VW model build topic

[Second Air Force]

Good looking camper!

Here are a couple more photos of the wartime sedan. First the seats, which were made from kit parts with wire lower frames and home-made wingnuts. The rear bucket is the two ends of the normal rear seat sectioned and spliced together. The steering wheel came from the Kubel kit.

The third photo shows the new headlight buckets. Revell provides a really shallow headlight assembly that just feeds into a hole in the fender with no bucket. I dug in my spare parts and found these--spare spinners from Eduard 1/48 I-16 kits. They aren't absolutely perfect to us, but the average person wouldn't know the difference!

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1956 Standard Sedan

[Second Air Force]

Of course, the bumpers in the Revell kit are for a late Split sedan so they required modification. I trimmed the bumpers themselves with files and a Dremel tool back when I first started this project in the 1990s but never attacked the guards until a few months ago.

To build up appropriate banana style guards, I simply laminated Evergreen styrene strips together and then started grinding and sanding.

Once I got the shape where I wanted it final touchup was done with sandpaper. Here's the comparison a scratchbuilt early guard next to the kit part:

And one picture of the two completed bumpers with new mounting brackets and the crank support.

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1956 Standard Sedan

[volkaholic1]

i finally made some good progress on my VW bus snow blower, blower is belt driven from a hydraulic unit, woman is to give a sense of scale, this thing is HUGE - you can move some serious snow with this thing. Does the blower turn? of course! I like the warning signs, i think they turned out well = Danger, Auctung, skull, hand with fingers cut off and stick figure man cut in half, you can not figure out to stay away from this? what can i do? red spiral and panels are to help tell if it is running or note.

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Volkaholic

[Second Air Force]

I love it!!

Even with all your safety placards I know people who would probably put their hand in there anyway........
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1956 Standard Sedan

[Fish]

Can't wait to see it hooked up to the bus.
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[Blue Baron]

I found some time over the weekend to work on the AMT Superbug. For all intents the chassis is finished. I still need to add the
exhaust, and I may add some wiring or fuel lines at some point, but it's pretty well set.

I could have gotten more carried away, but the intent was to build a proper Superbug Gasser that follows the theme of the
original kit while addressing a few issues I had with the kit. (I even kept the wheel/tire setup of the kit, with the pad-printed
tires from the new reissue.) Note the addition of a control box, so the car could be driven with or without the body, and the
fire extinguisher.
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We are striving for perfection, to make our cars run forever, if possible.

Heinz Nordhoff

[Second Air Force]

Looking good!

Those tires bring back a lot of good memories of digging through boxes to find four tires with concentric whitewalls.....
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1956 Standard Sedan

[volkaholic1]

very nice build, i love how the seat and extinguisher turned out
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Volkaholic

[Second Air Force]

A photo of the body after paint, followed by the beginning of window preparation. Revell did an interesting thing on this kit by having the inside of the roof as a separate piece that nests nicely into the body. The glass is trapped between the two pieces, so I painted the edges of each glass pane with black to represent the seal. More will be shown in a later post to show how it all gets assembled.

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1956 Standard Sedan

[volkaholic1]

nice! i dig it
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Volkaholic

[Smoothgateguy]

My hat is off to the quality of all the projects currently in production. Not only to the amount of details, but to the level of thought involved. I look forward to seeing how they all progress. The bar is certainly set very high when it comes to the scale models here! I believe that the real fun in building a kit is not just putting together a fine model, but how much customizing and personal details that are added to it. Great stuff!!

[Second Air Force]

Thanks for the encouragement!

Here's the latest project on my desk, an old Gunze Oval. I'm converting this one to a Standard (in the first photo I've shaved the chrome off and started fixing blemishes) to replicate Ingrid, our 1/1 scale '56 Standard.

Gunze molded this one with oversized and mis-located exhaust cutouts, so these got filled and new ones added later.

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1956 Standard Sedan

[Blue Baron]

This one's more my speed! But don't let this shelf the big scale project!
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We are striving for perfection, to make our cars run forever, if possible.

Heinz Nordhoff

[Second Air Force]

Oh, the big one has been finished for months--I'm only recapping the build here for y'all. It's sitting on my television (we still have a console TV ) right now. The 1/24 car has been sitting in a box for a lot of years and now felt like the time to build it.
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1956 Standard Sedan

[Blue Baron]

TRADITIONAL!
OLD SCHOOL!
SUPERBUG!

I have a nice decklid for it, but I still haven't resolved that issue because I don't want to cover up the engine!

While I thought AMT came up short with the carburetion (and I had to take the problem into my own hands), they made up for
it with one of the widest exhausts ever! It was probably not very efficient, but I bet it sounded good!

I've wanted to build a proper AMT Superbug kit for years, and I'm satisfied that I gave a strong nod to the 1970 kit, while fixing
some things I thought the original kit fell short on. Also, one of the new reissue kits made a great parts donor.

Finally, kudos to Hacksaw BoB for the SUPERBUG logos.
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We are striving for perfection, to make our cars run forever, if possible.

Heinz Nordhoff

[Second Air Force]

Beautiful!
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1956 Standard Sedan

[Hacksaw-BoB]

WoW Blue Baron

It looks like a real street legal SUPERBUG . . .

Great Work
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Hacksaw BoB

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Collector of Vintage VW Toys

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[Blue Baron]

Nope. All the street legal stuff was left off of this one.
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We are striving for perfection, to make our cars run forever, if possible.

Heinz Nordhoff

[jack1448]

Very Cool - a nice clean build! ''

[Hacksaw-BoB]

WoW Blue Baron

It looks like a real street illegal SUPERBUG . . .

Great Work
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Hacksaw BoB

http://www.VintageVolkswagenModels.com

Collector of Vintage VW Toys

BoB's Restor-Version Shop