Airfix VW Beetle 1200 1/32.

[PatW]

So today out with the courier , yes from ebay UK another 1/32nd!
This just reminds me of three my wife and I had and two our youngest son had as well!

 

[Rockin' Rob]

So today out with the courier , yes from ebay UK another 1/32nd!
This just reminds me of three my wife and I had and two our youngest son had as well!

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Cool. That's my oldest brother's car.

 

[PatW]

After my late brother (he was born in 1939 so ten tears older than me) had bought various British Leyland cars, Mini Van and Austin 1100, that both rotted out early he bought one of these a special Jeans Edition, all of the interior in blue denim, he never looked back! No only solid but air-cooled!

 

[Tommergun]

I'll be watching. My wife drove a '68 and then a '72 Bug. I drove a '73 Westfalia.

Just realized that I had mentioned that on your Baja thread.

 

[PatW]

Mine although 1/32nd might be too radical in the painting department! Sorry not all radical!

 

[PatW]

So far!

 

[locomotive]

I built this kit many years ago. I lowered it, banded the wings, and dechromed it.

 

[PatW]

I built this kit many years ago. I lowered it, banded the wings, and dechromed it.

What in 1/32 scale?

 

[PatW]

Sorry terrible finish!!

 

[BarleyBop]

finish

Ha, actually very realistic, true to many I remember seeing on the road before their extirpation in Canada.
Bet you enjoyed all the memories during the build!

 

[PatW]

Yes I enjoyed it, especially reminding me about working on my 1st one and our youngest son's, black version as well, now his was some 30 years ago!

 

[Pantherman]

Yes I enjoyed it, especially reminding me about working on my 1st one and our youngest son's, black version as well, now his was some 30 years ago!

I had a white one age 18, my first car. It was a heap of junk but it was freedom. Pantherman

 

[PatW]

Thanks Pantherman.
More pics but not pretty!

 

[BarleyBop]

Nice job on that!
... back in '92, on a Monarch butterfly research trip into the Sierra Transvolcánica, in the state of Michoacán, Mexico, I was just as astounded to see so many other bugs... Beetles and Combis (VW vans), as they were still being manufactured in Mexico!
D.F. (Distrito Federal), as Mexico city was still called, was literally crawling with them!

 

[Pantherman]

Thanks Pantherman.
More pics but not pretty!

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Looks just like mine. Pantherman

 

[PatW]

Thanks Pantherman & Barleybop!