
Builder Last Online: Nov 2017


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Started: 05-14-13
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A while back I purchased this kit in Belgium because I like big scale and it was affordable, due to not building military I soon sold it again. Ever since I kept looking for a decent priced one and not that long ago, I was able to find one for a good price.
I got it by mail and soon came the ideas, I did searched online for some reference material, but there are basically no Kubel hotrods, there is one, but it basically a Kübel without it's fenders. I wanted it a bit more radical, so I had to think something on my own.
I closely looked at the traditional American hotrods and discovered that my Kübel had is needing a major modification on the body, it needed to be shorter, lower and more pronounced.
I started with putting the body pieces together on a modelshow and when home, did some doodling to find a style I liked. Soon the idea's popped in my head and it was time to get the multitool and saw it into pieces.
This is the box, it is released by Revell
, but it is an older Esci kit

A few views of the original body, just to give an idea of what it should look originally

Note the tape on the sides, that will be my reference marks to cut it.




And everything went into pieces after cutting it up, it is a multipiece body and meant to put together throughout the whole build, but I needed it to be a complete assembled body

A little leap in time, in the meanwhile I got some wheels from Mspeanut (Thanks!) and got working on putting everything somewhat together. Because I shortened the body, it meant the wheelbase got shorter as well, which is not favourable for a hotrod. So I decided to keep the original floorpan and wheelbase and work my way from there. In this picture the body is as I put it together from the loose pieces and the I assembled quickly the front and rear axle for working on the body

A small hint of what it is going to be

I think I keep the original front wheel on the front, it is a important design feature of the Kübel and since there is no engine in the front, I need to keep it entertaining with something.

I drew some lines of the floorpan, that needs to be cut in order to fit the body to the floorpan

When the body fits, I made some new bodypanels with white styrene
, and it starts to give shape to the body. It does look weird at the moment, but I hope it will work out.

Different view

Even tough I measure everything a couple times, for some reason it looks odd and warped.

Eventually the left doorpillar was 2mm longer than the other side and I must have messed up something somewhere.

I changed the 'hood' of the car and made it fit, it now gives a bit better look to the hotrod

At this stage, I lowered the left doorpillar and narrowed the top doorpillar frame, it gives a bit sleeker appearance.

One of the things I wanted to do, is to convert the Kübel from 5 to 3 doors. I placed them in the new hole, taped them together and cut them at the same line, that way, one can be sure they fit easily to eachother


For some reason, it still looks warped, but I think there is actually a warp in the floorpan. All the measurements are correct.


And finally a bit more detailled look of the Kubelrod, this gives quite a good impression of what the car may look like. I need to lower the doors and I think I need to give the car a wider rear axle, but other than that, I think I got the base covered.


I got it by mail and soon came the ideas, I did searched online for some reference material, but there are basically no Kubel hotrods, there is one, but it basically a Kübel without it's fenders. I wanted it a bit more radical, so I had to think something on my own.
I closely looked at the traditional American hotrods and discovered that my Kübel had is needing a major modification on the body, it needed to be shorter, lower and more pronounced.
I started with putting the body pieces together on a modelshow and when home, did some doodling to find a style I liked. Soon the idea's popped in my head and it was time to get the multitool and saw it into pieces.
This is the box, it is released by Revell


A few views of the original body, just to give an idea of what it should look originally

Note the tape on the sides, that will be my reference marks to cut it.




And everything went into pieces after cutting it up, it is a multipiece body and meant to put together throughout the whole build, but I needed it to be a complete assembled body

A little leap in time, in the meanwhile I got some wheels from Mspeanut (Thanks!) and got working on putting everything somewhat together. Because I shortened the body, it meant the wheelbase got shorter as well, which is not favourable for a hotrod. So I decided to keep the original floorpan and wheelbase and work my way from there. In this picture the body is as I put it together from the loose pieces and the I assembled quickly the front and rear axle for working on the body

A small hint of what it is going to be

I think I keep the original front wheel on the front, it is a important design feature of the Kübel and since there is no engine in the front, I need to keep it entertaining with something.

I drew some lines of the floorpan, that needs to be cut in order to fit the body to the floorpan

When the body fits, I made some new bodypanels with white styrene


Different view

Even tough I measure everything a couple times, for some reason it looks odd and warped.

Eventually the left doorpillar was 2mm longer than the other side and I must have messed up something somewhere.

I changed the 'hood' of the car and made it fit, it now gives a bit better look to the hotrod

At this stage, I lowered the left doorpillar and narrowed the top doorpillar frame, it gives a bit sleeker appearance.

One of the things I wanted to do, is to convert the Kübel from 5 to 3 doors. I placed them in the new hole, taped them together and cut them at the same line, that way, one can be sure they fit easily to eachother


For some reason, it still looks warped, but I think there is actually a warp in the floorpan. All the measurements are correct.


And finally a bit more detailled look of the Kubelrod, this gives quite a good impression of what the car may look like. I need to lower the doors and I think I need to give the car a wider rear axle, but other than that, I think I got the base covered.


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