Scotties Miniart US Bulldozer

[outrunner]

Andy, are you going to blog it? I for one would love too see it. Not sure about the history I will have to have a look on scalemates.

Yes Paul, I will post up shortly. Looking again at what I posted before I must have got confused as I meant to say my Mirror Models dozer is very similar to the one you are building. The one I am doing now is a Thunder Models US Crawler sixty which I think is the first crawler that was made under the Caterpillar name after the merger of Holt and CL Best.

Andy.

[scottie3158]

Nice looking model Scottie.....appears to be a D7 Cat. I'll follow along if there are any seats left

Yes mate I believe it is a D7. Always a seat for you mate.

[Mini Me]

Thanks Scottie......I'll cozy up next to Misters Eberle and Dewire and take my chances with Matron in case she shows up to calm these two down! :tongue-out3: :tongue-out::smiling5:

[Guest]

appears to be a D7 Cat.

It is, the only tractors/bulldozers of this kind you can get in 1:35 are Caterpillar D7s, from a couple of different makes. Why they all picked the same one, I have no idea, but a D6 or D8 would be welcome

[minitnkr]

Even a D4 as I've seen pics of them at work removing rubble & being transported in the bed of an engineering Corbit.

[Graeme C.]

I'll follow along Paul, a bulldozer is rather different to the usual things I do.

[scottie3158]

Thanks Scottie......I'll cozy up next to Misters Eberle and Dewire and take my chances with Matron in case she shows up to calm these two down! :tongue-out3: :tongue-out::smiling5:

I don't know about Matron, I think your taking your chances with those two.

It is, the only tractors/bulldozers of this kind you can get in 1:35 are Caterpillar D7s, from a couple of different makes. Why they all picked the same one, I have no idea, but a D6 or D8 would be welcome :smiling3:

Very true their are many other types.

Even a D4 as I've seen pics of them at work removing rubble & being transported in the bed of an engineering Corbit.

Paul, That would be an interesting build.

[scottie3158]

I'll follow along Paul, a bulldozer is rather different to the usual things I do.

Same here mate, plus it's not green lol.

[scottie3158]

Work continues on the engine the injector block has been added , along with some injector pipes from copper wire and a securing plate from pewter with a couple of punched bolt heads.





For anybody who might build one of these in the future there are three levers that fit on the side of the block where you can see the white dot. Leave them off until the engine is built or installed in the chassis as I have broken them off twice now and they are lost. So I will replace them with copper replacements later.


All though not needed yet I was looking at the radiator cover and decided I didn't like the solid look, so I started removing the "mesh"




When they had all been removed the gaps were tided up and some plastic Mesh was added to the back. It doesn't have to be to neat as you will not be able to see the back of it when assembled.



work is slow as every part needs to be cleaned up carefully with out snapping some of the very small parts.

cheers
Scottie

[Tim Marlow]

Lovely stuff so far Scottie. Nice additions.

[Allen Dewire]

Hey Bro, Just knew you couldn't leave the sausage fingers away from the scratchy stuff. Motor looking real good Paul and I know the lost parts are no biggie for you either. Spent all afternoon punching out over 100 0.05mm rivets from 0,01mm plastic sheet. I feel your pain as It's a real beatch to try to glue them in place with my sausage fingers too. Looking good!!!.....

Prost
Allen

[Caustik Filth]

Loving the detail on da motor Scottie! gotta blag the mesh for the grill idea if that's ok, very cool
Cheers Rob

[scottie3158]

Lovely stuff so far Scottie. Nice additions.

Cheers Tim.

Hey Bro, Just knew you couldn't leave the sausage fingers away from the scratchy stuff. Motor looking real good Paul and I know the lost parts are no biggie for you either. Spent all afternoon punching out over 100 0.05mm rivets from 0,01mm plastic sheet. I feel your pain as It's a real beatch to try to glue them in place with my sausage fingers too. Looking good!!!.....

Prost
Allen

Allen, cheers fella I must have missed it else where but what are all the rivets for?

Loving the detail on da motor Scottie! gotta blag the mesh for the grill idea if that's ok, very cool
Cheers Rob

Rob, cheers mate feel free mate, although I may order some finer PE mesh but I think it looks ok as is.

[minitnkr]

I'll try & find the pic. It's an engineering Corbit making a turn in a WWII town towing a 20 ton trailer w/D7 on board & a D4 in the bed.

[scottie3158]

I'll try & find the pic. It's an engineering Corbit making a turn in a WWII town towing a 20 ton trailer w/D7 on board & a D4 in the bed.

Yes mate it could be a future project.