MeatMan

My wife hates AI so much that I think she'd hurt me physically if she knew I'd tried something like that! ?

I've got to remember you when I get requests on my Cults3D site. I don't do custom but I do get requests.

I use a VPN and it does protect you from people knowing where you are located, but I don't think they will provide the kind of protections you mention here. Also, with all of the breaches and hacks that have happened your email address may be out on the dark web, like one of mine. I use Duck Duck Go browser with the Privacy Badger extension. It keeps you from being tracked on most sites and deletes your cookies when you close it. That might be a better option.

Nice!

I haven't shopped there in a while but I do know that the margins are thin for sellers on Shapeways and that its not a profitable setup for them. TDR does have a FB page and I just checked and there's been no activity on it since December 2023.

NP, Fyi if you use a service you need to make sure they will scale it up. If not someone in the forum that's into 3D printing will do that prob for free, including me.

Awesome work!

If you know anyone with a 3D printer, the file for this ones on Cults3D for $10, plus what it costs to print. You can have it scaled to 1/24th. They also show print services for files bought on Cults3D on the download page. https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/rolls-royce-merlin

Awesome save!

Nice work so far!

Killer!!

I feel your pain. I need a couple myself and couldn't find them separate. VCG has carb sets with 2bbl in them but you'd have to spring for the set to get them, and there are different sets for Holley, Carter, Rochester, and Autolite at $8.00 per. https://www.vcgresins.com/shop/engines-and-engine-parts I went back and looked and they all show as sold out. If interested you'd have to contact him to see when he might restock.

Sometimes its the mold. If the mold has had too many castings done on it its not viable anymore. The caster has to remake the mold and that takes time & effort, and a lot of them are just too busy to remake molds. Just one possibility.

I think the others are just simpler. According to what I've read, Weaver was first putting out a wrecker boom, then Holmes came out with a twin boom wrecker (from the Holmes history site). Looking at subsequent booms they are just simpler designs than Wagner, and thus easier to replicate. This is only my guess, but I can tell you from trying to duplicate one its a lot of parts.

I'd start simple, and with something you actually need/want. It makes all the patience needed easier. My first part was a pipe clamp I need in a different size than what I had. I threw a few other early designs in there too. The more you do, the easier it gets so just get started.

I didn't plan to make it for sale, I will however post it to my Cults3D page when I'm done and you can download the file and have someone print it. I'll make a thread when that happens, but it won't be soon.

Well, after making all the mods to my Fairlane chassis, I couldn't get the back half to work. Once it came out too high, now its sits angled down so I wound up printing a universal chassis I designed and cut it to fit. Still needs a couple of crossmembers, the floor pans fabbed and installed but at least now I see the light. I had to take a break from it to see the forest for the trees. Now for some more body cleanup, and prime it. I think maybe painting it will give me the kick in the rear it seems I need.

Thanks for the info Bill, I'm actually designing a Wagner crane to print someday. I'm using a Mini Art 1/35 kit for the measurements and basic structure, then I'll upscale it to 1/24 to print it. I'm designing it in sections like the kit. It won't be an exact replica but it will work for what I have in mind. The first two pics are my drawings in CAD and the last one is of printed prototypes scaled up.

Great idea and nice start! I've done a couple of simple ones but would really like to do something similar.

The positive side of resin is that you can more often find modern tread patterns, or even radials and it isn't really that hard to make them fit if you have a rotary tool with a round sanding drum. I print my own and do frequently have to size them to fit, but its not really a big problem for me.

Thanks! The paint is Scale Finishes Regimental Red and I got it to match the factory color.

You are correct, and I knew that but age-related brain fog caused me to miss that. I too select lacquer when ordering, duh!

Here is one I hope to do before the end of the year for the Powered by Ford CBP. Its going to be built in the Shelby style similar to the 1956 "Snakebit" F100. It will have a Ford Powerstroke diesel engine for kicks.

I'm doing this as a day 2 restoration instead of a day 2 new car because I used a restoration to get most of my info. I started this to just do a build w/o my usual mods, etc and just have fun (though I did wire the disty). Had to strip the dash to repaint, and have to detail the steering wheel, and BMF the door panels. Otherwise its assembly time!

Beautiful work!