1956 Volkswagen Kombi 10/29/17 1:1 photo

[Foxer]

This is a WAAYYY old thread. Is there any recent progress? A while back, I posted a thread about my frustration with works in progress that vanish into thin air and I got roundly slammed for it. This sort of stuff is really irritating after you get into following a build.

It doesn't matter how long the WIP thread goes, as long as there's progress. I love build journals and the opportunity for give-and-take, and exchange of information. But there are a lot of WIP threads here that go nowhere. Here's one that works and has gone on forever, but it's continually updated and loaded with information:

http://www.scalemotorcars.com/forum/large-scale-cars/6477-1-8-gt40-mk1-ford-scratchbuilt-why-not.html

I just noticed this post and I apologize for the way I work, Skip. Some of us don't worry about WHEN we finish a project as long as we're having fun. Things change and parts fly. Many things switch us between projects. This one WILL come back some time .. when I get the urge. I hate painting, so that's what really stopped this one.

[Greg Pugh]

Have you had the urge yet?

[Foxer]

Check it out ... I moved the body from shelf by computer to down on shelf in front of bench. Took less than a week and I sanded down VW circle so I can put the Revell VW logo there and filled the side door handle indent ... this was not there in '56. I also started moving the side door hinges to mid window height for the '56. The filled roof windows were starting to ghost the paint so I did a little smoothing on them. Now I have to repaint.

 

These are a Bondic cast of the Revell logo I'll put on this bus.

Edited August 24, 2017 by Foxer

[Foxer]

Updated photo links to Fotki

[Foxer]

Found a photo with Dad's Kombi in front of my '59 Impala in the driveway/yard

 

Here's with the model's rear window filled, not too far off with a guess.

[Greg Pugh]

Also, don't forget that the engine lid is flat. There is no protrusion/flange that comes out above the license plate.

[Foxer]

On 10/30/2017 at 5:23 PM, Greg Pugh said:

Also, don't forget that the engine lid is flat. There is no protrusion/flange that comes out above the license plate.

Nice color on that one! 

I think I did get that lip off, the last pic in primer was an old one. I will double check.

... looks like it went under the sanding stick.

On 10/30/2017 at 5:23 PM, Greg Pugh said:

 

 

 

Edited November 27, 2017 by Foxer

[DumpyDan]

Nice work, I am working on one myself from 1963 21 window.  Yours is real nice, the corner windows are tricky to cover in.

[Foxer]

2 hours ago, DumpyDan said:

Nice work, I am working on one myself from 1963 21 window.  Yours is real nice, the corner windows are tricky to cover in.

Are you using the beautiful Revell kit?

I used the thickest sheet I could and still bend it smoothly. Now I can't remember what it was.

[DumpyDan]

Yes I am using the Revel kit also.  I made the front seat a walk throw and the second row seats 2 instead of a full bench and third row is a regular full bench.  I am also doing a full interior, even made home made air deflectors on the rear quarters.  I will keep watching your build, looking good. 

[89AKurt]

Nice... and you have been working on it almost as long as mine has been sitting in the box.  LOL  The slotted wheels, I've discovered that is an issue when back-dating VWs.  I just ordered wheels from Best Model Car Parts, I got the '57 Beetle conversion last year, inquired about getting wheels and engine lid, he was willing to do my special order.

[mod3l Lover]

   That bus (Kombi) is so sweet!  I would have loved

to see a casting from that?!

   Please, please bring this back? "If you build it, we

will watch"!!!

      David S.