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Today I started a Sketch-Up rendition of my 1/24 scale model, of the Old Style VW Beetle, being converted into the next X-Car prototype. This uses the stock VW wheelbase and the rear, approx. 3/5 of the stock Beetle body, turned around on the stock pan. Also is the current state of the 1/24 model with the clay additions, which is a slow process...sand yesterdays clay, add clay, and wait till tomorrow to see how it sands down...repeat. But it's getting there! I found some photos of some full size VW fiberglass body molds on The Samba, but nothing seems to be available today. One of those would greatly simplify building the full size car, by not having to cut up a stock Beetle and then making a mold off the metal parts, to later form fiberglass pieces from. Stock, straight beetles are getting rarer and pricy too.
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