IronHide TopKick C4500

[Sergey]

Thank you Jim!

Dual rear wheels arch width is - 96.1'

 

Edited August 10, 2019 by Sergey

[Sergey]

Let's continue:

Sonoma's rear axle back part was horrible. New one was made of acril bead & styrol.

I've casted Ford's rear axle, cut off the excess and added semi axles of profiles + steal spike.

Let's glue it together...

...add epoxy putty...

... and get TopKick rear axle.

It slightly longer, then must, but I will cut it after fit brakes and wheels.

[Sergey]

Hello, my friends!

Frend of mine wants to model and 3D print wheel disks for IronHide. He allready printed tyres.

Now I need movie disk measures. Does anyone knows where to find them?

[Fat Brian]

On 12/2/2019 at 1:13 PM, Sergey said:

Hello, my friends!

Frend of mine wants to model and 3D print wheel disks for IronHide. He allready printed tyres.

Now I need movie disk measures. Does anyone knows where to find them?

The best info I could find said the wheels were 20".

[Sergey]

Thank you, Brian! But Mikhail made tytres - 22" inside for his own project.

http://forum.autoinscale.com/viewtopic.php?id=10366

So - the rims will be slightly larger.

[Fat Brian]

10 hours ago, Sergey said:

Thank you, Brian! But Mikhail made tytres - 22" inside for his own project.

http://forum.autoinscale.com/viewtopic.php?id=10366

So - the rims will be slightly larger.

2" is barely noticeable, especially since they're black like the tires. 

[Sergey]

Let's renew this dusty topic.

I understood why I haven't pick up the Truck for a long time. It was time to make fasteners for axles to springs, and this is a tedious job.

I worked on the front of the frame. It tapers to the bumper

Cut off the excess plastic, made the front crossbar and added styrene on top

The gearbox of the front axle was not quite correct, if you look at the photo from updates abowe. I cut it up and reversed the parts

however the front and rear of the gearbox did not quite match.

Made a spacer

I couldn't resist trying it all on

Now it's ready to attach the wheels and I can make up the cab. But while we're quarantined, I'll get another Pickup.

 

[Mattilacken]

Great progress! Looking forward to seeing this one being built!

[Sergey]

Hello, Gents!


Building Silverado, I found rear mirrors, wich I can copy for Iron Hide Topkick. Unfortunatelly they 1/25 (white one). I also have Asto van, which is 1/24, bud they are different (black one).

I also wiĺl copy Astro steering wheel (grey one).

The question is which steering wheel column to copy for TopKick? Asrto's (grey) or Silverado's (white)?

What do you think?

Edited June 3, 2020 by Sergey

[Chevythunder85]

I would copy the silverados. Much more accurate in my opinion.

[Sergey]

Thank you, Nicholas! I thought the same way!

Now I have copied the steering wheel, wheel column, side mirrors and passenger handle from Silverado kit



The first casting brings me some air bubbles So I will try again. I copied Silverado's tail lights too, with little change.

That's all for now. Thank you for attention!

[Sergey]

Hi, fellows!

Still walking around the model. It's time to make a body. ? 

Have worked couple evenings in Corel Draw. Here are future decals for the project.

[Sergey]

Hello, Gents!

I have come to body work start. And here I stumble. I've got drawing, but can't believe it. It seems body hight is about 65 inches. Overall Savanna's height is 82 inches.

Can it be: clearence between body and ground - 17 inches?

Does anyone have GMC Savanna, TopKick- Pickup/Chevrolet Express, Kodiak-Pickup  near  to measure? I need body bottom edge to ground measure. Having overall height  I can calculate body height and compare it to drawing.

Edited August 3, 2020 by Sergey

[Mattilacken]

Great progress! Keep going at it!

[Sergey]

On 8/7/2020 at 10:03 AM, Mattilacken said:

Great progress! Keep going at it!

Thank you, Anton!

Hi Gents!

I have a holiday today. PETERSON have made wheels for this project!

Many thanks to Michael Petrenko! Enjoy the pictures!

Now it's time to start a cab.

Edited August 15, 2020 by Sergey

[AmericanMuscleFan]

Very nice design Sergey, they look sturdy!  It's amazing what we can achieve with these 3D printers!  You also need a good designer... ?

[Sergey]

Thank you, Francis!

Hello, colleagues!
It's time to start a cab. As I came to assemble a 1999 Silverado on a nearby topic, and Silverado & TopKick have the same bed, it is better to take measurements from Silverado bed, when it not glued to frame. And before that it's better to make cab.
Armed with PDF-files

Cab have rounded sides...

...so I desided to cut them from vent tube

Printed drawings and glued on


Back wall has difficult  shape. It has a step outwards to increase cab space 2,5 inch more. So I divided this element to 3 pieces. The first one, which is reflecting the back contour of a cab I cut from styrene. It was mistake.

It don't keep flat shape.  Next I tried transparent plastic  from candy box.

Here is how  looks pattern.

Cutouts are not ready jet
Sandwiched back wall.

By the way, does anyone have a picture of 2000 TopKick's firewall? The only photo I could find was this

...but I'm afraid it's 1990 TopKick.

[AmericanMuscleFan]

WOW, that some incredible work Sergey, I love your idea to print the shape, very accurate, clever idea!  What type of plastic are these ventilation tubes made of?  Are you using super glue to join the pieces together?

[Sergey]

Thank you, Francis!

I guess the material is - polyvinyl chloride. Haven't glued them jet. Perhaps I will use super glue - gel or epoxy.

[butter]

Try super glue gel 80 to 90% and testors liquid cement, for the rest.  I find this combo really keeps things together.  The bond isn't "brittle" like super glue alone, and you have a little time to move parts around because the liquid cement seems to slow the super glue curing time by several seconds.

[Sergey]

Thank you, Ron!

I will keep it in mind if I can get testors liquid cement 3502xt in Russia.

[Sergey]

"Hi, Gents!" (c)
Have found some time to scratch more plastic.
Here is roof sandwich 

.. and back wall


And moving forward I've found difficulties: the roof  bends forward just behind the stamping and because it curves in two planes, I had to make a cutout

But this solve the probleme partly. 

Roof bending should be smooth and have bigger angle. So I inserted 1mm square rod between layers. 

different view

Also right  stand was accidently cut in process (marked by arrow) and glued back/ :sorry: 

Final stage so far, but  stands should be bended more.

I pulled myself together and made a slipway


Further upgrade


Well, fitting


Thank you  for viewing!

[Mattilacken]

Great work as always! Incredible skills! Btw, you could not use any parts of the cab from the Silverado you will be needing as a donor for the bed? 

Edited August 3, 2021 by Mattilacken

[Sergey]

Thank you, Anton!

I will use copys of steering column and side mirrirs for sure. Door cards, and dash board, and seats are different from silverado and Astro van.

[AmericanMuscleFan]

That's what I call high caliber creation, great art my friend!!! ?