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HPI Beetle cup body fits!!

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some outdoors pics... NOTE: i do not have cooling holes in it YET still need to finish rear mount system before i can bash with it...

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with Black Light

how i did it.. i still used parma paint.. got a load of it a while back and more than enough to mix coustom colors and all, the fasperal purpal i decided to try out, a nice thing with parma paint is it takes a good 24-48 hurs to cure, aka bond to the lexan, scrapes off very easily till this point..

so i did 3 coats of the fappearl purpal.. let it dry 2 hours, then took a wooden match stick to etch the design into the dry to touch paint, and removed it to make various lines in it.. looks as if the cars has a very very bad key job, like i said i was toying around... once i did the key job i used some flourcent yellow on it.. i let it dry and decided it was still too bright for my linkings.. i want it to look like a bug going thru the jungle... so i backed it with black patrica.. oil based to make it water proof, this in effect made it a deep grape purpal shade.. and turned the bright yellow into a real nice lime green.. looks like it is bleeding from getting scratched up.. i tinted the windows with pactrica candy blue
 
Someone Else did that body on their T-Maxx. I think it was christian, He called it The lightning bug. nice job!
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Looks great!!! I wish there was a 1/8 scale beetle body out there. Those neon light look good also. I bet its fun to drive at night.
 
no neon light.. black light shinning on the flourcent paint..

glad ya like it.. at least the body is wider than stock though...

i have 3 more bods I'm doing at thsi time too.. that was #1, i have another VW jetta #2, a f150-flare side 200mm touring car bod, and a firetruck to do last..
 
Originally posted by SilentHunterKellen
Someone Else did that body on their T-Maxx. I think it was christian, He called it The lightning bug. nice job!
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Not to toot my own horn, but it was me that did The Lightning Bug.

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SWEET, Keep em coming, VWs rule!!! Is there a 1/8 scale VW bod out there? I'd like to have one on my Savage. (good body for rolling back over when on the lid):D
 
the proline jetta bod also looks nice too... this body is 90% dead.. got a new one on the works... the rear wing is candy purpal backed in chrome. body is spaz stix holigraphic..

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the bug looks sweet.. one day ill get to be a great painter like that..
 
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