1:24 Volkswagen T1 Van (Beetle bus) dropped suspension

Hello!

I started putting it all together - I have installed the glass and put on most of the chrome. Now it starts to look like a car:

I have used white glue in places where spillage of other type of glue might mean a little disaster. I have managed to glue the door handles and winshield wipers (at their axles!) with CA glue, though. I removed the chrome from the contact points with a glass fibre pen. The next photo shows the model a little dusty - sorry about that:

 Now - on to finish the interior! Thanks for lookin' and have a nice day

Paweł

Hello!

I have finally installed the engine and put on the wheels. I also installed my scratchbuilt schock absorbers - they are painted yellow:

 In the photo below you can see the complete chassis with the wheels - only thing missing is the front cover - that will be installed after I mate the chassis to the body

I have also installed the glass, the headliner and the interior. The headliner is made out of yoghurt can lid - it's this funny wrinkled aluminium foil. It can be embossed really well and has an interesting texture to it. It is painted with Motip primer gray - makes the interior a little brighter:

I have also installed the scratchbuilt sun shades and interior handles. The air heating tube is also there. In process I discovered that I have lost the emergency brake handle, so I had to scratchbuild it one more time:

I have also finally re-chromed the bumpers - this time with Alclad 2. Much better now:

So now I'm actually only waiting for my custom-printed decals to do the tags on this one. I hope to have this baby done before the end of the year! Thanks for looking and have a nice day

Paweł

Nice touch with the interior detailing. That Alclad chrome is Boss! I gotta get some of that.

SprueOne - thanks a lot for your kind words! Alclad Chrome sure is handy to have around, sometimes it's the only way to go. Thanks for your comment and have a nice day

Paweł

Hello everybody!

I wanted to finish this one before the end of the year, but I was waiting for my custom decals. Those got delayed more than four weeks, but they finally got to me in the post:

As you can see I'm also building an Army chopper in parallel. I slapped the decals on the VW and the model was done. I have also built a display base for it. An acrylic display case fits snugly around this base - you see I'm going to put that model at work, where we build 1:1 modern VWs. The Tarmac is made out of 800 grade sandpaper:

And that would be it - sure took longer than I expected! Thanks for looking and have a nice day

Paweł

That's a really cool bus Pawel; very interesting details and a great finished model. I always enjoy following your builds.

Mike

Pawel

Great looking build my friend. Well planned and executed!! 

Looks good Pawel. I used to mess with 1/1 old VWs and there's a place in my heart for them. Real VWs projects take up too much room in the shop (LOL) so I'm back to modeling and small motorcycles.

It looks almost ready to drive!

Max

Mike, Hunter, Max, Pat - thanks a lot for your comments and for your kind words!

Mike - I appreciate it, please drop by anytime you like!

Max - 1:1 cars sure take up some shop space! But it's fun to work on them if you got the right tools.

Thanks again and have a nice day

Paweł