Revell 1/16 VW samba bus conversion

I think I know where you're heading with this and I like it

This looks really good.

Hi all this is what I'm aiming for, it has a very unusuall way of loading cars (which i am ambitiously aiming to depict)

I need to make lots of louvers for the samba bus conversion so heres my simple answer, glue bade to base at half the thickness of a cocktail stick run that through blade then turn the resulting halves 180° and run through aginn all I have to do now is round the ends off and I have my louvres.

Tried making the louvers out of quartered cocktail sticks, not very successful

I measured the louvers and they are 20mm wide the quarterd cocktail sticks are 1 1/4 mm so way out of scale.






I have another idea up my sleeve let's see how that works.

Here is one of the cars it usually carries (it also carries a 904 a 910 and another rsr cafe mexicano)

Added some of the pipework, the heater ducting and started scratchbuilding the new brake servo we've added.

I can get you some mate.

Did some more work on this.







Sorry mate all the seats are covered to protect them this is the best I could do.

Well this arrived for the samba bus conversion, fair bit of bodywork modification needed (doing it as the cafe mexicano version) made a start on the modifications. The kit itself looks really good all the molding is very crisp and sharp and detail looks well defined.

You're doing a great job on this one Ken. Very VERY cool subject.

I saw something available in the modeling world related to this: automodeler.com/news/vw-transporter-t1-renntransporter-long

So did some work on the way im going to have the bunkerwagen load cars, I think it will work, time will tell.

There's so much going on here Ken, biiiig project but coming together nicely.