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YDBD Samba Member
Joined: February 25, 2017 Posts: 891 Location: Bavaria, Germany
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 8:29 am Post subject: RC VW Thing 181 |
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Thought I'd share my RC VW Thing with you folks, I've been working on getting the garage set up with all the models and RC VW's I have. I didn't have a Thing from the one I had from '95-'00 and couldn't find one. So I bought the Tamiya VW M-04L chassis and went on to designing the body using Autodesk Inventor and 3d Printing in on my Robo3d. All the body panels were printed individually and the epoxy coated to smooth out print lines. Once that was done, it was primered, assembled, and then sanded, primered, sanded, primered, sanded painted, wet sanded and final coated. The bumpers were then printed and painted as well as the VW emblem, front turn signal lights and rear deck latch.
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germanbilly Samba Member
Joined: October 18, 2013 Posts: 378 Location: Victorville
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 11:59 am Post subject: Re: RC VW Thing 181 |
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Very Nice. Looks perfect, what scale did you make it?
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YDBD Samba Member
Joined: February 25, 2017 Posts: 891 Location: Bavaria, Germany
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 11:16 pm Post subject: Re: RC VW Thing 181 |
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It's based off of the wheel base of a 1/10 scale Tamiya M-04L that has a bug body, so pretty close to 1/10 scale as the Things wheel base is a few inches longer. |
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kubelmann Samba Member
Joined: April 13, 2003 Posts: 3266
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Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 4:18 pm Post subject: Re: RC VW Thing 181 |
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Ihre vorbildlichen bildenfähigkeiten sind ausgezeichnet! |
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It's a play thing Samba Member
Joined: November 19, 2009 Posts: 575 Location: Dayton, Nevada
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Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 4:55 pm Post subject: Re: RC VW Thing 181 |
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very nice _________________ It's not the size of your shop, it's what comes out of it that counts.
I've been playing with my thing ever since I got it... |
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ALANSD Samba Member
Joined: April 16, 2015 Posts: 341 Location: Woodstock, GA
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2017 11:58 am Post subject: Re: RC VW Thing 181 |
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that is very cool and cute as could be |
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barrycb Samba Member
Joined: May 30, 2016 Posts: 2 Location: Refugio, TX
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 7:30 am Post subject: Re: RC VW Thing 181 |
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Are you interested in selling me a couple of these? |
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YDBD Samba Member
Joined: February 25, 2017 Posts: 891 Location: Bavaria, Germany
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 9:31 pm Post subject: Re: RC VW Thing 181 |
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As much as I would like to sell them, it's quiet the investment in just the chassis ($200) and wheels ($60) and the raw panels from the printer take dozens of hours to smooth. thanks though. |
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Shoyrtt Samba Member
Joined: August 21, 2010 Posts: 1009 Location: Redlands, CA
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Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 10:33 am Post subject: Re: RC VW Thing 181 |
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Would you consider selling just the raw printed panels? |
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Solomon Grundy Samba Member
Joined: December 26, 2004 Posts: 747 Location: Silicon Valley
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YDBD Samba Member
Joined: February 25, 2017 Posts: 891 Location: Bavaria, Germany
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Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 9:53 pm Post subject: Re: RC VW Thing 181 |
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Thanks,
Uploaded the Inventor files for you to play with.
Have fun! _________________ '56 pan Dune Buggy since '69
don't live in the past...but when I did:
'67 bug
'64 baja
'60 dune buggy
'73 Personenkraftwagen Type 182 "Thing" |
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