1/16th Scale Jolly Rancher Stagecoach Wheelstander - Update 11/7/2015

[Mooneyzs]

Another shot of the back portion of the roll cage:

 

Here was the start of the main hoop for the roll cage:

 

Here is the roll cage completed:

 

Back Side:

 

Opposite side:

 

Bottom:

 

 

Edited July 12, 2017 by Mooneyzs

[Mooneyzs]

Here is the Frame, Roll Cage and Floor Pan:

 

Here is the Cage on the Frame.. Not soldered together yet:

 

Straight on shot of the Roll Cage:

 

Another shot:

 

Back View:

Edited July 12, 2017 by Mooneyzs

[Mooneyzs]

Here is a shot of the roll cage straight on from behind:

 

Another back view:

 

Little Top Down View:

Edited July 12, 2017 by Mooneyzs

[John Teresi]

Chris......."WOW".......I just went to the bathroom in my pants.......and I`m sure I`m going to have wet dreams  tonight after seeing this up-date.......truly spectacular my friend "WOW!!!!!

[Petetrucker07]

Amazing work Chris. This is one helluva an update. The cage looks great, pan looks awesome. I really like watching these big, super detailed builds. They are a real education. Great update man.

[bobthehobbyguy]

 Nice work Chris. Your brass work is nice. Keep up the good work. I will be following.

[Nytrozilla]

Amazing Brother Chris. Awesome to watch the process as opposed to the finished frame. The best part of using metal is, it doesn't just look real, it is real.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to pick up some Depends for John. 

[gasser59]

Better get some for me too Joe. Maybe a second box. 

 

Chris - this is an absolute knockout. That frame is going to be so strong. You da man.

[Mooneyzs]

John... Thanks brother!!! LOL I think you should be having wet dreams from something other than this build... lol 

Clayton... Thank you very much. The cage was a bit of a pain in the butt and it gave me a few hurdles where some of it took me more time to do or thought but I will admit that I am happy with it now.

Bob... Thank you. It was quite fun to do this chassis in brass and looking forward to the next build that I will do an all brass chassis for. Although I still have a few more things that I need to add for this chassis.

Joe... Thank you. It was definitely a new challenge for me to use brass for the whole chassis. it was fun but I know I would like to hone my soldering skills some more.

Brad... Thank you my friend. I gotta admit that chassis seems pretty strong. Although I haven't soldered the cage to the main frame yet. I need to drill some holds in the floor pan and into the cross brasses of the frame since I realized that I won't be able to have access to do so once the roll cage is in place.

[Art Laski]

Crazy good, Chris! This is awesome.

Edited September 20, 2015 by Art Laski

[BrentFoster]

Wow Chris, 

Nice work buddy, cant wait to see this one. 

How are you finding brass over the styrene 

[Mooneyzs]

Art... Thank you. I am happy with the progress.

Brent... Thank you very much. I am enjoying working with the Brass so far. I still enjoy working with styrene as well. I am trying to learn to not to use too much solder on joints so there is minimal clean up. Using some liquid flux has helped with that. Although holding the tubing and notching it with a file is a little bit of a pain in the butt at times and I would like to come up with a miniature tubing notcher to make that process a little easier...lol. The chassis seems pretty strong and it has been fun challenging myself by using the brass.

[Davewilly]

Looks pretty Good Chris,   nice Fab work.

[Mooneyzs]

Dave... Thank you so much buddy. I appreciate it.

[futurattraction]

Super work, Chris.  Very clean, as usual.  Keep it up, bud!

[Harry P.]

That's some impressive building.

Kit? I don't need no stinkin' kit!   

[Mooneyzs]

Scott... Thank you very much my friend.

Harry... Thank you. Well I needed a couple pieces from a kit and that's it...... 

[Danno]

UNfreakin'believable, Chris!   UNfreakin'BELIEVABLE!!  You are the metalmaster fer shur!  Stunning.

 

John!  Clean up after yourself and get a grip, man!

 

 

Now, has anybody seen an Army funny car around here anywhere?  

 

[Ognib]

Kinda tricky sometimes getting all those pieces to clamp up accurately & securely for solder, isn't it?? 

Looks real good!

[Mooneyzs]

Danno... Why Thank you. I think I am a little hack with brass at the moment and am no metal master...lol I am learning a lot from this build and hopefully I can improve my skills in working with brass. As far as the funny car goes... I am thinking about jumping back on it tomorrow and getting some well deserved progress made on it.

Ray... Thank you very much. Oh man I couldn't agree more that its tricky getting all the pieces to clamp correct before soldering. I think I have spend more time getting it set up and then when I start to solder it moves on me, so I have put the solder iron done reset it up and try again. I know I have wasted many hours in set up time. I also learned the hard way where I was adding a piece and heating things up a little to much only to have had some shifted in a few other pieces that I had to go back and fix...  

[Mooneyzs]

Ok Fellas, so I have gotten some more work done on this chassis. I have started with getting some of the shackles for the front leaf springs fabricated as well as getting the steering shaft support and some more work to the floor pan.

Here is the beginning of the shackles. I had a little bit of a pain in the butt getting them aligned properly prior to soldering them in place:

 

 

Here is the other set:

 

 

Another view:

 

 

Here is the steering shaft support:

 

 

 

 

Edited July 12, 2017 by Mooneyzs

[Mooneyzs]

Here is the floor pan again. I went and drilled all of the holes for the mounting bolts and then went back and transfer drilled the holes into the frame. I wanted to get them drilled and mounted before I solder the roll cage in place since I would not be able to get the pin vise in to do the drilling.

 

 

Here is an up-close shot of the bolts. I decided to use button heads for these:

 

 

Here is the whole chassis together with the roll cage in place, still not soldered at this point:

 

 

Another view

 

Edited July 12, 2017 by Mooneyzs

[Petetrucker07]

Lookin dammed good man. The more guys that do these solder builds, the more I learn, and gets me closer to my project. Great work, lookin forward to the next update.

[Nytrozilla]

There's the good stuff I tune in for. Outstanding as always Chris. I'm loving that cage.

Yes, I'm getting back on the Nomad soon 

[Codi]

Superb Chris.  You're picking up the soldering / brass work fabrication VERY quickly.  Clean work!!!  Cheers, Tim