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Old 07-03-2014, 02:44 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
1/32nd seems a little small-scale for wind tunnel testing. I've got a 1/18th New Beetle (in Cyber Green) somewhere, and the pros generally go to 1/4th or 1/5th.


have you looked at the work of Yoshi Suzuka? He uses 1/24th.

Freebeard You could (should) make a wind tunnel to test the 1:24 Beetle , You could test your designs and whatnot. Once the tunnel is built it could be used for some years testing scale models.

They have lots of really cool older cars in the 1:18 scale (11"x 5" ) Mercedes , fiats , Porsche's and so on, they would be interesting to wind test.
They also have Classic Beetles in many 1:18 forms / designs.
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