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DerMattes
Watching 👍

Brandon H
Welcome aboard!

Brandon H
I was incredibly fortunate to be able to purchase an example of my dream car last year. (Luckily I have modest taste.) After spending the summer and fall repairing all of the neglected parts of this truck, I'm now familiar with it inside and out. Now it's time to build a scale replica, and there's no excuses for inaccuracies! This will also be my first ever fully 3D printed model. (Mostly 3D printed anyway, more on that later...)

Nathan Dempsey
You're pulling at my heart strings Brandon. I had '91 Cherokee Limited so I'll follow this with great interest.

Pepe
Looking

Spanjaard
certainly following this one.

Brandon H
That's awesome Nathan! This will be a passion project for me for sure

Brandon H
Pull up a seat boys! Charging forward into unknown territory on this one!

István Szücs
This... I MUST watch it! The real one is also interesting!

Bozzer
I'm jumping on this too. I'm loving my Anycubic Proton Mono 4K, but I also want something with a larger print bed. My Wash and Cure machine, is a game changer!

Ben M
Watching, I've been enjoying building 3d printed models. It allows me to enlarge my stash without leaving the house to go to the hobby shop.

Brandon H
Exactly Ben!

Bozzer, I got the Wash and Cure combo from Elegoo with this printer, and it's a massive improvement over my previous system (which was a cheap jewelry cleaner, and shiny stock pot, and a grow lamp from Amazon)

István, I've got big plans for the 1:1 truck in the future... but this build will just be replicating how it exists now, in 2024

Michael Kohl
This will be fun to follow.

Brandon H
Working on pulling the styrene parts together now, since I'm still waiting to uncover the 1:1 reference

Nathan Dempsey
Exciting. I'm going to need a build log on the real one too.

Brandon H
Haha, I'll be sure to sprinkle in a few updates as I get back to working on the 1:1 this spring

Nathan Dempsey
Come back down to Florida. We will let you work on it year round 😂

Karl R.
Looks great already, I have no clue on how you're going to be able to replicate the clear coat like that. To replicate clear coat the has big chips (like seen in early 90s Ford) just paint the model sand it real fine like 3600 or something. Put masking tape over the area where you want the clear coat to be gone at, and clear coat the model let the clear coat completely cure and then peel the tape off. But for thin clear coat like this I have no clue. Can't wait to see what you come up with!

ninetails
Very nice!

Martin Oostrom
Great job on a hideous looking car.
Why are all cars from that era designed with a ruler?

Chris Reimann
Very nice and clean build!

George Williams
Very nicely finished model of a good looking iconic car.

Brandon H
Thanks guys! Not quite as clean a build as I had hoped for, but a good way to get back in the swing of things. A slumpbuster, if you will. Hoping to have some updates on my other builds soon.

Sorry Martin, I think I have to side with George in this case - I've always liked the lines of this generation of Quattro!

Martin Oostrom
To each his own 😁
I do appreciate the technical marvel it was.
And I do have a NuNu rally version in my stash, so I'm going to build it myself eventually.

Happy to see you are out of your slump 👍🏻

Karl R.
Love the model, I have to admit I like these generation of Audi's as well. But quick question if I don't ask, how do you weather your engine bays and under carriages? I see subtle hints of it here, but you went a little heavy Jeep Grand Cherokee. How do you do that?