Other bodies...

[TeknoJ]

Yep that it is the one, how did you find that picture of me?

 

[kawood100]

Little update: Seeing I'm zeroing in on correct molds... time to see what the original prototype of the C-X looks like all dolled up in late 50's chevy gold.

I think it looks decent. The Shellabasher, C-X. (the chevy thingamabob short course competitor to that Proline Ford F100 thing.)

Features: A slightly lower profile than the ford, retains the look of the 72 chev truck, but a modern flair in line with SC trucks. Also has places to mount side number plates if ya want, numerous deep detailed lines & such for crisp lines in painting... and rear cutouts for air to move through if you must. I did the body so on the corners they didn't stick up, and are level with or below the bumper line allowing the bumper to save they body on accidents & rollovers.

Some minor mods to the mold and we'll pop out some real nice ones. This one here, is the first one, and the prototype.

I should really just shoot proline a message and see if they want to make this one... seeing they already make most of the stickers for it. I think it'd be a seller. Time will tell.

I'm happy with the results.

 

[WickedFog]

Little update: Seeing I'm zeroing in on correct molds... time to see what the original prototype of the C-X looks like all dolled up in late 50's chevy gold.

I think it looks decent. The Shellabasher, C-X. (the chevy thingamabob short course competitor to that Proline Ford F100 thing.)

Features: A slightly lower profile than the ford, retains the look of the 72 chev truck, but a modern flair in line with SC trucks. Also has places to mount side number plates if ya want, numerous deep detailed lines & such for crisp lines in painting... and rear cutouts for air to move through if you must. I did the body so on the corners they didn't stick up, and are level with or below the bumper line allowing the bumper to save they body on accidents & rollovers.

Some minor mods to the mold and we'll pop out some real nice ones. This one here, is the first one, and the prototype.

I should really just shoot proline a message and see if they want to make this one... seeing they already make most of the stickers for it. I think it'd be a seller. Time will tell.

I'm happy with the results.

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Holy cow dude. Those are amazing. Now send me that wagon already dambit

Do a 50's Ford F100

 

[CertifiedMike]

The gold and white is perfect for that body!!!

 

[kawood100]

Holy cow dude. Those are amazing. Now send me that wagon already dambit

Do a 50's Ford F100

LOL! I'm on it. This mess takes time to get right. Next up, pull a male mold of the 50's thing... kill the top half... graft on a nomad top.... paint the representative 50'ish thing body & see where it lands splashing bits of it across hobby shops & such.

After that mess.... it's onto that creepy van thing. That mold is ready to see a first body. (someone was right though...I screwed up. Even a proline body post kit won't make it high enough to work.... we'll figure that out)

At this point, and after comparison of the bodies... 060, is the thickness used on professional RC SC bodies. The stuff I had done was done in a sloppy fast way so we'll be taking the molds elsewhere to get this right.

I love making things that are unique.. and I don't see a 62 corvette anything. How's a 62 corvette SC truck body sound? LOL! I mean, cliche stuff isn't my thing and I believe in some style in things.

 

[TeknoJ]

Please do not sell your design to proline. If you can make those, I'm sure you can turn a fair profit for your hard work. Don't give it to proline to discontinue.
That is a really killer looking SCT body

 

[kawood100]

Holy cow dude. Those are amazing. Now send me that wagon already dambit

Do a 50's Ford F100

Oh yes, I did compare the bodies of that nomad & the 50's sportsman one can buy today. The sportsman body lost minor features of the original, that this nomad has.

They came from the same origins originally. Every part of the front end, is identical.

a 1950 ford F100 as an SC? I'll have to work on that a bit in my head. She's tall in the middle so making that work out might take a bit of creativity.... assuming there's a market for the vintage/modern thing. If made, the goal would be to have a selling thing and not just some one-off that doesn't make any money.

 

[kawood100]

Please do not sell your design to proline. If you can make those, I'm sure you can turn a fair profit for your hard work. Don't give it to proline to discontinue.
That is a really killer looking SCT body

I hear you buddy, and my goal isn't to just sell off an idea. Proline, will most likely do nothing to any inquiry honestly, and I've not shown it to anyone but here. I'm pushing on to see if I can make a line of RC bodies that "Might" sell. The next step is stickers for em, and all that silliness entails. Focus is on this CX thing until it becomes a real product. The rest won't exist until I've got this one sorted.

 

[TeknoJ]

I hear you buddy, and my goal isn't to just sell off an idea. Proline, will most likely do nothing to any inquiry honestly, and I've not shown it to anyone but here. I'm pushing on to see if I can make a line of RC bodies that "Might" sell. The next step is stickers for em, and all that silliness entails. Focus is on this CX thing until it becomes a real product. The rest won't exist until I've got this one sorted.

Those so far, will sell man. If they get better, then so be it.

 

[WickedFog]

Oh yes, I did compare the bodies of that nomad & the 50's sportsman one can buy today. The sportsman body lost minor features of the original, that this nomad has.

They came from the same origins originally. Every part of the front end, is identical.

a 1950 ford F100 as an SC? I'll have to work on that a bit in my head. She's tall in the middle so making that work out might take a bit of creativity.... assuming there's a market for the vintage/modern thing. If made, the goal would be to have a selling thing and not just some one-off that doesn't make any money.

You can chop the top on an old F100 and make it look good.

 

[WickedFog]

Pro-Line used to make one, and I missed the damn boat

 

[kawood100]

You can chop the top on an old F100 and make it look good.
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True, but... if I were me (and I am) I'll go a tad lower in a few places. There's only one way I do this type of concoction. I'd have to have one of the 1/10 bodies, in any ole shape... then splice together the whole mess on a base platform shell making sure to capture the look of it... blended with a real SC racing stance. Take the proline 66 ford f100 or the 78 Chevy C10. They look great, because they look like the real truck, but... they just sit too high to look like racers in my goofy view. If I do it, it'll be a race truck as I've just done with the C-X.

 

[kawood100]

I'm back at it. With some things in life taken care of, I can get back to this.

First up, mod the mold for the CX. There's a few things that aren't right. The hood scoop is too wide making body post locations weird and the back needs something. More on that soon.

Next, find someone (or a way) of making basic decals for it. They'll look like chevy, but will really be a bowtie & such.

Then off to a different plastics forming place. Where I took the first one's ruined my molds.

 

[RustyUs]

I'm back at it. With some things in life taken care of, I can get back to this.

First up, mod the mold for the CX. There's a few things that aren't right. The hood scoop is too wide making body post locations weird and the back needs something. More on that soon.

Next, find someone (or a way) of making basic decals for it. They'll look like chevy, but will really be a bowtie & such.

Then off to a different plastics forming place. Where I took the first one's ruined my molds.

So, all your hard work is gone?

 

[kawood100]

So, all your hard work is gone?

Rusty.

No. Luckily... I recreated/fixed what was broken on the molds. Also, 2 actual polycarbonate bodies exist in .060. They're the prototypes. So that's good.

I could make more in 060 (common thickness for SC bodies & such)...but not with the process that actually takes place with real manufacturers. They'll just get wiped out in about 2 attempts with 060. It's not pretty. The molds (or bucks) currently are plaster. Knowing that, and watching it, it's gotta be done right. What happens in a real thermoforming place is almost scary to watch and hotter than you'll ever get in your garage.

Making bodies in your garage isn't all that simple if you want a product like the major manufacturers make, nor is it as simple as you see on youtube. Nothing against that stuff, but... I want something that is comparable to what you expect.

Polycarbonate is what all the big boys use. Petg, as many things on youtube claim, works for things, but won't hold up to the industry standard. Petg is prone to cracking easily and does not take the hits of what an SC truck does.

There's drying of polycarbonate sheets to remove the moisture. That's a 12 hour process by itself in an oven I don't have. If you don't do that, you get bubbles (moisture boil-off) in the poly and a "carbonated" look in the plastic.

I went digging and found someone that's a pro willing to teach me. I learned some things.

So, the next steps: Recreate the mold (the buck) properly with a proper base for professional machines. (yep, there's specs for that too).

Next... Take a special goo, and pour it into the only existing bodies... and create the proper buck from that. It'll ruin the prototypes... but to do it right it has to be done. If it works, awesome-sauce. If not, I have the original molds to pull a .030 PETG body from again... and attempt recreating the proper buck again.

I want it right, and I want to create a line of good bodies with style that nobody's seen. (hence the name of this venture)

I now know why people don't do this... it's hard

Pushing on.

 

[kawood100]

In the interest of actually selling these, today was time to go through the process as if I bought one. Is it easy to cut out, are the lines right and crisp, what stickers do I want to sell with it, what lines don't work, all that stuff.

Nevermind the crap paint job and proline stickers, this is the working prototype and a visual so I know where I'm goin.

I love my creation here. It screams vintage, but has the modern stance of something that competes. The wheel wells are wide and deep enough so you don't have to chop them up just to get clearance. (race cars don't sit high)

LONG way to go though, to actually producing and selling.

Thanks for lookin.

 

[RudyF6]

I love it - a mashup of a pro truck and a vintage class 6 '55 Chevy!

 

[kawood100]

I love it - a mashup of a pro truck and a vintage class 6 '55 Chevy!

Yep! Thus, the potential "company" name I'll do this under... Shellabasher. I really "shell-bashed" to come up with it.

It was just goofing off to see if I could do it.

So, I sliced up parts of trashed bodies and taped them over another truck body for body post locations, cut out the un-needed inner bits, then layed fiberglass into it.

A lot if sanding & filling later, I took it to a pro to see what would happen.

He formed a thick black piece over it, but... the mold caved and blew up. It took the heat, but the fiberglass wasn't thick enough up top. I wanted a copy to pour something better, and make another as well. That was for the "NOMAD" version of this because I liked the look. An SC nomad would be pretty neat, and will happen once I perfect what the heck I'm doing.

So, I recreated it using the caved in black form he made, but the top was missing. I had to pour cast another top, from another body I had to buy... then splice it on.... and hope it held up. I didn't know what I was doing at all.

Now knowing what was needed to get a polycarbonate body (e.g. Temps, pressures mold strength) I finished it and had this one body made.

Here was the "shell bashing" beginnings of it, the fiberglass 1st mold, and the cast nomad in rough rough shape.

More soon... I'd really like these to happen.

More work, but if it works... it probably would make a bit of moola. Lotta steps ahead.

 

[dustyroller]

Sing me up! Since it’s on a slash make it compatible with with their clip-less system

 

[kawood100]

Sing me up! Since it’s on a slash make it compatible with with their clip-less system

LOL! Will do! The goal is to make the mounting locations "good" with most SC trucks so what you do from there is up to you. I just wanna make a few interesting bodies and maybe make money doing it... after spending a lot to make it happen.