Tag: Citroen C3

Now some interior work.

Safety cage, i plan to glue it prior to paint. Do not like when seams are visible if i paint before.

Interior tube serves as jig for easy mounting.

Not convenient to paint it as one piece, but still ok for me. Painted in C8 silver.

And according to manual, painted in black incl. some small decals.

Interior tub was painted in silver.

Lot of tools and small parts into the cabin.

So, all these parts placed on the interior. The spare wheel in the instructions is face down, but I don’t like it that way, it will be looks face side on top. I placed the jack and screwdriver on white glue so that they would not dangle around the cabin.

Now we can make the seats, as first remove the seams.

Added seat belts from box.

Seats can be installed. Ends of seat belts will mount to safety cage after its installing.

Then prepared door panel parts.

They can be mounted onto the safety cage.

Now i mounted safety cage in cabin and fixed belts to the tube.

Last part is dashboard with steering wheel. They are pretty simple. Steering shaft can be preassembled before painting.

Ready. Most challenged was central decal on wheel. Need to check that small colored button on decal matches with the real one on the part.

After installing dashboard i can call interior done.

After wedding with chassis.

Want to watch video version? welcome to youtube.

That’s all for now.

I am working here with chassis. As first i do some bores to be able mount small parts like levers and rubber duct part.

And next step is painting bottom part in black as underlayer and then aluminum gloss.

Axles are also painted and mounted. Imitation of gearbox and rear diffirential are aluminum flat.

Brake supports and rotors made as one part, pe disc need to be glued on it.

And then I painted them and added a little wash to the ventilation of the disks for contrast and realism. Michelin decals on rubber are brushed with Vallejo matt acrylic varnish. It cures evenly well and has a rubber-like vinyl base. Someone asked how I made the red dots in the center of the wheel. There is no need for any masking or sloppy brush work. With the help of a punch bit, we cut 4 circles from unused red decal.

Springs brushpainted, nothing unusual.

The front and rear axles assembled.

Brakes closer

For realism reason the exhaust pipe is drilled and hole deeped.

It will be hidden a bit, so I didn’t do any burnout or effects on it.

Radiator made of pe and glued accordingly.

Finally, I closed everything with plates and rubber pads, little bit weathered, and call it is done.

Wheels do not mount so far, i left it till the end of overall build.

That is all. The video on Youtube is also available.

We are going further with carbody. The first I do is marking all seams with black marker. That is because I will sand it with 400 grit sponge until black disappeared. That shows that all seams are clean. The yellow epoxy is a printed stamp of windscreen washer nozzle. Moulded in body I will sand off.

Fenders can be glued after paint work, but I decided to fix it before painting. Moreover, they need to be aligned with the rest of body.

Scribed new panel lines in the trunk door area.

I also glued small parts over the fenders.

Fenders glued and aligned with the body. And holes for night lighting made.

Also fitted PE-meshes to hood. They have a double curvature, and it is difficult to bend them. Having worked with pliers and got something.

Screws in the side air intakes were cutted off and new holes made. I’ll put there metal screws later.

Fill the seams on the small parts on the fenders and drilled holes for canards.

Now it is time for painting. As first, sprued automotive 1k primer filler, sanded 2000 grit and painted roof in white. Body has three main colours. Here are white areas masked and we can continue.

Then body got red and grey anthracite colours. A-Pillars and front lip are black.

Next is decaling step by step. I recommend to paint body with gloss clearcoat before put decals. But I neglected my own advice and some decals were silvering, few of them though.

So, the whole body is decaled. On the doors there is no large gray strip. Since it must be matte, I left it for the last step.

And then 2k clearcoat was added.

Here is orange peel sanded with godhand sponge 4000. Clearcoat was left on 3 days before I started to sand.

Further sanding with 6000 sponge.

Further 8000 sponge. The difference is not so noticeable, but I recommend do not skip this step.

And finally 10000 grid.

And then polishing with proxxon and meguiars scratch-x. After that polishing by hand with step 2 meguiars medium.

After polishing masked all areas but the front part. This must be not so glossy.

Semi-gloss Alclad 2 clearcoat was applied.

Then applied the rest decals – big gray stripe with Citroёn logo. Windows area painted brush in black.

Logo Citroёn with text was taken from box. This is metal stickers. Black decal over that.

On this step i would say the bodywork is finished.

You can also find video build on my YouTube channel.