Hellers 1/8 Citroen Traction Avant

great rust-job hand-clapping-smiley-emoticon

Hi all well after a disasterous reaction on the paintwork on this I've sorted it (will never be a great job but is ok as an old jalopy) did a bit more staining of the doors and the bodywork and added some rust effects to the black paintwork, still a long way to go on it but is starting to look better now.





























check out my easy rust topic thats what I did here (dont use acrylics, cant get on with them)

Hi all I was checking some of the pictures, one advantage of that is looking at pictures of things 2 and sometimes 3 times bigger than the actual thing you see faults you wouldnt see on the actual item, like for instance a lot of the flat areas of rust are, just that flat, no blistering and no reason to be rust coloured, so I,ve fixed that and dulled the doors and bodywork down and started blending panels and adding general grime (I must say I'm quite pleased with the results so far) if things carry on like this I think the finished thing will look quite realistic (of course having said that I will no probably go and ruin it)






















does anyone know how to dull down and dirty the windows and windscreen? all tip welcome.

Thanks for the tip may just try that.

awe guys your making me blush, your all so much better than me but its nice to have the nice comments it boosts my lagging drive, this build just seem to go on and on, Im still not half way through this beast yet, its a mahoosive kit, as I said at the start this is one kit where the box is too small for the number of parts.Anyhoo here is tonights update, I realise the windscreen needs work but its my first effort at doing glass.




does the bird poo look effective

AWESOME work, that is great, lovethe bird turd, are you going to dirty up the black section?

hi all here is yet another update

awesome work! wish i could do rust as well as you my friend hand-clapping-smiley-emoticon

Hi all here is another installment

A real dash or a model?

I might be able to get some pics from one thats being restored near me. Not sure how far along it is or if it has the same dash though.

Hi all well you must be getting bored by now (I know I am)

good lord man! you might as well build the real thing jaw-dropping-smiley-emoticon