Deerhurst's D21 Build

[Deerhurst]

First time Ive done a build thread I believe. Ive done "look at this cool painted body" but never a full build. I fully expect this to take forever and to not go anywhere close to as planned.



So far the plan is to print a Nissan D21 body and put it on a chassis. I have 2 choices, a HiLift chassis or an Ascender chassis. The Hilift Hilux recently took a big tumble when I fell off a small cliff and it tumbled down behind me so it needs some TLC. Im leaning towards using the Ascender.



My inspiration is this:

So, itll be a MiniMe of my 1:1. Nissan bodies are hard to find.



Wheels will be a set of left over RC4WD Wagon Wheels. Tires are undecided. Maybe Proline KO2s. To leaf or not to leaf?



It probably wont handle great since the body will weigh a ton. The wheelbase will be quite long. Easily a couple inches longer than the HiLift.



Since my 3D printer is fairly small, 220x200x250, I had to split the cab and the box into 4 pieces each. About 23hours a piece. Then sand, prime, sand, prime, sand, prime and hopefully paint!



So far, I have a corner....

Lots to do! It will evolve as it goes. Need to order a couple more rolls of filament to keep printing.

 

[Brake Weight]

I’ll subscribe. The Flaming Marshmallow doesn’t live but maybe an hour or so from me.

 

[Deerhurst]

That is one cool hardbody! Havnt heard from the Flaming Marshmallow in a while. Maybe I'll have to do a camper in tribute!

 

[Brake Weight]

That is one cool hardbody! Havnt heard from the Flaming Marshmallow in a while. Maybe I'll have to do a camper in tribute!

LOL. That thing is pimped out.

 

[Deerhurst]

Cab is 50% printed and still a long ways off from being mounted. The seam needs to be filled and the entire thing sanded, primed, sanded, primed.....etc. Hoping to print another quarter of the cab today.

 

[Deerhurst]

Cab is 75% printed and almost half way through the last piece. Its gonna be really big.

My Tamiya HiLift Hilux in the background. The width of the Nissan is based off the width of the Tamiya lid.

 

[durok]

Looking good - I briefly had a brand new 2wd D21 in black, with brushed aluminum 5-spoke wheels and BFG Radial T/A tires.

They're really nicely styled trucks...

 

[Deerhurst]

I like the little D21 too. Got the entire cab printed at this point. I need to take photos. It's big. It's the right width for the Tamiya HiLift. Probably 6 days in printing just for the cab. Plan to start the box this weekend.

 

[Deerhurst]

This is still a WIP. Just took a long siesta in the middle. Now with the new element IFS chassis I'm thinking of putting it on one of those but for now I'm back to working on the body. I'm impatient and don't like detailed work.

The entire body is printed, 8 pieces, welded together as a cab and a box. Started sealing the print with filler primer yesterday. I'll get pics us as I go. It needs some bondo for the bigger gaps too.

I'm thinking of using the IFS enduro chassis and going leafed in the rear but not sure. I have an Ascender already but it doesn't go long enough with the supplied links. Might chop the king cab out of the body bit not yet sure. The KC is growing on me.

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[ScaleLifeNewbie]

Wow, this looks really good! Did you design this yourself?

I’d leave it as a King Cab, I’ve always liked them better.


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[Deerhurst]

Wow, this looks really good! Did you design this yourself?

I’d leave it as a King Cab, I’ve always liked them better.


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TRXWalker

Did not design it myself. I wish. The grill would have been different as this has the 88-89/pathfinder grill and headlights. I prefer the D21 setup. I found the model as a 1/24 or 1/18 scale model and scaled it up poorly before I knew better then broke it into 8 pieces to fit on my printer and went from there!

Just put a can of primer filler on it and it'll need bondo or similar.

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[Deerhurst]

Still working.on the body. Gonna need bondo.

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[ScaleLifeNewbie]

Did not design it myself. I wish. The grill would have been different as this has the 88-89/pathfinder grill and headlights. I prefer the D21 setup. I found the model as a 1/24 or 1/18 scale model and scaled it up poorly before I knew better then broke it into 8 pieces to fit on my printer and went from there!

Just put a can of primer filler on it and it'll need bondo or similar.

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Oh ok.

If you have any E6000 on hand, it’s works in a pinch. I used it on this Bruiser body I’m doing to fill in the gap from the bob. I go more in depth on my thread “SLN’s Brusier Build” if you want to know more about it.


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[Deerhurst]

Starting on bondo work. Need to fix the stance and wheelbase of the chassis too but that'll come after the body is ready for paint.

I keep screwing up the bondo ratios and it keeps hardening way too fast. First time I've ever done bondo or done a printed anything this large.

I might narrow the axles or find a narrower chassis too. Once the body is ready for final paint I'll get the chassis figured out.

In the mean time my HiLift needs some servo TLC!

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[Deerhurst]

This is still a WIP. My crawling buddy died a couple years ago and I am just now getting back to this.

Turned some links and got the rear link length right. Working in figuring out what to do to mount the body. Then its sliders and lastly make the body pretty.

 

[Deerhurst]

Working on an idea. Unfortunately one of the threaded inserts I put in the body for the hinge assembly doesn't want to hold. I found a spare magnet from an old body. Interested to see where this goes.

Going to have to figure out a grill guard or something for this sometime soon.