I painted the insides, and I actually glued the body on aswell. Unfortunalley there's a tiny gap between the aprons and the body, and it took me not until too late to figure out why, I should have sanded down a tiny bit of the rear kickup! But I didn't, instead I'm left with these gaps that I will fill with pieces of rubberband (you can see that there's a gap only when you look at the model with lightsource behind it), the gaps left between the rear quarters and the fendes will be filled with stretched grey sprue as my car has some rubber seals there like VW bugs. I almost finished detailing the engine as now everything was together, I connected the coil to the distributor, connected the scratch built tiny condensator, I added a fuel line (might add that modern fuel filter too, at laest I have an Idea how to build it, and I didn't glue it just hooked it in place like on the real thing), almost finished detailing the firewall, needs only a gasket and the VIN Plaque, I hooked up a scratchbuilt choke rod out of a guitar string, two tubes out of injection needles and a spring that I made out of a lenght of a very thin wire wrapped around a drill of the same diameter as the rod. I made a rod that steers the advanced ignition on the real thing, including it's mount and a tiny spring on the steering collumn, I added a screw on the waterpump, but I think I build it again as it's not making me happy just yet. I also built that rod on the starter, it's a piece of a pin sitting in a hole in the firewall with the pinhead serving as the starter button. My car has only one radiator support, I built that out of a piece of needle or wire that was rusted, it just adds that much realism to the whole thing. I also made my own headlights, the only kit items I used were the buckets and the lenses that I drilled out so that I had only the rings left, everything else was scratch built, the support is a piece of wire, the mounts are pieces of tubing with some PE screws, and a piece of thin wire as a cable, done. There's two things I'm not happy with, and two things that are missing in the engine bay. Once I'm done with those, then there'll be virtually nothing more to add around the engine as everything that the original car features is in place. These little jobs cost me alot of time, as I'm not very good at scratchbuilding those details. If you think that I shake this car out of my sleeve, then you think wrong. Even a detail like the fuelline that consists only out of 3 pieces took me two tries until it was as thin and delicate as I wanted. The sparkplugs are the fourth literation, the choke rod is I think the fifth or sixth. I built most of these twice as the first version always seems clumsy and too big... By now I added 171 scratchbuild pieces, and I wonder if I'll get it to 200 ... Here are some pics of the whole thing. What it needs still is the steering wheel including the levers for throttle and ignition, a minus cable to the battery, VIN plaque, radiator and gas caps, rear light, rearview mirror, passenger door glass, and some other tiny bits and pieces. Then I can actually concentrate on correcting the paint and then it's hopefully a wrap... Thanks for looking.

Todays progress. Added a coil and a regulator, wired (not glued to the engine yet) painted the firewall, added some details, repainted some bits. Please notice the tiny loops for closing the hood, they'll recieve some little hooks next. Thanks.

Thank you very much. I worked on it over the past few days, but haven't got much to show as I mostly corrected the paintjob, painted the exhaust and did other more or less boring things so I could move on. Can't wait till I glue the frame and the body together so I'll be left with plumbing the engine and can concentrate on finishing the paint and less annoying details than the interior. Here's one pic of the inside of the door though, you can see the 18 scratch pieces doorframe and the window winding mechanism that gies it a bit more realism. You can also see that I need to sand the doorposts yet again... Ohwell...

Yea, but it's a Flattop. I need a "normal" roof. Besides, I never know what to think of that Modelhaus webside, no pics, no nothing, descriptions are not really helping alot... I was honestly hoping for some JoHan promo or whatever. The car I'd like to replicate will live off the exterior anyway... I wrote that guy Tom a mail, let's see if he answers.

Hello. I'm looking for info/links. I'd like to build a 1959 Batwing Chevy, but I can't find any info on who made one, I think I saw one pic of a Monogram kit, but it's long out of stock. And I mean the sedan, not convertible or pickup. Then I'd like to know if there was ever a fourdoor version of it. Maybe resin? How, what needs to be redone to make a 2 door into a moredoor? The roofline seems to be the same, so theoretically it'll be a matter of rescribbeling the doors, doorposts, doorcards, done? All info would be much apreciated. Thanks.

Hello again. James, the grime is a mix of black artists oli paint and very soft pencil ( like 5B) grinded down to powder on a piece of sand paper. You either mix that powder with the paint to get "grease", or, like on the transmission, tap the paint on your element (to get a surface texture) and sprinkle it on while the paint is fresh, then you can either wait, or brush the dust carefully off of or whatever. You can use the graphite powder on a brush to kind of "polish" it into the plastic. There's tons of effects you can achieve. Just experiment. The project is moving very slowly forward, mostly because of the interior that I have to do, but I'm not in the mood to do... Hate interiors... That's mine... The seats were wrong in the kit, or better, they were not the ones I have in my car, therefore I buld them out of sculpey, sanded in the texture and glued a piece of very thin styrene rod around the seam... Then æpainted to match my cars design. That's what I ended up with: I drew a shark mouth on the side of my car with chalk, as I wanted to see how it'll look like, on the model I drew it on with a very sharp white crayon... Here's some more comparsion shots of my car and the current state of the model... Ummm... Yea... There's still a fair ammount of work to do, especially when I look at the pics, tons of chipping need to be either reduced in size, or changed shape to a more random, and less blooby apperance...

Thank you for your kind comments. Well, the resin body looks wrong. The doorgaps are crooket, the cowl is absolutley wrong. Surley not more difficult to straighten that out than what I did. The AMT Kit is okay I guess. The shape of the cowl is wrong here too, but at least it has some nice part separation making it easy to build as far as I could see it on an Ebay auction photo. I also dig the original wheels, I sure would like those, but the rest ain't as good as in the Revell '29 truck, so I guess even if I knew, and actually had the AMT kit, I'd still kitbash it... So dunno... Over the last couple of days I just painted a little, the fenders recieved the first coats of dirt and grime, the chassis got some more oil, the radiator has now some leaky streaks, the body is almost ready minus the shark teeth that I drew on with chalk only on my real car at that point I'm building it and minus some dust. I need to redo many spots on the fenders though, the dirt is too prominent on some areas, or too blooby and undefined in terms of shape somewhere else, but at least it gives me a pic of what it'll be like when done. I should slowly finish the interior so I can glue the whole thing together and add last details on the cowl, connect the choke and advanced ignition cables, coil and so on...