Tamiya M05 2CV build, paint and run

[@gitarrenklang1]

This 2CV remembers me so much to the very special 70‘s . I am back in france again. Del is an universal artist. Thanks for the Video!

[@Del350K4]

Hello, Franz! Yes, in the 70s I was sometimes taken to school in the back of a 2CV which belonged to a friend of my mother. I loved the way it would lean when we went around a corner. We kids would pretend to be scared, and all shout "Who o o ah!" as it leaned over. In the 80s my wife and I lived in Menorca, and our friend would drive us around the island in his 2CV. I remember the sound of the engine very clearly.

[@gitarrenklang1]

@@Del350K4 Your Video is reproducing this historical feeling so good! Thank you a Lot.

[@Del350K4]

@@gitarrenklang1 Have a good weekend, my friend!

[@cw-01creations46]

" The tyres have been pre-sniffed to save time .." I can see that your 2CV build has exceeded all of my expectations and I must congratulate you for building such an iconic looking beautiful classic car 👍

[@Del350K4]

Hello, Peter! I'm so glad that you like the finished result - I'm overjoyed with it. It's really a very fine-handling chassis. I want to put it up against my M03 and have a battle of the FWD Tamiyas. I must thank you for the green-and-white colour suggestion; it worked out very well, with the stripey "deck-chair" roof! Thank you very much for this generous gift : )

[@cw-01creations46]

@@Del350K4 You're Very Welcome my friend 👍 I'm thinking of the next Screwdriver Challenge for you although I believe it must have a hard shell for you to make your artistic skills shine through 🤔

[@Del350K4]

@@cw-01creations46 Ha ha - I'm more familiar with hard shells, but once I found I could paint Lexan on the outside it did seem less daunting. What I love about Kamtec bodies is the way you can cut them and rejoin them or even combine 2 different ones to make shapes that Kamtec Keith has never even dreamed of!

[@rexrcs]

The stickers are one of my favourite parts, the extreme transformation some details add is just marvellous. Glad you made a running video

[@Del350K4]

My poor wife had to give up her Saturday to drive it for me!

[@rexrcs]

@@Del350K4 thank you wife! However tell that husband of yours, most of us have been learning to drive with one hand while filming with the other hand 🤣 I usually bring two battery packs, film for some of one, and play without recording on the second battery

[@Del350K4]

@@rexrcs I'm crap at driving with one hand and filming with the other. I do it when I have to, but I get better footage if my wife drives and I just focus on getting the shot.

[@Del350K4]

I give her free rein to play with the car once the footage is safely on the SD card, though - I'm not completely heartless!

[@TomleyRC]

Del, what a fantastic build. I think the slightly 'imperfect' finish is actually more inline with how most 2CV's look, particularly French owned ones! I had a t-shirt when I was about 5 or 6 and it had a couple of 2CV's on it with "2CVs are better than 1" written underneath. At the time my parents had one, in orange :)

[@Del350K4]

Hello, Phil! I remember 2CVs from my childhood, too. They were often a second car, school run classics, with a "Nuclear power? No, thanks!" sticker in the back window. Remember their distinctive twin cylinder sound? Thanks for watching this, Phil : )

[@TomleyRC]

Yes, haha... although I was a bit young to remember some of the finer details. I've been tempted a few times to get this Tamiya, maybe I should at some point and make it a Fwd Drag 2CV!

[@Del350K4]

@@TomleyRC You'd think an FWD drag car would be a daft idea as the acceleration would lift the front and you'd just sit there spinning, yet when my wife and I drag race my M03 against my M06, it's the M03 that usually wins, regardless of who's driving which car. The M06 tries to swap ends, while the M03 does spin a bit, but tracks far straighter. So it's actually probably a good idea!

[@rexrcs]

“This thing to this thing” very precise and scientific lol 🤣. That turned out great, charleston door design was a good idea. For somebody whos not familiar to lexan painting youre excellent! Although not surprised by seeing your other videos

[@Del350K4]

Hey, Rex - thank you very much! I must confess that Tamiya kit parts do leave me feeling confused when I first excitedly tug all the black plastic bits out of their bags. I don't know what to call anything! Tamiya have their own unique way of doing things, and often seem to reinvent the wheel for the sheer joy of redesigning things. Is the M05 a better design than the M03? They're both very quick-steering and prone to vicious lift-off oversteer. Maybe I should race my M03, M05 and M06 against each other! There's an idea for a video...

[@AdventureTimeRC]

Great build and drive Del this is a wonderful looking car i really like the paint

[@Del350K4]

Hello mate! I'm glad that you like the paint - I wanted to do something other than the box art, and did consider painting it a rusty beige, but I'm really chuffed that I didn't, and that I did the stripes on the roof.

[@theoagrc]

Looks Tres Bein! Love the look of this body on the M-05 chassis. Great work with a trick paint job too 👍🏻🙌🏻

[@Del350K4]

Thank you! It looks tall and top-heavy, but of course there's very little weight to the body so it'll always slide before it topples over. It's really quick-steering, and that brushed silver can motor gives it plenty of power.

[@theoagrc]

@@Del350K4 my M05 was too much for me so I took it onto the dirt with a RA conversion. Has a peppy Torque Tuned for some extra ommmph! 😄

[@Del350K4]

@@theoagrc Wow - it must be a handful!

[@theoagrc]

@@Del350K4 keeps me on my toes!! It loves a jump too 😂

[@Del350K4]

@@theoagrc Ha ha! With the stock bouncy shock absorbers? What have you done about tyres? Have you stiffened up the diff to help with traction?

[@ACeperienceRC]

Very Nice stick on, good job bro

[@Del350K4]

Thank you very much!

[@Papa_Shorty]

I had to see if I could get this model in the states. As soon as I saw it, I NEEDED it. I want to turn it into a rally car. Luck is on my side. It is available and it’s available in a rally edition. Yay for me. Glad I saw this video.

[@Del350K4]

Is the rally edition on the FWD M-05 chassis? Or is it 4WD?

[@Papa_Shorty]

@@Del350K4 that’s an excellent question. I will have to look that up.

[@Papa_Shorty]

@@Del350K4 it’s 2WD FWD

[@Del350K4]

@@Papa_Shorty Good! In that case the handling will be really authentic. I can't wait to see a video from you featuring a rally version of this car. With my M-05 2CV, the only unrealistic aspect of the driving experience is the very snappy performance from the brushed silver can motor!

[@Papa_Shorty]

@@Del350K4 it will be a while before I get one. I have a lot on the table at the moment.

[@RC3DPrintAdventure]

Well done Del, an excellent build. I think the tyre sniffing should be part of the build myself. I didn't realise you spoke such fluent French until I heard the tune at the end! I still see a 2CV around here occasionally. Nice to remember all the great paint schemes there used to be. Great video & run. 😃😃

[@Del350K4]

Actually I did have a discreet off-camera sniff at the tyres! As for the French, I made up the phrases and then typed them into Google Translate Audio. They made Pascal from Sator Rotas laugh. Citroen did another 2-tone special which was called the "Dolly". I think the striped roofs I've seen on some 2CVs might have been aftermarket items, but I know they existed.

[@Georgieframe]

This is so nice! I´ve always liked the full scale 2cv, though I´ve never had one, and I must say the same about this rc 2cv. Good build video and a good running video of a car that catches the eye! 👍👍

[@Del350K4]

Hello! Yes, the full-size 2CV, with its distinctive whirring engine sound, has huge appeal for me, too. The are several very good box art examples on KZbin so I felt free to invent my own paint scheme. I'm glad that you liked the run vid - my wife was kind enough to drive the car while I scampered alongside getting footage.

[@Georgieframe]

@@Del350K4 Your wife is an excellent driver! 👌

[@Del350K4]

@@Georgieframe Thank you! I shall show her your comment now : )

[@satorrotas]

Brilliant, really good work on this 2cv, I really like the two colors you chose. It is very important to make a small pose with the cr12 😁 The test is excellent and the three sentences in French towards the end of your video are hilarious 😂😂

[@Del350K4]

I typed them into Google Translate Audio and then overlaid them onto the music : ) I knew that you would understand them, whereas to most viewers they would just sound like some French being spoken. I'm delighted that you like my colour choice, too, and the CR12's brief appearance in this video.

[@satorrotas]

@@Del350K4 It was very funny, I listened to these three passages several times especially the second sentence which was absolutely hilarious, thank you for this little attention which makes me happy and laugh a lot 😉

[@Del350K4]

@@satorrotas "El stylo de ma tante c'est sur le table a escirir a cote de le catalogue de lingerie de mon oncle"?

[@satorrotas]

@@Del350K4 This one was funny, mainly for : le catalogue de lingerie de mon oncle 😁 But I'm actually talking about this one : s'il te plait écouter avec soin. Si tu veux coucher avec moi ce soir tu doit m'aider a réparer ma mitrailleuse 😂 This one too : veuillez ne pas n'ourrir les rhinocéros. was good too 😄 In fact all these sentences are really great

[@Del350K4]

@@satorrotas I had fun making up the sentences, though I knew that only you would understand them. I have a brand new VW Beetle body which came with my M06. I've been thinking of painting the Beetle and extending the M06's wheelbase to suit, so I can do a run video with typical German music, and include some sentences in German : )

[@gustavodoblas1705]

Eres un crack, me encantó el coche y la música.Muy bueno todo.Gracias.😎

[@Del350K4]

A la música le añadí la voz de una mujer diciendo "No creo que hay suficiente espacio en el coche para que hagamos eso" y "el boli de mi tía esta sobre la mesa de escribir, adjunto al catálogo de lencería de mi tío" etcétera.

[@islandrc-duke1972]

cool build and great paint job,nice run my friend

[@Del350K4]

Thank you - it's always difficult to decide not to do box art. It's like you're hearing voices saying "Oh, really - so you know better than Tamiya?"

[@thecontractor365]

Hi mate, what a thoroughly fascinating video - seeing your take on this Tamiya and watching that shell come to life. A great job and very original. I'm much like you - very inexperienced when it comes to these lexan shells and I hate doing them, but you did a fantastic job in the end. Mark and Rob truly are masters of this art. Nice run too with the fitting French music and voice-over. Lastly I loved the intro with the diecast model masquerading as the Tamiya. That was excellent. Who needs RC to get footage of a model car in action ? It's an idea I've been toying with for the past year or so. You inspire me to have a crack at some point...🙂👍🏻.

[@Del350K4]

Hello! My first Tamiya was a Midnight Pumpkin, so I didn't have to confront the weirdness of painting a shell from the inside till I got an M03. I then did a Kamtec Morris Minor in lexan and a Triumph Stag, so this was my fourth time masking the inside and painting "back to front". I'm glad you liked the run vid - the French phrases idea occurred to me quite suddenly, and I'm really glad I decided to go ahead and try it. Pressing the tiny toy 2CV into service was a sudden idea, too; it was just a matter of finding a very smoothly-screeded cycle lane with the right degree of slope to it. I've got an untouched Beetle body for my M06 - I've been thinking that it might be fun to paint it and do a run vid with it.

[@thecontractor365]

@@Del350K4 Ooh, it would be great to see your take on a Beetle shell. I'm picturing a heavily weathered post-apocalyptic machine or some kind of Haight-Ashbury Summer Of Love inspired vehicle. Loads and loads of stuff you can create with the humble Beetle. The world is your canvass.

[@Del350K4]

@@thecontractor365 If I were to weather it I suppose I'd just pretend it was made of ABS and do it from the outside. Hmm...

[@Del350K4]

Or, going the Haight-Ashbury route, paisley!

[@thecontractor365]

@@Del350K4 I've done that once - painted lexan from the outside.

[@Matteomeier]

Great Job Del! 👍😊

[@Del350K4]

Matteo! Hello - thank you very much. I love your 2CV video, and watched it several times during this build.

[@FingswithFrankie]

I was tempted by one of these. I'd do one in the style of a Pop Cross 2cv.

[@Del350K4]

I had to go and look up Pop Cross 2CVs before replying. They're awesome!

[@FingswithFrankie]

@@Del350K4 I grew up surrounded by Citroen's, family and friends all did Pop Cross. They sometimes raced against Minis, which didn't do so well in the muddy fields.

[@Del350K4]

@@FingswithFrankie That must have been brilliant to watch! I have no interest at all in, say, Formula 1, but an afternoon watching 2CVs race against Mini's would be sheer joy for me!

[@panzadeviborarc9613]

Great work Bro!

[@Del350K4]

Thank you, Panza!

[@RCDRIVERSTUDIO]

Great video👍👍👍

[@Del350K4]

Hey, thank you very much! After driving lots of WPLs with smaller motors, this 2CV feels like it has a V8 in it instead of a 600cc twin!

[@jspeedrc]

Great video my friend

[@Del350K4]

Why, thank you! I'm happy driving this car, though it handles and accelerates better than it has a right to, wearing that 2CV body!

[@carloshnunez]

Nice video and car my friend 🔵🔵🔵👍👍👍😀😀😀🔵🔵🔵

[@Del350K4]

Hello, Carlos - thank you very much!

[@RCtime]

wow so nice Citroen 😀😀🚀💥💪 Nice build and video 🍿📺 Good job 👍

[@Del350K4]

I'm glad that I decided to invent my own paint scheme!

[@MarkBryanRC]

Hi Del and thanks very much for this wholly entertaining video! I really enjoyed you chatting us through the build in your own unique way. Thanks for the mention, it was very kind of you! But honestly, I really like your take on the bodywork and paint, it looks so cool. What was that beige 2CV at the beginning? I thought it was the finished Tamiya, but it's too small and looks like it's almost die-cast!?!?!?! Oh, the run at the end was a joy to watch, boy you did plenty of RC chasing that day! I wanted to see the visit to the lingerie shop at the end - now I want to go to "Le Cul Rouge"!!! Sounds like someone received a spanking!!! 🤣 Nice one, Del, all the best from Mark... 👊👍

[@Del350K4]

Hello, Mark! I'm very glad that you like the "deck chair" paint. I made a cheeky reference to the rumour that certain religious people make love through a hole in a sheet, and I was trying to keep my voice sounding serious as I said it, thinking "here's another innuendo for Mark!" The beige 2CV is a 1:35 scale die cast toy, running down a slope. The idea was to give the momentary impression that this was the finished Tamiya. My wife rolled her eyes at my home-made lingerie shop poster. I even gave the girl in the drawing a pink bum to clarify my schoolboy French. The girl speaking French during the run is, saying ridiculous thingswhich I made up, such as "I don't think there's room for us to do that in this car", "the pen of my aunt is on the writing desk, next to my uncle's lingerie catalogue" and "That's not an umbrella handle - it's the gear change lever".

[@MarkBryanRC]

@@Del350K4 Well mate, you achieved your goal with the die cast care at the start, it was only when I saw your finished Tamiya that I had to rewind and take a closer look! Haha, love that you thought of me when making an innuendo - I wonder why!!!?? And yes, I was trying hard to decipher what the girl was saying, it sounded very sexy but I could only make out a few words, most of which certainly weren't sexy! Many thanks for the French lesson, I really enjoyed that!

[@Del350K4]

@@MarkBryanRC Ha ha! We got an odd look from a young couple who were walking their dog, as they watched my wife carefully launching the tiny car down a cycle path while I walked along next to it with my camera taped to a cut-down broom handle!

[@schuttrostig5729]

The paintjob and stickers are excelent, but i would rethink the body position to be lower on front and higher on the rear. looks more authentic i think.

[@Del350K4]

Yes - you're right. I don't know what I was thinking!

[@thegreatone6480]

You really paint it from the putside??

[@Del350K4]

Yes, if you have a Lexan body and don't want a glossy finish, it's the easiest way that I know of. In this case, even Tamiya tell you to hit the outside of the roof with a coat of matt lacquer.

[@thegreatone6480]

@@Del350K4 o. K... the non glossy finish is the key.

[@bangbodint]

Brilliant

[@Del350K4]

Thank you!

[@biketrainingcenterhongkong4845]

Nice video! What is the name of this French song?

[@Del350K4]

Hello - I just typed copyright - free typical French music into KZbin. Then I made up some silly phrases in English and typed them into Google Translate on my phone while the music was playing on my TV, recording both the music and the translations simultaneously on my camera. I then used an audio extractor to turn the video file from the camera into an mp3 file.