Waspie
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I was looking at the new beetle yesterday and nope, hasn’t the same appeal. Something about the classic Beetle.That shape still makes me smile with memories of my first car! - Come on, even in primer it's great!
I was looking at the new beetle yesterday and nope, hasn’t the same appeal. Something about the classic Beetle.That shape still makes me smile with memories of my first car! - Come on, even in primer it's great!
Nope, not yet Allen but I have had an idea. I have a few telephone components I spied when I was rooting through the loft today. I know some of the wires in telephone wires are mighty small so will be looking at them.Nah Doug!!! No death by piccies here, I'm afraid. It's good to see you are driving on with the bug and it is looking mighty fine. Have you found anything to use for the spark plug wires yet? Poor motor does look a bit nekkid Sir!!! Hope you are enjoying yourself between all the other distractions...
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Allen
Thanks for that Allen.Great to see this back on the bench Doug!!! Don't give up hope as Ian has given you some great tips to keep on going with it. Take your time (if you get any) and enjoy that new hissy stick Buddy!!!...
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Thanks Rick, a couple of days ago I would have gladly allowed it to become a test piece for anything I wanted to practice. However, now it's come back from beyond the grave - it's back on the front burner again. All weather dependant now.Better than feeding it to the "Plastic Worms"!
Thank you Ian. Yes, I'm going for the same shade of orange. It's Vallejo Bright Orange (70.851). It's the closest I could eyeball that reflected my old Beetle 1/1. It's not the true VW orange but neither was my 1st Beetle. Which was not standard by any stretch of the imagination.Happy that it worked out with the meths.
Going for the orange again. It looked good. What was it?
Agree Jim, it was quite therapeutic removing the paint detritus and taking it back to bare plastic.Glad the paint strip worked. We've all been there, had a problem that needed sorting out. Solving difficulties is often a fun, and very satisfying, part of the hobby.
Just reread the thread looking for something.I'll follow your build Doug. That Beetle was my first car or, to be more precise, I owned 50% of her, the other half was paid by Dad on behalf of my sister who was still at the University.
She was black and tried to take off at speeds exceeding 110 Kph (68 mph) which happened only on the Aosta - Torino motorway on the long long long downslope near Ivrea.... Driving on snow was real fun too!
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