[iceracer1]

Last days I spent some time on making some new accesoires for my vw bus.

First I started with the exhaust, but this is hard to do cause the original exhuast from the kit is totally different. So I'll see in the end what I can do with it.

Than I started with the swamp cooler. For those who thinks... WTF is that? It's an oldskool airco which is mounted on the passengerside of the car. You fill it with water and air will be stream trough the water and it will be cold air. When the driver opens the cooler, cold air will fill up the car.

The real ones looks like this:







I first collected two tubes which are the correct diameter. I cutted them with my tubecutter.





With some milliput and tamiya putty I made it smooth.







Now I have to make the mounting pillars on it, and also the gap which leads the air to the car.

I also started with the body damage. First I made some dents on it and after that I made some rust damage on the wheelarches.









One of the coolest things an a T1 bus, are the safari windows. Hasegawa has theyre own thoughts about that and didn't made them for me. So I used some clear styrene from Evergreen and made my own safari window on the driverside. The passengerside will be closed. I have to paint the trim around the window in bodycolor and made the tubes which holds the windows opened.



And a dryfit:











I hope to paint the body this week. First it needs some white coats and than primer grey. I'll sand it down untill the white will be visible on some areas. I also will make one or two panels fully rusty

Kris.