Celebrating over 600,000 seconds of authorship!
Corgi driving school beetle from the mid 70’s, photos and SMA*
One week ago I was given authorship on this brilliant blog. I had gotten bored and one thing led to another, before I knew it I had made a short stop motion clip of my HotWheels BAJA BUG real rider performing a burnout, complete with simulated tyre smoke using pocket lint for the smoke. Anyway philipilihp(got it right this time!) granted me authorship on here, thanks. I think it was you? (It was a drinking night).
I have learned heaps about die-cast in this past week. As a one week anniversary, celebration, mark the occasion type thing,I made a quick SMA*, apparently that’s industry speak for Stop Motion Animation, I’m even learning other stuff! Below the clip is a link to a great site about the casting used for the Beetle featured, a mid 70’s Corgi Driving School Beetle. Had this for a long time, I got it when I was around 12 or 13 ish, so roughly 30 yrs ago, SHUT UP! I had a love hate relationship with this initially as the model is pretty well detailed but it has a GIANT STEERING WHEEL STICKING OUT OF THE ROOF! These days I don’t mind as it’s a bit different and fun to drive around the desk while on a boring phone call. I’m thinking I may make a series of short clips featuring this car going about its daily business, maybe.
Link to excellent info page
http://ilovecorgitoys.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/vw-bee…
*SMA, Possible new tag? as I may do more of this occasionally, probably.