New truck/trailer kits?

[Gary Chastain]

9 minutes ago, iamsuperdan said:

On a related note...

2024 Peterbilt 579 now available for 3D printing. 

https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/peterbilt-579-sleeper-cab-tractor-truck-2024-printable-hora80

I haven't downloaded this one yet, but I have downloaded several of his designs, and they're pretty good.

 

 

 

That would be a sweet kit to get. 

[Trendsetta68]

On 1/3/2024 at 5:38 AM, Mr mopar said:

why not this Western star cab over ?

I SECOND THAT NOTION ! ??

[RoninUtah]

On 2/15/2024 at 8:19 AM, iamsuperdan said:

On a related note...

2024 Peterbilt 579 now available for 3D printing. 

https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/peterbilt-579-sleeper-cab-tractor-truck-2024-printable-hora80

I haven't downloaded this one yet, but I have downloaded several of his designs, and they're pretty good.

 

 

 

I don’t have access to a 3D printer, but if someone would be willing to print one of these for me I’d be happy to pay for their efforts!

[RoninUtah]

I’d love to see a new Cascadia in 1/24 or 1/25! Drives me nuts that about 40% or more of the class 8 trucks I see on the road are Cascadias and I don’t have any in my fleet!

Also a KW T880…

[Bren]

On 12/29/2023 at 11:53 AM, Jim B said:

Not that it will happen, but I'd like to see some of the newer Freightliners like the Columbia or Cascadia.  They seem to be everywhere in US highways.

Both are available as .stl files for 3D printing if you're into that - or want to get them printed by someone else. Here's the Cascadia. And below it the Coronado. I've printed the Coronado in 1/25 - looks great. 

[RoninUtah]

On 6/11/2024 at 10:44 PM, Bren said:

Both are available as .stl files for 3D printing if you're into that - or want to get them printed by someone else. Here's the Cascadia. And below it the Coronado. I've printed the Coronado in 1/25 - looks great. 

I would be more than happy to pay someone to print a Cascadia in 1/25! Please contact me if you’re willing to do this.

[Fabrux]

That lower air deflector on the Cascadia sucks... When my employer got the first batch of trucks with those guys were knocking them off constantly due to the poor roads and yards we traveled on. They don't order them anymore. ?

[Bren]

RoninUtah was interested in the Cascadia - so I printed out the files (not quite finished yet). I think there's a bit of interest in this model, so I thought I'd post the first shots of it taped together in case the rest of you guys wanted to see. This is from Alfa Centauri on Cults3D website. The file is 1/14, reduced in the slicer to 1/25 (56%).

[RoninUtah]

10 hours ago, Bren said:

RoninUtah was interested in the Cascadia - so I printed out the files (not quite finished yet). I think there's a bit of interest in this model, so I thought I'd post the first shots of it taped together in case the rest of you guys wanted to see. This is from Alfa Centauri on Cults3D website. The file is 1/14, reduced in the slicer to 1/25 (56%).

 

 

Thanks, Bren, those look great! Nice and smooth, and well detailed. Are you doing the hi-rise sleeper version? I'm sure I'm not alone in wanting to add that to my fleet!

[Bren]

Oh you're one of those guys eh?? Q. What kind of truck to you drive Mister? A. A Motel 6!  Okey doke - check out the 60 inch hi-rise sleeper parts I printed today below. I'll keep the daycab for my build and send ya the sleeper. I'm leaving the supports in place for the dash so the steering wheel survives the postal service. This thing sure is a beast - thank heavens for the Elegoo Saturn printer - the larger prints wouldn't fit on my Mars. 

[RoninUtah]

That looks great, Bren!

[RoninUtah]

Okay, so I owe Bren a HUGE thank you! He sent me the Cascadia prints he made from Alfa Centauri's files on the Cults site, so I decided put it on an extra Moebius Lone Star chassis I had sitting around. The chassis needed to be shortened to look right with the Cascadia body, more about that later...

The body is nicely designed and fit together well with a little grinding here and there. The 3D prints are so precise that they leave little room for error: I didn't get the cab exactly centered on the frame and as a result, the right side fairings are a little too far out. I had to grind down the inner edges of the doors to a feather edge to get them to fit properly, due to the sidewall thickness of the resin. There was some diagonal streaking in the upper parts of the body and the bumper as a result of the printing process; I ground down the raised streaks on the body and filled in the valleys as best I could and it's not that noticeable now. I didn't do anything to the front bumper, and now I realize I need to take it off and work on it some with Dr. Dremel and filler putty.

The interior is pretty minimal, just a (well detailed) dash/steering wheel combo, floor pan and seats. I added the cabinets from the Lone Star, cut down to fit, and a sleeper bunk from the parts box. It painted up nicely (for me, anyway) based on photos on the Freightliner website. No shortage of reference photos for this build!

So, now I have the cab pretty much how I want it, but it's so heavy that it broke the frame where I spliced it after shortening it.  When I fixed it, it had a pronounced dip, so I need to break it again and re-do it, adding some brass rods to the frame rails with epoxy, just to strengthen them. That'll give me a chance to re-mount the cab and hopefully the fairings will fit better. So stay tuned...

My "story of the build" is to do a typical modern-day fleet truck, like the tens of thousands of Cascadias rolling down the U.S. Interstates and Canadian National Highways as we speak. I based it on a C.R. England rig, but I don't have the right decals for them and this truck isn't exactly to England's specs anyway.

Again, my heartfelt gratitude to Bren - I don't have to whine about not having a modern Cascadia in my fleet any more!

 

[Bren]

You are very welcome Ron. Great to see you charging ahead with this project! Well done!

[Biggu]

two trailers that are sorely in need of a more modern upgrade is a Heavy Haul Low Bed tridem trailer, with a 'detachable' goose neck, and a modern tridem, 53 foot Livestock trailer, yes AMT have them , but they are so out of date, but are very good for older tractors, but are rarely seen on the highways today.... just a random thought....

Jeff