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Hello all,

As I'm a newbie, lets sort out how it works with uploading some of my works over the last couple of years.

I work in different scales, for cars it will 1/8 to 1/16 and 1/12. Planes 1/48 & 1/32, for Armor its 1/35.

 

I'm from a Citroën family and this Heller kit was in my stash for very long time(almost 15 years I think).

It became part of a diorama dedicated to my Dad. He did a restoration on a DS21 from 1967 on his own as from the moment he was retired at 65 years of age.

Picture shows the Heller 1/16 scale DS19. The utmost horrible kit I ever had to build. I started it, shelved it, forgot about it. 

Full interior of the car is scratch build, engine has a lot of upgrade details, hood is movable with hinges made from brass. 

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When I already planned my house and life moving to Thailand, another kit from Heller came to my doorstep(on Christmas Eve and its no joke).

First time I did a commission build for a Belgium guy. He got a 1/8 scale TA15 kit, that was far from complete. Missing the beautiful 6 cilinder engine, roof and some other details.

We decided to make a Barn find out of it.

TA15 Big Six Decapotable. These were custom made cabrio TA15 from the fifties. Scale is a real invitation to scratch build. With no roof, this was the best option.

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Hope you all like it. If you are interested in more pictures, just ask for details. 

Next some planes will be presented, when done, I start my builds on these forums.

 

Kind regards,

 

Robert Jan

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Can we see the models now that we have seen the full size cars??

 

Dick

 

Some of the best work I have ever seen on BM.

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Thanks for the compliment. Just to make sure these are models, detail work shows it all I hope.

A lot knowledge on details was given by my brother and a Citroën forum I joined to do this build.

Lots of little parts replaced in brass. Shifter to get the up.

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Dashboard with gear 

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Same as first picture, to get the car lifted for maintenance, change tires, etc.  

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Wipers

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Underside of the bonnet with all detail, including parts to hold it straight(stiffeners)

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Black part is isolation for noise reduction

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One of the front chairs, pretty worn out.

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Hinges for the hood.

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But working in 1/8 scale gives more details to focus on, like chairs and the bench of the TA15.

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Front chair on chassis mounting. Kit parts, very fragile styrene. Upgrade with brass rods, bolts and scratched mounting plates.

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Material is a fabric that is normally used to stiffen collars like in your when to go to office shirts. 

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From the bottom side, completely gone

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Have a nice evening.

 

I go for a walk and get some sleep. We had a nice rain tonight, its cooling down at last.

 

Kind regards,

 

Robert Jan

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Thank you very much, all of you.

I really did not engage building Aero Planes for a very long time. Ones a campaign came up at Aeroscale and I had to join.

Sequence of building the world wide scenes of air battles I came up with the Nakajima 84. Tremendous kit from Hasegawa in 1/32 scale. with all the aftermarket bits and pieces, in the end it resulted to this. First kit I finished in Thailand.

The Frank represents a plane flown in late war over Burma, Thailand. The weathering was an issue, during evaluation. Late war, no quality paint, it would last for 2 flights, to turn into this. 

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Tail marking represents of a group flown from Taiwan, Pilot unknown. Hand painted.

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Another campaign invited me to build a real iconic fighter from WWI. Fokker DR1,  a 1/48 scale kit from Eduard.

 

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Hope you'll like it. 

 

See you next time when I go real time building. 

 

Kind regards,

 

Robert Jan

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Blimey, they are some brilliant builds, you have a real eye for detail and your paint finishes are incredibly realistic.

My neighbour has a wrecked DS19 in his garden that doesn't look as good as that!

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