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  1. Citroën 2CV - 007 For your Eyes Only (05663) 1:24 Carrera Revell Following WWII, France was recovering from the trauma of the preceding five years, reinvigorating their industries and improving the lot of the French people at the same time. Vice-President of Citroën, Pierre Boulanger had the original idea of creating a new design based upon the pre-war TPV that could travel over rough ground, had a low cost of ownership, and could help the French populace gain mobility, particularly farmers, allowing them to put the horse and cart back in the barn when they needed to go somewhere, able to carry a reasonable load without risking damage to people or equipment. The resulting design was the basis for the 2CV, having long-travel suspension, an easily maintained engine that although relatively low in power, could keep the vehicle moving over the terrains mentioned with or without a load. The act of crossing a ploughed field with a carton of eggs on the back seat is often mentioned, and Top Gear once attempted it themselves, although I forget the outcome. Its load carrying capability was enhanced by the canvas roof that originally encompassed the boot space, allowing the load to project upwards and behind if necessary, although the canvas roof was later stopped at the rear parcel shelf, adding a separate boot panel. It first went into production in 1948, and the original design continued with few major alterations, including adding the boot panel in 1957, allowing users to open the boot without having to roll the whole roof back. A shape change was introduced in 1961, adding more features to the simple design, and mounting two additional doors to create a four-door sedan with a new engine that increased horsepower to a staggering 14hp. Further changes carried on, adding extras that would appeal to the modern buyer, and by 1970 the Oil Crisis brought new popularity to this frugal run-about, which is probably why my hippie art teacher had one – a bright green Diane with a striped green/white canvas roof, and as much creature comfort as your average waste basket. As the effects of the Oil Crisis wore off, sales slumped, and extra efforts were made to boost them, which included featuring a bright yellow 2CV in the James Bond Movie, For Your Eyes Only. The positive effects of its appearance were grabbed with both hands by the marketing execs, creating a special edition with the same yellow paint job, 007 stickers on the doors, and bullet-hole decals on the panels. The engine was left stock however, unlike the stunt car, which had a flat four engine installed that output twice the power of the production engine, although twice nothing isn’t a large number. In effect, Citroën finished off the 2CV themselves, first with the more modern-looking Visa (the car, not the card) that was produced in tandem with the 2CV, which was in turn itself replaced by the AX, a highly popular car at the time, despite having all the crash safety protection of a crisp packet, which included a plastic boot lid and front wings. Production ceased in France in early ’88, but carried on a little longer in Portugal, finishing there in 1990 with a total production of over 3.8m cars, by which time everyone had probably finished coaming the hairspray out of their manes. The Kit The original tooling of this kit appeared in 2011 with round headlights as the final Charleston model that finished the 2CV’s career, but this is the first reboxing to utilise square headlights and other parts applicable to a non-retro production vehicle. The kit arrives in a medium-depth end-opening box, and inside are six sprues and the bodyshell of grey styrene, a chromed sprue, a clear sprue, a small square of plastic or plastic-coated mesh, four black flexible “rubber” tyres, a decal sheet, the instruction booklet that is printed in colour and has profiles on the rear pages. As it is a gift set, it also includes an additional bag with six thumb-pots of acrylic paint, a 12.5g bottle of Contacta Professional glue with a needle applicator, and a #2 paint brush that has been well-protected by the starchy finishing agent used to form the bristles into a point after manufacture. Quite often the lack of a protective sleeve results in a brush tip that is fit only for painting round corners. The final item is an A3 colour poster of the car in the form that it appeared in the movie, with Revell, 007 and Citroën logos around the star of the poster. It’s too large for my photobooth, but you can see a thumbnail of it on the box art above. Detail on the sprues is good, having been tooled relatively recently, and you get a full engine, a depiction of the structure of the unusual suspension system it employed, and a full cab interior. You also have the option of showing the canvas roof rolled up to the rear, or deployed, which are described as ‘Movie Car’ and ‘Promotion Car’ respectively. The bodyshell has been created using sliding moulds, which has allowed the designers to achieve raised and recessed details on all sides of the shell, giving it the prototypical ‘Jelly Mould’ look that gave rise to its derogatory nickname – a name I used many times in my youth. Construction begins with the engine, which comprises a substantial number of parts, building up the block and transmission, cylinder head, intake and sump, plus the air-cooling system that has a substantial ring around the fan, capped with a clear part that includes the four stator blades that are painted black before closing the fan in behind. The floor pan has parts of the suspension mechanism moulded-in on the underside, adding swing-arms front and rear, the rear one having the axles moulded into the ends. The exhaust is a single part that is threaded through the floor pan, and the front suspension arms are fitted to circular mounts, melting the ends with a hot blade or screwdriver so that they can remain mobile. They are linked together by a pair of arms that meet in the centre and have gaiters moulded over the pivot points, with detail painting needed to complete it. A steering arm is then fitted to the trailing arms of the front suspension, using a hot screwdriver to melt the ends again, fitting the engine in position on lugs moulded into the front of the floor pan, one of which is invisible, so is portrayed as a dotted “ghost” image in that step. Before the inner wings can be glued in place either side of the engine, an internal corner must be sanded to a bevel to allow it to fit well, so pay careful attention to the diagrams before attempting installation. The interior floor is a separate part, with rectangular patterns moulded-in to represent the floor area that is covered by protective mats. A parcel shelf is installed on the rear arches, then the bench seat is made from an L-shaped cushion part that has a pair of legs and integral support glued into the front underside, making the front seats individually, adding backs to the hollow L-shaped fronts, and a frame under the seat cushion. All the seats have pencil-line quilted upholstery down the centres, and the rear seats have lap-belts moulded-in, fixed to the floor by the front legs and a raised guide on the front of the parcel shelf. The driver’s foot pedals are inserted into the front footwell on the left side, and the two front seats without belts are installed between the two footwells. If you're wondering where the front belts are, they’re cleverly moulded into the B-pillars that are integral to the door cards, which have the simple inner frames and door card details moulded into them, one part per side. These are fixed to the sides of the floor, making up the dashboard from two parts with decal for the instrument binnacle, a separate gear stick and handbrake dangling from the dash, plus the steering column with separate wheel that is installed along with the dash, sliding into a socket in the floor and on a block that locates under the binnacle. The steering wheel is worthy of note, because it has a single spoke attaching it to the rim, in typical quirky Citroën style. The cabin is mated with the floorpan, and a firewall is prepared by drilling a hole, adding a dash pot and a decal, plus painting an oval shape and some other details at the same time, gluing it to the front of the cab. A hose is inserted into the engine bay linking the intake with the bulkhead, and a wiring loom is mounted over the engine with wires trailing backwards into the bulkhead, with more layers of detail to come. A battery is made from two parts, fitting into a recess in the firewall at the same time as another thick hose and a thinner one is added into the bay, followed by the two-part circular air ‘box’ with input and an output tubes, a square dash pot, and a thick battery lead to further enhance the content that greets anyone lifting the bonnet. The 2CV suffered from skinny wheels that helped to keep its fuel consumption low, without the need to worry about skidding on corners, as it just couldn’t go that fast. Each hub is built from inner and outer faces that have a cap inside that is left unglued, so that it can be fixed to the axle and remain mobile. The finished hubs have flexible black tyres flex-fitted over them, then they can be glued in place on the axles, taking care not to let the glue spread and lock the wheels in place. There is a choice of how you finish the distinctive grille of your Jelly Mould, both utilising the four-slat chromed grille part, but with a choice of installing a clear part with a mesh decal applied to it behind the grille, or cutting a section of the mesh supplied to shape using the clear part as a guide, and gluing it to the back of the chromed grille. It’s your choice, and either one would do, just check whether the grille mesh is horizontal or diagonal, as the drawings of the two options seem to disagree. The bonnet panel has the requisite five fluted lines, and has the interior painted tan to represent the sound insulation, adding the grille to the front, and a hinge part at the rear, which drops into a space at the front of the bodyshell. You have some detail painting to do inside before proceeding, the next step involving trapping the hinges of the bonnet in place with a panel, again taking care with the glue. A rear-view mirror is fitted in the centre of the windscreen between the A-pillars, and a clear courtesy light is inserted at the top of the B-pillar on the driver’s side, fitting a narrow C-shaped rail to the roof over the windscreen before the bodyshell can be mated with the rest of the model. You are instructed to tape the door cards to the bodyshell over the sills to ensure that they bond well during the curing process. The roof can be posed open or closed, using the Movie or Promotion name to differentiate. In the open position, the rear window is installed in the separate rear panel above the boot, and the rolled-up canvas roof is glued onto the top of the panel. To create the Promotion option, the deployed roof part has the window inserted at the rear, fitting either one to your model. It’s a shame there weren’t two-part 118s (the window), so you could build both options and swap them at will. The two fixed side windows per side have their rubbers painted black before they are inserted into their respective cut-outs, then you have the choice of posing the front windows closed by using the single parts with a line down the centre, or by using two sections that are glued together folded. Bear in mind that these windows have chrome surrounds, so get your best chrome source ready to do the job here. Conversely, the windscreen is mounted in rubber, and is a straight-forward rectangle. The model looks like a car now, but there are a lot of small parts still to add, starting with the rectangular headlights, which are moulded together as a chromed part on their mounting bracket, and have clear lenses fitted after you have painted the exterior yellow. The clear indicators on the front wings are next, which you will need to paint clear orange, fitting the chromed bumper below and painting the over-riders black. It is glued in place under the nose, and a numberplate holder is fixed to the valance in the centre on a tab, with another at the rear between the rear light clusters, which should be painted a mixture of red and orange, as per the accompanying scrap diagram. The rear bumper mounts on two brackets under the light clusters, and a chromed boot handle is inserted into a depression in the bottom centre of the panel, adding a chrome filler cap to the rear right wing, and chrome door handles to all four doors. The windscreen wipers are also chromed, as is the single wing mirror on the driver’s side, which reminds us that basic safety features such as offside wing mirrors used to be an extra if you were lucky, and sometimes weren’t even offered. The 2CV had a pair of short mudflaps fitted to the front arches, probably to prevent claims for chipped paintwork from unhappy buyers, but the kit also provides a pair for you to use on your model. Markings If Henry Ford were colour blind he might have said “any colour you like, as long as it’s yellow”. He wasn’t, but these are your options. Both schemes are presented in a garish yellow, and of course Mr Bond, played by Roger Moore at the time, was hardly likely to advertise his presence by having 007 displayed on the doors and bonnet of his car, so it’s easy to guess which is the promotional car. From the box you can build one of the following: Movie Car Promotion Car Decals are by Cartograf, which is a guarantee of good registration, sharpness and colour density, with a thin gloss carrier film cut close to the printed areas. Conclusion I must admit that this is a cool kit and a fun reboxing, although yellow isn’t my favourite colour. If you’re building the Movie Car, you should really replace the engine with a flat-four and install a complete roll-cage, and someone is bound to do that, but most people would forgive you if you didn’t. Other than that nit-picking, it’s a great model of a later design 2CV in its four-door guise, and it’s in the de facto standard for large(ish) car models. Highly recommended. Carrera Revell model kits are available from all good toy and model retailers. For further information visit or
  2. I really liked this kit once I got into it. Initially, I was unsure if the body could be built and fitted as one piece - it can and it does. As with all these Matchbox cars the detail is superb and stands up well today. The short windscreen which leaves a large gap is, unfortunately, a significant issue but erasing and replacing a section of framing improves the look as well as the accuracy. You could go the other way and do a chopped roof hotrod. In fact, people did hotrod this car and the coupe could be described as a Gaellic '36 Ford. I believe this is also the only Matchbox car with alternate parts for those who can't, erm, face the windscreen the Cabriolet version can be done. Lots of photos as I believe you should photo cars at "eye" level as well as from above. Bonnet fade for @cmatthewbacon😉
  3. Hi everyone, I am throwing my beret in the ring with a Citroen 2 CV... It is the Heller 1/43 kit, courtesy of Pat, aka @JOCKNEY, who obviously still believes that this is the nec plus ultra of French technology in our year of Grace 2021, along with the SPAD XIII... Ah, Scotland... I haven't dared disillusion him, so I will build it, only because it looks like such a quick build. Who is laughing at the back? BUT... I have never built a car kit, so that could be fun!!!! I drove many 2 CV when I was much younger, and nightmares still visit me when I remember how it behaved in tight bends at "high" speed... Photos will come later. Cheers all. JR
  4. Hello fellows, Let me show my WIP - The Citroën Fourgon Type H 1/24 from Heller. I was hooked with this model, after seeing the awesome work made by MBdesignart in Britmodeller, and his choice as a Guiness Van. So, I decided to make the same subjet...I grab the model in a store in Barcelona (24 Euros), and ordered the decals to Motobitz. In few days the decals arrived at home... Let's start with some pics. Your comments will be appreciate!
  5. Hello everybody, Here the Citroën Fourgon Type H, "Guiness" (Heller, 1/24). It took me three months to built it (but working only a cupole of hours in the weekeend.. The model is fun, and improves a lot with the Motobitz decals. Apart from some fit issues, I only have a little complaint about the Heller instruction manual; in my opinon is no good. I hope you like it, and also I'm looking forward for your comments.... And that's all fellows. My best wishes for coming 2021! You can watch the WIP in this link:
  6. Chaps. There's a number of 2CV kits on the market (maybe all Heller based?), which do you consider the best of them? A good friend of mine had one back in the eighties and I loved it! It was a hoot! Deckchair seats, fold back roof and slightly opening windows that flapped around like a demented sparrow! I'm just looking to build one to wind the family up. I've always promised I'd own a real one at some point in my life. They swear they'll dis-own me if I do. Rick.
  7. Well less then 6 days after I recieved this kit she is as far as I think (please disagree if not) finished. This kit is my first ever completed 1:24 model, and a subject very close to the top of my 1:1 want list. I was offered a 1957 example back in 2008 during a summer trekking the west coast of France, it had been tucked up in a shed for 20 years and although structurally sound there was not 1 panel that wasnt suffering from surface rust. The passenger seat was a bare frame with remnants of a basic cushion, the drivers seat had been covered with a proper heavyweight tarpaulin so was a very grubby mouldy vinyl seat but remarkably intact. As I still have photos of this particular van my plan was to try to replicate it to the best of my ability. She now stands on a piece of ply, static grass covered with a bit of a gravel track surrounded by bushes and a cobbled together typically french rural fence. Hopefully she looks as good as I want her too??? The kit went together extremely well with next to no fettling or filing, a bit of a different story to articles I'd read prior to starting her. Thank you for looking and please any comments will be greatly recieved
  8. hello guys, after a long time without posting here, i came to show my last kits, four C4, my collection is based in the world rally champions, so i did the cars of 2007, 2008, 2009 e 2010. I taked some pictures of the process. first i changed the height of the front suspension I put new tires, because the tires of the kit is too narrow I cut some parts that come injected straight into the chassis I cut the door knobs More work in the bodywork now in the interior the kit don't came with door panels, so i did with cardboard Wheels more details chassi paint decals all ready, two cars are missing tires, my friend will send two me. I'll take more photos of each car separated, and i'll post here in the forum!
  9. The latest plastic model car kit releases from Ebbro are now in stock. The brand new 1/24 Citroen 2CV Pickup and the iconic 1/24 Citroen DS19 accurately recreate the real life vehicles with Ebbro's characteristically high level of detail. For full details, please see our newsletter HERE.
  10. Ok so I decided it best to finish off this build, seeing as it's a Christmas present for a friend. I started the build in September but by early October it was officially stalled. The large gap between the cabin and rear load area floor is liveable but the ill fitting windows chipped away the paint and also I dropped a small dot of glue onto one of the rear ones, which of course has fogged one side of it. That was the point I cried enough. Considering the reputation of Ebbro and the fineness of the Tamiya kit upon which this kit is based, add to that the cost of it. I was thoroughly disappointed with the kit as a whole. It truly felt like a cheap transkit. Upon restating the build I went in with a clear mind and finished it within a week. Testament to how close I was to finishing it the first time around. But again the exhaust system doesn't fit. However it'll likely go unnoticed by my friend, and is destined to adorn a shelf without much further inspection once the initial unwarping upon Christmas morning is dispensed with. Anyway I've probably made the kit sound a lot worse than it is but I defo wont be buying another. I was looking at getting the pickup version when it's released but I'd rather my money go to Beemax or Bellkits who are bringing out excellent kits and deserve to know so lol. Anywho, Pics ahoy: TTFN Ashley.
  11. Hi gents; I thought I might have a change of scenery for my third build for this GB so I chose a car; the ACE Citroën 11CV - in the Gentleman's Scale, of course. The father of my childhood best mates owned one of these - an exotic rarity in the 1970s - and it remains fondly in my memory as a classically beautiful car. I always imagined that one day I would own one myself, but experience proved me a dangerous liability when placed in proximity with motorised transport, so I never actually learned to drive... however thanks to the Eastern European model manufacturing industry I can have one of my own, albeit one too small to fit my fingertip into. I thought it would sit well next to my Armee de l'Air models and as it looks like it will be about an inch and a half long when finished it won't take up much space either. Here it is: The box is... erm, a little more spacious than is strictly necessary: There aren't that many parts and only a few transfers: The instructions include a template for making windows out of clear plastic sheet: I'm hoping to produce a black civilian car, but there appears to be some mould damage or multiple small pockmarks in the plastic on the roof and bonnet; if I can't smooth it out it will look bad under shiny paint, so I might end up doing the French army option. Cheers, Stew
  12. Citroen 11CV Staff Car Detail Set E35-229 ET Models 1:35 The Tamiya kit of the Citroen 11CV Staff Car has been out for nearly six years, and its only now that ET Models have released a small, but useful detail set for it. The nicely produced single sheet of relief etched brass contains the prominent grille with the Citroen logo and surround joined at one edge, so that when folded give a nice 3D representation of the real thing. Also included are a pair of mudflaps that are situated behind the front wheels, the front number plate, rear number plate, for which you will have to carefully remove the light off the kits part and glue to the etched part. The kits rear view mirror and windscreen wipers are also replaced with etch. Conclusion Whilst small, this set adds enough parts to give a lift to the standard kit, particularly the grille and logo. Simple to use, with no major folds required, so would be of use to all but the most novice of modellers. Highly recommended. Review Sample courtesy of
  13. Bonjour mes amis! My first thoughts when asked about La Belle France aren't wingy things (although I thought about a Rafale) or tracky things (although I thought about a Le Clerc). No the first thing I think of is food (and the second thing is wine!). What could be more French than a bread van? (I did briefly contemplate doll's house scale baguettes, maybe later, if we get hungry!) But a bread van on its own would be a bit, well, plain, ne serait-il pas? So I thought it ought to have some company. (Plus at first I couldn't find the Tamiya/Ebbro 2cv van I originally thought of). My LHS had an Ebbro Renault 4 on its shelves, and the R4 was the most produced French car ever, so that fell into my hands. Then some googling showed me they did a van version (chapeau Bengalensis of this parish) and then that the Revell 2cv seemed to be highly regarded. So one of each of those was obtained. But wait, the van sold in the UK doesn't come with the iconic La Poste and Renault Service decals? Pah, then my friends we must order one direct from France, bien sûr. Cherbourg Maquettes did the honours, and helpfully confirmed by email that the desired decals were in the box. Googling to find a French supplier told me that Heller were about to release a hard top R4L with Police markings. More googling suggests this may be a tie in with Ebbro, who haven’t released a hard top but have tooled one, which is available as a spare part. So back onto the internet, and a pre-order has been placed with Heller. Alas, it hasn’t arrived yet, although my card has been charged, so I’m impatiently hopeful. (Those with a memory for French films of the 1980s will perhaps recall that a little blue police car has a brief cameo in Betty Blue). So here’s the cast for this little experience. I’ve never built a car kit before, so be gentle! Pain quotidian by jongwinnett, on Flickr
  14. There are a few reasons for picking this particular kit: I never usually built cars. I've never built a resin kit. I don't think anyone else, so far anyway, is doing one. And finally, it was in my stash. Most of us will have come across a tin snail, but not many will have seen the 4x4 version. (These are not to be confused with the more recent Louis Barbour conversions). The Sahara was made by Citroën in the late 50's and early 60's. It had two engines, one in the front, the other was installed in what had been the boot. I don't know very much more about them other than what can be easily gleaned from the interweb. I believe there are only about 27 of them left. If anyone knows anything about them, or if one can be seen in the UK, please send me a message. This is the Vroom kit which I got secondhand some years ago. The only included paperwork I have is a photocopy of a French publication which has information about the Sahara and some handwritten notes concerning which colours should be used. There are no assembly instructions as such, mind you, it doesn't consist of that many parts. There are some photoetched windscreen wipers, vacformed glazing, chromed mirrors, steel axles and vinyl (?) tyres. So it is something of a multimedia kit. I don't suppose I'll be assembling it as is. There are a few alterations I'd like to make. But I'll research matters a little further before I commit to anything. Also, I'd like it to be weathered, set on a small base and not merely be displayed sitting on four tyres. We'll see..................
  15. Heller Citroen WRC 2010 I thought that as the weather has taken a turn for the worse and that we have rally GB coming up that this car should fit the bill First off is the box shot the decal sheet looks very comprehensive good news aswell i have made a start by cutting out the vents and things like that as they were all moulded in, there a little rough at the moment i would like a little bit of help from some fellow modellers though as i have never done a heller kit before so i dont know how there decals deal with gloss over them also i would like recommendations about the blue paint to use, because i was going to use the same blue i used for the redbull rb6 i finished a while ago but i dont know if that might be a tad dark so im stuck with tamiya ts 51 or ts 15
  16. Hi all! I decided to start posting a simultainus build that I started to keep my motivation and drive going. I apologize in advance to anyone I offend and to the purist. I plan to build this kit in 2 stages. I am still toying with the idea of which tires to use, what colour to paint the kit and which Decals I will be detailing this kit with. Changes will be happening as the build progresses. Enjoy and thanks for viewing! I hope they keep their enthusiasm going all through out.
  17. I finished this recently and i am very happy how it turned out all the red parts of the car are heller decals which work amazingly with micro sol the blue is tamiya ts51 this is the first time i have ever made a rally car so i wanted it to look as rally as possible, again i have never attempted any sort or dirt/mud effect ive noticed in the pic that the racing decal on the rear wing looks weird, looking at it with just eyes it doesnt look any where near as bad, im guessing its the focus or light setting on my camera when i started this the intakes were all moulded plastic so i cut the out and put a mesh fabric i picked up from hobby craft instead also i didnt like the thickness of the antenas so used some metal wire i had laying around any way thanks for looking and all comment welcome
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