VW 412 Ls (airtrax)

[stitchdup]

This is the airtrax vw 412 kit. Its pretty nicely done on the body but as you can see the chassis is very simple. Please dont use the chassis i get as a guide to their resin kits, I said when i ordered it that the front and rear chassis didn't matter too much as i would be cutting it up anyway. My plan is to fit the engine from a tamiya porsche 959 as the roof on it got crushed and i never have any luck straightening roof pillars. I am scratching the rear suspension but will be using a revell 1/25 bug front axle for that narrowed bagged aircooled stance at the front and the rear will be heavily cambered. I am using 18 inch steels on the front and 22 inchers at the rear. The interior will be mostly stock but the rear seat will need some trimming and the parcel tray behind the seat will be scratchbuilt. As you can see I only kept the centre from the floorpan. I have also cut open the hood as everything under it will be scratched or robbed from other kits.

[THarrison351]

Looks "verry interesting!" To quote Artie Johnson

[89AKurt]

Daring subject!  Forgot about those 412s, never ever see them on the road much less car shows.  More power to you!

[beeRS]

Great concept. Those Airtrax castings do present a 'challenge'! I'm working on one of their Cortinas at the momment.

Where will you be getting the 22 inch alloys from?

[stitchdup]

2 hours ago, beeRS said:

Great concept. Those Airtrax castings do present a 'challenge'! I'm working on one of their Cortinas at the momment.

Where will you be getting the 22 inch alloys from?

I got them from motobitz mate, they have 3 centre options included with each pair. One pair of smoothy steel, one set of artilary style and one set of slotted style. They are steel style rims but the 3 options really add up to 6 options as the centres can be fittede concave or convex

[beeRS]

Thanks! I just checked out their website. They've got some cool stuff for us UK modellers!

[stitchdup]

18 minutes ago, beeRS said:

Thanks! I just checked out their website. They've got some cool stuff for us UK modellers!

No problem mate, their independant suspension front and rear is very nice. I have a few sets for future builds. I wouldn't mind some of their minis too, and the lwb conversion for the transit. Their service is great too, my rear suspension had some small parts missing and they had them with me in 2 days. I told them on the sat morning the parts were missing and they had them with me on the monday.

[Dann Tier]

What a KILLER project!!!!

[stitchdup]

A little more progress this afternoon. I've done a little more on the
front underhood area but there lots more to be done here. The tubs are
a bit narrower than the underhood but I have a plan to fix that and add
more detail at the same time. While that was setting up so I could do
more work I start modifying the front seats. The airtrax seats while
very nice just didn't really fit the vibe of the build. I had it sat
next one of the porsche seats and noticed the centre would fit them so
I started cutting out the centre from the porsche seat, then shaped the
412 seat centre to fit in the gaps. After a little filler on the edges
they should blend into the mostly stock looking interior. And heres the
front stance, the rear will be a little higher for a slight rake but to
get the camber on them i will have to sand the bottom of the tyres to
suit as since their resin my usual method of melting the tyres on a
frying pan wont work

[Dann Tier]

Love what you did with those Porsche seats!!!