Revell 1/16 VW samba bus conversion

[kpnuts]

Hi all this was donated to me by a friend(he was doing it as a van) I have other plans for it, it will be a very rare custom made version (the guys at work will know where I'm going with it as we have the actual vehicle in the workshop)

[GRiN]

Great start on  single cab

[kpnuts]

More work done to this, that is the basic shape of the vehicle a few doors to add and lots of details to the bed to add.

[kpnuts]

Hi all this is what I'm aiming for, it has a very unusuall way of loading cars (which i am ambitiously aiming to depict)

[cobraman]

Cool !  I never seen anything like that ? Were there many built do you know ?

[kpnuts]

Just this one (there were a few similar but just this one as it is)

I need to make lots of louvers for the samba bus conversion so heres my simple answer, glue bade to base at half the thickness of a cocktail stick run that through blade then turn the resulting halves 180° and run through aginn all I have to do now is round the ends off and I have my louvres.

[Bullybeef]

Right after I saw the pic of the bed extension I had an idea of where you were going with this build, I’m excited to see this play out as it looks awesome! 
one question on the toothpicks, you mention louvers but do you mean ribs, like for the floor of the bed? 

[kpnuts]

Hopefully all will be clear on the next update

[GRiN]

How much longer is that beast than a standard single cab?

[kpnuts]

Approx 3 meters(just over)

Tried making the louvers out of quartered cocktail sticks, not very successful

I measured the louvers and they are 20mm wide the quarterd cocktail sticks are 1 1/4 mm so way out of scale.

I have another idea up my sleeve let's see how that works.

[Casey]

Is Plastruct, Evergreen (both brand names), or another similar brand of styrene strip available in the UK? I think a quarter round strip of the right thickness would work well if available:

Edited February 25, 2021 by Casey

[kpnuts]

Thats an idea, thanks

[stitchdup]

2 hours ago, kpnuts said:

Thats an idea, thanks

the best stocks of evergreen seem to be fred aldous in the uk Ken. At least they seem to have every size I've been looking for in stock, some places never seem to have it in stock

[kpnuts]

Thanks mate.

[kpnuts]

Here is one of the cars it usually carries (it also carries a 904 a 910 and another rsr cafe mexicano)

[David G.]

I'm very interested to see how this one works out. You look to be off to a great start.

David G.

[kpnuts]

Added some of the pipework, the heater ducting and started scratchbuilding the new brake servo we've added.

[kpnuts]

Did some more work on this.

[kpnuts]

Well this arrived for the samba bus conversion, fair bit of bodywork modification needed (doing it as the cafe mexicano version) made a start on the modifications. The kit itself looks really good all the molding is very crisp and sharp and detail looks well defined.

[kpnuts]

More work converting the 934