Gluhead

I love doodlebugs, and I've been looking for an excuse to build one. Pretty sure I've even got parts to build a couple without having to pick up anything new. I've even got a pair of rear tractor tires and wheels that I salvaged of one of my sons trashed toys from ages ago.

^^^ What Jim said. Philbass also has a nearly identical thread here on MCM (search "restoration" in the dio section and it should come right up), and his tips are what got me movin' on my brickwork project. I didn't have any plaster of paris on hand, though, so I used flour instead.

That's rad as *bleep*.

Came out sweet, G!

That's really cool. Nice to see it in stock form.

Those are killer, Jim.

I've got one of these in the queue as well, which I'm looking to build as a truck still in duty during the years after WWII, so I've been looking over my options for naturally occurring upgrades. Modelhaus has a 5 hand-hole, 5 lug dually wheel and tire set that comes from their '65 Chevy 2-ton conversion kit, which they'll sell separately. Missing Link has a 6 hand-hole, 6 lug wheel set, but no tires to go with them (hint hint, guys! ). Ma's Resin has an old style Budd wheel set with non-pneumatic tires, but they're stouter than the Mack kits tires. I've also run across several reference pics of Bulldogs with Dayton style wheels and larger pneumatic tires like what come in the AMT Ford C600 kits. The Dodge L700 also has this style wheel, but are a touch larger, making the Ford rolling stock more suitable. Both the Modelhaus and Missing Link wheels are the same size as the AMT Ford wheels. Both wheel sets require we supply our own outboard rim for the fronts, just to save you the surprise. The Modelhaus tires are a bit smaller in both width and diameter than the AMT tires, and are very nice. I think that the Missing Link 6 hole wheels with the Modelhaus tires are the way I'll go with mine. Both sets are very reasonably priced, and the extra 5 hole wheels will certainly not go unused since they fit the AMT tires. I'm not positive when the Daytons came into play (early 50's? someone help me out here), or if it'd be kosher to narrow them for use with the Modelhaus tires, but it'd sure be sharp. Actually, the Modelhaus tires are cast in halves, which makes it easy to add a little width to them...so I'm going say that's certainly a viable option. Hope this helps, and I look forward to seeing the build.

Oh man, I'm jealous...is his name "Netty"?

Tons of humbling work here, as I knew there would be...but Bill, that rail is just sick !

It's not just you. As Derick says...slow and lots of SQL errors lately. Although I find it difficult to believe that there are still people who use IE. Even more difficult to believe that people will admit they do! Do you ride a dinosaur to work, too?

Haha! I think I'd be alright with that...so far my test piece has been in the stuff for an hour, and it's not looking like it's doing much.

Thanks, Jim. Glad you like it. I just have one thing holding me back on finishing it all up - we have no oven cleaner in the house that I can use to weather all this aluminum! Who'da thunk'it, eh? I guess that's what happens when you have a self-cleaning oven. So, next trip to the store...

After making a couple of my own tires out of parts of other tires for a particular project, I've often thought this would be a good way to go...at least for some tires. For some tires, the shape of the shoulder and detail that rides over from one plane to the other would make for too conspicuous of a seam, no matter how well it fit. But for the former, I'd love to see this. Thanks, Art, for the insight on the manufacturing conundrums faced here. With how much we're able to accomplish on a small scale with resin, I think we sometimes lose sight of what it takes to produce some of this stuff on a mass production level. It does make one wonder, though. You mentioned tooling which produced 48 tires per pull, as well as a die needing replacement after a million or so cycles. I'm likely mixing bags of potentially mis-matched information here, but it begs the question; Are kit manufacturers really producing nearly 50 million of a given tire? Either way, we really don't have it all so bad, as it is. We could be having to whittle them out ourselves, after all.

Great article and vid, Terry! Thanks for passing it along. I want some of those stink packets, too...although some would likely say I'm pretty good at making my own stink.

Just like me dear papa!

awesome

I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay.

Okay, I'll play. We should see some cool stuff in this thread. SM465 and NP205, all scratch'd with the exception of 2 small considerably modified bits of kit parts on the transfer case (you can see the leftover chromey bits on them). Just to be clear, it's the stuff behind the bellhousing. GM Heavy Duty steering knuckle and axle housing (3rd member is a kit part). Everything out to the backing plate is scratched on this one...axle, spindle, steering arm, rod ends, etc. Everything on (and including) this frame, except for the 3rd member. But you can barely see that sticking out in front of the housing, so we'll just say the whole thing. How 'bout a scratch'd pickup box for a 1/8 '32? Or an interior for the same? Or some injection for a 409. Technically this isn't entirely scratch'd...it has 3 PE pieces.

lol. Sweet.

Lookin' really good. You're making me reconsider two-toning my Olds!

The Redhead is such a juicy piece of eye candy. I drool every time I see it. Has anyone ever cast that puppy in resin? I don't remember one, but being out of the game for several years...

Pretty cool, G.

I think it's rad. But Joe is right, it could stand a little tweaking on the cowl and radiator. Then it'd be really rad.

That does look loads better. Can I throw one more monkey in the mix? Now that the proportions are really coming together, one thing stands out yet - it's a bit thick though the cowl region. A pie-section out of the lower body would really bring this home, I think! Maybe 3/16 or so at the back of the front wheelwell, to 0 at the front of the rear. Color? Something dark and sparkly! Tamiya Mica Blue, perhaps? Or maybe Testors Nassau Blue over a white base...Cruz did something modern in that color recently that really looked killer.

Cool project, Rob.