VW samba bus conversion by kpnuts 1/16 revell

[kpnuts]

Hi all this was donated to me by a friend(he was doing it as a van) I have other plans for it, it will be a very rare custom made version (the guys at work will know where I'm going with it as we have the actual vehicle in the workshop)

 

[kpnuts]

Sorry title is wrong should be 1/16 

[Egilman]

That's a pretty hefty stretch your putting into it there brother.... about doubling it's wheelbase?

 

Interesting....

[kpnuts]

Yep you should see the real thing, there will be a surprise in the end if I  manage to pull it off

[mtaylor]

1 hour ago, kpnuts said:

Sorry title is wrong should be 1/16 

Fixed the title.    Not sure where this log is headed but sounds interesting.   An extended bug bus?

[kpnuts]

Thanks Mark its an interesting conversion.

[Canute]

Party bus, I'd guess.

[popeye the sailor]

tantalizing!  a wonderful exhibition of necromancy! 

[kpnuts]

More work done to this, that is the basic shape of the vehicle a few doors to add and lots of details to the bed to add.

[kpnuts]

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)

 

[mtaylor]

Ah... cool...  something to haul your Ferrari to a show without getting the tires dirty.

[Baker]

Interesting project

Am looking forward to the finished model(s)

[kpnuts]

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.

Edited February 25, 2021 by kpnuts

[kpnuts]

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

Edited February 27, 2021 by kpnuts

[mtaylor]

That is the bravest thing I've seen in quite awhile... parking that car under the lift.  

[Egilman]

3 hours ago, mtaylor said:

That is the bravest thing I've seen in quite awhile... parking that car under the lift.  

Those lifts are designed to do exactly that... they were originally installed in parking garages.... They were adapted to serve in auto repair shops, they have a ratchet mechanism which absolutely prevents them from dropping..... Hard to find an auto shop around here that still uses a hydraulic or air cylinder lift anymore.... You see the cylinders in the bay floors of the older shops but the lift plate and controls are gone....

[marktiedens]

Yep - those are exactly the same type of lifts we had in the shop I worked at.  They are really quite safe as long as the pads on the lift arms were positioned correctly.  We used to park cars like that whenever it was going to snow enough that the lot would need plowed - much easier to plow a half - full lot.   Those lifts are hydraulic - each one has its own motor & pump.

 

 

Mark  

Edited February 28, 2021 by marktiedens

[mtaylor]

Thanks for setting me straight on the lifts.  I guess I'm just too old-school to keep up with all the new tech.

[Old Collingwood]

3 hours ago, mtaylor said:

Thanks for setting me straight on the lifts.  I guess I'm just too old-school to keep up with all the new tech.

I thought the same Mark, just looks like an accident waiting to happen  - like we see in the films...

 

OC.