1940 Vw Kubelwagen

No this is the ww2 military one. The thing/trekker is a lot more square at the front and has a bug engine. This has a much earlier aircooled engine that will find a home in my bug hot rod which is in another thread

Everyone's brining out the big guns this month. Good choice!

this is gonna be good, i vote for ex-military popcorn-and-drink-smiley-emoticon

Very Nice this one I'll be watching

Differant is good! Can't wait to see this one come together.

Had a change of plan on the engine as I stuffed up my first attempt(drilled the exhaust holes in completely the wrong place, lol). Now using one from one of my vw type 4 vans with a dirty great 4barrel on a blow through turbo set up, which has the benefit of being the same scale

Well started on the second engine. Glued the block halves together only to find the kit didn't have any heads? I'm guessing it's because they would be completely hidden when the original model is built so I'm making some from scratch, which won't be too difficult as the race heads are just square anyway. I've also drilled out the plug holes but still have to sand off the moulded in lines and remove the distributor as it won't be required because I'll be making one from heat shrink again(that stuff is pretty good for making distributors as it shapes to the wire) I made a start on the turbo to, but it looks a little small so I might shape some glued together blocks of sprue for it instead.

This is the start of the heads and there will be four out of this piece.

Too small maybe

Got a little time to do some more on the engine. Finished off the heads and glued them on, Most of the exhaust to turbo input piping is fabbed up. Still have to add the 4 into 1 at the top but it's also fabbed up, just needing cut down to fit(that black pyramid insome of the pics. Now I have to fab up the turbo exhaust and into engine pipes. I have also added a porsche fan housing to get a better fan and space for the alternator. Planning to leave the pipework unsmoothed to keep it looking a little rough

got the engine primed tonight and the turbo set up built with a small section to be added after it's together

Some real nice work Les looking very cool

Got the first few coats of paint on. Many more to go but I'm sure you can see the look I'm chasing.

Some amazing work you are doing Stitch. Anxious to see how it comes along.

Great weathering job Stitch,and the detail on the engine looks great too!

More progress tonight. Just a few small parts still to finish painting but all the major parts are painted and ready for assembly.