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This is the (late) build report of a finished hidden project so as not to risk the surprise.
I tried to recreate the exact 2CV Ente that a good friend drove in the nineties from a few photos and gave it to him as a big birthday present.
Luckily Revell released this year a new version of this kit containing the right details like head lamps.
Special thanks to Spanjaard for the help with the decals!

Spanjaard
my pleasure 🙂 happy to contribute to this beautiful build 🙂

Martin Oostrom
Spanjaard, the decal man!
Nice job Bugsy. Now I know what changed hands at Lingen

Landlubber Mike
Really nicely done! Can I ask how you did the black top? The color/sheen looks very good. I've struggled with finding a way to represent those kind of tops.

bughunter Автор
Thank you very much mates! In case you have not seen it you should not miss the final album!

@Martin, very cleverly combined 👍

@Mike, I painted the top with the Alclad Black Primer/Microfiller, but have not sanded it to keep the structure. Then I painted the top with AK Real Color RC805 Rubber Black (which is very gray in comparison to Gunze Tire Black for example).

Robert Podkoński
Beautiful job. Absolutely!

Landlubber Mike
Thank you for that info bughunter! Really appreciate it!

Bozzer
Bugsy, that's a sleek looking, 2CV! I always wanted to do like a beach buggy or a hot rod, with one of these. Maybe someday I'll get around to it?
An excellent rendition of a classic, old chap 👍

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Thank you mates!
@Bozzer I have still a nearly complete kit of a Citroen 2CV Charleston (+ a matching dark brown red) in my stash. At the beginning of this project I was sure that it was a Charleston but I was wrong. So I ordered the new 007 kit too to get the right parts. May be I will build or sell the Charleston - I do not know yet. For a while I will be back to the 1:48 scale biplanes.

Jakub Fiala
Lovely work, Bughunter!

Lex Jassies
Sweet!

Alec K
Great job! Those were the coolest cars. And they "swam", as I read somewhere (for a while, at least …)

Alexander Grivonev
Beautiful! Engine room especially looks great 👍

scalemates
nice Deux Chevaux!

bughunter Автор
Wow, your feedback makes me smile, especially because cars are not my modeling home!
@Alec They swam on the roads due to the soft suspension and narrow tires, so no grip 😉
@Alexander The kit details are nice, but I added wires and have wrapped a thread around the heating pipes (that is not very well visible on the pics).
@Tim Two horses? Is that the French name for it? In real 25PS out of 2 cylinders! We call it "Ente" (duck) in Germany 😎

Spanjaard
2CV=two horses 😉 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_2CV

Christoph Kunz
Oho, this is a beautifull work. 👍
And that movable metal rod for the hood is a nice detail, giving this model the extra touch.

Mr D
A Top job and brilliant paint job.
Well done 💯%👍

bughunter Автор
Thank you!
Christoph, the idea with the stick was born out of the necessity that the usual paints do not survive the ordeal of the Revell solution (hood snaps over an edge) for long. This only works with a white car 😉.

Alec K
Love that open hood 👍

Ben M
Beautiful car and fun to see you step outside your usual genre.

Did you scratchbuild the cooling fan? 😂

bughunter Автор
Thx! To build a car again was fun, but even more fun was the base 😉
Ben, the fan was part of the kit. It offers also two possibilities for the mesh: a clear part with decal (see decal 5 in pic4) or a plastic mesh (on the right in pic 4). My metal mesh was finer.