Metal body Toyota Hilux 1982

[Devwon]

Your update was well worth the wait, those came out great!

 

[JatoTheRipper]

Wow that is amazing! So awesome! Excellent work.

 

[Goro Majima]

This is absolutely amazing.

 

[dottycfn]

It's been a long time since I wrote anything. A lot of minor changes during that time.
- I threw away almost all the screws (printable resin doesn't like it) and replaced them with mini bolts and nuts.
- I ordered thousands of them in sizes 1.2mm to 2mm. Also made some experiments with threaded bolts, but finally I prefere bolts and nuts.
- I moved to a bigger and faster PLA printer, to be able to print molds for larger bodies (f.e. Axial SCX6).
- I spent a lot of time finding and experimenting for stronger resin. Now the body tube is a lot stronger, but it is still resin printed, not injection molded.
- I made some changes and improvements in design f.e. tail light assembly, bed side molds, mounting for doors, bonet, body mounting kit for AxialSCX2

Hilux bed assembled




Tail lights:


Body to frame mounts kit for Axial SCX2






Finally body mounted on a Axial SCX2

 

[james bean]

nice man
how long did it take u to build the pannels

 

[dottycfn]

nice man
how long did it take u to build the pannels

To make next copy of hilux I need 2 days of printing, 2 another days of embossing metal and assembling parts.

Whole project, not Hilux by itself, but general idea how to create models in that way, how to build internal structure, how to create molds, how to join panels with internal structure, took me 3 years.

I work on another body, and I guess it will take 4-6 months to 3d model car body, make molds, internal structure and fit everything together.

 

[ferp420]

too cool man thats alot of design work and some amazing fab skills

 

[james bean]

To make next copy of hilux I need 2 days of printing, 2 another days of embossing metal and assembling parts.

Whole project, not Hilux by itself, but general idea how to create models in that way, how to build internal structure, how to create molds, how to join panels with internal structure, took me 3 years.

I work on another body, and I guess it will take 4-6 months to 3d model car body, make molds, internal structure and fit everything together.

wow
amazing fab skills

 

[JimrC]

Had to pop in and see this again, stunning work

 

[high plains drifter]

Plans to primer/ paint or just leave it as is?

 

[dottycfn]

Plans to primer/ paint or just leave it as is?

I plan to paint it one of original Toyota color codes: "sanmoritz white" (033, 12097) or "creme" (557, 13399).

I made some missing details:

 

[hnoroian]

Killer job!

 

[JatoTheRipper]

Incredible!

 

[dottycfn]

First test of dents and scratches on one of old prototype of the Hilux.

 

[JimrC]

still blows my mind the workmanship here liked the vid too

 

[dottycfn]

A few additional photos taken in the backyard

 

[bgredjeep]

Very impressive work. I've been pretty pleased with myself making some nice inner fenders and such, but this is like 10 levels up from what I can do.

 

[high plains drifter]

I just noticed how authentic the corrugated fencing looks. Weathering that would be a cool project.

 

[B-MOW71]

This build look so cool! Excellent work!

I'm pretty sure I DO NOT have the patience to build one of these!

 

[dottycfn]

I just noticed how authentic the corrugated fencing looks. Weathering that would be a cool project.

A friend who paints models also in weathering style got one of this body. Can't wait to see his build finished.