GasPunkAlley Posted October 17, 2014 Posted October 17, 2014 I found a cool magazine while on a family vacation up in Canada. It is a Canadian Rod publication that had a VolksRod coupe in it. That got me wanting to build a VolksRod myself in scale. I started with the old Revell Skips Fiesta Cabriolet VW in 1/25th scale. I know there are some better quality Japanese kits but they are 1/24 scale and none seem to have any speed equipment. Also, AMT came out with the Manx kit so it just seemed right to me. I start by hacking off just 2 mm past the door and cut off the fenders up front. The leading edge of the front trunk looked too blunt so I added some Milliput and rounded it off. I just didn't want a flat rear bulkhead so I found in my scrap box the back of a Revell '50 Ford cab and added it to the VW cab. I extended the bead line on the center bead to the bottom of the cab like the outer two beads. I also filed into the back bulkhead the body line seen on the belt line. There was some awful seams around the hood / front fenders that I am also fixing. I have been monkeying around with this body between other projects. Any tips on some cool engine hop up parts that are available for VW kits?
Ace-Garageguy Posted October 17, 2014 Posted October 17, 2014 Cool idea. I'm assuming from the flat cab rear panel that you're going to do a "roadster pickup" interpretation. Correct? One of the re-issued AMT engine parts-packs has a Corvair flat-6, an engine that was and still is a popular high-performance swap into VW-based vehicles.
GasPunkAlley Posted October 17, 2014 Author Posted October 17, 2014 (edited) Bill, I am doing a roadster pickup for this build. I just got in the mail today a cache of VW kits from Evil bay. Finally I got two cheap Revell VW Street Machine kits and a Skip's VW Cabriolet. So I have 3 Cabriolet to cut up, 2 sedans, a Revell Hi Roller van and parts from the original Samba Bus. I got Cushenberry's dune buggy from Revell that has both engines, VW and Corvair. I am looking for VW hi performance parts. Here are 2 more pics with some more work done on the back of the cab and the nose. Edited October 17, 2014 by GasPunkAlley
microwheel Posted October 17, 2014 Posted October 17, 2014 This ought to be pretty cool. I remember these early revell kits of the bug. Built a couple of the VW Cabriolets when they came out.
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