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10-01-2005, 11:09 AM
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Hasegawa VW pickup : low and converted.
I have a confession: I absolutely love VW type 1 and 2´s. I´ve never owned one, but i have built a few, and the other week i rescued a Hasegawa `67 pickup from the LHS shelf. And straight from the box opening my mind was NOT set on a stock vehicle
 ..A few VW magazines was picked up for inspiration and i decided that a "crew cab" would be cool,and since i had a cut-up H´gawa VW bus lingering somehhere, a conversion should be fairly easy. So, one night when the inspiration was on top and the saw close, i went to work:  Measurement showed that the VW factory used the same door ( on the right side) as on the bus,so it looked very promising so far.  Of course the front suspension was lowered " a bit "..  The opening in the roof was filled in with Evergreen styrene and a session with filler/sanding/filler/sanding started.. In the end it looked straight and nice. I also added the raingutters,taped the windowarea to protect it from filler/primer, so the details wouldn´t be lost under it.  I now move on a few days on the timescale; after everything looked quite straigt and nice, a can of Tamiya primer was brought out. I wanted a dark flat gray paintjob, so Tamiya XF63 ( German Grey) was airbrushed over it. I really like the way cars with faded/neglected paintwork look, so the coarser polishingcloths sanded away the Grey to reveal the primer underneath. As it was a pick-up, it probably once belonged to a company, so a decal from Revell´s 50`Austin Gasser was applied. This was also abused by the clothes to resemble a worn look. Since the picture above was taken, i´ve began to work with rust,using mainly dry pastels and thinned oilpaint to make it look like a real beater. More pics as soon as possible
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10-01-2005, 11:33 AM
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Re: Hasegawa VW pickup : low and converted.
Excellent!
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10-01-2005, 12:11 PM
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Re: Hasegawa VW pickup : low and converted.
This is going to be awesome! Keep us posted on the progress!!
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10-01-2005, 01:04 PM
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Re: Hasegawa VW pickup : low and converted.
Very nice work and weathering! I want to see more pictures
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10-01-2005, 06:28 PM
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Re: Hasegawa VW pickup : low and converted.
Sorry folks,no dents or dings! I´ve done other cars with dents and my impression is that they often look too big. Even with the most care with the tools,they tend to look too deep/coarse/out of scale.
So i will go for a really neglected look on this one. But no dents ( the first few owners probably took care when parking and loading cargo ! )
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10-01-2005, 07:51 PM
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Re: Hasegawa VW pickup : low and converted.
Nice progress. Definitely very interesting.
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10-01-2005, 11:41 PM
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Re: Hasegawa VW pickup : low and converted.
Oh man that is awsome!! I have the panel van, the window one, and the 2 dr pickup. I need one of these now! Keep up the great work!
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10-02-2005, 07:01 AM
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Re: Hasegawa VW pickup : low and converted.
Good start.I like it.
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