Technics

Looks great ! Unbelievable improvement with correct sized wheels. Looks incredibly natural now.

Project has been concluded. Thank you everyone! Final Post -

I went in wanting to do a weathered paint surface look. I mixed colours directly in the airbrush pot to try to get some shade variations, have fun and break away from the stiff ( and usually painful for me ) showroom finish desire / need / ultimate often disappointment. Discover excitement in other approaches, subjects, etc. Model - Land Rover Series III - Revell A newly serviced runner, that’s not had any bodywork completed.. and proud to be it. Details - None, completely out of the box build, I left several parts off the final as I feel it doesn’t need anything more. Modifications - None, completely out of the box build! A first for my “comeback” Pros My most weathered look attempt First chipped paint attempt First “metal” finish attempt Fought the urge to clean up enamel wash Incredibly happy! Looking back at the photos I can’t believe it’s my build. Cons Nothing really, Could be “dirt” weathered too but I feel it’s so characteristic already it’s not needed. Build Thread -

Front lamp lenses in. Hood wheel / tire mounted. Windows in. Window trims are brush painted on the body and permanent marker on clear parts. Mist of matte showing wiper movement. I am treating this as a in progress restoration build, rather then a non running junkyard barn find type. So thing´s aren't broken, the body is aged but its all in running order. I sponge stippled 3 colours to build up a nice feeling and hue on the seats. I began to panel wash some detail on the body and interior. I will mist a bit of dirt and call it a day soon. I will say it looks sweetier in person. A bit less harsh contrast if that makes sense. More pastel feeling.

@titinoCompletely overlooked that I will likely drill them out. Thanks!

With an exterior wrapping up I blasted through the remainder of the interior. Keeping it simple OOB as it is incredibly hidden, with just hints of it visible. Just the steering wheel cable was non standard. Applied flat clear to the harness decals, cut them out with the backing paper remaining and ran a black marker along the edges. I CA glued them in place. Using decals are unrealistically glossy and are less then paper thin so this adds a bit of mass to them. Build environment context shot

Window trim painted - I went after my main references instead of the kit decals so the windscreen was masked 3 times to get the black off areas, sun visor and lastly a mist of clear for a hint of texture. The side windows got masked twice in order to get a dual gloss / matte finish as the reference photos. The windscreen locks and holds in place without any glue. The side ones mate beautifully from the outside. I love a kit that is designed this well on such visual integral parts. This is a great fitting kit. Applied remainder of decals Getting close now. Note kit decals shape Rounded black off areas and a sun visor that’s off black.

@Mattilacken I’ve been wanting to build a C6R.. great to see you do yours !

Rear lamp lenses. I’m debating making the lamps functional. Softly blinking hazard warning lamps.

Ive been figuring out and undoing build mistakes .. the joys of buying partial built second hand… a bargain is a bargain though! Short and sweet, four floor mounted leavers. It was started already as a LHD variant to which I said so be it in the risk of damaging parts that were correctly seated and not moving anywhere.

I sourced the logo or close enough to the original logo, adjusted, scaled and cut it out. I’m content with how well it worked. Isn’t perfect of course… incredibly small, fiddly area to mask, one can almost not see the text your to remove with a scalpel from the mask. Much nicer than the kit decal anyway.

Been eyeing these kits for a while! Great to see one built.

Love it! Great detailed work and progress 🤟🏻

Rear glass including wing, black trim, and a few decals is in. Detailed and fused in headlamps. With paint I tried to mimick the lamps as seen in references as mold isn’t the same really. Painted window trims and air intakes by brush. Tow hook in, painted in a galvanised / goldish paint. Tire decals on. Took some measurements and plan to make a spray mask for the Citroen racing text to go onto the radiator Pebbles - just for fun! Excited how it’s looking.

It’s rested 45 days and felt rock solid the clear so I had the nerve to mask and start the trim painting. In my eyes it went perfect. This DS3 project might be my nicest clear finish thus far. The body and windows call for a combination of masking, decals and brush painting for the trim. This was the first stage. I prefer dividing into separate bench time sessions. If there is too much things to paint per session I lose track / don’t pay enough attention / get discouraged. The body to chassis and test fitting of the windows is basically 100% perfect. This is a sweet kit especially after having experienced the Xsara kit.

I forgot about updating this thread. The body was primed, taped off and shot 3 mist coats of Mr Color for the blue. I wet sanded the bonnet and shot a wet coat of Super Clear. No huge mistakes, not perfect either. I’m content. Decal time! The charging bulls decals are split horizontally by 3, is this just French fun or adding alignment challenge I wonder. The box art shows the bulls as blobs due to licensing issues I imagine. I almost bought a aftermarket decal sheet as I wouldn’t want to see blobs on the final model but after closer inspection saw the bulls are infact complete and true in the kit decals. The jump from the Xsara to this DS3 is enormous. It’s a high quality kit thus far. I colour matched some decal shortcomings with bottled paint and worked on some bodyside decals. Sol/Set doing its magic. Far from perfect but it’s the largest and multi piece decals I’ve ever tackled. This is model nr. 4 of a 20 year coma 😂😃 When decals and touch ups dried up I misted on two very light coats followed by two wet coats of clear. I wet sanded imprefections lightly 3600. I believe I will leave it here and move onto the next stage. Ample dry / gas out time and mask out the black areas. Otherwise I’d love to do a deeper wet sand and a final wet coat there’s one or two tiny hairs. Plenty of small decal glitches but it won’t matter in the larger picture when complete. 8/10 I’m content!

Trim paint went on perfect in my eyes. I worked on aging the body a bit more and will continue to wet sand the dated areas toning it down a bit. It’s different to say the least. I like what’s happened on the trunk!

Motor ignition plug bases in. Worked the headers and repainted three times having changed my mind what colour it should be I just love white! And it works to balance out the black hole of this build. I’ve been sweetening the firewall trying to remove most deviations and begun rescribbing some lost door splitlines. It’s getting somewhere.

Great colour! Nice work

I had a round of mishaps with the hood ( 3 repaints ) over a period of weeks Not wanting to sand it down to repaint a fourth time and knowing I won’t be 100% happy with leaving it I thought it’s a good time to go experimental. I’ll never match the exact shade of hood to body as the exact paint layers, and days have long past. I’m going to try to do some sort of clear coat degradation effects. I may or may not sand through to primer a front fender, rocker or something to make the story fit the rest of the vehicle. Just having fun - Don’t know what I’m doing yet. It’s maybe a sacrifice build to develop some techniques for future builds. Hood is wet sanded with a high grit number, I then stippled on with a sponge thinned white in two passes, haphazardly removed / added material. I then stippled the base tortoise colour. I wet sanded back down reaching the white in areas. Next I’m thinking of darkening it up with some washes and gloss clear coating some areas utilising liquid mask. “Naturally unnatural” In a way I’m more excited as I’m in unchartered territories with no guarantee of survival. Or a complete shift of how I build models, none perfect 😅😃 Here’s the undercarage that never been seen. I’ll continue to separate components and their metal finish for as long as it’s fun. stage with stippled base colour

Yep, top job. Makes me want to play gran turismo. Awesome work!

A few nights fiddling, walking away with CA glue fingers and I got a hinge solution that works both in the closed and opened position. Neither are 100%. I will likely have some limiting rubber straps / chain / wire for the open position. I’m content. I am still working both the firewall and clamshell to get it as close to “flush” as possible. I will probably have to resort to thin black double sided tape for it to sit closed. It’s a build that will be 100% displayed OPEN 😃 Happy where it is, gone a long way from it’s original stock body already.

I began applying some washes to the motor, trimmed short some intake funnels and tried to simulate the tennis balls that are often seen when the car is being worked on / parked. I tried a few ways of making them but what worked best was cutting off the tips of Q tips, rolling it into a ball, painting it with a neon revell enamel dividing them again and repainting. The texture remains, and is a nice colourful touch I feel. Still a wip.

Primered and fused the motor into the chassis. The motor utilizes the kit transmission. With the motor in place this allow me to trim and make room for the headers, radiator and plan the firewall more. The stance is now consistent with tabs i put in that catch the body at a sweet spot before it all falls over the rear wheels. A lot of small fixes took place and ended the session with brush painted the base colours for the motor in one go while it had dried up in the chassis. Really happy with it, and maybe it’s my favourite part of the hobby. I will begin to weather it a bit once I detail it with stuff I find in the drawers. Stippled on some colour onto the interior bracing. Neither the bodywork or finish will be remarkable on this build but I hope to keep it interesting to the eye with the motor and some patina / weathering. The references show a black untreated front fibreglass clamshell. Every panel has a feeling and is not uniform anywhere, again soo different from what I’m used to it’s completely reprogramming the brain. I picked up a decal sheet of sponsors to liter the trunklid and windows. Some fun things I want to try is to emulate fuzzy golf balls stuffed in the intake trumpets seen in some reference photos when the car is in the pits, wear out the slicks and have tire debris. I will cut stencils for the tire markings, radiator, and body side. I am also going to make a transparent intake scoop, I’ve now cut the hood so it is rectangular over the intake / blower. Debating cutting out the fuel door as seen it without one. I find it difficult / unnatural to fiddle and come up with outside of the kit solutions so it’s a significant challenge and steep learning / effort curve even if the result will suffer. Following through is my number one goal and commitment this time around.