Bell B35D Dumper

[Espeefan]

Wow, such a beautiful looking model! I love the details. The axles, the torque rods, and radius arms, under the rear suspension. Very nice! The driveshafts look the same as the ones that Wedico uses. I'm a little surprised at that. Wedico runs driveshafts with a 4mm bore in the yokes. It seems like everyone else runs 5mm bores. For such a large model, that will carry a lot of weight, I will be interested to know how those cardan shafts hold up. I know you didn't disassemble the model, nor build it, but do you know the axles have panetary hubs? That would ease some of the torque off the whole drivetrain.

I'd love to see some video of the model running. I'd say that 4am trip to pick it up was well worth it!