Kenworth 850 Off Highway

[kerst]

WOW! Nice work!

Kerst

[woodhog]

Holy Cow that is some amazing tig work looks awesome on the rest of the parts too! This is goin to be a workhorse

[chaseracer]

great job really making some progress now.. Mike and I were thinking about coming over to see you tomorrow but hate to disturb that progress lol

[RCP57]

Originally Posted by chaseracer

great job really making some progress now.. Mike and I were thinking about coming over to see you tomorrow but hate to disturb that progress lol

Haha... The shop is quite a mess....I better go vacuum

[Espeefan]

Looking good! The detail is great. I like how you put on the track bar and radius arms. Bolted them up, just like the 1:1 truck. What kind of servo are you going to end up using? Maybe a dual servo steering set-up is in order?

[RCP57]

Originally Posted by Espeefan

Looking good! The detail is great. I like how you put on the track bar and radius arms. Bolted them up, just like the 1:1 truck. What kind of servo are you going to end up using? Maybe a dual servo steering set-up is in order?

Thanks, I use a 645 in my Euc and it has no troubles. The linkage ratio's are almost the same on this so I think one of them will be fine.

[RCP57]

I wasn't happy with the shape of the upper window area so I cut it out and made a new piece! There's also a few other little things but nothing really note worthy.

I'm not sure if I will put the visor on the finished model or not but I thought that I should make one just in case...

Thanks for looking!












Reg

[Pippoe]

What a beautiful work! Your steering servo seems almost tiny for such a huge machine. Will you add a heavy duty servo?

Cheers

Pip

[RCP57]

Originally Posted by Pippoe

What a beautiful work! Your steering servo seems almost tiny for such a huge machine. Will you add a heavy duty servo?

Cheers

Pip

I will be using a standard size high torque servo. This one is just being used for mock up.

[D8R]

Coming together nice. That offset cab realy gives the truck a special look!
The spring blades, what are they made off?
dan

[RCP57]

Originally Posted by D8R

Coming together nice. That offset cab realy gives the truck a special look!
The spring blades, what are they made off?
dan

The springs are just made from lumber strapping.

Reg

[doodlebug]

Nice progress, the visegrips put it in perspective. Packed a pair of 5wr's for 31 year's.
Cheer's, Neil.

[RCP57]

How about this for a size comparison....

[chaseracer]

wow thats big

[Espeefan]

The KW is looking great. The Bruder looks like a 1/32 scale model, sitting on the turntable! It must be nice working in 1/10. Machining small parts like these only gets harder, as you go smaller in scale. It'd be fun to build a big truck like this, but I'm not so good with body work. I don't think I'd be able to pull off a cab as nice as yours. For someone who doesn't think they know what they are doing, I'd say you're doing just fine.

[RCP57]

She's a little plump but that's OK....

It has it's good points and bad points building in this scale. It is nicer to make the parts as they are a lot bigger BUT you have to make everything! There's no going online or to the hobby shop for a set of diffs or a scale set of tires that's for sure. I enjoy the challenge though...

I really don't know what I'm doing but I am getting better at making it up as I go along.

Reg

[RCLogger]

Like they say Reg

GO BIG OR GO HOME.... hahahah

[RCP57]

Originally Posted by RCLogger

Like they say Reg

GO BIG OR GO HOME.... hahahah

I guess! I just figured out that the frame is 2 1/2 inches too short in the middle! I guess I will be practicing with my grinding skills once again! Thats what happens when you start building off of drawings that aren't accurate before you get solid dimensions!

[MoRockN]

What an AMAZING truck you are building my friend. Outstanding . WOW!!!!!!!!

[RCP57]

Since I figured out the truck was too short I had no other option but to cut it in half and weld in a piece. Thanks to my half-*** welding skills and my "superb" grinding ability() you can hardly tell anything was changed. I've also machined the rear spring-trunion mounts, built some ladders and started on the radiator guard in the last couple days. I'm going up island to look at some of these trucks this week so after that I should be able to finish the sheetmetal.

Reg