Correct. When it’s finished, I will release it on the Steam workshop as usual
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The dashboard both has simple shapes and not. After some thinking, I decided that this one could probably work as a basic dash (yes, and no. You will see why later).
Then this dasboard top from the “modern modular dash” package.
Believe it or not, but the Peugeot 505 gauge cluster is a “good enough” match in this case where we aren’t going to be able to make exact interior replicas anyway. But maybe not so surprising - the interior of the Peugeot 505 was actually designed by ex Mercedes designer Paul Bracq.
In the end, I ended up with using two of those dashboard fixtures - one narrower one only used for the wood strip and vents - and one wider for the bottom dash.
I think this is actually supposed to be a 70s Opel Commodore steering wheel - that borrowed some huge inspiration from Mercedes. Not 100% correct but very close - especially since I managed to somewhat replicate the ribbed pattern of the horn pad sides with the enthusiast leather material.
With a Mercedes badge in place it’s not that far off.
Then the centre console…
As shown earlier, headlight filler blocks are useful for interiors too.
Here as a surround for the fan knobs
Also, individual heater controls for the left and right - something Mercedes pioneered already in the 50s.
The radio looks a bit ancient but is actually somewhat similar to the Becker radios offered in the early W116. I guess somehow the interior still looks so modern that it is easy to forget that the car is actually from this era.
Headlight filler blocks shaping the ash tray too.
And some switches were added.
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Found some generic enough steering column fixture among the classic interior parts.
And one of the vanilla automatic shifters looks a lot like the Mercedes one…
Centre console extension, probably needs some fiddling to look correct since the fixtures does not match very well, but it has to do for now…
I don’t know if cranks were still commonplace on the SEL but I thought, since it is a top of the line model, I can as welll give it electric windows…
Turn signal stalk added…
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I love that the interior is blue, I somehow have a soft spot for blue interiors… maybe because I associate them with Lancia, and I really like Lancia? But yeah, I’ve seen some MBs of that era with them too, maybe even W116s, I don’t remember.
BTW, it completely missed my attention that headlight fills could be used like that, and that seems very useful in some interior applications (actually maybe even more than in headlight ones, lol).
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From what my experience with Mercedes says (and that’s quite a lot TBH, at least compared to my experience in most other car brands), silver cars of this era usually had blue interiors.
Smoothened out the console a bit, again using headlight filler blocks…
Headlight and parking brake release knobs added.
As well as the ignition lock
Used a bumper bar as the glovebox handle
Added some levers to open and close the vents.
And seams for the glovebox door.
Carpeting on the floor
The doorcards has a rather funky design for the era, but I’ll try to replicate them somewhat close.
Starting out with this fixture at the top, as usual.
Then using the “90s sports” doorcards as the base, with the handles removed.
And then adding the armrest/handle fixture from the 70s sedan door cards…transparency is fantastic sometimes when wanting to combine features from different fixtures.
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Yet another 70s sedan door card was used for the door pockets.
Door openers added, not 100% accurate but as usual, “good enough” is the keyword here.
Modern times. Not only did the W116 have inertia reel seatbelts, they were actually integrated into the pillars, so another use of two fixtures, first a 2D one for the pillar…
…and a 3D one for the belt.
A pillars done.
Since Mercedes of the era used a standing accelerator pedal and also a pedal operated parking brake, those “classic” interior fixtures were the way to go. Not 100% accurate but close enough.
Started an attempt of a headliner.
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Attempted doing pillars in the rear too.
Put in some temporary seats to get a grip of what it will look like, while waiting for @G_Fera to finish the real ones.
Parcel shelf added.
As well as the panel in front of the sunroof.
Sunvisors, mirror and dome light added.
Also, the grab handles, so now I am only waiting for the correct seats…
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My original plan was to let the W116 be the last COTY for Ellisbury.
However, since @voiddoesnotknow is running her current challenge in stable, it was too interesting for me to do the switch to Al Rilma, so while waiting for the correct seats for the W116, I decided to do the next entry for Ellisbury too. One of the really cool and iconic winners - the 1975 Citroën CX.
Good news - there is a CX mod body. Not so good news, for some reason it unlocks in 1980, and also, it is a later CX with some details wrong for an early car, but eh. Best we have to work with after all.
One of Aruna’s wheel packs has some rather Citroën-esque hubcaps.
I guess that a mod named “CX light” is close enough for a CX light…
Well, an attempt to recreate the chrome bumper this early car should have.
A grille working good enough is among the “Saab” grille mods, and works well after some fiddling with the materials and placement,.
Also, almost a Citroën badge among the vanilla ones.
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Seems like the CX had some small bumper horns under the bumper, so added them…
As well as the lower grille.
With the license plate in place, the front end is rather finished.
The early CX had some simple mirrors, far from as futuristic looking as the rest of the car, this is a fitting fixture to simulate them.
Door handles and lock cylinders are also pretty normal and straightforward stuff…
So is the side trim…almost boring to recreate a car that more or less makes itself, but I guess the interior will be more of a challenge.
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really nice cx, looks great- one small thing, i’m a girl lol xD
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Which I actually knew so must have been just writing things a bit faster than I could think. 
Correcting…
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it’s all good lol
any chance on a 1985 Peugeot 205 T16 Evolution 2
No, since the Peugeot 205 T16 Evolution 2 never won “Car of the year” in Europe 
But after this project is finished, who knows?
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IIRC those are… the ends of the subframe 
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Ah, that might be true. “Subframe” is an interesting thing BTW. The subframe under the CX more or less looks like a full frame, connecting the front and rear axles, even if it has an unibody construction (which Citroën was one of the pioneers of using, even if Lancia beat them to it with a great margin). So what’s supposed to represent that construction in Automation?
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Since this is an early car, chrome surrounds around the windows, and aluminium finish on the C pillar.
C pillar louvers.
Of course people staring at the C pillar needs to know what kind of car this is.
Gas filler door is just a vanilla one, and the recess is made with a body molding fixture.
Maybe not 100% accurate bumper but good enough IMO…
For creating the taillights, I started with negataping the taillight area.
The door panel fixtures are very handy for making new reflectors.
Lenses made with patchwork, the end result is a bit jagged when looking close, but still an easy way of making accurate taillights.
Improved the edges a bit by using thinned out side trim
Bulbs to add some depth.
License plate…pretty straightforward.
Trim panel in the rear added.
As well as the trunk opening knob.
Badging added too.
The CX has a monowiper because no futuristic car should have more than one wiper, especially not a french one.
Also, a little hood bulge…
…and washer nozzles.
Antennas seems to have been roof mounted on early cars.
Hard to identify the CX - the mod body is already of the right car, and the fixtures needed are few.
Metallic brown is the colour to have on a CX IMO.
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Good enough for a basic dash I guess…it’s hard to recreate something as futuristic and out of this world as Citroën interiors from the era.
The instrument binnacle for example. I am not sure I am on the right way, but starting out with this popup headlight bucket…
Then using even less of another one, flipped upside down, it might be a working base…
Four of this bumper horn fixture used, to try to replicate the “satellite” controls…
How do you identify a Citroën? Hm. Tricky question.
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A little step back: since @G_Fera finished the seats (many, many thanks!), the Mercedes is finally good enough to take pictures of.
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