V-dubbed: Beach Bum Golf MK2
 

My VW finally arrived Tuesday. I got to work. This is a much less clean project I am trying to give it the looks of age and multiple owners. Don't mind the wheelbase placement, none of the mounts are done and the model itself is crooked, so the left and right don't match up yet.

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k6...l/100_3205.jpg
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k6...l/100_3206.jpg
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The car was red at one time and the cheap respray didn't take care of the motor bay.

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k6...l/100_3209.jpg
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I chipped the paint using a technique I found on a website on building resin figures. You use salt. Spray the base color (silver) then apply the salt in the parts you want chipped with water, let it dry. It was a little trickier because I needed red and blue. So I applied the salt, masked off the motorbay and sprayed the blue. Clumping the salt together makes larger patches missing. I used a two-part water, one part matt black paint solution to dirty it. I applied it in all of the body lines, and lifted the excess with a paper towel. After it dried I gave it a wetsand.

Tonight I am going to add rust, the hood will be completely rusted and rust in the larger chips and around the under chassis. I still need a roof rack, and details. I have some tricks up my sleeve to make the interior scale, and am working on bumper stickers.

Comments and suggestions are more than welcome.

wow! thats just like wat my uncle drives! but he's gotta pinto. lol but thats amazing! cant wait to see the hood!

Wow thats is great! So realistic! Another top notch project surge!!

Are you going to do anything to the chassis to make look aged also??

Thanks

Yeah, I live in a College town and I see a lot of craig's list specials driving around splattered with bumper stickers, I am kind of playing off of that.


Thanks man.

Whichever chassis parts are exposed will get weathered. Luckily there is a HUGE space under the hood to put the motor in, anything that is showing in between will be weathered with brown and dirt.

TI and I will have to get together and race the wildcat against the VW...an xmods 24 hrs of lemons.

You have this posted on XMF as a MiniZ project but here as an Xmod project?

Looks like you're off to a wonderful start to another great project. I can't wait to see what that rusted hood looks like when you're done with it.

Cheers,
Kyle.

That was my bad on the other forum, mistake corrected sir!

Thanks. The product I am using creates real rust on model cars...so It is as realistic as it gets.

Just wasn't sure which it was since it was different on both forums. Anywho..

Care to share the name that secret product? It sounds interesting.

I would if I knew, it's my buddies, he does model junkyards. I will get the name of it when I borrow it. It isn't cheap, but it has great results.

omg its the same model as my project =O we should make twins xD
http://www.xmodsource.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17039

You could do yours more like this:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...g?t=1247175278

Or check out this:
http://forums.motivemag.com/zerothread?id=4345031

Kind of my inspiration for the golf.

i wasnt planning on doing the beach look so your fine(im still deciding on what to do with mine) and i was also having trouble with the rear clip.. im not sure to make it longer or put some plexi glass from the roof to make it go down lower

GENIUS!
I nominate this one for body of the year!

I'm loving it.
Well, apart from the rims, but I love it.

lol i think you sholud rust up some old rims for it, maybe not even have matching rims lol. but that just my 2 cents

I can't help you to much on the rear clip... have you tried an L-brackett? Thats what I did on my Sil80 project and my wrx, they worked out great.


Thanks. I was trying to use the models wheels, but they won't clear the hub, so the offset is to much, I would have to completely ditch the fenders. If I can find them I have some mini-z porsche rims, and a couple other options. It is one of the reasons I haven't even started the mounts, because they are subject to change depending on the wheel/tire set.

I am going to work out somehting, this is probably going to be a much slower build than some of my past due purely to finding the perfect parts.

Update!

Got the roof rack, it was a little melted in shipping...but thats alright, looks bent. Had to cut it in half to match the width of the roof, but the seams will be covered with the surfboard. Have the windows stickered, and added license plates(the front one hanging on by mere good intentions ;) ). The hood is still rusting. Without further adou,

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k6...l/100_3244.jpg
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Interior WIP:
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k6...l/100_3243.jpg
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k6...l/100_3242.jpg

Thanks Goodfellas and CryogenicDeath for your contributions.

looks great. that trash in the interior? and do you have tailights for it?

Oh yeah, cleanliness doesn't matter when you drive this VW...:)

I have taillights, but haven't installed them yet. I might bust one one and reglue it, so that it looks shattered....still up in the air.

lol duck tape tailights ;)

lol this thing looks amazing!

got any pics of the rusted hood?

wow surgeon youve really got the look of this just right, the surf board and stickers are a clever touch.

thats pretty nice man! lol