Lancfan's Historic Beetle ***Finished***

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Lancfan's Historic Beetle ***Finished***

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This build will be of the current Dapol edition of the venerable Airfix Scammel Scarab Mechanical Horse in Watney's Brewery colours.
First, the header card shot.
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The first steps were to fit the seats to the chassis and then paint it, I then assembled the barrels and the cab, fitting the missing windscreen centre pillar using stretched sprue.
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I then painted the interior and the lower half of the cab.
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I love it David. Great colours.
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Such a classic, both the kit and the original. looking good!
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Watneys Red Barrel, now that's a beer that brings back memory's
My work bench is starting to look like Portsmouth Naval Dockyard.
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splash wrote:Watneys Red Barrel, now that's a beer that brings back memory's
Don't take the p**s out of Red Barrel......you'll ruin the flavour! :shock: :-D
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iggie wrote:
splash wrote:Watneys Red Barrel, now that's a beer that brings back memory's
Don't take the p**s out of Red Barrel......you'll ruin the flavour! :shock: :-D
:ha: :ha: :ha:
It was a classic case of good advertising over a poor product :-D
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splash wrote:
iggie wrote:
splash wrote:Watneys Red Barrel, now that's a beer that brings back memory's
Don't take the p**s out of Red Barrel......you'll ruin the flavour! :shock: :-D
:ha: :ha: :ha:
It was a classic case of good advertising over a poor product :-D
To be fair, Red Barrel wasn't so bad, it was when it changed to plain Watney's Red that the trouble started!
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After a lapse the Scarab is back on the bench and is now almost complete.
The cab was then fitted to the Chassis, the ornamental roof barrel was fitted and the rest of the cab was then painted.

Finished in the nick of time ! I have to say that the instructions were awful and the decals were terrible, especially those for the barrels which were slightly too large and printed with a square varnish coat- also the varnish was Yellow ! (in this day and age ?) I will print my own titles for the barrels later and rectify this, but for now this will have to do.
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Excellent work, David.

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Ah, but David, you have come through in your usual style and it looks good !
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Excellent work.
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Wow David, that came out of nowhere. Great finish and not something you see very often.
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Thanks David, John, Alan, O_T. Despite the shortcomings of the instructions and decals I did enjoy building this model and I plan to make a few others in different liveries later.

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Delightful build David; it has loads of character!
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