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After hearing that Airfix were doing a re-issue I ordered this and having waited since January this year it arrived yesterday. With my latest regime of not painting the body will main the grey plastic and there will be a riser between the body and chassis to give more ground clearance. Oh and I've ordered another one!

Thanks guys, these new NuNu/Beemax kits are very good!

Superb! Just the genre of racing that I've followed for 50+ years, well done!

Neat! We had 5 Beetles in our family around the same time our first was a 1965 1300cc in dark green, then an Orange one and the last a Light Blue one. Our youngest son had a Black 1600 lowered, and bumper less with a sport exhaust, he then had an American import Karmann 1956 cabriolet that came stripped with a huge box of bits, unfortunately he ran out of money and sold it! That's when he went rogue and bought a water cooled car!

Thanks Rich I have left a coment on there that I recognise the two drivers on there having seen them numerous times a Silverstone over 20+ tears there..

Superb Rich in my days (20+ years) at Silverstone I recognise the two drivers with the car above.

Thanks guys. Rich, what upgrade kit was that please? All I had was the kit plus two sheets of decals.

Nice kit everything fits together nicely. Very good decals, except No. 51 that was too wide for the back panel, so added a black composite panel and a smaller white logo from the other set of decals included in the kit. Although tyre logo's weren't of that era I had some in my decal box so added them anyway.

Oh well I've used it now for 2 years, and to me it's perfect, BMF is too expensive for a pensioner like me to buy in such small sheets.

Well products are called different things in different countries, I'm in the UK your in the States. Here are a few photo's of the product made by Bostick, presumably called Idenden. It's adhesive very much so and polishes up to a very bright finish when laid up.

To me any polish used goes on after all the paint and clear coats not before or during the spray up. The waxes if any in the different types of polish react to any type of paint whether it be acrylic or enamel.

I had all the prob0lems that all of the above have had over the years. A plumber friend left some what he calls 'Plumbers Tape' one day as a reel had nearly run out. A little bit thicker than BMF and nice and sticky I used it on various kits. All needed was a good sharp craft blade. Superb! All I now ask for at my local builders merchants is 'Plumbers Tape'. Oh and it's far cheapy on a big roll instead of a small sheet or two!

Seaplanes my all together favourite! We were in Alaska and took a trip up into mountains and landed on a lake a few thousand feet up, and walked along the floats to get photo's!

Thanks Christopher. Yes nice kits.

An all round superb build, very well done!

Thanks Carl. I tried something different! Than a car!

Same here Daniel. I rode a 125 Lambretta as a teenager and a BSA two stroke 175. A mate of mine's Dad won what was then the 'Football Pools' and bought him a 250 BSA to pass his test and then when he passed his test a Norton Dominator 850cc. What bike that was!

Looking very good to start with! This was my second large F1 kit build after the Lotus when these kits were first released.

I also add my thanks on this subject. The times I've painted the window surround first not realising that the windows are fitted from the outside! Then trying to use a sharpie that's far too wide and getting all over the aperture/door/roof! Masking though again has been a nightmare but I must persevere! Panel lines and using wash is another to mug up on!

PS It was Richard Lloyd that produced the first carbon composite chassis/tub for this car, which made this car faster than the Porsche factory cars.

Yes they still have those horrible rubber/plastic two piece tyres, that don't seem to stick together properly!

Thanks guys. Yes the Tarp, did they think it would save the weight of a shortened steel bonnet? Did they do fibreglass versions back then?

Thanks guys. A very nice kit to start with, I just built it!

Superb! So many changes/additions to make a superb build!

Hi Bruce, super build, I've just come across one of these. My big bugbear is the black trim around windows, now as these fit from the outside we can't paint the body, and there are no window masks supplied how did you do it please?