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Citation X-11 Bone Stock


Faust

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Well, the X-car bug has bitten me hard, and now that the holidays are over, I’ve got some time to get some Citation building done!

Since people were apparently excited to see the Citation done, I have begun the long, and I’m sure, to be painful, journey of recreating one of America’s most vilified autos, the Citation X-11 Notchback! There are a lot of issues with the way this one goes together, although the kit quality looks nice as far as detailing and overall fineness goes.

The body, though, has a few bugs that need to get ironed out first before I can even get going on the other parts.

Check out the first build update here:

https://adamrehorn.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/citation-update-1-body-not-to-be-in-white/

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With the body done and ready for painting, it only makes sense to move to one of my favourite parts of a car, the engine! You can’t really have a sporty Citation X-11 without one, although maybe the performance difference wouldn’t be as dramatic as you’d expect, but still.

After way too much hard work, I do, in fact, have the engine on the Monogram X-11 complete and mounted in the rather unspectacular chassis. Man, I tell you, I think I put more work into getting this motor to look right than the folks at GM who designed it! There are a couple of major problems I had to work around but I’m pleased with the result.

Take a look here and tell me what you think:

https://adamrehorn.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/citation-update-ii-engine-trouble

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Is it the original kit from the '80s you have a couple of? That's neat!

I never could figure out why they made the weird "club racer" version. What's with that; I know it has a separate kit, but what class of custom/racing was it supposed to be for?

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yeah, most of my kits were manufactured prior to the 90's, that's about the time life made me put my model hobby on hold.

 

(just a few more house projects to finish before I can start up again with my unfinished projects).

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Yeah, that'd be a good high school car, Chad. I just had my Dad's rusty '89 Escort. Although, it was a great little car, I must say. It was not, though, anything approaching exciting or even having a pretension to sport about it. :)

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