trucknut10 Posted December 20, 2012 Posted December 20, 2012 Thats what i had in mind is to use the motor out of the KW kit. I havent made my mind up if I want to build a opeon bull or a paddle wheel .. Terry
Tony Bryan Posted December 21, 2012 Author Posted December 21, 2012 On 12/20/2012 at 5:08 AM, trucknut10 said: Thats what i had in mind is to use the motor out of the KW kit. I havent made my mind up if I want to build a opeon bull or a paddle wheel .. Terry Go the paddle scraper, haven't seen one of these built for awhile, and certainly not in 1/16th Small update Engine cover has been scribed, and check plate fitted, hand rails started Air cleaner machined from acrylic, ready for mounting hardware Front grill painted, ready for it's decal
trucknut10 Posted December 22, 2012 Posted December 22, 2012 That would be cool,but how about if I make it functional? Look great Tony,small updates are good,getting closer to be done.That grill looks great.......... Terry
Tony Bryan Posted December 25, 2012 Author Posted December 25, 2012 On 12/22/2012 at 10:49 PM, trucknut10 said: That would be cool,but how about if I make it functional? Look great Tony,small updates are good,getting closer to be done.That grill looks great.......... Terry Terry To be honest with you, if you are going to make one part work, then you would have to make the rest function as well, which as experience tells me, it takes a very long time, why??? because to make things work, it requires research, tooling, making, then remaking parts that you are not happy with,I'm at the 5 year mark in another build that has consumed a lot of hours, which can take 6-10 hours to make tooling for just one part that takes 20 minutes to make, then multiply that by 2000 parts To make a paddle wheel work is relatively easy, but do you really want to see it working all the time?, bear in mind, the more it is running the more it can break, it has to be lubricated etc, to stop it breaking,to over come friction then since you have a working paddle, but why stop there????
trucknut10 Posted December 29, 2012 Posted December 29, 2012 Tony, Yes I do agree with you on maken eatch part till you'r sattisfided with it,I have gave it a lot of thought and Im going too build a OPEON bowl witch will still b cool aspecdailly on a scratch built lowboy ,the tractor will have a drop axle ,the lowboy will be a 3,4,3 ... Shes looking good Tony.Have a good News Year and catch you next year.. Terry
Bennyg Posted December 29, 2012 Posted December 29, 2012 Hi Tony, are you the bloke who is replicating a satin black custom Kenworth? I'm loving this project, going to be massive. Cheers Ben
trucknut10 Posted December 31, 2012 Posted December 31, 2012 Tony,on another thought mabey I will scratchbuild a CAT 375 excavator in 1/16 that would by very big......... Terry
AzTom Posted January 7, 2013 Posted January 7, 2013 This is Awesome! I have a large collection of 1/16 Farm & Construction equipment so I am going to follow this for sure. Thanks for sharing
Tony Bryan Posted March 17, 2013 Author Posted March 17, 2013 On 1/7/2013 at 12:10 AM, AzTom said: This is Awesome! I have a large collection of 1/16 Farm & Construction equipment so I am going to follow this for sure. Thanks for sharing Tom, I had a look through your toy collection and have to say..... oh my gosh what a collection you sure have just about everything made and everything thought of, wish I had your brass collection, you do have some stock, ....... so what do you build with it????
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