Smokingwheels
26th November 2011, 01:43 AM
I got bored oneday...
A few years ago I measured up my Nissan 280 ZX and made a model.
I used pine from an transport crate (4"*3") to route out a 3 scale toy cars with a plunge router, its a subtractive process. The idear is its not perfect to inspire young minds. There is a poor quality video here of the models.
The scale was about 1/17 such that 3 copper tubes 6.5mm could be used for the intake to the engine blower/supercarger and a galvinised nail with 'o'ring loop for drive input componets, cork for a number plate also roof trim and used car A/C copper pipe with elbow for exhaust pipes. I think the 1st batch look better but they are more dangerous to do eg holding a plunge router with 2 hands and start carving the sides and ends with a 12mm bit spinning at 13000 rpm.
Just recently I decided to make another two.
The problem now is raw materials, cause I dont have much money to spare.
I managed to find some pine but its smaller, its used to guide the packing straps on flat 6*4 paletes at a cost of $3.00 each size 1200mm *65 mm * 47mm, easy just scale the model down in a spread sheet. See Att Wagon 1.xls and 2 Sedan Pintara 1900.xls for the measument/scale adjuster in B6. note the wagon ended up being a sedan because it did not look ok. Another problem is the number of cuts on the windscreen slope it look better with bigger cuts and is easier to do. Pic here (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/1%20Nissan%20Bluebird%20Wagon%201984/SANY0373.jpg)
As a father son project to finsh off and bage, shape and paint to do whatever mods they like , What do you think?
Should I try and carve the 3th demention for the door, or is that defeating the purpose?
Should I just paint them and give them away instead of surfing the net all day?
Should I increase acuracy eg bonnet slope by making jigs etc?
Each one is an individual because there are no jigs or guides just a nasty machine waiting for your mistake...........
more pics
Wagon 1 (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/1%20Nissan%20Bluebird%20Wagon%201984/SANY0373.jpg) Wagon 2 (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/1%20Nissan%20Bluebird%20Wagon%201984/SANY0372.jpg) Wagon 3 (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/1%20Nissan%20Bluebird%20Wagon%201984/SANY0371.jpg) Wagon 4 (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/1%20Nissan%20Bluebird%20Wagon%201984/SANY0374.jpg)
pintara 1 (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/2%20Pintara%201990/SANY0380.jpg) pintara 2 (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/2%20Pintara%201990/SANY0379.jpg) pintara 3 (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/2%20Pintara%201990/SANY0378.jpg) pintara 4 (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/2%20Pintara%201990/SANY0377.jpg) pintara 5 (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/2%20Pintara%201990/SANY0376.jpg) pintara 6 (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/2%20Pintara%201990/SANY0381.jpg)
A few years ago I measured up my Nissan 280 ZX and made a model.
I used pine from an transport crate (4"*3") to route out a 3 scale toy cars with a plunge router, its a subtractive process. The idear is its not perfect to inspire young minds. There is a poor quality video here of the models.
The scale was about 1/17 such that 3 copper tubes 6.5mm could be used for the intake to the engine blower/supercarger and a galvinised nail with 'o'ring loop for drive input componets, cork for a number plate also roof trim and used car A/C copper pipe with elbow for exhaust pipes. I think the 1st batch look better but they are more dangerous to do eg holding a plunge router with 2 hands and start carving the sides and ends with a 12mm bit spinning at 13000 rpm.
Just recently I decided to make another two.
The problem now is raw materials, cause I dont have much money to spare.
I managed to find some pine but its smaller, its used to guide the packing straps on flat 6*4 paletes at a cost of $3.00 each size 1200mm *65 mm * 47mm, easy just scale the model down in a spread sheet. See Att Wagon 1.xls and 2 Sedan Pintara 1900.xls for the measument/scale adjuster in B6. note the wagon ended up being a sedan because it did not look ok. Another problem is the number of cuts on the windscreen slope it look better with bigger cuts and is easier to do. Pic here (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/1%20Nissan%20Bluebird%20Wagon%201984/SANY0373.jpg)
As a father son project to finsh off and bage, shape and paint to do whatever mods they like , What do you think?
Should I try and carve the 3th demention for the door, or is that defeating the purpose?
Should I just paint them and give them away instead of surfing the net all day?
Should I increase acuracy eg bonnet slope by making jigs etc?
Each one is an individual because there are no jigs or guides just a nasty machine waiting for your mistake...........
more pics
Wagon 1 (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/1%20Nissan%20Bluebird%20Wagon%201984/SANY0373.jpg) Wagon 2 (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/1%20Nissan%20Bluebird%20Wagon%201984/SANY0372.jpg) Wagon 3 (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/1%20Nissan%20Bluebird%20Wagon%201984/SANY0371.jpg) Wagon 4 (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/1%20Nissan%20Bluebird%20Wagon%201984/SANY0374.jpg)
pintara 1 (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/2%20Pintara%201990/SANY0380.jpg) pintara 2 (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/2%20Pintara%201990/SANY0379.jpg) pintara 3 (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/2%20Pintara%201990/SANY0378.jpg) pintara 4 (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/2%20Pintara%201990/SANY0377.jpg) pintara 5 (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/2%20Pintara%201990/SANY0376.jpg) pintara 6 (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee44/smokingwheels/2%20Pintara%201990/SANY0381.jpg)