Volkswagen Golf Project!!!!

[cruz]

I am starting on this little project once I am done building a '68 Dart for a club member, I just want to share it with you guys in the meantime. I want to thank Rodney Badger for making this kit available for me when I needed it, he is a great guy and forum member, thanks Rodney!!!

This is the actual kit, I like the fact that it is an older model/year, there's something about this body I absolutely love!

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Even though the kit has some really nice rims and tires, I wanted to do something a little different so I started playing around with some Pegasus Aluminum sleeves and several choices of rims I had laying around. After a lot of thinking and difficulties trying to fit several rims inside the sleeves, I decided on these ones from an old RX7 Mazda kit. Of course, I had to do some sanding to get them to work w/ the sleeves but overall, it went pretty well.

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I gave them a nice polishing with Maguiar's wax and cleaner do get rid of some little oxidation and fingerprints and I am happy!!

Here is a mockup of more or less the rake I am going for, this will be a curbside kit and a simple one at that, it's just something between projects I want to do but also a kit I wanted to have in my collection. I am still playing around with the color choice for the car but I will come up with it later, in the meantime, of course, suggestions are very welcomed!!!

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I want to go with something like this but my rims and tires will be deeper into the body and ultimately lower....

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[cotto]

This thing already looks badass, your choice of rims is cool. How did you get those panel lines to looks so good? Did you use a technical pen or something? Wouldn't the paint cover them once you decide to paint the model?

[cruz]

This thing already looks badass, your choice of rims is cool. How did you get those panel lines to looks so good? Did you use a technical pen or something? Wouldn't the paint cover them once you decide to paint the model?

Thanks Jay! No, I do not use a tecnical paint for my panel lines, I just scribe them very deep and fill them in with Testor's Metallizer paint, capillary action helps out a lot since these paints are very thin. I will repeat the process after priming the body, I will then sand it down with a 3200 or 3600 grit sanding cloth and finish off with the paint. I still have the option of doing it at the end but usually there is no need for it.

[FAgri]

very nice!

[edward smith]

I am liking this a lot already, nothing beats the look of real metal, specially on rims. Where do you get your Pegasus sleeves?