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Cheers John.

Thanks Donald.

Wowee, You've made a super job of this one! There were a lot of these plus Messerschmitt's on the streets here in the UK when I was growing up 1948 onwards. These in particular were easy to park, drive forwards to the kerb, open the 'front' door and step onto the pavement.

Wow Matt, it's a very long time since I've seen one of these! You've made a super job of it too! I saw a lot of these in my nearly 30 years as a marshall at Silverstone just 5 miles away. Yes my father bought me my first pocket money kit (for 2/6) in 1956 an Airfix Spitfire in a plastic bag and that awful stringy tube glue (he was a career RAF Sergeant). I've been building ever since. As a boy I lived in a small village called Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire, nearby there was a hillclimb circuit, and David Brown named his cars after the hill after he started to race his first homebuilt cars there.

My two VW's.........

my two VW Pick-Up's...........

Cheers Chris.

Thanks guys, yes I had a set of Porsche Fuchs alloys with tyres in the spares box so used them on this.

Having spent a while with my previous resin bodied DoKa, I thought I'd build up the Hasegawa kit that I'd copied so many bits from. Firstly my inspiration was the SantaCruz Cycles Truck. So this is mine with shaved door handles, and a few additions, rusty-ish truck floor, sun visor, scratchbuilt wipers/exhaust pipes,truck style rear view mirrors, and borrowed the bikes from the DoKa. Plus home brewed decals.

I saw this on Google........... Which on reading The Samba website is only a photoshop of what they were thinking of building in 2015. So having a Hasegawa kit I've got this far yesterday, with my own home made decals. The 'Cruz' ones have peeled off so I'm in the process of printing some more.I found the Porsche Fuchs rims and tyres in a spares box...................................

Cheers Jake.

Stance perhaps but you have 5 spokes that look like Porsche Fuchs rims, as I have on my next build a VW single cab Hasegawa kit.

Oh Rusty! Superb Chuck!

Fantastic VW Michi, I only just finished a Scale Production.de resin Double Cab with Safari windows and various other bits.........

I've recently built a double cab DoKa. A resin transkit by Scale Production.de including front seat, roof rack, mountain bikes and various other bits from the parts box....... and various VW engined beach buggies like this Manx.............. which includes one of my cast surfboards and home brewed decals.

You did very well getting all that for just $20. Here in the UK you'd be talking £20 per box!

Superb build. We had a lot of these on the roads in the day and still have a big following at classic car race events and BMW club meetings too.

Yes try that out when you build up something similar, we all have different ideas, but need to try them out.

OK but just go onto YouTube as I do and ask what you want to see built and you'll be surprised what comes up! I save all manner of plastic things I see in normal day to day living and think of what I can use things for. Get an old kit and some spares you've saved and see what you can create. It took me a while to try a few things and initially got measurements wrong for example but I persevered and am still learning at 69! The Safari windows don't have any instructions so I went onto YouTube to see how they fit the real ones, that sorted it!

Cheers Carl.

Yes a lot of head scratching!

Dan, Revell do a T3 Camper kit, you just need to cut part of the back off!

Yes I can imagine how heavy the steering was although most of the weight was at the back!

Thanks Dan for the pics. We have lot's of those of all types in the UK and nearly all diesels.

Thanks Jim, although most of Scale Productions lineup is resin cast, the roof rack and a few other things are in plastic and possibly done on a 3D printer.