Build your own museum-quality 1:8 scale model of Melina’s sunshine yellow 2CV from For Your Eyes Only. Complete with all the authentic details and moving parts, including a working sunroof, a second trunk-door with holes in it plus replacement 'damaged' parts for the rear light, wing mirror and dashboard glass, this is a model kit like no other. Made in collaboration with the Bond Archive and Citroën, Agora Models bring you the ultimate in luxury builds for collectors.
This 1:8 scale model kit has been designed using 3D laser scanning technology of an original car together with movie footage. Customise it to be pristine or damaged as all the elements are included as standard. All the individual parts come pre-painted allowing you to create a museum-quality big-scale model.
After Bond's Lotus Esprit Turbo goes up in flames, he jumps into the passenger seat of Melina Havelock's yellow Citroën 2CV, heading off the twisty mountain roads, while Hector Gonzalez's men give chase in a pair of Peugeot 504 sedans. 007 eventually takes the wheel and the car enjoys a bone-rattling climax that sees it hurtling through olive trees, criss-crossing the road, before jumping over a pursuing Peugeot and bumping its offside-rear wheel on the sedan's roof.
With Bond coming back to earth after his cosmic exploits in Moonraker, director John Glen turned to the humblest of vehicles for 007's chase sequence in For Your Eyes Only, launching James and Melin Havelock on a seven-minute thrill ride in a Citroën 2CV. The very antithesis of a high-tech Bond car, the two-cylinder Citroën - described by its manufacturer, Pierre-Jules Boulanger, as "a chaise longue under an umbrella" - provided the perfect machine for 007 to demonstrate his considerable skills behind the wheel.
How it works. You will receive 12 boxes containing sections of the car to build. It's not complicated: if you can build LEGO or Meccano you will be fine! Most of the work is screwing together, there is very little gluing, and it all comes pre-painted to a museum quality.
Finishes. Each kit allows you to choose your finish from two options - either 'pristine' or 'damaged'.
Option 1. The start of the chase. Recreate Melina's car as it appears at the beginning of the chase when she and 007 jumped into the little yellow car and speed away from Hector Gonzalez's men. The car is in pretty good condition and as yet undamaged.
Option 2. With initial gunshot damage. As Melina drives away, the rear of the car is riddled with bullet holes and one of the rear lights is shot away. As they navigate the winding roads and are chased by two cars, the Citroën receives more gun shots damaging the wing mirror and dashboard glass. The model comes with a second trunk-door with actual holes in it plus replacement 'damaged' parts for the rear light, wing mirror and dashboard glass.
Details. The James Bond 2CV Model Car Kit - Subscription by Agora Models is a 1:8 scale museum-quality replica model kit. It includes all the working features including operational doors, sunroof, front and rear lights, indicators, opening bonnet to reveal the spare tyre and boot to reveal the detailed engine, and sounding horn. The paint over primed Zamak metal has been expertly applied by specialist paint technicians.
