Heller's 1/8 Citroen Traction Avant

[monica]

nice start so far,ken,o_O


and grats on the sale as well,nice to have a few bob ,

[Guest]

] Hi all another update, if you will indulge me a bit also a little tutorial for my brother(who was asking about rust effects) Jim here's one its called the salt method, I realise you don't have an airbrush (this is how its usually done) so as an experiment I did this with a brush, and I must say I'm very pleased with it.


First of all you paint your rust colour on the part.


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By the way you need course sea salt and normal dinner time salt(to give different textures (table salt is too uniform))


so you get some water on your brush and put it where you want your rust then sprinkle the salt on.


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allow the water to dry then apply your top colour (this is usually airbrushed on as the salt is very fragile and easily knocked off) but I found if you thin the paint to the same consistency you would to put it through an airbrush and use the softest brush you have it can be brushed on.


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allow it to dry


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then brush it off


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I have an assortment of brushes which I didnt clean off properly so the pain has hardened the bristles and make them ideal for this task, the more rust you want to show the harder you scrub, this is not finished yet needs a few washes but need it to thourgly dry first the give it a coat of matt varnish so that if the washes dont look right I can get them off without ruining the effect I already have.


Here endeth Jims lesson.


Since I can find no definitive reference on the engine colour (every pic I've looked at it's been another shade of green) but since I'm using CAT's info for the body colour that is what I will be using for the engine colour. The last pic shows how big the engine is thats a 1/24 car .


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[Robert1968]

Hi Ken just caught up with this one and boy that's a big engine ( is it for a tug boat maybe?


This Citroen is gonna be ( excuse my French ) bloody huge


Maybe it can pull Scotts Dora ??


I'm in and watching


Love the salting method for the rusting effects


Robert

[Guest]

Excellent work with the salt, looks really authentic. I'm loving this build!

[Dave Jay]

Just seen thid mate and its impressive, that engine is huge and I'm loving the salt method on the manifold, I've read about it but never seen it done, going to gice it a go someday.


I got a little distracted by the Camaro in the pics! Would love to build one of those one day!


Looking forward to all your builds both present and future.

[papa 695]

Nice work so far with the engine Ken, I can see how it can warp very easily how it's constructed

[Guest]

Hi all a bit of an update, weathered the engine and tried to emulate the oxidization on the ally manifold.


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[Guest]

Hi all here is tonights episode.


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[Guest]

You forgot the genuine hammer dent on top of that fuel pump where every poor owner smacked it weekly to free it up!!


I'm really liking this, it's HOOOOOGE!

[Guest]

I remember the old glass domed fuel pumps, with the rubber diaphragm, but you try and find a pic of the Citroen Traction Avant fuel pump and they are all enclosed ones, I have tried to replicate the petrol resin staining on the glass, but without photo reference its very difficult.

[Robert1968]

That looks so authentic Ken ( the weathering is so spot on with the staining and running muck ( so to speak )


That must have taken you a fair few hours to get it to this level ( but coming from you KEn the standard of modelling only gets better with each build


Robert

[takeslousyphotos]

Bloody hell Ken........That is going to be a big old car.

[Dave Jay]

Absolutely bloody awesome!


Can't wait to see the whole lot come together, this is going to be a great build.

[Guest]

This will be a looooooooooong build the engine has loads of work left on it, I have NEVER built a more detailed kit, it is truly outstanding kit, so glad I have Roys dvd, I've referred to it often, definitely not a beginners kit, but I'm having so much fun building it.

[Guest]

Hi all another update on this one


these parts were bent but using tips from Roys dvd I used stretched copper wire to fix the problem.


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