This is a WIP therefore the shitty pics, once I'm done I drag her out for some decent photoshoot.
A while ago I found the website of a guy that goes by the nick of Nico71 (nico71.fr) and that dude built a model of a Citroen 2cv (I say model though I think that LEGO creations are usually toys, but this one is special), and since I owned one of these things for a while I thought that rebuilding it using detail pics he provided was a great exercise.
A way to learn some Technic and switch from stacking to clipping for a bit. Especially because I think that the looks, proportions and overall feel of the real car was so brilliantly captured in this model. Yes, it is by far the best LEGO 2cv out there regardless the scale, and it happens to be a Technic model... Out of liftarms and panels. A medium that I consider almost useless for my own building as my mind can't wrap around the idea how you build such complex shape not stacking, not even mentioning the fact that it requires ridiculous ammount of planing ahead...
Anyway, the fact that this thing had all those features the real car has, like the floppy trailing arm suspension, the special gearbox, the floppiness of the car (yes, the real hood is just as wobbly) was the icing on the cake, and all that caused lots of trouble for me, f.ex the gearbox, Nico made 2 pics and I guess they are self explanatory for someone who builds Technic, for me it was a pain since I had to figure out what's inside and identify the bricks used, some of which I have never seen before... Most of the components were such a guessing game, especially because the things were photographed in sub sections and mostly required disassembling to be put on. Some stuff were illogical for me, like two pairs of axles with a stop that stuck out the whole time, where I thought it's a mistake, but these would hold the body in place and need to be pushed in at the very end. Like I said, obvious for Technic guys, a guessing game for me...
Anyway.
I built Citroen, first just like Nico built it, just to understand the logic behind it, then I built just the body in light gray as I found it's a more correct 2cv color, but soon I was annoyed by the pins in different colors, so I partially disassembled and painted the whole body light blue to to match the 2cv I owned. I changed just tiny details of the original design to match my car, the doors had no reason to be this Charleston design, changed the orientation of the door handles, added the chevron in the front grille, made the mirrors and wipers, and of course the mudflaps. I used some 2x4 dishes in chrome that a friend made for me since I was cheating with the paint anyhow. I will tweak some things and make some stickers that my real car had, like the club sticker on the back, numberplates and some mooneyes that I had on my car...
Didn't take the Charleston body apart, so I will build another chassis someday and I think I spray the red bits dark red like the real car has as a good friend of mine who is working with me comes from France and asked if he can have one for himself...
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