124th Scale Volkswagen Beetle Review And Comparison

I thought this would be quite a cool thing to do both for the blog and for youtube. I love the old VW beetle. I remember going to my great Aunts house when I was growing up and her sons yellow beetle was sitting on the driveway (he had emigrated to Australia but left the car there). I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I made the Tamiya model about 25 years ago so I thought I would get a new one to make. But times have changed and there are a few companies who have produced models in 1:24 scale. There are some reviews out there but I think the best thing to do is get one of each, put them side by side and see where we go from there.

So here I’m going to review 7 of the most popular and readily available Volkswagen Beetle Scale Model Kits. A Full review video comparing each kit and lots of high-quality photos of all the sprues and parts.

I’m only going to go for the saloon model, not the cabriolet and not the police version. From what I can find there are 5 main kits and 12 kit that seems to be a little less common.

1. TAMIYA 24136 Volkswagen 1300 Beetle 1:24 Car Model Kit
2. Italeri 1/24 VW1303S Beetle # 3708
3. Aoshima 05552 – 1/24 VOLKSWAGEN 1303S Beetle 1303S ’73
4. Hasegawa 1/24 Volkswagen Beetle 1967
5. Revell 1:24 VW Beetle Limousine 1968
6. Imai 1:24 Basic Car Series Volkswagen 1303s Beetle
7. Gunze Sangyo 1:24 G149:900. 1956 VW Beetle

So here I will have 6 models to play with. Rather than just paint each one standard showroom condition. What I would like to do is paint them as the following.

1. Brand New Showroom Condition
2. Herbie The Love Bug
3. Rusted Over And Forgotten About
4. Ratty Surfer Car
5. I’m Thinking Mexican Mexico City Taxi
6. ?????
7. ?????

This should be a nice little project that should last the summer months. There is a lot of research to do I already have a couple of folders on google images I’m adding pictures to.

Below are some High Definition Photos of all ao the VW Beetle Models featured in the video.