UPDATE
I finally figured out what the “2” in 2CV stands for….you have to re-make everything at least 2 times
Managed to get about 80% of the roll cage finished. The front section in these photos is just dry fitted so it might look a bit “wonky”. The front bumper is still in progress and will be bent some more around the front.
I think it is much better in scale now and fits much closer to the body. In fact in a couple of places I’m afraid that it might be too close.
The metal filled styrene rod doesn’t glue together for love nor money, so in a couple places I had to use a “rod in tube” strategy to get a strong join. This will have an extra benefit though in easing overall assembly (I hope).
I managed to do the old style seats this weekend and I am quite happy with the results as they exceeded my quite low expectations. Made from 1,5mm brass rod hand bent around a design drawn out on graph paper and nails (as per the roll bar).
First I made the 3 major sections: vertical, horizontal and the “middle” leg (oops! That doesn’t sound too good
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Of course I buggered up – when I measured the car to get the width, I measured at the floor level. I kind of forgot the fact that car bodies slope inwards as they go up so of course when I test fitted, the seat was too wide.
Not to worry, I just cut out a section of the horizontals and slid the ends into 2mm brass rod cut to the right length. In hindsight this would have been a good way to do it from the start – it’s very easy to get everything parallel and it was damn awkward bending the seat in one whole piece Here’s the almost finished seat – it still needs an upright in the middle.
Just for fun and self-motivation, I used some Tamiya masking tape to mock-up the fabric and see how they’re coming along. I put the original kit seat next for comparison. They aren’t perfect but I’m quite happy.
Thanks for looking. A bientot!
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