Oshkosh trucks
 

Anyone ever build an Oshkosh truck? This may be a future build for me, either a 4x4 or 6x6 P-series.

Ben

Re: Oshkosh trucks
 

I know there have been a couple of people that built a HEMTT military truck. Does that count?

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I think there is a guy over on Scale who built an Oshkosh style snow plow

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Yes, there was a guy on Scale 4x4 that scratchbuilt a couple Oshkosh plow trucks, but in a smaller scale. 1:24th or something. They are cool trucks. They seem to keep their old school, rugged looks, even after all the years.

Re: Oshkosh trucks
 

ive been working plans for a p series for a few days. but im still just in the planing fase so i dont really have any thing to share yet. i think im going to build the cab out of card stock first to get a rough draft and then build one out of plastic.

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I started to look at the drive terrain and it appeared I'd have $450 just in axles, aarrgg! Then the tranny, haven't looked at wheels, tires ect. yet. I'd like to have it dump also and maybe hydros for the plow.

Ben

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i built an oshkosh cement mixer

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I'm still searching for measurments, I still have to find a wheel tire combo. I was thinking a tandem dump with a screw drive, and mabe a plow later.

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I downloaded a brochure pdf from their web site. It has good enough stuff for a start.

Ben

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Ill have to check that out.

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Here is the link http://www.oshkoshairport.com/Oshkos...c.pdf?ext=.pdf

Ben

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Ouch. What kind of axles are you looking at? If Tamiya, you could just buy a truck off E-Bay and take what you need from it. Or buy used axles from other guys on the rock crawler / scale 4x4 forum - front axle. Tamiya now offers TLT-1 axles, complete. Unless you are looking for metal axles, like RC Channel's?

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Yeah they were aluminum. I don't have the knowledge of what to use really. I did think of finding a used truck of some sort, like a f-350 or something use use parts from. I will look into it some more. Prob. a ways off though.