Ebro 1/24 Citroën 2CV Pickup

[Fenlander]

Not a huge or technical return to the bench but I am happy to have started this great little kit and got it finished within a week!


Nothing special to write home about but the kit is very nice, great fit everywhere and the little rubber tyres are superb.  Absolutely no build issues whatsoever other than what I brought to it.  I didn't have any clear yellow, if indeed there is any, so I used a very thin clear orange on the headlight glass which I now see is too dark.  Can easily be built as a right hand drive without any modifications but I chose to do it LHD even though the box art shows it as a RHD.


The grey I mixed myself with Tamiya Royal Light Grey, Ocean grey and a touch of Medium Blue.  The callout is for a Royal Light Grey (or to be precise 'Royal Wright Grey'  O.o  which, from examples I have seen, is too light.


Anyway, nothing exciting but a few pics to show it finished.  Thanks for watching.


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[Fenlander]

By the way, if this isn't military enough the fear not, the Royal Marine Commandoes had some as Light air transportable trucks, be a nice easy modification.


picture included for discussion only.  Copyright unknown.

 

[monica]

looking real good, Graham,liking the color as well, :D

 

[Ian M]

Great job Graham. It looks good in the grey.


hmmm Royal Marine 2CV...makes sense; weigh next to nowt and could probably survive a landing 'sans' parachute ...

 

[Fenlander]

Great job Graham. It looks good in the grey.


hmmm Royal Marine 2CV...makes sense; weigh next to nowt and could probably survive a landing 'sans' parachute ...

Certainly tough enough Ian.  I have seen pictures of it slung under helicopters and one with a recoilless rifle mounted on the back.  All excess weight, not that there is much, is stripped off to part or even complete door removal. Quite an interesting project to do.

 

[noble]

That looks the business Graham, like it.

 

[Gern]

A nice, tidy build to get you back into things Graham!


How did you eventually end up doing the rubber surrounds on the windows?

 

[Fenlander]

A nice, tidy build to get you back into things Graham!


How did you eventually end up doing the rubber surrounds on the windows?

Cheers Dave this one is painted.  I didn't want to hold this one up while I sourced materials.  I did think of using EZ rigging line as it is quite fine and flat in profile.  However, I wasn't sure what glue would work with it without risking it peeling or fogging the clear parts.  This will be a matter of experimentation for future builds.

 

[0ne48thtel]

That looks good Graham that pic of the marines using them would make for a good dio.