Heller 1/16 DS 19 car transporter

[kpnuts]

Hi all got this for my birthday 









Inspired by Bengalensis build I've decided to try and do this version









Can find no detail of the chassis so will have to make that up, will have to learn resin casting as I will have 3 pairs of suspension to make and 6 wheels.not allowed to start it till the 26th

[fordrodnkustom]

Now this will be interesting!

[kpnuts]

Hi all well I've started, going to build the Meilen version.

Started on the engines.







And got the colour I'm going to use, i may be adding gold go faster stripes to it, not sure yet



The eagle eyed among you may notice I've had a weird reaction to the paint on one of the doors (all the rest of the paint work seems to be ok) 

[Bernard Kron]

I was so fascinated by this project that I did some web crawling and discovered that this is one of a series of Citroen conversions done by a French builder, Pierre Tissier. His firm has done ambulance, utility and transporter conversions of every conceivable Citroen model including DS's, CX's, even XM's and an SM. Here's an English language site which shows quite a few: Oppositelock Pierre Tissier Article

With your skills and deep experience with the Heller 1/16th kits this should be killer. One question: why two engines?

[kpnuts]

Lots of interesting conversions there, thanks Bernard.
The kit was the 50th anniversary kit of the ds so comes with a convertible and a saloon car (I will have the convertible on the trailer) hence the 2 engines (it's actually a great value kit as it's only 10 quid more than the standard kit and you get 2 full kits for that)

[Bernard Kron]

Oct 27, 2018 2:28:56 GMT -5 kpnuts said:

Lots of interesting conversions there, thanks Bernard.
The kit was the 50th anniversary kit of the ds so comes with a convertible and a saloon car (I will have the convertible on the trailer) hence the 2 engines (it's actually a great value kit as it's only 10 quid more than the standard kit and you get 2 full kits for that)

Ah, all is revealed! Hence the green color and the seemingly immediate paint work of what otherwise is a highly complex endeavour. You are in fact building this one:

[kpnuts]

That is my vision.
Started the saloon version 











Did some more to the engines as well.

[kpnuts]

Did a bit more to the engines





Started adding the shackles plates to the bed



Wondered how much filling would be needed so added some primer





Must say I'm quite pleased so far.

[kpnuts]

Hi all placed the wings and bonnet on to see how it looks





Made the shackle rings



Had a go at making a winch for the flatbed.

[fordrodnkustom]

Looks like it's coming along quite well KP. Outstanding craftsmanship and creativity as always. Thanks for sharing.

[kpnuts]

Hi all here's the next update put the suspension together temporarily to see what size wheels I will need for the flatbed.



1/24 scale with tyre at 28 mm so unless some kind person has 8 wheels with tyres that size I will have to have a go at resin moulding.
Did some more to the engines and done the leather seats as well.

[kpnuts]

I've noticed that as they've used common parts in both kits the chrome strips on the cabriolet version have not been continued on the front wings so I've added them.

[fordrodnkustom]

Nice work. Those seats look like real leather.

[kpnuts]

Did some work work on the bed of the transporter.

[kpnuts]

Hi all another update