Late 1940's French Street Scene 1/35. Scratch built buildings, MB figures and Tamiya car .
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Got me at first Paul so had to Google it , NO is the answer. I'd never heard of them before but can see the use in holding then open or closed.Might give it a miss this time :crying:
No Gerry they are hard to see, I'll take another at a different angle .:smiling3:
Thanks Andy.
Nice to see you Si hope all is well. Thank you.Very nice John, really like the window boxes.
Top work usual, carry on
Jack that is extremely kind of you to say.
Thank you Rick.
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Thank you Andy, very kind of you to say. Money in the normal place !
Thank you Peter.
Hi Neil, I've been working on the car, what a nice easy build form Tamiya. I keep looking at those figures !:worried:
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Made a start on the car, what a dream to build, Tamiya of course.The steering, well lack of it made it easy, the only hard part was the two suspension arms. Managed it in the end by putting them on the the bottom frame first, allowing the glue to go off and then move then into line.
The rear axle slides through, fitted the exhaust .
Yes you can tell its mine by the glue marks !
Next was the wheels, again a good fit with Poly caps
The only thing here was those round spacers the larger ones. Couldn't tell which way up they went.But took a chance and they look ok.
Really clean sprues, since these were taken I've painted the seats and dash, and any thing else that could be done inside of the car.
Although the wheels are on, and not glued i'll keep them of to paint the shell and wheels.
Thanks for looking in
The rear axle slides through, fitted the exhaust .
Yes you can tell its mine by the glue marks !
Next was the wheels, again a good fit with Poly caps
The only thing here was those round spacers the larger ones. Couldn't tell which way up they went.But took a chance and they look ok.
Really clean sprues, since these were taken I've painted the seats and dash, and any thing else that could be done inside of the car.
Although the wheels are on, and not glued i'll keep them of to paint the shell and wheels.
Thanks for looking in
Tamiya never seem to fail in providing an enjoyable build……. It’s a cliche but it’s true!
Looking good John :thumb2:
Looking good John :thumb2:
Great stuff going on here John. You know you will have to give those shutters “the dogs” don’t you…..
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Thanks So, it certainly is . Even I can feel confident.
I know Tim, it's bugging me now !
Cheers Rick, suppose it could be a repatriated one , but already decided to have a civilian one as can have the choice of colour. Yes there were other choices than black !
Mark kindly sent me a list of colours, of course prewar there was a choice , but around the late 30's all main bodies were black . The only difference was a choice of wheel trim !
So if I want to have say a dark blue or some dark brown I'll be ok .There was also a green , but don't want that as everyone will think it's 4BO :smiling3::smiling3:
Apart from black the colours were available as irisé. This is a very course metallic like finish. The aluminium flakes used were much bigger then with modern metallic paints.
Note 2: During the whole production of the Traction Avant, cars could be delivered to the dealer or sales organisation in primer. They would then organise the paint scheme. This could be on customer request or for demonstration/show models. Especially during the '50s many cars were delivered in primer. Another option was to have a (black) painted car repainted. These cars only have the outer panels painted and under the bonnet and on the doorsills they are still the original (black) colour
Like most things the deeper you go when researching it become mind boggling !
Note 3: There were several companies who made the paint for the Traction Avant production. Depending on the company colors were a bit darker or brighter then shown here.
Further research to the model 11N it was only available in black with reddish wheel trim . So unless I want to have it repainted as mentioned black it will have to be . Pity .
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Many thanks Steve . Never had a kit that was so easy to build.
Even in the '60s, you could have a vehicle delivered in primer and it'd be cheaper than with top coat My father bought a Bedford in 64/65 (B reg) and used battleship grey gloss to paint it - that van didn't rust for all the time he had it, went round the clock and more think he sold it in about 72/3
Excellent blog, lots of good info. & examples of high grade scratchery.
Finally catching up John, and wow looking mighty fine, glazing info very handy,great carpentry and roofing skills.
Keep it coming sir.
Saw Steve's video of show and your award, belated congratulations!!
Cheers Rob
Keep it coming sir.
Saw Steve's video of show and your award, belated congratulations!!
Cheers Rob
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Interesting Gerry, can you imagine that happening to day !
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Thank you Paul, appreciated. ( Donation sent to the escape fund )
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Many thanks Rob:thumb2:
Probably not - when he bought it, he'd got one salesman in the house and the other on the phone and kept going between them with "Well, they can do it at that price - can you beat it?" apparently, the garage that got the order actually made a loss, just to get the order!
That van stood up to no end of abuse, couldn't say how many times it was overloaded and travelled from Spalding to Ipswich on the suspension stops - one trip he managed to split 2 rims and had to get my uncle to run out his spare wheel (luck would have it that he ran his own business with the same model van)
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