Golf gti wide body project From a new member

Wow! That's a lot of body work man, and your skill is really showing.
Keep up the awsome work!

looks great so far!
Can't wait to see it coloured ;)

Yeah, looks great :thumbsup:

Just a bit of sanding and smoothing and this babe will be ready. Can't wait to see it with a coat of colour. ;)

Nice looking!! Cant wait when its finished!!

hotness

Man.. your putty work is good. And your gold looks "GaNgsTa":iceslolan

Thanks for the reply's :smile:

As the body is still in the primer phase, i have begun working on the engine.
ps. I'm very sorry of the blurry pics but my cam is again bugging me :banghead: .
http://www.xs4all.nl/~brendel2/darc/Golf%20wide%20body/Stage8/DSC00003.JPG
http://www.xs4all.nl/~brendel2/darc/Golf%20wide%20body/Stage8/DSC00007.JPG
It is still OOB but i'm now bussy doing the plumbing and making the air intake :naughty:

I also made a scratchbuild grill and kitbashed the bmw 320I further by using it's rear light
as front light for the golf :evillol: .The grill needs further cutting as do the lights.
But here is the overall idea.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~brendel2/darc/Golf%20wide%20body/Stage8/DSC00008.JPG

:feedback:

Greets

Erik

interesting idea with the new grille and headlights - som kind of jetta or rallye front, right?

Nice engine! So those are rallye lights?!? Are you going to cut hood exstension off?

I don't know those rallye lights? (maybe a pic of those lights ?) but the front grill will be the corrado grill.

But as i'm currently on vacation @ Campzone http://en.campzone.nl/ , i do not have any progress until around 2 august.

Greets from campzone :)

Erik

Thats looking great! Love those Rabbits

*UPDATE*

After a 2 weeks vacation, a new job and some relaxation time.
I finaly took the golf out of my hobby room and sprayed it :iceslolan .
The results are not that good imo (with some orange peel here and there) but i will be polishing it so that will give some better results i think :eek7: .

http://www.xs4all.nl/~brendel2/darc/Golf%20wide%20body/Stage9/M5110001_resize.JPG
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~brendel2/darc/Golf%20wide%20body/Stage9/M5110008_resize.JPG

i also chopped the interior to bits cause it will need another transmission housing and the rear seats will be replaced by some subs.
More on this within a few days. Then the engine will also be wired and hopefully the sparco seats will be finished :naughty:

Comments are welcome.

Greets
Erik

nice blue, awaiting to see the finished kit :D

Nothing there that a little clear and some polishing won't take care of. I like

Nothing there that a little clear and some polishing won't take care of. I like

I won't be putting on a clear coat, i will only polish it.
But how many days must i wait before i can polish it :dunno:

I also forgot to mention what color i used; it is tamiya blue TS 15 non metalic :icon16:

looka awsome, spend a couple hours polishing and it will be like a mirror!

your putty work is AMAZING! ive done some work on car stereos and stuff like that and putty or bondo is super hard to work with, even when its two or three people working together, because with the mixing and getting what u mixed on the car before it turns, is really hard without making a mess but... your work looks awsome keep up the good work

Thanks for the possitive feedback.

As i am waiting for the paint to fully cure i made some nice shots. I also test fitted the new rims i bought. They are bbs rg rims from Aoshima.
I am still not sure which rims to use....
http://www.xs4all.nl/~brendel2/darc/Golf%20wide%20body/Stage10/M5110008_resize.JPG
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~brendel2/darc/Golf%20wide%20body/Stage10/M5110019_resize.JPG

Greets

Erik

COOL PROGRESS :thumbsup:

i like the new rims, fit car and colour very well

Today i tried to polish the body using 2000 gritt paper and polish compound.
But as i did it using the method explained in the faq on AF i got some white spots caused by dust in the paint :banghead: . But it didn't stop me from polishing it anyway because it had a great shine and reflection.
When i was polishing more of the body, more white spots appeared :disappoin .
In the end i was totally dissapointed with the results as caused by the dust in the paint :cya: .

So i now have to repaint the body all over again, and i will be using a mettalic blue paint and some clear coats. I have done the primer coat and tommorow the paint will be sprayed on which i will show here.

Greets

Erik

looks good! but you need wider rim in rear

anny more progress on this one?

i agree, maybe you should ttry the deep dish rim tutorial

i'm sure it looks good on the golf

looks good! but you need wider rim in rear

I abondened the model building for a while now, basicly because of the paint that was a total disaster. It now still sits in my hobby room with the primer on it :(

And because i have another time sucking hobby now, i didn't have much time to take it up again. Anyway, i will continue this one when i find some good amount of spare free time on my hand.

Btw, my new hobby is actualy also modelling, but then in 3D. Here is a screen of what i am doing now ;) , i am planning on making the same Rieger Gto bodykit on the 3d one :p

It's a wip

http://www.xs4all.nl/~brendel2/darc/CGI/VW%20Golf%20II/Resize/10ps_resize.jpg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~brendel2/darc/CGI/VW%20Golf%20II/Resize/11ps_resize.jpg

Greetz

The model car was coming along nice mate, be good when its finished

and the 3d model you are making now also looks cool

any more progress on this (p.s sorry to bring up an old topic just i used to be waiting to see this finnished :P)

Finally i'm bringing this topic back from the dead...
Recently i started again with modeling after 5 years of doing other stuff :P.
I now got my own place together with my girlfriend and i got enough room here to build a paint booth and have a nice desk for the hobby :D .
The last few weeks i been bussy with another car model just to get things going again, and now i picked up the Golf to go crazy on it.
There is a slight change of plans as to how they where 5 years ago, i have more experience and knowledge of engines and other car related stuff now so the 4 cylinder BMW M12 engine is not going to be used in this project.
It is the engine used in the BMW 320I Gr. 5 car and if you want to have one irl it would cost around 25000 dollars just for the engine...... so not very realistic to use that. Instead (and it still isnt very realistic but alot more cost wise than the BMW) i will be using a Nissan VG30DETT (from the Nissan Fairlady 300ZX twinturbo).
I am bussy making pics now so they will be uploaded soon.

Greetz

Erik