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Made sense (to me anyway) to move the combine build here ...
Index: 1979 Fiat Trattori 880 DT Pininfarina build page 1: 1:32 Britains model, RC parts, front axle, chassis basics page 2: cab drawing, card mockups, drivery hackery, cab basics page 3: cab & chassis details, interior, tyre mods, nose weights page 4: priming, painting, final assembly, lights page 5: fake box art NC Engineering vacuum slurry tanker with "over-the-hedge" boom page 5: Britains/ERTL/Tomy 1:32 model, starting frame page 6: tank skinning, axle & chassis basics page 7: tank details, paint page 8: light weathering 1978 Massey Ferguson 760 Combine Harvester] page 8: Initial plans, Britains 1:32 model clean/rebuild, The Wurzels page 9: more thinking, line drawings, Clod wheel & tyre narrowing page 10: rear (steering) axle, 2D card version, chassis, starting on cutting head, conveyor box, starting on reel, reduction box page 11: battery, motor steady, cutting head ends (dividers etc) detailing, 3D card body/planning page 12: card body build, translation into styrene, cab, driver, unloader boom page 13: mk.1 unloader boom mechanism mk.1 fail, turning alloy fake air cleaner, body details, boom mech mk.2 page 14: electrics page 15: dismantling, primer page 16: paint & detailing page 17: fake box art, more thoughts on next project page 18: test drive fail, posed outdoor shots, diff & 5th wheel mods page 19: 2nd test drive fail Back to the original 1st post... 1979 Fiat Trattori 880 DT Pininfarina build Someone here posted a link to a video of a Tamiya Tumbling Bull bimbling around a farm & that quite tuned me in to the idea of having a 1/10 scale tractor - just not one with an exposed driver, or a lexan body - ruling out either of the Tamiya offerings. As I'd had a Britains 1/32 scale Fiat 880DT tractor as a nipper the answer was obvious - the 80 series tractor has a very angular shape (especially with the Pininfarina cab) so I wouldn't have to do any difficult curves in styrene, it also fits nicely with by newly discovered fondness for late end of the 70s styling. I can cheat a little on the drivetrain as although the one I'd be using for basic dimensions & scaling is a 4WD model (and how I wish I'd kept mine, the cost of getting a halfway decent one now is best described as "punitive"), there were 2WD models with smaller & wider plain tread front wheels. So far a quick rootle through the parts heap & a quick bit of spannering on donor chassis has yielded most of the bit I need, including: - Pajero wheelie gearbox (new gears, apart from a used diff gear from a Wild Willy M38) + shocks - Lunchkin 10T brass pinion + motor adaptor home made from styrene sheet - re-re Frog 12mm wheel hex adaptors - 55T motor from my ORV/Bowler Wildcat scaler - vintage Sand Rover front wheels & tyres - Bush Devil rear wheels & tyres - F103 front upright set - standard size metal geared servo + lunchkin servo saver There is a bit of an issue with the wheelbase/width dimensions, working these out from the 1/32 model means the 1:10 version "should" have a wheelbase around 240mm, and 125mm between the tyres on each axle. This would mean I would need to narrow the gearbox - but these dimensions look wrong, with the 150mm needed for the gearbox looking a much better fit. First step will be to double check, then make a front axle & chassis rails with gearbox & shock mounts ... just not today |
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Build an 8 wheel behemoth? |
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We lost Jonny in the Tamiya's badword!!!
Very good idea JR You are definitively crazy |
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Get yourself on youtube & look at some RC tractor pulling - should whet your appetite for tractor-related silliness (Some of them are using gas turbines too!).
Went to Weeting steam rally today, spotted an old Fordson which someone had grafted a Perkis V8 into... suspect that wasn't to make it better for dragging ploughs, more likely sleds. There's a rally in South Wales (Great Malvern? something like that) that still does tractor pulling - V entertaining! Only time I've ever seen steam traction engines pulling wheelies!
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Too hard for me jonny but a nice chassis
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Very nice work again (twas me by the way who linked to the rather brilliant Tumbling Bull video from a TC member).
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