3D printed Soviet ZIS-151/CA10 Truck

[ABabyEater]

LW-PLA prints as a foam. It both lacks most of the grain from normal printing, and is sandable immediately after printing. Might be worth checking out.

 

[Iowa crawler]

It sanded pretty well I think. I got it pretty smooth with 80 grit paper. I worked by hand to keep the heat down. And just went around till I ran out of paper.

Now I want to mount the body somehow. Then tomorrow I’ll get some primer. The print feels flexible to me and I’m thinking fiberglass is way to ridge. What type of glue would I use to strengthen panels. Some areas are not attached at all.

Behind the hood is a 2 mm gap.

 

[slowngreen]

If the gaps are huge you might be able to just superglue them then sand the super glue flush when done. Or "tack" it with superglue then use body filler and sand it. @NCNitro might have some input.

 

[Iowa crawler]

For the big gap I used a shoe glue type materiel. It will be flexible but super strong in about a week it get hard. I went over all the seams and joints with plastic weld and filled the little pockets or defects with white filler.
That all sanded off nice and I put on a heavy coat of primer. When that dries I’ll sand it down with 180. Then prime again. Once I hit 400 grit paper I’ll start to use water.

Can’t decide on color. Flat black is top choice for now.

 

[NCNitro]

For color, definitely keep it flat, honestly I think it would look great in FDE, OD, or black.

 

[Doom!]

I would go OD with slightly different shade to appear that markings were removed from military vehicle.

 

[WickedFog]

I would go OD with slightly different shade to appear that markings were removed from military vehicle.

Yeah, that would look cool. I would camo the shiznit out of that truck personally.

 

[TRAT]

This is going to be a strange project. It is out of my wheelhouse and a challenge. So I accept it as such. Failure is going to be listed as plan A. Then just move on to plan B.

Everyone is getting tired of the power wagon bodies. I like them but don’t want three. Plus I really like hard body trucks after building the two comp trucks.

I have no idea what I’m going to build either. But I bought the body for 65 bucks and that’s about the cost of a power wagon.

My big choices are 4x4 or 6x6
Tube back, pick up or a flat bed stake body.

With the pinched nose I’m not sure about servo on axle or CMS.

I do have a light kit I made up with cool headlights.

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Ohhh damn!!! I want it!!! I can’t wait to see what you do with it. I would love to do a COE one day.. Go 6x6 that would be awesome.

It sanded pretty well I think. I got it pretty smooth with 80 grit paper. I worked by hand to keep the heat down. And just went around till I ran out of paper.

Now I want to mount the body somehow. Then tomorrow I’ll get some primer. The print feels flexible to me and I’m thinking fiberglass is way to ridge. What type of glue would I use to strengthen panels. Some areas are not attached at all.

Behind the hood is a 2 mm gap.

Could use some glass resin for strength in weak points

 

[Iowa crawler]

I got this far.
It’s primed and painted. I spent a couple nights just working on panel lines.
It is assembled and painted. This paint needs to dry for a couple days. Not sure what to do next.

Maybe faded markings and then flat black. Or just weather it as is.

Definitely need glass now.

 

[Doom!]

Glad you didn't go with black, the detail really pops on the body now. ( strange for me to say, I love black!)

 

[WickedFog]

Whoa! Damn bro, you did a good job on that. Rust it up man.

 

[TRAT]

Whoa! Damn bro, you did a good job on that. Rust it up man.

Agree!!!! Rusty the way to go.. That would be awesome

 

[Iowa crawler]

I have an air brush and some salt already standing by. Working on the lights.

 

[TRAT]

Love it so far, can’t wait to see what’s to come

 

[Iowa crawler]

Finished securing the lights and wiring. Just simple led for lights nothing special .
I put in some glass and now I need to start weathering. Need to practice on some scrap first.

 

[WickedFog]

Why are you not building this in the garage with the boys man?

 

[TRAT]

Finished securing the lights and wiring. Just simple led for lights nothing special .
I put in some glass and now I need to start weathering. Need to practice on some scrap first.

Ohhhh do I love this truck!!!! I have trades

 

[WickedFog]

Ohhhh do I love this truck!!!! I have trades

Get in line. It goes waaaaay back there

 

[TRAT]

Get in line. It goes waaaaay back there

Lmao I always cut in line..

 

[Iowa crawler]

Been thinking about the finish. Rust and all the little stuff.

One big elephant in the room is the carbon fiber frame.
Leaving it and putting a rusty body on a carbon frame has its merits.

I can paint the frame green and brown rust and that would be more scale.

I could make it look like a nice clean well preserved old truck.
If I had an old truck I would fix it up and not leave it rusting.
Going to look at it for a while.