40 ford boneyard progress

[TrainClown]

That's some terrific modeling, Dave. I always wondered what scale Hot Wheels are. I like your beat-up vehicles.

I thought you might like to see a truck I worked my magic on for a peanut butter lid diorama I made a while back. I got 5 HO scale Life Like '53 Ford trucks in one pack. There are 2 of them in this pic, the red and the green one.



I wanted an abandoned truck that kids were playing on (like I use to do when I was a kid). So I cut the hood and the doors off and scratch built the details.





The seat is carved from balsa wood.



The truck just before paint.



I wanted to animate my PBL diorama so the truck is mounted on an axis under the center of the body and in each of the 2 log blocks. In this next pic you can see the pin/axis in the side/top of the log. the blocks are glued to a sheet of basswood and you can see the actuator wire that comes up through the bass wood, bends and goes through the frame and this makes it rock up and down.



Once finished and surrounded by junk it looks like this.









Here is a link to a video of the diorama in motion in case you're interested:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJIXvP6BsEA&fmt=18

Here is a video about how the mechanism works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFxzEdBMR48&fmt=18

Christopher