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Brandon H Author
Welcome aboard!

Brandon H Author
I was incredibly fortunate to be able to purchase an example of my dream car last year. (Luckily I have modest taste.) After spending the summer and fall repairing all of the neglected parts of this truck, I'm now familiar with it inside and out. Now it's time to build a scale replica, and there's no excuses for inaccuracies! This will also be my first ever fully 3D printed model. (Mostly 3D printed anyway, more on that later...)

Nathan Dempsey
You're pulling at my heart strings Brandon. I had '91 Cherokee Limited so I'll follow this with great interest.

Pepe
Looking

Spanjaard
certainly following this one.

Brandon H Author
That's awesome Nathan! This will be a passion project for me for sure

Brandon H Author
Pull up a seat boys! Charging forward into unknown territory on this one!

István Szücs
This... I MUST watch it! The real one is also interesting!

Bozzer
I'm jumping on this too. I'm loving my Anycubic Proton Mono 4K, but I also want something with a larger print bed. My Wash and Cure machine, is a game changer!

Ben M
Watching, I've been enjoying building 3d printed models. It allows me to enlarge my stash without leaving the house to go to the hobby shop.

Brandon H Author
Exactly Ben!

Bozzer, I got the Wash and Cure combo from Elegoo with this printer, and it's a massive improvement over my previous system (which was a cheap jewelry cleaner, and shiny stock pot, and a grow lamp from Amazon)

István, I've got big plans for the 1:1 truck in the future... but this build will just be replicating how it exists now, in 2024

Michael Kohl
This will be fun to follow.

Brandon H Author
Working on pulling the styrene parts together now, since I'm still waiting to uncover the 1:1 reference

Nathan Dempsey
Exciting. I'm going to need a build log on the real one too.

Brandon H Author
Haha, I'll be sure to sprinkle in a few updates as I get back to working on the 1:1 this spring

Nathan Dempsey
Come back down to Florida. We will let you work on it year round 😂

Karl R.
Looks great already, I have no clue on how you're going to be able to replicate the clear coat like that. To replicate clear coat the has big chips (like seen in early 90s Ford) just paint the model sand it real fine like 3600 or something. Put masking tape over the area where you want the clear coat to be gone at, and clear coat the model let the clear coat completely cure and then peel the tape off. But for thin clear coat like this I have no clue. Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Brandon H Author
Thanks Karl!
Haha, I'm excited to see what I come up with too! I'll probably go through a lot of test spoons, whenever I get back around to this build!

Bozzer
May I suggest, experimenting with PVA? I've never done it, however, with practice, you may be able to carefully pick it off? Just an idea, mate???

Nathan Dempsey
Any updates on this one Brandon? Just curious.

Brandon H Author
On hold for now... I'm thinking of building an engine for the 1:1 version this spring, so I'll probably wait to see where that one goes before building it in scale. Hard to do a scale replica when your reference material is changing over the course of the project!

Nathan Dempsey
I understand that. I forget that the real one is "in progress". My builds usually stop because I can't decide how I want to finish them.

Yngve N
I'm in for the rest of this. Good luck with your 1:1 while we wait for the show here