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Maurits van der Aa
Wauw, nice subject. Where can I buy these?

Michael Kohl
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Dominik Weitzer
great start. you make excellent work

Martin Oostrom
Two Beemers at the same time? Love it

MS K
Painting the shell requires drying time, so I started working on something else in the meantime, and it happened to be a BMW again. 😉

Carlos Proença
Following. Nice job!!!!!

Treehugger
Presumably a good-enough decal softener will help against silvering, where silvering is air tapped under the decal because of the rough texture of the painted surface.
Solvaset = stronger decal softener
MicroSol = default decal softener?

After applying a decal softener, the decals MUST NOT be touched, even if it starts looking wrinkly. The wrinkles all disappear after a while.

One thing I like to do after airbrushing on primer and also paint, is to gently go over with sanding sponge, but never over edges as that will surely removed paint off the plastic, but large flat surfaces are typically safe to sand down very gently, to create a more flat surface. For this to work, it is important that the base layer, the primer paint, is sanded flat first, else the uneven primer paint will show through the paint layer, if you only sand the paint layer on top.

schecter87
I'm using Tamiya Mark Fit Super Strong. Just apply the softener to the surface of the decal and after a couple of minutes, gently press it onto the surface with a cotton swab. If the decal is not welded, then it may fall off in pieces along with the varnish 🙁 .

Sy Bar
Love the use of UV resin on the logo badges, an idea I'll use from now on many thanks

MS K
You're welcome~ 😉

Maurits van der Aa
Nice progress my friend. A lot of improvements you made

D P
That's awesome! But how did you fix silvering? The end result looks perfect.

MS K
@D P - It's simple. I painted leveling thinner with a paint brush. 😉

nikfrost
very nice indeed

Maurits van der Aa
But why did you copy the grille in transparant?

Michael Kohl
Great. Love quality and color and the small bumpers.
Are the rear lights upside down?

scaleffect
Probably, I don't know anything about the real car so followed the instructions blindly. That is an unfortunate and glaring error I will forever be ashamed of. Thank you for pointing it out. I will do better next time 🙁

Rui S
Beautiful work 👍
I would never 😉 be embarrassed by this level of work

Christian W
Sorry for the rear lights. But you could easyly paint the lower part with red and that will fit perfectly to the California license plate. In the US the rear lights were also available in red only (at least through a car parts store) 😉 That is what I would do. The Beetle looks georgeous.

scaleffect
Thanks Rui.

Christian, I will live with the reminder of my mistake instead of risking making things worse by trying to either remove the lenses or paint the exterior of them. It's unfortunate, but inevitable being only a few years into the hobby I will suffer these pitfalls. That is the only way I can learn.

Spanjaard
it looks fantastic, the finish is just awesome

Mr James
Lovely colour and beautiful finish

Chris Reimann
Gorgeous build and perfect pictures!

Maurits van der Aa
Wauw what a great build my man

Jan Peters
Having owned a bug for years I still have a soft spot for anything air-cooled.
Your model look absolutely great 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻