~ Briz ~ Thank you kindly
~ Elite ~ Very glad I could help !
~ Indy ~
Inspired by this I just ordered my own kit…looks to be a classic tamiya “shake-n-bake” build…
Gonna do an occupied France vignette with a confiscated car in flat Panzer Grey and maybe put a Notek on it to give it a more military appearance.
I have a cool couple of figs from Junior Town I plan on putting beside the car: an SS tanker Officer with a very cute female in his embrace, as if they are saying hello or goodbye…cobblestone street as a base with a streetlight and it will be good to go…!!!
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~ Excellent . Sounds like one I wanna see! It is an easy kit (not the way I went with paint scheme), but with flat one-color paint-should be really easy. “Junior Town”? I haven’t seen those yet. I did locate the girl we we’re talking about on your post though
Only $22(Andrea) from Colorado Miniatures. The room will cost you x-tra.
~Indy
Just purchased a citroen myself and was searching for any forum comments and picked up on your build. - excellent!!
I have a question regarding the masking of the rear fenders to get the 2 tone paint job. How did you do the curve masking to be able to paint the fender black?
I am a 1/32 aircraft builder who does the autos, trucks, etc to go with the builds. I just returned to the hobby a couple of years ago after a 30 year absence. Wish I had never left.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Ron–Congradulations on buying a really nice little kit! Thanks for “excellent!!”
Man–we have a very similar story --I also “just returned to the hobby after a 30 year absence”!! crazzy huh? It’s amazing how many of us there are that built models as kids–went on to lead very interesting and different lives, and now in middle-age have all this in common. March was 2 years I’m (back) in scale models–drove into it by my job in a pro model shop doing rapid prototyping and working on one part all day --making it shiny and perfect–so I started building dusty, dirty military Dio’s in my “off-time” (You can see a few in the Diorama Forum)
The Citroen is my 1st car model in 30 years, and will eventually go into a Dio too. Amazing engineering like most of Tamiya’s kits–but as usual there are a few odd things and a mistake or two. If you want to see a much more thorough blog of this kit, take the time to read through this blog I shared with Mark Bannerman, who started the thread, and used his build for his January 2010 Military Modelling Magazine article
!(http://www.militarymodelling.com/sites/1/images/member_albums/35590/citroen 1111.jpg)
This small blog here was extracted from that 1 and we shared the blog with a third builder even! (Marc) who owns one of these cars and added some great reference photos
No place on line could I find a picture of the rear of the car, and Marc happily provided them.
As for masking off the rear fenders, I guess it was one of the tuffer jobs of the build, but not too hard. I first painted the interior, let it cure, then masked-off the whole inside, and painted the bodywork black, this way I had the fender color on, and a black base for the silver—also it’s way easier to mask the fender from the body thanmask the body and leave the fender exposed. Cut your tape in thin(1/8" or so) strips and it will follow the line you want to mask much better. The tricky part isn’t so much the fenders but the area in the back—luckily it’s hidded by the bumber somewhat, just try to make it even, and gracefully curved as you can with your pin-stripe tape. then of course place a full strip of masking tape over the stripe,and mask completely.
Hope that all helps–good luck–let me know/see how it goes![B][Y]
Indy, just wanted to say I am enjoying this WIP very much. Thanks for posting.