VDUB beetle dio

Time to pimp them rides!
User avatar
iggie
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 23360
Joined: July 31st, 2013, 11:04 am
Location: North Somercotes, Lincolnshire
Contact:

Re: VDUB beetle dio

Post by iggie »

The damage looks really realistic; how did you achieve the torn appearance?
Best wishes

Jim
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing
"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
kpnuts
Active Participant
Posts: 980
Joined: January 20th, 2017, 11:15 pm

Re: VDUB beetle dio

Post by kpnuts »

I put it through my jig saw first then used a soldering iron then gun metal and silver paint.
User avatar
Clashcityrocker
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 10781
Joined: May 1st, 2011, 12:31 am
Location: Adelaide. South Australia

Re: VDUB beetle dio

Post by Clashcityrocker »

Nice work with your, 'death ray cut'. Looks very good.

Nigel
User avatar
splash
Senior Service Rotorhead
Posts: 13828
Joined: May 1st, 2011, 11:02 am
Location: Somerset England

Re: VDUB beetle dio

Post by splash »

This is coming together well, keep up the great work.

Regards Splash
My work bench is starting to look like Portsmouth Naval Dockyard.
kpnuts
Active Participant
Posts: 980
Joined: January 20th, 2017, 11:15 pm

Re: VDUB beetle dio

Post by kpnuts »

Hi all well it's done.

Image
Image
Image
And some video of the effects.

https://youtu.be/YLkGqvcs6Mg;

https://youtu.be/aJXSfwv-cFg;
User avatar
Clashcityrocker
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 10781
Joined: May 1st, 2011, 12:31 am
Location: Adelaide. South Australia

Re: VDUB beetle dio

Post by Clashcityrocker »

Nice work with the electrickery. I don't fully get the whole scene though. What is the orange fireball on the side?
Maybe some more pics too :)

Nigel
syd-baines
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 1050
Joined: September 10th, 2013, 4:22 pm

Re: VDUB beetle dio

Post by syd-baines »

i like the effect, nice to see something different, from the start i like the way this build has kept me in wondering what was going to happen right up till the very end great very well done
kpnuts
Active Participant
Posts: 980
Joined: January 20th, 2017, 11:15 pm

Re: VDUB beetle dio

Post by kpnuts »

The explosion at the side is from where the Martians heat ray has cut through the gas main under the pavement.
ShaunW
NOT the sheep
Posts: 26118
Joined: November 26th, 2011, 6:11 pm
Location: Pontefract West Yorkshire

Re: VDUB beetle dio

Post by ShaunW »

Excellent build, KP with some great effects. This is one of the best Sci-Fi based dios I've seen for a while.
Doing - Tamiya 1/35th Universal Carrier.

Work is the curse of the modelling classes!
IPMS#12300
arni
Modelling Gent and Scholar
Posts: 1082
Joined: May 1st, 2011, 6:23 pm

Re: VDUB beetle dio

Post by arni »

kpnuts wrote:Well some people are so rude. I'm a member of Instagram ( I have been a member for a while but only really started posting model pics lately)I don't know much about social media but normally I just post pics with no explanation so I posted these pics as it gone along, after this update I got 80 likes in one day (that is the most I've had so far) well I got a private massage saying "you should stick to drawing this is crap my six yr old could do better"that's just plain rude, I don't know them, they don't know me, and obviously a lot of people like it, I don't know why people feel they have to make statements like that. I've looked ate some of their posts and they don't even build models (at least if they do they're so crap they don't post them)
TROLLS :ha: ,I was on youtube and mentioned that I had been through Lockerbie the day before the 747 crashed there, when someone got abusive calling me a jew and a commie and some crude sexual references...So I got pretty abusive in return calling him a troll.
Heard nothing since. :grin:
Post Reply

Return to “Cars, Trucks, Bikes, Locos and other civvie vehicles”