DAF 85.400
 

Hi this time I starter to build they last truck my dad had run before his reteirement.
After cleaning up the attic I found several bits and pieces of what I'm
Going they build they truck and trailer.
The cab is build in the way I used for the 33 small van.
Pictures will be placed shortly

Grtz PetervR

Re: DAF 85.400
 

Hi.
http://www.mtc-techteam.nl/85400.jpg
The left one is going to be build

Re: DAF 85.400
 

Hi.
Now some pictures of the model
http://www.mtc-techteam.nl/85401.jpg
The first setup of the cab from scrap card board

http://www.mtc-techteam.nl/85402.jpg
Adder more detail and body to the cab

http://www.mtc-techteam.nl/85403.jpg

http://www.mtc-techteam.nl/85404.jpg

http://www.mtc-techteam.nl/85405.jpg
The chassis thats gering re-used

http://www.mtc-techteam.nl/85406.jpg
The first setup from the semi trailer

http://www.mtc-techteam.nl/85407.jpg
With the pickup points for the piggy back forklift

Grtz PetervR

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Hi there Peter...
Amazing cab work...
I really like the fact that you are crazy with Daf and you are not sitting there just waiting when tamiya will produce one...��

Congrats on your amazing skills and thanks for sharing your techniques...

Bill...

Re: DAF 85.400
 

Hi. Well the thing about DAF my grandfather was one of the first to own a DAF truck. In my great grandfathers company. And the brand stayed the main supllier of the company. Thu the years and generations. That company splinterd into lots of small busnesses. Both trucks in the first picture were also the last I drove. I have an office job now. That gives me the spare time to build model trucks.
I Like to show how I build my cabs and trucks. I could make a 3D drawing of a cab and have it 3D printed. Or I could stick to assembeling modelkits. To my thats no fun.
I Like to use unusual materials. In case of this truck garbage as row material. But the pizzaboxes aren't the best quality of cartboard. And thats why they absorbe a lot of polyuritan lacker. When the lacker is set the cardboard is stronger than a cab build from plastic sheets.

http://www.mtc-techteam.nl/85410.jpg
Here the lacker is aplied to most of the cab. One coat is enough. A second wound be absorbed.

http://www.mtc-techteam.nl/85411.jpg
Here I started to aply the putty to smouth it out.

Grtz PetervR

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Hi I did some work at the chassis and the bumper.
The bumper needs soms work, and as a bumper I'm going to full the empty spaces in this bumper with resin.
http://www.mtc-techteam.nl/85421.jpg
http://www.mtc-techteam.nl/85422.jpg

The semi trailer got a little work to. I just need to make some pictures of it.

Grtz PetervR

Re: DAF 85.400
 

Amazing work and detail using an unusual material. Looking forward to seeing progress on this.

Ken

Re: DAF 85.400
 

Hi
Here a picture of what the truck and semitrailer look like right now
http://www.mtc-techteam.nl/85430.jpg

Gtrz PetervR

Re: DAF 85.400
 

that is just amazing, would never have guessed that a pizzabox could be turned in to something like an RC truck. thumbs-up!!