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Traction Avant FFI

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 2:08 pm
by Rob59
I have fun out of building little diorama's in the backyard or outdoors somewhere (like I did with both my Ostfront Tigers in the snow, remember?), and make pics, imagining it was a real scene.....
Our new home has quite a large garden and I intend making a small tankyard somewhere.
As I build the VW from the Feldgendarmerie, I had so much fun out of it, that I started looking for another small, cheap project, and i came on this one:

a 1944 Citroen Traction Avan from the FFI.
FFI stands for Forces Francaises de l'interieur, a French Resistance group at the end of the war.

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Re: Traction Avant FFI

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 2:11 pm
by Rob59
Took it apart completely

the engine:

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Re: Traction Avant FFI

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 2:13 pm
by Rob59
And turned it into this:

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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 2:16 pm
by Rob59
Next.....the interior

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Radiator....

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Re: Traction Avant FFI

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 2:18 pm
by Rob59
Some French backroad dust.....

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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 2:19 pm
by Rob59
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Re: Traction Avant FFI

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 2:20 pm
by Jimster
Outstanding weathering! Very good eye for realism.

Re: Traction Avant FFI

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 2:21 pm
by Rob59
I wanted to make it a captured car by the German Fallschirmjager, so some bullit holes were needed...

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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 2:24 pm
by Rob59
And now....ACTION, somewhere in France....1944

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Re: Traction Avant FFI

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 2:25 pm
by Rob59
That's all Folks.
Ciao, Rob.