what do you guys think?

[Shodog]

Comments?

Jim

[TWINSET]

Green looks ok

[usapirap(2)]

The quarter panels look good.

[Guest Carsnboats]

Hmm, Interesting. I just acquired a used Monster beetle and the plastic parts were first painted in the same shade of green as that body. Then Red and finally Black. Could it be the same car???[?]

Have given up stripping 3 coats of paint off and bought new parts.[]

[Twmaster]

Geez Jim, what's wrong with you today? I would have expected you to have that pillar fabricated, paint stripped and a sexy blue and white mirror finish paint job done by now! Good god man! What is taking you sooooooo long? []

[Beetlejuice]

What i think? I think you`re lucky having such a nice body for your car. Go to my showroom and check out my Monster Beetle.[]

[Shodog]

Ha ha you guys are too funny. Actually this is the colors I have picked to paint my new wrangler shell. It's automotive paint so I wanted to try it out on a thrasher shell before I lay it down on an expensive to replace shell.

The missing a pillar was a donor for my Sand Scorcher shell. You wouldn't believe the amount of paint I stripped off with easy off. there is probably 7 layers on the shell.

[mymonsterbeetleisbroken]

excellent, a shell worse than the one on my monster[]

[Martin71RS(2)]

Trasher shell????? that one is perfectly restorable [)]

Martin

[Scorchio]

quote:

Originally posted by Shodog

Actually this is the colors I have picked to paint my new wrangler shell.

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Which ones Jim? Silver I like, Black I like, silver fading into black I REALLY REALLY LIKE!, But the green is really not my bag at all (just a personal thing).

[The Slayer]

Large hammer [?][?]

[Shodog]

quote:

Originally posted by Scorchio

Which ones Jim? Silver I like, Black I like, silver fading into black I REALLY REALLY LIKE!, But the green is really not my bag at all (just a personal thing).

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actually it was the green, white, yellow, blue colors. I am going for the hillbilly jeep look.[]

The silvery color is actually Champagne goldish that I will use for the main body color. The matt black I will use for the fender lips and the top will be painted a Tan color.

Essentially it will end up looking like this jeep, just without the huge dent

[SJoerD]

Ok, I know I am an elephant as far as memory goes... But didn't we see this one before?

I believe this was the realisic Beetle-taxi from Brazil, which the driver thefted as a blue Beetle. He painted it over to start is Taxi bussiness. But that was soon over, as after this it was thefted from him, but now by the sought after criminal Don Losi. In his turn, he overpainted it in silver and black to hide it's true identity. He turned it into a lighting fast (and furious) off-roader.

One day Don Losi was chased through the desert by the police, as he was trying to fled the country. As soon as he reached California, he hit a champagne/tan colored Jeep in the side, and the Beetle landed on it's roof. Don Losi was never to be found again. But it wasn't an accident!

He couldn't have chrashed just like that, he was also a famous racing driver (known from the Baja 500), so he should have been able to keep it on the road. I wonder who did this to Don Losi, as a top-criminal he had many enemies...

The wreck soon disappeared, never to be seen again. The wreck was last sighted in California but without Don Losi. Some people claim to have sighted it again in the area of San José but this was never proven as fact.

Now it seems to have turned up again. I assume we are about to witness another cover up. This time a bath of brake fluid will wash away all of history, and the Beetle will start another life once again.

[Shodog]

Here it is so far. I have painted the matt black on the fender lips which are safely taped off at the moment. I then sprayed a few coats of Champagne. It also has one coat of Tamiya clear on it. Just picked up another can to finish it off this weekend. I still need to spray the top and spare wheel cover in tan.

Can anybody spot the alteration I made to the body?

Jim

[TWINSET]

I like the concealed rear wheel look, reminds me of a 2CV [^]

[Shodog]

I just posted new interim pics in my showroom.

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?id=34&cid=17494

it was the moment of truth when I pulled the tape off of the flares. the difference between a nice paint job and having to redo comes down to whether or not the tape stuck. Luckily it came out excellent. You gotta love 3M fine line tape.

I am going to let the body set in this state for about a week while the paint cures good and hard before I tape off the roof to paint it Tan. I have learned my lesson too many times of putting tape on paint that wasn't cured well enough.

The alteration I did was to fill in the antenna hole and mold hole on the top of the body. Since I don't plan on running it I wanted a cleaner look on the top

Jim

[TWINSET]

[^]Sweet work Jim - the fenders look like a seperate piece - Nice one