Bengalensis Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 It's looking very nice, good work! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted January 25, 2021 Author Share Posted January 25, 2021 I got to work on those tyres I received all the way from Sweden 🙂 In the lower left corner you can see the original wheel, to which I already added some nuts and bolts. The tyre is "minimalistic" and the wheel is also a little small in diameter and width. Turns out the Swedish tyres are a good match. Even I, with my limited math skills, was able to calculate how much to cut out of the rubber to achieve the needed, lesser, diameter. Both ends are glued together with CA, it seems to hold so that's probably the right glue for it. I then took one of the original wheels and cut and filed and sanded off the "tyre", leaving the middle piece which fits in the new rubber tyre, as shown bottom right. A little tweaking is needed but already it's looking a whole lot better! Now, three more of those. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengalensis Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Good work! CA is indeed the best I have ever used for materials and work like this. Love to see these coming to good use, I've lost track of how many years they've been laying around in my 1/43 tyre spare box... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Congratulations @Bengalensis perfectly capturing the spirit of this GB Great work Jeroen your pickup bed looks amazing. Cheers Pat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockeyboy76 Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 There’s some great work here as usual @JeroenS, loving the work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightersweep Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 The pick up is coming along brilliantly Jeroen. It looks great. Love the pick up body. Somehow, it even looks typically French. Big shout out to @Bengalensis too for supplying the tyres. They're certainly going to give the pick up more of a utilitarian/workhorse look. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted January 26, 2021 Author Share Posted January 26, 2021 OK I did all 4 wheels. They'll never be perfect but they'll be good enough. Some minor adjustments here and there. Paint will help. A little rust will help. This will not be a clean build, I need to hide my mistakes anyway 🙂 But this looks way better than the original wheels. Way better. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengalensis Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 This is looking very promising now! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard E Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 Very neat scratch building - it looks like a rustic conversion that a farmer in deepest rural France has put together in his workshop. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted January 27, 2021 Author Share Posted January 27, 2021 7 hours ago, Richard E said: Very neat scratch building - it looks like a rustic conversion that a farmer in deepest rural France has put together in his workshop. Hmm... I was aiming for the "fresh out of the factory it's meant to look like this" look 😉 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightersweep Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 The Peugeot pick up conversion looks superb all together and the tyres really gives it the look it needed for a workhorse. Love it, and very neat work in this scale. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted January 30, 2021 Author Share Posted January 30, 2021 My initial goal was to have finished the 203 before the weekend, and use the weekend to prepare for our house move project which starts on Monday. But, I did it the other way around, got all the stuff together that I'll be needing the first week so now the weekend is available to work on the little pickup. I think it will see paint today or tomorrow. I finished the load bed. It's a tad high but that's fine, I can see people needing more space to stash their cabbages 🙂 I didn't compensate the sides for the double layer of flooring and the top strip... And then I only noticed it was too high when it was about finished. Never mind. I glued the rear cab wall to it. This way I can paint both assemblies (chassis/cab and the load bed) and put it together easily. Next up a little work on the interior (there's not much there) but I also want to make some wheel wells for the front wheels to prevent a see-through from left to right. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherry268 Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 On 27/01/2021 at 06:07, JeroenS said: Hmm... I was aiming for the "fresh out of the factory it's meant to look like this" look 😉 Surely they came out of the factory rusty!! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted January 30, 2021 Author Share Posted January 30, 2021 OK so the interior was done pretty quickly. Looks decent enough though. Then I addressed the wheel wells. First some angled strip on the front of the chassis/ floor pan. You can see that the original doesn't amount to much and leaves a lot of empty space behind the wheels. Then I glued in vertical "walls" and cut them to shape so they would fit under the bonnet. After that I close up the remaining angle. You'll never look at it from this angle. But this is perfect for my needs. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengalensis Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Great work, very well done so far! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 5 hours ago, cherry268 said: Surely they came out of the factory rusty!! And being a Peugeot they were probably pushed out when they couldn't start it ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted January 30, 2021 Author Share Posted January 30, 2021 The spare wheel is pretty prominent, under the chassis, so I felt I needed one. I had only the four wheels so I decided to make one, MiniArt style. That is: with a lot of parts. I cut circles... Two on both sides have the inside cut out. Then you glue them all together. Then, attack with file. The separate parts make a decent tread. Drill holes. I cleaned it up a little after this, and it looks pretty convincing under the chassis, which is all that matters. I made an exhaust as well. I glued the bed to the cab because I felt that the join between cab and rear wall was critical. I didn't want paint to interfere. The chassis fits nicely into and under the cab and chassis. I added some detail as well. The cab has been wet sanded and everything is now ready for primer. I think I'll do a layer of Mr Surfacer after dinner. I'll apply colour with the brush. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted January 30, 2021 Author Share Posted January 30, 2021 Today's final result... Everything looks good in Mr Surfacer Black 🙂 I'll have to do a little bit of careful sanding, my airbrush gave a big ol' squirt just before paint ran out. Too much for even the levelling thinner, so there's some drops on the bonnet. It won't be a clean build anyway. Just have to decide on the colour. Some kind of blue-ish dark grey. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengalensis Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 This is very seriously good! Some sort of grey shade will be the perfect finish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightersweep Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Fantastic Jeroen. The Peugeot looks superb just in the primer. This one is going to be something special. Can't wait! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 Basic painting done. Turns out that Vallejo's Dark Grey is exactly right for what I had in mind. I must not forget to glue the windows from the inside before mating the chassis to the body. I cut the rear wall's windows from a piece of plastic packaging. The side windows will have to be cut to size first, as they are one piece for both the front and the now missing rear windows. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengalensis Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Excellent choice of colour for the subject. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Fantastic job Jeroen, absolutely agree the colour is perfect. Cheers Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted February 2, 2021 Author Share Posted February 2, 2021 It's starting to become a car. First, I fitted the windows. The fit of the front window was terrible, but after some cutting I got it to fit, more or less. Then, the all important moment of mating chassis and body could not be postponed any longer. So I went ahead with it. The underside has been weathered a little bit by (semi) drybrushing some Orange Brown which looks just like dust/mud on dark surfaces. I'll do the same for the body, as a first layer. Not visible here is that I placed both decals, namely the license plates. The decals were really thick and the front plate wouldn't conform without a pretty hefty dose of Microsol. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 It looks like a great build and the paint is just right. Now, just stick some pigs in the back..... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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