ShawnS Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Hi everyone, This one has been sitting around 3/4's finished waiting for me to print out the decals and do the final details. It's a Hasegawa body over a Tamiya chassis and interior with the RHD dash from the Hasegawa kit. It was driven at Bathurst in the 1963 Armstrong 500 by Bill Ford and Barry Ferguson to victory in Class A. I removed the detail from the seats and door cards as on the 1:1 and removed the radio and cut out the glove box lid. The VW battled with the Morris 850 of Little/Holland for the lead of Class A for most of the 500 mile race with the VW coming out victorious after the Morris found itself on it's side after contact with the VW on the second to last lap. The two combatants- Pics of the Morris can be found here- http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=69120&hl=minifest I originally was just going to use all of the Hasegawa kit but after a test fit of the interior showed a fair bit of daylight coming through I ended up getting an old Tamiya VW glue bomb out of my stash and adapting it to fit. All it required was some minor trimming on the chassis sides and a little extra Evergreen behind the rear seat. The bumpers, head lights, front indicators, tail lights are Tamiya . The wheels are Hasegawa rims with modified Tamiya centres on Hasegawa tyres. (Not So) Interesting factoid-- The Tamiya VW kit is LHD only but it comes only with RHD windscreen wipers and the Hasegawa kit has a RHD dash but it only has LHD wipers. There you go. Thanks for looking, Cheers ShawnS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am73grand Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 That's really sharp!!! Nice job!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TooOld Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 That's very nice ! Beautiful finish and great details . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale W. Verts Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Love the bugs, and the history. Glad you noticed the steering wheel is on the "wrong" side. Dale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFchronos Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Very nicely done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geras24 Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 NIce work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan 191 Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 wow that is cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peekay Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 VERY nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davewilly Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 Vice job on both of them! and nice little factoid you shared also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Hamilton Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 That is cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Foxx Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 This is a great build , looks real nice . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaguar man 21 Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Great job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helix Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Most excellent Shawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisR Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Very, very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris White Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 cool bug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Super nice build... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger U Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 That is a really nice build !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Irwin Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 I like it! That Mini sure makes it look big! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duntov Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Very nice work on these cars!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatW Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Great build ShawnS, being a five time owner of the real thing (including a '59 'vert) I appreciate a good Beetle build up well done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmvw guy Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 Very nicely done, great attention to detail. Thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnS Posted June 21, 2014 Author Share Posted June 21, 2014 Thanks for the kind words. I always try to get my models to look as close as I can to what I'm modelling so it's nice to see some VW guys giving it the thumbs up. Here's the real thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dino246gt Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 That looks great, I love the dash details, man I gotta build me one of those beetles! Love it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominik Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 very nice, love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S. Svendsen Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 That's awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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