A few quick pics: 66 Beetle, 32 Ford

[rbarlow1]

Just thought I'd attach a few quick pics of a couple of recent builds. Comments, critiques, ideas all appreciated! I posted the bug in the workshop a while back, worked on it with my daughter - she chose the colors, etc. The Ford was finished pretty quickly - I wanted to see if I could approximate ghost flames (not bad for first go) and figured a big, exposed hemi was a good opportunity to take a first stab at doing some wiring/linkage/fuel lines stuff (i.e., no fancy headers  - though I did have a go at it - or chopping/channeling/etc.) I actually learned a lot about hot rods and hot rodding culture working on it, and I think it was pretty successful for a first go at it. Wife and daughter chose the colors on it too. My next one will probably be very different. 

Next projects (all already in progress): a '62 corvette in Honduras Maroon, a bronze '68 Charger, a deep blue Porsche Carrera GT with photetch, carbon fiber, the whole bit (this one's going really well), and a Lamborghini Sesto Elemento I'm just starting to paint. I'm going to set up some workshop posts for these as I work them to completion.

EDIT: I'm going to take some more pictures of the bug in the morning - the ones I have are no good.

EDIT 2: I just realized there's no driveshaft on the rod. I'll have to track that down, lol!

Edited September 5, 2016 by rbarlow1

[DumpyDan]

Looking good

[Snake45]

I'm not wild about the color purple but I like just about everything else about your '32 5-window. When I get around to building mine, it's going to look very much like yours. I hope it comes out as clean looking.

[crazyjim]

Very nice looking coupe.  Flames not so good.

[ChrisR]

Nice!!

[rbarlow1]

Thanks guys. Yeah Jim, you could mean two things, either of which is probably true. 1) the flames aren't really my thing, but I wanted to try out different bases in a tri coat job. 2) apparently frisket is harder to operate than I had anticipated  

 

[slusher]

Very nice looking model..