Golf gti wide body project From a new member

[dread_darven]

As i'm new to this forum let me begin by introducing myself;
My name is Erik i'm 21 years old and this project is my second car model i will be building.
I completed this first model (which is a VW Golf) about 3 months ago, and decided that i could try making a wide body version of it.
This idea started when i saw the website of Rieger Tuning, they had a wide body kit for the golf, which looks awesome. (in my oppinion )


So, enough talk, lets show some pics

This is my first model i built.





I bought the same model to start the wide body conversion with.


The front bumber was already finished before i thought of making pics of it



The body must be smooth and clean, so i smoothed out the rear hatch and door handles


As with the front bumper i used the original bumper as a mould sort of...

Then filled her up with polly putty and started grinding.


The rear bumper is atached to the body and the wide body is taking shape


After a bit of work this is how it looks.


It still needs details like air intakes, but that i will do tomorrow.

[mike@af]

Looks good, is that bondo body filler?

[dread_darven]

Uhm i dont realt know the correct name for the stuff but I think it's called Polyester putty in english.

We call it Plamuur here in The Netherlands :S\
O wait i have a pic of it and it's made out of 2 components

[MR2_Lancer]

lol...i saw the firstr pic with putty and thought "how the heck is he gonna shape that BLOB of putty?" then i saw the next and thought "wow...this guys good" very nice work so far...ill be watchin this one.

[dread_darven]

lol, i thought the same thing when i bought the putty and started putting it on. But it worked out great.

[ol' dude]

Looking good so far, keep up the good work!! Welcome to the A/F!!

[ProSStreet]

Quite a daring project for a second model, but by the looks of your first. You definately could pull it off. Good work Erik!

[86_SR5]

Looka great. Where you planning for some deep dish wheels?

[dread_darven]

Thanks for the possitive replies.
A small update, no pics on the progress but some ideas i would like to share:

The hood;
i'm thinking of making this with a carbon fibre look. But as i have seen in another thread i will need an airbrush of some sort to pull this off, as i dont own one i will need to buy it or borrow it *i'm pondering on this one :P*

The rims;

I would like to have rims that are almost the same as the one rieger tuning uses

but as i have not seen one's similar to those my insterests also go out to these


thats it so far for my small update. I'm going to sleep now

[Orion37170]

interesting project!
will keep an eye on this!

[vwman]

Very cool project!!! That looks like Golf Rallye even it has Rieger bodykit

Golf 2 Rallye:

[Snooker]

The Rallye Golf ain't as wide as the Rieger one. This wide body tuning is kind of old school in Germany, it was popular and modern in the 80s. But nevertheless, nice model.

[Macdaddy4738]

those look like the ones the rieger tuning uses. Thats KustmAce's car. I think hes keeping those wheels though so good luck finding em.

[Orion37170]

But thats a bmw m3 which came with those fenders. Also these are MUCH smaller then the rieger-
Rieger also offered Bodykits for Ford Escort

[Samurai75007]

this is looking good. for the CF I say go for SAS sheat. but an airbrush is always good to have. I have 4 cars on hold till I can get one.