Grandma’s VW bus

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This is kit bash of the Revell Samba bus and a glue bomb Western Auto funny car I picked up on EBay for five bucks. The funny car chassis needed extensive modification to make the wheelbase fit, along with raising the racing seat for Grandma to be  able to see out the window, even with the scratch made phone book to sit on.

The concept with the paintwork was to combine a mega dollar 70’s candy scheme with crudely hand painted parts mixed in. In other words, outrageous. There are 3 base colors, gloss black metallic for the nose,Gold Metalflake blended from nose to middle of the rear doors, Ultra Silver for the rest. This was done so that the sun and peace sign would be half gold, half silver. On the roof, the same gold/ silver blend to start. A crudely hand painted skull that is similar to a famous rock band’s followers put on their vehicles is on the front, I did a cosmic design panel on the rear( Ultra Silver base, black, Candy Hunter Green), the retractable cover I have done in Candy Regal blue over Ultra Silver base. The rest of the roof is Candy Tangerine. I also did a gold pearl cosmic design from front of roof to about 2/3 back, making the skull ghost out. 
 

On the nose and doors, I made crudely designed flames in Ultra Silver, white, black highlights. I then laid down a 4 color Candy fade. Starting from front, Candy Fire Red, Candy Tangerine, Candy Hunter Green, Candy Lime Gold. I also did a Candy Regal Blue fish scale panel on the tailgate. All paints are MCW. It has 10 coats of Mr.Color GX112 UV cut clear. The trim was done with BMF.

I wanted to keep as much stock interior as possible to stay with the over the top concept. That meant keeping dash, steering wheel, shifter, front seats, etc. . The carpet is embossing powder. The interior panels on this kit had a ridiculous amount of ejector pin marks. I stopped counting at 40. All doors continue to function. 

I added gauge prints, extended the staging brake, chute release lever and gas pedal so she could reach everything for those last minute grocery store runs. The body hinge is all scratch made. I did not have a chute in my stash, so I made one from styrene and material. I added chute release cable and chute cord. I made injection plumbing, throttle linkage. I wired both mags. I drilled out the zoomies.  To finish everything off, I scratch made a baby on board window sign and added a baby seat for Grandma Jones’ grandson, K.C.😁

I hope you like it, I have 9 months wrapped up in it. I still plan on repainting the roof fish scale panel( I was really shaky the day I painted it)