1968 Volkswagen Beetle

[mrmike]

This is my '68 VW Beetle painted with Tamiya TS-23 Light Blue and the chassis is dry-brushed to represent an older car.  The body and glass have nicks and scratches and the paint is far from perfect.

 

Edited August 13, 2018 by mrmike

[cobraman]

Nice looking model. Looks like a nice kit.

[bbowser]

Looks great!  Is this the Tamiya or Revell?

[OldTrucker]

Great looking Bug.

Don't care how you build them Bugs are just cool!

The only other things I see that could add more realism are the tin work would have been semigloss black (more like flat black buffed out a bit), the muffler would have been just rust brown or flat gray with rust(new were flat gray) and the heater boxes were always rust brown.(new they were flat gray)

I wish they would have had the option of the bumper guards though in the kit.

[crazyjim]

Very nice.

[Zoom]

Nice bug!

[Classicgas]

Well done.

[shoopdog]

Looks fantastic.

Being a 68 it must be the Revell Kit?

[mrmike]

Thank you guys!

9 hours ago, shoopdog said:

Looks fantastic.

Being a 68 it must be the Revell Kit?

Yes, this is the Revell kit.  I think it is a re-boxed kit from Revell of Germany.

[Ballroad]

Awesome build, The 66 Tamiya bug is next for me, I remember how these would whistle out of the exhaust pipes,or tailpipes as they called them, a sound so unique, don't change a thing, it's perfect....

[Foxer]

Looks really good.

[mrmike]

Thank you Perry and Mike!  I had written a McNally story for this build called Beetle Beginnings.  It is much shorter than the original story, but it does feature most of the highlights.  Here's the link to the WIP which features the story.

http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/134054-1968-volkswagen-beetle-is-done/ 

[ATHU]

Looking good, nice work!!

[Mahogany Rush]

Looks cool. I did a Tamiya bug and that kit was super nice to build.

[ewetwo]

Came out great.

[mrmike]

Thank you Anders, Max, and David!

[slusher]

Very sharp!

[PARTSMARTY]

That's cool indeed !!!

[Lovefordgalaxie]

I thought McNelly was driving a Jaguar. 

I think he deserves a '40s car, like a Plymouth, or a Ford. 

Maybe I'm too much of a Dixon Hill fan. 

By the way, the bug looks great. 

[mrmike]

Thank you Carl, Marty, and Tulio!

5 hours ago, Lovefordgalaxie said:

I thought McNelly was driving a Jaguar. 

I think he deserves a '40s car, like a Plymouth, or a Ford. 

Maybe I'm too much of a Dixon Hill fan. 

By the way, the bug looks great. 

Dixon Hill?!!!  Are you referring to the Holodeck character from ST:TNG?  Well, everyone gotta love a character from the imagination!  McNally loves his American cars, but the Beetle was his first car as a teenager.  The oldest car he would drive is his late father's '57 Ford Custom aka Spearmint and not something from the '40s.