Here
is a frontal view of the circuit
installation.
Meanwhile,
I jumped to the internal
stuff and shortened the dashboard of the Beetle. Then I filled the
joint
with putty and sanded it smooth.
I
manufactured the mating parts of
the contacts on the firewall. I bent the contacts and heat-sank them
into
the plastic. Then I bent them around the palstic again, on the back
side.
August 8,
2004 :
I epoxy-glued
a paper clip wire under the dashboard for attaching below the
windshield.
While
letting it cure, I trimmed
the door panels to fit the Z3 contours.
I
bent the wire for height adjustment
and after repeated tries, I got the final shape.
I
put styrene tubing around the wires
and glued the tubings below the windshield. This way, I had a removable
dashboard.
I
soldered the wires on the rear lamp
groups.
August 11,
2004 :
I
painted the car with Tamiya X-23 Metallic
Blue and applied 4 light coats of clear acrylic.
August 15,
2004 :
I
painted the seat inserts with flat
blue. I
treated the interiors with blue-black
theme as well. I covered the necessary places of the door panels with
BMF.
Here
is a closeup of the door panel.
I drybrushed the paint for better looks. The blue tone looks much
different
from the above photo. Actually it is somewhere in between. The shade is
ModelMaster Flat Light Blue.
I
fixed the LED groups with hot melt
glue gun, then went on soldering.
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