Citroen fourgon beer van

[Pete in Lincs]

Not too sure if Guinness can be had in them. They hold 30ltrs, the same as the Polypins. That's about 45 pints.

About ten inches diameter and three feet or so tall. Nothing to stop you modelling one and say they do exist from another wholesaler/Brewery.

They generally don't have a coloured stipe, just labels and can be used for various beers.

 

[mirage]

I love it... 👍

[Marco F.]

Thanks Pete, a very useful information about the barrels/KEGs I'll keep it in mind for a future project.

And I can't wait to see the first glasses of Guinness to be sold out of this Drink-Truck Citroen. A stunning build so far

Marco F

[MR2Don]

On 11/14/2019 at 9:06 PM, Hewy said:

Good lord!,   great car though, i had an avenger 1.6 and a sunbeam 1.6 ti,a lot of rear wheel drive fun, very easy to drift around damp corners..

Little follow on about the French trip. Came back by the Route Napoleon, including, of course, many hills. OK until we got to Chatillon sur Seine for an overnight when I heard a distinct grating sound from the brakes...oh, oh!.

Jacked it up, front pads out...knackered. Pads for an Avenger in semi-rural France? Went to garage nearby "Pardonez mois, Monsieur, avez vous les plaques friens pour Heelman Avengeur (French accent!). Blank looks, hmmm. Then remembered, "ah, Monsieur, c'est le meme chose de Ford Escort" (Girling P12). His face lit up and he pointed me to the local Ford dealer. Rushed round, guy was closing up, but sorted me out with a set without any grumping. Phew!. Fitted ready for next morning. 1980 that was!

[Hewy]

14 minutes ago, MR2Don said:

Then remembered, "ah, Monsieur, c'est le meme chose de Ford Escort" (Girling P12). His face lit up and he

I suppose it helps if you know alternateive parts,  and the lingo of course😀,

Btw my avenger was a w reg

Edited November 17, 2019 by Hewy

[MR2Don]

16 hours ago, Hewy said:

Btw my avenger was a w reg

K reg; bright yellow with black vinyl roof!

[Hewy]

I've  hastily cobbled together a beer barrel and a gas bottle . convincing.? , we may have to wait till @Pete in Lincs gives us the yay or nay with him knowing more about such matters ,a bad bit of  pipe work may do the trick, i made the barrel out of a 1/35 oil drum,cut down a bit top and bottom and added thin card stock top and bottom ,i knocked the gas cylinder up from a bit of old sprue , not much to see i know but it does progress at least

 

[Pete in Lincs]

Looks pretty good to me. There's only the two of us know what the real thing looks like anyway. The rest are too busy guzzling the contents 🍻

Dull silver for the keg with an orange band between those two moulded in rings. Not the whole area though. If it's 10mm then a 6mm band would do the job.

The gas cylinder is black with, I think, a brown top. we don't handle these things. Let me have a look in a cellar tomorrow and I'll get back to you.

You'll need a small adapter to the top of the keg with a pipe going to the tap and another to the gas cylinder. Something like this will do nicely.

https://www.kegworks.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/g-keg-couplers-product-photo-2.jpg

Cheers!

[Hewy]

1 minute ago, Pete in Lincs said:

Something like this will do nicely

Cheers pete,I've given them blow over with some aluminium, I'll do the orange band when its dry and paint the cylinder appropriately .

I shall move on to a couple of fossets and the pipes ,then i may get stuck a little while while i learn to print my own decals for the sundries ,  my resin for casting  the wheels is dead so I've got to order some off the net ,the bit i had was off  and lumpy but i tried it, and the mold should be fine 

 

 

[bhouse]

The keg and cylinder look excellent.

 

I presume the gas cylinder will be secured to the bodywork in some way?

 

A dive master I knew once had an unsecured cylinder of about that size that fell onto another cylinder with such force it fractured the pillar valve (?) at the top. The resulting explosion blew a hole in the side of his Range Rover.

 

Heaven knows what it would do to an H-Van!

[JeroenS]

2 minutes ago, bhouse said:

Heaven knows what it would do to an H-Van!

Or could have done to said dive master

[bhouse]

7 minutes ago, JeroenS said:

Or could have done to said dive master

He was so tough the cylinder would have bounced off 😁

[mdesaxe]

A piece of trivia.

 

I believe that Guinness invented the pressurised keg. My maternal grandfather (a Frenchman who moved to England in the late 1920s as a steam locomotive designer) became chief engineer at Guinness. In the early 1950s he was tasked with overseeing the design of a system that would allow Guinness to export its product as a draft beer to North America and the pressurised keg was the outcome.

[Hewy]

14 minutes ago, bhouse said:

The keg and cylinder look excellent.

 

I presume the gas cylinder will be secured to the bodywork in some way?

 

A dive master I knew once had an unsecured cylinder of about that size that fell onto another cylinder with such force it fractured the pillar valve (?) at the top. The resulting explosion blew a hole in the side of his Range Rover.

 

Heaven knows what it would do to an H-Van!

 I agree it should be , I have a box full of spare photo etch i will burrow into to find appropriate bits and bobs ,👍

7 minutes ago, mdesaxe said:

A piece of trivia.

 

I believe that Guinness invented the pressurised keg. My maternal grandfather (a Frenchman who moved to England in the late 1920s as a steam locomotive designer) became chief engineer at Guinness. In the early 1950s he was tasked with overseeing the design of a system that would allow Guinness to export its product as a draft beer to North America and the pressurised keg was the outcome.

Fantastic side story

Thanks 

[Pete in Lincs]

 

Here we are, a Nitrogen mix gas cylinder. I finally remembered the name of someone who supplies them.

https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/21488764/dms3rep/multi/mobile/gd_nitrogen-mix_row1-image-new-380x406.jpg

[Hewy]

Modelling time has been sparse this week but I've  had a bash today at the refreshment area, I'm  happy with the barrel, gas cylinder and pipes, I've cut the sliding door down so the new  top half i made  can lift with the side, i also had to narrow it down to fit the recess,and remove the molded top rail, now it doesn't hang on the side, i also made a blackboard on the inside and painted the price of a pint on it ,(cheap isnt it)

 

 

Here you can see how wide the door was from the cut off top part

Ive tried to make the sides match ,a bit more work might be in order

New top half

And a little geometry test

 

I shall be rooting through  my daughter's old dolls house stuff in the loft this week to see if there could be anything appropriate that i can liberate for the shelves,I'm  hopeful , cheers all

 

Edited November 24, 2019 by Hewy

[Pete in Lincs]

Looks good, but I'll wait until it's your round before I have a pint. How much???

Just thought, you'll need glasses. But at events they usually insist on plastic. 

They come in stacks sealed in plastic bags which could be fairly easy to make in scale.

Also, a bin (old oil drum?) to put outside the van for the used plastic glasses tumblers.

Somewhere to wash hands? towels etc. Boxes of crisps?

[Alan R]

£5.50 a pint? That's cheap here in Bristol!

 

Cheers, Alan.

[Hewy]

57 minutes ago, Alan R said:

£5.50 a pint? That's cheap here in Bristol!

 

Cheers, Alan.

Darn it, i knew it wasn't realistic😋👍

[JeroenS]

1 hour ago, Hewy said:

Darn it, i knew it wasn't realistic😋👍

Well, overhead is low in your case so it's probably still profitable 🙂  

[Hewy]

I've created a fosset mount and drip tray tonight , using some old pe  and a bit of sprue ,compared to many on these forums my scratch building leaves a bit to be desired, but a cursory glance through the side serving hatch when complete just might pass muster,  i shall paint it up  tomorrow and decide where its going to be fixed,I've  also bashed up the interior a bit, well used is what I'm after,

Cheers all

 

 

 

[longshanks]

Just caught up with this Hewy, looking to be great fun 

 

Please don't put down your scratch building abilities ..................................

 

 

that's our job, the paying public. Unfortunately I see very little to criticize. I love the floor 

 

Keep up the good work

 

Kev

[Hewy]

6 hours ago, longshanks said:

Just caught up with this Hewy, looking to be great fun 

 

Cheers kev,

Glad you like it so far,a distraction for the time being from the kraken(creature no1 didn't  go well at all)

[Biggu]

This build is making me thirsty.................  I'm lovin this... excellent scratch building....

from across the pond

Jeff

[Hewy]

Its time to get this one somewhere near, modelling time has been in short supply lately ,as it stands atm  ,i made a  fire extinguisher, 

A hastily made beer fridge, and some tinnys, a few bottles of what I'm calling craft gin, out of stretched sprue ,(apparently its all the rage lately, no not the sprue ,gin ) a pint under the tap streched sprue again , and a red coloured drink atop the bar,stretched clear sprue, **scale could be off by quite a bit** ,  you could  spend an age detailing the interior , i had a vision i failed, i know its lacking somewhat , if i spend any longer on the interior I'll end up rushing the exterior, still have to do some kind of base 😳

And I've closed it up, the fit isn't even close in places, but was the real van?

 

A practice to see if i would get away with dry brushing the grill,i reckon i can, with a bit of masking,

 

 

 

I have got the drivers door fitted too, the passenger side will be open, as well as the door on the side to the serving area, tyres are still to be done, although i do have the resin now, and some new sillicone, so  i can  mold the rubber tyres (or try to) for a 72nd takom maz 534 kit I'm building aswell,

Cheers all 👍

Glynn