New Beetle...ready for Baja...

Built this when the kit came out-basically a modern take on the Baja Beetle w/shades of VehiCROSS. Lots of modifications to the Tamiya kit-removed roof/side glass, added Revell door panels, added Copperhead rims, raised the ride height :eek: :cool: and painted it in modern sport-ute kinda colors (again, think VehiCROSS). Fun model, gets lots of attention.

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Headlights inspired from VW Dune concept and Beetle RSi.

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Scale Motorsports seat decals used.

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A friend turned the modern stinger-style exhaust for me on his lathe. Spoiler from AMT Dodge Stealth. Bumper guards from an old Porsche kit. Tag is our local model car club ACME...Atlanta Car Model Enthusiasts.

Seen it before, but worth seeing again! :coolguy:

What paint(?) did you use for the plastic-y panels. Does it have any noteable texture?

That is awesome:cool:
Great concept on the Beetle, I like the color combination too!

Looking forward to more;)

Ray

wow.. the best Beetle I have seen.. awersome clean job

Originally posted by Vric
wow.. the best Beetle I have seen.. awersome clean job

I agreed !!! ;)

Originally posted by jay@af
Seen it before, but worth seeing again! :coolguy:

What paint(?) did you use for the plastic-y panels. Does it have any noteable texture?
Thanks Jay (and everyone else)-I airbrushed a mixture of Tamiya acrylics on the fenders, and there is a slight texture from using thicker paint, less air pressure and holding the airbrush further away from the surface. Wouldn't be right w/o it!
:cool: ;)

Thats sweet great job!!! :D

I think I've seen your model in SAE? Nice one! I liked it back then and I still like it :flash:

-Mikko

Nice.....the cutting off the roof must have taken a fair amount of time to get right

This looks awsome !!
You could sent some pics to volkswagen and see if they will make it:D

Lol hell yeah! I saw the real VW concept dune buggy at the Sydney motorshow a few years back, was that yellow one. I thought this sounded like a pretty bad sounding model(New beetle) but that thing is awesome! Love the single center pipe on the back and the ACME numberplates!

I really like the exaust comin out from the middle, and the roof, and the rims, and the color, damnit I love the whole car! Brilliant work, what's your next model???

I really love that color combination!!!
Great modification work!

Nice Beetle!
What about building the new Beetle convertible

Originally posted by jay@af
Seen it before, but worth seeing again! :coolguy:


Ditto!

Possibly one of the best beetle models i've seen on the net though!

It's looking great !!

I can see a lot of work went into it !

Olivier

Cool!~ very nice job~

whoa!! seen this b4 huh?! can't 'member where, think i've seen it at scale model mag way back. kewl concept and like that color combo!!

Great work on the Beetle.