DUKW Scratch Builds 1/16 & 1/9.25

[Ecam]

A update aimed at anyone planning on or is using the above axles:

On a test drive today working out a brace of batteries giving a longer run time, a wheel came off. I just finished working on maintenance. Each axle has 3 grub/set screws. Most of them were loose. I recommend tightening all of them. I loosened one of the hub screws and pressed it tight against the outer bearings. Then I loosened the crown/ring gear and moved it snug against the pinion and re-tightened the screw. You can see the screws in the first picture two post above.

I still think these are stellar axles and in my case of a heavy DUKW, necessary.

[Ecam]

I came up with a temporary solution to the tires/tyres for the duck. They are not perfect, but they help.

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Belt is running downward and the drill is running opposite. Light pressure keeps from melting or burning rubber. Could be done on sand paper but would take a whole lot longer. Each tire/tyre one took 2-3 minutes.

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[Ecam]

A little deck work.

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This is the goofy windshield protector I mentioned earlier on the first 2000 DUKWs.

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[Ecam]

Searched high and low for a suitable bucket to make headlamps, however....

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I did leave the tube open for future LED installation. Have to figure out how to operate them from the Flysky receiver.

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The blackout lamp on the right side of the picture is a Tamiya piece from the M4 kit just to give scale to the headlight.

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As an option to magnets holding the hood on, I went with a folding forward winch hawse as a latch.

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[Herr Dr. Professor]

Egad, man! You are amazingly resourceful. Well... you do have some useful machine tools, useful because you know how to use them.

[Ecam]

Egad, man! You are amazingly resourceful. Well... you do have some useful machine tools, useful because you know how to use them.

I would love to humbly state that I get it all from my dear older brother.....

.......but we all know that would be too unbelievable.

I enjoy coming up with solutions. Waiting on ordered parts takes much longer than finding something on hand and manipulating it a bit. I'm not nearly as able to build such realistic, artistic, scale, detailed, museum worthy (the list goes on and on), as many of the builders here. But I have had fun building the rigs I have thus far. And if it's a bit out of the box, all the better.

[Kaczor]

Fantastic project. Well done

[jhamm]

Well done!

[whitecitadel]

That’s great work

For the lights, you can get cheap controllers from all the usual Chinese sites , eBay or Amazon, that just plug into a spare channel on the receiver and have switchable outputs you can connect the LED’s to. When the channel is switched it changes lights off and on in groups - you can use a button or a switch to do this on the Tx.

Something like this: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EH8p2on

[Jofaur86]

Hello, hence the advantage of having a multi-channel radio, our friend is right, you will find modules at low prices on the Aliexpress site, otherwise you can tinker with servo electronics, see diagram attached

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Sorry if in French? but Google is your friend!!! for the fuse, in series, I personally did not put one, because the rest would be blown before, in case of concern