Caterpillar D11R CD 1:14,5 by Gipicarto

[gear jammer]

WOW! That's all I can say

[crazieyes85]

hey mate,
Build looks great. where did you aquire that manual you are building out of from?

[zookpower]

wow love it

[gipicarto]

Thanks to all,

.... I found the part manual searching in the web for cat manuals.

[sdjb]

WOW.

[millsie216]

Hi Gipicarto, After seeing pictures on the internet of you D11 I have joined this forum to congratulate you on a superb scale model, it is a credit to you. Hope you do not mind me asking questions, how long have you been building this? and the track plate have changed from the first pictures it look like they are cast now? I only ask because a long time ago I started to build a ¼ scale of a tiger 1 German tank but the tracks were one cast lump and I could not get anybody interested in casting them. Would love to see this close up it is fantastic.
Best regards
Brian

[gipicarto]

Hi Brian,

thanks for your words,
the new track pads are not casted, they are milled from full metal.

For cast you can see here
http://www.sicast.it/

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[gipicarto]

Hi friends,

if it may be of interest to you please read the "projekt lines of action" in the news page of my homepage

Thanks to all

bye

Gabriele

[speedy8305]

Everyone on here is talented but this is the best detailed model to date in my opinion

[gipicarto]

Hi friends,

if you wish visit my facebook page !!

Thanks

Bye

[liftmys10]

Masterpiece! Such amazing talents. Keep up the awesome work!

[Engine man]

This is just outstanding work.
I have one question, can you post the manuals you are building from.
Or web page or something.

[gipicarto]

Sorry, I have not pics.
It is a standard D11 R Track-Type Parts Manual like this

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CAT-Caterpil...item35b9d7e677

more recent (Dec 2003) but are there not measurements !

[rc4ever]

Originally Posted by gipicarto

Thanks to all friends,

soon I hope to show you some new works.

Bye

Gabriele

Can I call you "MASTER"

[intz2nu]

I am curious to know the price for this model being you are planning to make them for people who are willing to purchase. I am guessing it won't be cheap, and it will most likely cost double from current construction equipment already produced by other manufactures. I am also curious to know if when you do produce a model or two to sell if you will be doing everything manually like you are doing with your model currently. Or will it be made much more quickly with higher-end commercial machining?

[gipicarto]

Although the project is not yet defined, I'm going to make sure that its cost of production will be aligned, or slightly higher, to the business models currently in production but always taking into consideration the craft quality of the product !
For the realization of the models will be employed traditional construction processes and assembling conjugates to cutting edge technologies so the building will be faster.
I would like to point out that this project has no profit and that each participant, that I personally will choose, will fund only his model !!!

Bye

[intz2nu]

I look forward to the day that such people who are lucky enough to be able to purchase such a beautifull work of art from you that it will be of the most highest quality we've seen here as this is by far one of the most greatest builds ever seen to date amoung many scratch built models out there. This is my personal feeling towards the project. Give the fact of being able to own such a piece in a level of quality unseen by anyone else or by any manufacture sure will be nice. I can only hope that the next project is a CAT excavator. You have already done the worlds most famous dozer and to have a mid to high range CAT excavator would be another fine addition that I am almost sure you could pull off making with every single detail this machine has. Do keep the folks informed of when you will be ready to look at having a production start as this is something that I know A LOT of people would love to see, regardless if they can afford one or not. However given a price subject could put a few on the early savings edge. LOL

[Engine man]

Hello, Gipicarto after admiring your work for some time, i decided to offer my help to you in documenting this model. I am very proficient in 3D CAD Design and simulations, especially Autodesk Inventor and CATIA. If you decide to go documenting this model, at the end you will have a complete 3D documentation of you work. By the way I am chief automation design engineer, and in my spare time I am trying to provide some help to model engineer community. In the following links you can check out what I am doing at the moment:
http://www.homemodelenginemachinist....-3d-cad-19308/

http://www.homemodelenginemachinist....storing-13399/

[jetdog]

simply outstanding....

[gipicarto]

Hi Engine man,

congratulations for your great work and also for the intention of offering help to the modeling community.
Thank you so much for your availability, we will talk when the time will be right, although I believe that the distance that divides us is a major obstacle ...