VW model build topic

Blue Baron · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 10:56 am Post subject:

I posted these photos in the thread about the MPC Zinger kit being reissued, so I may as well post them here too.

Several years back I built this Zinger for BusNutBob. He had an original one unbuilt in the box.

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When the kit was reissued in 2010, I built one for myself.

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Blue Baron · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:07 am Post subject:

Here's a late 1950s kit made by Premier of Brooklyn, N.Y. This was a crude Beetle model that was quickly put out to capitalize on the sudden popularity of the Volkswagen.

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KTPhil · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:35 pm Post subject:

Blue Baron · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:50 pm Post subject:

They were really a fly-by-night operation. The picture on the box was a redrawn Reutters drawing, and the engine was just a best guess. The model itself had a VW engine, though the proportions were off like everything else.

I decided to have a little fun with one of these old Premiers. The flat roof has a chopped look, so I built an open-wheeled hot rod. This was before people started building cars like this in full scale!

I channeled the body over the chassis and reversed the fenders to make inner wheel wells.

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Fish · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 5:27 pm Post subject: Re: VW model build topic

EverettB · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:12 pm Post subject:

We cannot combine them together.
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Blue Baron · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:48 pm Post subject:

Sorry for the duplication. I knew there had to be something somewhere. I should have checked with Everett ...
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Typ3nut · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 1:39 pm Post subject: VW Model Build

Just picked this Model Kit up today !
Partial built 1971 Monogram / Mattel SMUG BUG 1/16 Scale, designed by Tom Daniel. All the parts are there with the decal set & instructions.
Going to clean it up and finish the build.
Here are some photos of the Kit and I'll post the finished kit when it's done.

Alppiapina · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:31 am Post subject:

My old Revell 1:16 Volkswagen 1951.
More photos: http://koti.mbnet.fi/jyrkitoi/pienoismalleja.htm

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73 KAFER · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 5:14 pm Post subject:

^^ Wonderful detail!! I like the tool he is holding.

Mark
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Blue Baron · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:15 am Post subject: Re: VW Model Build

Blue Baron · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:18 am Post subject:

Here's a recent build of the old Revell Baja Chopper kit from 1971.

The model had been lightly started when I found it, and I completed it to the original box art.
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Blue Baron · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:26 am Post subject:

Here's a Tamiya 1/35 Kubelwagen that my buddy Tony and I turned into a carson-topped roadster back in the '90s.

The hubcaps were made from Deluxe Bus door panel snaps. (I know, but I was young and foolish.)
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Blue Baron · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:58 pm Post subject:

Here's one I finished recently. It started as a Pyro VW Beach Buggy kit. Thanks to Hacksaw BoB Gilmore for the inspiration (and the decals).

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Fish · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:32 am Post subject:

Very nice work, but I do have one question. Does the motor stand really help in a scale build?

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Blue Baron · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:39 pm Post subject:

Is that a rhetorical question?
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Fish · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:56 pm Post subject:

Yes, that photo made me laugh, but no disrespect. Your skills are amazing. I get too rushed when building models as you will see when I get around to posting up pictures of a couple of mine.
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Blue Baron · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:36 pm Post subject:

You can't build some of the stuff I build without a sense of humor.

For example:

Dinky car, slightly modified.
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Blue Baron · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 10:21 pm Post subject:

Here's one for EMPIFLAKE:

Revell Herbie

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vw_partsguy · Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 11:15 pm Post subject:

Here are some of my VW kits I built. The first one is an original IMC 66 Beetle 1500 Sedan. It was built box stock form a mint kit.
The second one is the new Reissue AMT Meyer's Manx kit. -Louie

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