Thread: The Excavator. A pattern by Toy's and Joy's

G'Day Jim,
The bucket looks great...
Question please; how did you get the curve through the body of the bucket?
Cheers, Crowie

Jim if you painted this thing in its real life colors no one would no its a model!

Bret

Great build so far Jim, enjoying it a lot.
Cheers, Ian

Originally Posted by crowie

G'Day Jim,
The bucket looks great...
Question please; how did you get the curve through the body of the bucket?
Cheers, Crowie

G'day Pete.
It is fairly straight foreward when you have the plan's in front of you. I started with a block of timber approx 4" x 3" & using the cut & paste method
I cut the inside piece out first & then the outside. Then it was two flat piece's for the side's cut to shape & all glued together. It was a bit fiddly as all piece's are
approx 1/8" thick. The hardest part was getting the four teeth the same size & shape. Without the pattern it would have been a big problem.

Regard's Jim.

All the cutting & shaping is done.
I will now spray all the hard to get to bit's & then try & put it together so it look's like an excavator.

Cheer's Jim.

Jim that's one fantastic Model.

Eddie

The Excavator is finished.
The timber's used were southern maple for the bucket & the track support's. Australian red cedar for the rest of the machine.
The build took approx 59 hrs shed time. The machine, with the boom extended will reach 27" & it stand's about 12" high.
As per Oneye's sugestion I shortened the ram to the bucket to get some movement out of it.
Thank's to everybody for coming along for the build.

Cheer's Jim.

Very posh.

Regards

G'Day Jim,
What a beautiful result for all that time, effort & patience.
You rehab is now complete and you've certainly fully recovered.
Thank you for all the extra time & effort to do the WIP photos & build notes, much appreciated.
Have a very safe & happy Christmas filled with the love, joy, peace & hope of the season.
Cheers, crowie

Job well done. End result was well worth it. A great wip as well

Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

Very nice you did an excellent job.
I really like the looks of the different woods.
Not to be a smart alack but are the tracks going different directions?
awesome job would be interested in seeing any more toys you build.

Originally Posted by oneye

Very nice you did an excellent job.
I really like the looks of the different woods.
Not to be a smart alack but are the tracks going different directions?
awesome job would be interested in seeing any more toys you build.

Oneye, you are 100% right, I had to go & have a look at the model, I dont like to call them toy's. But that is only my opinion. I have had a major blonde moment with the track's & I thank you for picking it up. Rest assured it will be rectified tomorrow. My album show's a few model's that I have built lately. The next project I have plan's for is a T/J pattern of the MRAP Cougar, an American Military Vehicle, I will do a wip on this, to be started next year, & as it is fairly complicated it should take some time.

Merry Xmas to you & your Family & thank's for your comment's.
Cheer's Jim.

Originally Posted by oneye

Not to be a smart alack but are the tracks going different directions?

It's one of those Hummer excavators...
(the Military Hummers originally had the tread pattern reversed on each side of the vehicle so that the enemy cannot determine which direction it was travelling by its tracks in the dirt, now the tread pattern is assymetrical)