Texas 3D Customs

[Fat Brian]

4 hours ago, Texas_3D_Customs said:

So this is the last 300 I will make for a while and its quite different

Wow, this is really cool and unexpected. 

[DoctorLarry]

Any chance of a Pontiac V-8? your work is beautiful in its detail and accuracy.

[Texas_3D_Customs]

1 hour ago, DoctorLarry said:

Any chance of a Pontiac V-8? your work is beautiful in its detail and accuracy.

I will at some point do that and about 20 other engines inside want to do problems time it's very time intensive to make an engine not to print them but to one buy one or find one disassemble it prep it scan it reverse engineer it test it and then get it ready for production

[DoctorLarry]

Thanks for the information. I'll wait.

[Texas_3D_Customs]

So something new completely not really relevant to building a model but it does support me. I have a new Merch section on my website.

[Texas_3D_Customs]

New 13B Wankel variant

[Texas_3D_Customs]

Something different than normal is coming 

[Texas_3D_Customs]

What a lovely day 

[MeatMan]

On 10/24/2024 at 9:04 PM, Texas_3D_Customs said:

What a lovely day 

Wow! Too late for me, I bought your stock engine and designed the headers & scoops.

[Mark C.]

I can picture that combo in a vintage Bonneville salt flats racer!

Which GMC trucks would have come stock with the V12?  I assume only the large heavy duty lines?

[Texas_3D_Customs]

19 minutes ago, Mark C. said:

I can picture that combo in a vintage Bonneville salt flats racer!

Which GMC trucks would have come stock with the V12?  I assume only the large heavy duty lines?

I am not 100% sure but I think it was really big stuff like fire engines.

[Rob Hall]

Big trucks used the V12 aka 'Twin Six'.

[Mark C.]

Thank you!  
It would be cool to have a kit of one of those trucks for a stock twin six application.  You could make it a tow vehicle for a twin six Bonneville racer!  lol

[Texas_3D_Customs]

Working on this project

[Texas_3D_Customs]

Progress 

[DoctorLarry]

Looks great!

[Texas_3D_Customs]

More progress 

 

Edited November 20, 2024 by Texas_3D_Customs

[Texas_3D_Customs]

Pontiac V8 listed at Stock Pontiac V8

[Texas_3D_Customs]

4bbl version of the Pontiac

[DoctorLarry]

My order went in today. Thanks!!! Now to pester you for a Buick...

[Texas_3D_Customs]

1 minute ago, DoctorLarry said:

My order went in today. Thanks!!! Now to pester you for a Buick...

I can promise you pestering me to make an engine will make it take five times this long in fact this engine wasn't made because a certain someone pestered me about it every time I released an engine So I kept putting it off to spite that person which I know is not a good thing to do but I did actually reach out and not many people seem interested in it. And this was already being worked on when you made your post that had nothing to do with that post it just happened to be that you made that post about a week after I bought the engine.

[DoctorLarry]

Sorry if it upset you. It was meant as a joke. I appreciate what you have done so far and if I didn't I would not support your business.

[Texas_3D_Customs]

20 minutes ago, DoctorLarry said:

Sorry if it upset you. It was meant as a joke. I appreciate what you have done so far and if I didn't I would not support your business.

You didn't upset me, just a statement. I do get more pestering than I care to deal with and I assume you wouldn't and I don't dislike requests or suggestions but some people think I need reminding if what they want weekly.

[DoctorLarry]

I was just happy to see the finished Pontiac since the model kit ones lack detail. So I ordered one for a 73 GTO in the works and will probably order more down the road. One question, though. Why 1/24 rather than 1/25? The engines in 1/24 kits seem way too big for 1/25 scale models. Is there a technical reason for a particular scale?

[Texas_3D_Customs]

1 minute ago, DoctorLarry said:

I was just happy to see the finished Pontiac since the model kit ones lack detail. So I ordered one for a 73 GTO in the works and will probably order more down the road. One question, though. Why 1/24 rather than 1/25? The engines in 1/24 kits seem way too big for 1/25 scale models. Is there a technical reason for a particular scale?

Yes because a little bit bigger looks a lot better than a little bit smaller kit scales or not true scale The difference with this engine with the TH400 behind it completely assembled from the water pump pulley studs to the back of the TH400 is 3 mm longer. There's a lot of confusion in the difference between the two scales cuz people base it off of what they see in kits which is not accurate anyways I had someone discussing my offenhauser talking about how it was smaller than some kit's 1:24 version but bigger than another kit's 1:25 version. Now I wasn't exactly sure what to say to that because how can it be smaller than 1:25 but bigger than 1:24. So the reason I started 124 was cuz I did research and it just seemed logical from what people were saying that if you're going to pick one of the two to go with the slightly bigger because in true scale there is such a little difference why I stay that way compatibility with the thousands of parts I have.