Nice progress, my friend @airbum!

Looks great!

Chrome for the handles and bumpers might be an option, too, as I think, many civillian Beetles by that time sported them. During those harsh times, I don't believe an "owner" would strive to paint the chrome parts; he'd just leave them "as is".

I found this pic form the Official VW webpage, showing a production line of civillian Beetles, dated 11 July 1941, where you can see the chrome bumpers and handles:

Link to this pic:

https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/group/history/chronicle/1937_1945.html

So, I vote for chrome bumpers and handles!

Oh, my! Those bugs! I have to double check my postings!
I went up and corrected it, my friend @airbum!

Great one!

Thank you gentlemen. Actually a batch of Molotow re-fill arrived today, so I just may have to experiment with the airbrush - it says that it is alcohol-based, so I guess some IPA may do the trick of thinning it. Experimentation will take place! (later that is - it is off to another 7 day stint at work tomorrow, and I do not think I will be airbrushing in the evenings)

Spiros (@fiveten), Thank you again for link, picture and vote my friend.

Michel (@michel-verschuere), I do like the 1/48 offerings from Tamiya - they bild well enough OOB, and it is actually possible to get quite a lot of AM products for them.

Louis (@lgardner), duly noted 🙂

Erik: what a great choice and all that extra work is really paying off. Stick some wings from your 109 stash and you’ll have a VolkSchmitt. All kidding aside, Molotov Chrome airbrushes perfectly. Just let it completely dry and don’t get any skin oils on it.

Looks absolutely fabulous!

Bump – not bumpers

and most certainly no chrome

My continued saga with me not fully appreciating the use of Acrylic ended in disaster the other day. I had been cleaning my airbrush – or so I thought – and wanted to give my beetle a second round of paint. The airbrush was not happy at all, and I were a bit frustrated, so I thinned the paint a bit more than I liked.

Well, not a great result, and I ended up trying to remove the paint. In my frustration I just filled the airbrush with thinner and started removing the paint. This is the result so far.

Now, was it oven cleaner or brake cleaner you said? I shall go back in topics and check what has been said about removing paint, then it will be cleaned up, and I shall start again with the paint (third time lucky?)

I am not entirely sure if I want to continue this right away, so saty tuned and check what happens

Thanks for the link Spiros. However this is Xtracolor Enamel paint, but I shall have a look anyway - cannot harm to check 🙂