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Re: Heller Citroen DS 19car transporter
« Reply #25 on: November 30, 2018, 10:04:43 pm »


Sadly, kit manufacturers thought kits were toys (which for a very long time they were) and put in gimmicks like working doors, or rotating wheels and even sprung loaded gun barrels for tanks that would never have firing mechanisms in them, so was sort of a throwback to the Britains days.


Most, if not all modellers end up just fixing the wheels, barrels, and like you the doors in place as the mechanisms are either out of scale or just crude. I think auto modellers stick the doors etc in, fil the over scale gaps and then re-define the panel lines much like aero modellers do on airplane kits with big lines, so you have lots of scope to play with.



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Re: Heller Citroen DS 19car transporter
« Reply #26 on: November 30, 2018, 10:31:42 pm »

No I think I was no very clear on my explanation the doors work I just didn't use their locating pins and holes I used clamps to hold the doors in the right place till the glue set they now open and close (roughly as they should.
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Re: Heller Citroen DS 19car transporter
« Reply #27 on: November 30, 2018, 10:34:27 pm »

No worries Ken  :-))
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Re: Heller Citroen DS 19car transporter
« Reply #28 on: January 04, 2019, 07:55:24 pm »

Hi all well I finally got some bench time, got the rear wheels on, just got to invent some suspension.


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Re: Heller Citroen DS 19car transporter
« Reply #29 on: January 04, 2019, 07:58:12 pm »

Hm, a sort of torsion suspension. If the side panels were structural then maybe the suspension could be anchored to them. The model is superb and very novel.
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Re: Heller Citroen DS 19car transporter
« Reply #30 on: January 05, 2019, 06:12:50 pm »

Lovely Model, I always liked the full sized Model.

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Re: Heller Citroen DS 19car transporter
« Reply #31 on: March 26, 2019, 07:50:59 pm »

Hi all done a bit more work on this.




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Re: Heller Citroen DS 19car transporter
« Reply #32 on: March 26, 2019, 08:04:52 pm »

The job you did of fairing the new load bed into the car body is lovely and tidy. Proper panel work that is Ken  :-))
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Re: Heller Citroen DS 19car transporter
« Reply #33 on: March 27, 2019, 08:32:39 am »


Looking Great!  :-))
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Re: Heller Citroen DS 19car transporter
« Reply #34 on: April 04, 2019, 07:44:04 pm »

Hi all well the cabriolet is finished, I suppose I will have to start the dio now.







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Re: Heller Citroen DS 19car transporter
« Reply #35 on: April 17, 2019, 08:09:40 am »

Well it's finished hope you like it.





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Re: Heller Citroen DS 19car transporter
« Reply #36 on: April 17, 2019, 10:28:58 am »

A terrific job you've made of that, very much so.  :-)) :-))
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Re: Heller Citroen DS 19car transporter
« Reply #37 on: April 17, 2019, 03:51:59 pm »

Thanks mate
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Re: Heller Citroen DS 19car transporter
« Reply #38 on: April 17, 2019, 08:31:48 pm »

Looking amazing  :-) great job even though I'm into the CX era that is still amazing  :-))
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