1/5 scale Chevelle

[stevehuckss396]

Well gentlemen, here's where I'm at on the little Chevy. The show is this weekend in Zanesville Ohio. If you can get there here is what you will see. I ran out of time and could not finish the rear wheels. I still need to make the bead locks.

[crueby]

That is looking terrific!

When you get to that point, will it have a body on it? Pounded out of sheet metal, milled out of a billet (!), a clear plastic one?

[stevehuckss396]

That is looking terrific!

When you get to that point, will it have a body on it? Pounded out of sheet metal, milled out of a billet (!), a clear plastic one?

As of right now no. I was going to have a die cast chevelle scanned into an STL file for 3D printing but I got the "we don't want to be bothered" price of $700USD.

[b.lindsey]

That is awesome Steve. One of these years I will be able to come up to that show. I always hear such good things about it from Doug Kelley. Have a great show, I am sure your Chevelle will be a huge hit!!

Bill

[Don1966]

Damm Steve now you got me foaming at the mouth. That is awesome buddy.....

Don

[Admiral_dk]

It looks fantastic as is - it will look fantastic painted too 

Regarding bodywork and the fact that you're good with CNC - how about making a wood die and vacuum form plastic ...?...
The difficult thing is the die and the best would be a negative die, but a positive die will work too. There are many who shows how easy you can heat the plastic uniformly and vacuum form it on the net and Youtube.

A transparent bodywork could be an idea too.

Best wishes

Per

[steamer]

That looks awesome Steve!!!!!   

[stevehuckss396]

It looks fantastic as is - it will look fantastic painted too 

Regarding bodywork and the fact that you're good with CNC - how about making a wood die and vacuum form plastic ...?...
The difficult thing is the die and the best would be a negative die, but a positive die will work too. There are many who shows how easy you can heat the plastic uniformly and vacuum form it on the net and Youtube.

A transparent bodywork could be an idea too.

Best wishes
Per

Cant machine a die without an STL file. Without it I cant do squat.

[stevehuckss396]

That looks awesome Steve!!!!!

Thanks buddy!

Rolling out for Zanesville in the morning.

[Rivergypsy]

Steve, try these guys to do your scan for you (http://www.thomasdudley.co.uk/). We visited them last year about a casting project, and they have all the scanning kit - they couldn't have been more helpful.

Good luck,
Dave

[b.lindsey]

Have a great show this weekend Steve. Hope to see some pictures of the event too of course.

Bill

[Admiral_dk]

Cant machine a die without an STL file. Without it I cant do squat.

Sorry Steve - my dyslexic side didn't read the post about paying for the stl file correctly, maybe this is useful :

http://www.3dcadbrowser.com/download.aspx?3dmodel=23754

There are quite a number of free stl models on the net from different sources of different quality.

[samc88]

Is there any update on this? Its an awesome project! Id love to build a model of my series land rover one day

[stevehuckss396]

Is there any update on this? Its an awesome project! Id love to build a model of my series land rover one day

Not at the moment. I'm working on a V4 project that I committed to back in 2014. When finished I will get back to it.

[dalem9]

Very nice Steve .I guess we will both be needing a track . Glad you picked this forum to post on .Good Luck on your project .