Scale G-Wagon

[Michaele]

Well, lets start with the small thing: The blinker (indicator?, whats the name for that thing??) is finally orange. Some layers of translucent color did the trick:

The other thing getting close to the end is the spare tire carrier. But first let me tell you that I am not the king of soldering. So when you see the pictures, be patient with me, and maybe now you can understand why I like printing things :blink:. But its not too bad as well, and it is functioning! Just like the real thing.....

And with the wheel mounted:

Now I need to do some cleaning, then paint it black, and that will be it!

Michael

 

[Michaele]

Hi guys,
I have not been here for a while, but the build is still going on. Rather not at the moment due to different projects (i.e. my Mercedes G-Wagon in 1:1), and sometimes I have the feeling it never will be done anyway.
For time reasons I reduced my forum activity to a smaller number, since documenting my steps took too much time in all the forums, that I rather intended to use in building time.
But since I assume you were still interested, I decided to make a summary of what happened in the meantime.
The front and rear axle were done in metal, as was planned before. The white plastic parts were only for prototyping, and since everything went well, I decided to get the metal parts:





Then they needed to be painted of course:





Then it was about time to get rid of the blank metal looks of the chassis. And with most of the parts mounted I decided to go on with flat black here:




What I did as well was working with a new material: Since the welding of the spare tire carrier went so well. I made the frame for the soft top in the same manner: Design to get the dimensions, then cutting the brass tubes and solder them in place:



Of course I needed the soft to as well, so I cut and glued some fake leather material, and even managed to add some soft-clear-plastic windows in there! Only too late I found out that I rather have checked the pictures of the original, dimensions of the whole thing were way off. But nonetheless, its not looking too bad:








By that time it was running for the first time ever! Unfortunately I have no real chance to make decent vids, but later more on that….
Then I got bitten by the detail-virus (not that it wouldn’t have bitten before….). So I installed some wipers:



Left side is my own design, right one was bought, just bent to get it right. And of course there needed to be some mechanical parts installed, who knows if there is bad weather coming, and the wipers would have to work:



And with some dirt and dust on the screen it looks much more real:




To be continued

 

[Michaele]

Now the clean rest of the truck did not fit the dirty screen. That meant I need a some more used look on the rest as well. With some tutorial in using artists chalk and matte clear lacquer, I srated some weathering. The intention was not to make it too heavy, but some dust and dirt, and of course some rust here and there….




And to make a longer story short: The dimensions of a lot of areas on the doors were not really scale. I have had some issues obviously from the early stages of the design, which I never looked after. Only when I mounted the rear view mirrors I found that out, they were not sitting right on the doors.

Which nobody beside me would have ever noticed I would guess. But it nagged at me, so I redesigned the doors. And with the new doors there was plenty more space inside when printed as an SLS part beside my former used FDM machine. Since I wondered what I could use this space for, I thought about a manually driven window. When the design was done, I just ordered the parts from Shapeways again. But unfortunately the quality was poor, so I need another solution for that:


Next and so far last thing was another senseless trip into the world of accessories: For whatever reason I decided that I need a 1/8 scale Hi-Lift. Since I have a real one around, I had the chance to take enough pics and dimensions to get a CAD model:

The printed parts looked like that:


And after a lot of fumbling work including drilling 0.5mm holes into the bolts and assembling the lot, I had an working Hi-Lift. But working is at the moment only upwards, the lever and parts to switch from up to down is not yet working properly….



And with the CAD file available I just wanted to know if a non-working simpler 3 piece design of this Hi-Lift can be printed in 1/10 scale. And it worked! The surface is a little on the rough side, but it came out quite well:

Best would have been the stainless steel “printed” version, but due to unforeseeable tolerances in the manufacturing process the looks were right, but the fit is not….

That’s it from my side!
Michael

 

[Creepy Inc.]

That jack is incredible! "thumbsup"

 

[pixelnate]

Wow. Guys like you, Headquake and MG200 make the rest of us look like amateurs. Your work is truly an inspiration.

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[Gomes]

Wow!! Words for what?! It is fantastic, superb, amazing ... Omg, really good! Congratulations!

 

[chino63]

Wow, just like the others said... I'm speechless! "thumbsup"