Brockway 459

[Jürgen M.]

Hi everyone,

I finished this Brockway 459 yesterday and wanted to share it.

For those of you who missed the build, it's almost completely designed and printed. The tires, antenna, bumper, marker lights, shifter, stacks and windows are box parts or scratch.

Still it consists of 170 printed parts.

I tried to 'hide' the print lines in the cab by using a distracting paint scheme and a few primer coats. Didn't work perfectly but a little at least. 

The windows are made of 0.2mm transparent foil which unfortunately warped and snapped a bit  out of place after having glued it in. Seems I need a better quality. 

OK, enough of story telling. Hope you enjoy it.

The shifter is sort of customized. I didn't leave much space for it to fit between dog house and driver seat so I made one with a long grab handle instead of a ball. At least it fits and slides in perfectly when closing the cab.

There are also quite a few other things I had to 'customize' not having had enough details due to a lack of pics but I somehow got it together! 

I also designed a new slide plate for the fifth wheel since I didn't want to totally cover up the view onto the chassis and drive train.

Here's two pics together with the 'Widow Woman' Brockway from Convoy.

I always like to make a cabover and a conventional of each make.

Thanks for dropping in!

Edited Friday at 05:39 AM by Jürgen M.

[Biggu]

What a cool build ,JM!  I love the orange and that really makes this one pop.... you designed, printed and assembled this one in record time, maybe the best one so far ! It is very cool, and I like this one a lot... great job, pal, can't wait to see what's next.....

[BK9300]

Another fine build, Jurgen!  You mentioned in your WIP that the cabover couldn't sit next to the conventional on the shelf.  Even with the display cabinet you built awhile back, sounds like you might need to make another cabinet, or expand into another room!

[Swamp Dog]

great looking build.

[PappyD340]

Looks great!

[Jürgen M.]

12 hours ago, BK9300 said:

Another fine build, Jurgen!  You mentioned in your WIP that the cabover couldn't sit next to the conventional on the shelf.  Even with the display cabinet you built awhile back, sounds like you might need to make another cabinet, or expand into another room!

Thank you Brian!

I actually do have enough room on the shelf but the conventional belongs to the 'Convoy' so the cabover will have to make friends with the other trucks! 😉 

I also switch once in a while and take models out of the cabinet and exchange them with ones from the shelf. That way the Brockway cabover will surely be close to its brother sometime!

 

Edited Saturday at 04:56 AM by Jürgen M.

[Jürgen M.]

13 hours ago, Biggu said:

What a cool build ,JM!  I love the orange and that really makes this one pop.... you designed, printed and assembled this one in record time, maybe the best one so far ! It is very cool, and I like this one a lot... great job, pal, can't wait to see what's next.....

Thanks very much Jeff! 

I'm glad you like it. I don't think it was my best but surely one of the 'rare truck models' type. Like the Marmon Harrington or the Autocar ACX.

I am planning the next build but before I introduce it I have to maintain my printer. It's been working for months now without giving it much attention except for levelling once in a while.

I want to try out a few new parameters and a 0.2 nozzle and do some trial runs.

When that's done I might also have made enough progress in designing to introduce it here in WIP!

Edited Saturday at 05:08 AM by Jürgen M.

[Jim B]

Beautiful Brockway. Very well done. 

[BKF]

Nice build and really like the colors.