Finished: VW new Beetle - 1:24 Tamiya

Here's my latest built, from Tamiya, 1:24 scale, straight out of box except for some flocking on the interior.

Paint is from ICI, some kind of lime-greenish, slightly fluo. I think it looks nice for a Beetle.

It still needs a bit of cleaning here and there, and some paint retouching on the chassis, but... here are the pics... hope you like it !!

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nice job, hey the bottom kinda looks good like that...it looks as if you weathered it.

the tires too!!!
looks good!!
ive got a tasmiya 1/24 beetle aswell, im building it for my gf
how did u do the underside?

I wasn't satisfied with the underside, I even weathered it a bit more.

I airbrushed a black-grey base, and the began to shoot mist coats of diferent shades of greys and buff.

Here's how it looks now. A bit more "plain" but more real, under my point of view...

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/503/8882007-med.JPG

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/503/8882006-med.JPG

very nice interior

Very nice color combination!

Like your chassie paint treatment. This is actually how cars look like after a few months on the road.. Good working!

Looks real!
Chassis looks identical to the Tamiya V5 golf!

Nice job

The Beetle was actually based on the Golf IRL i think.