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One of the kids really thinks my deuce is cool, so I wanted to make a toy version of a military 6x6 to play with that scales with the Melissa & Doug wooden trucks and cars they play with. I chose an M813 for the template since that's one of my dream 5-tons. I mean, it's a really, really big Jeep (specifically the ones built by Kaiser Jeep), and I love Jeeps!
Using canvases made of pictures of various M813 trucks I found on the internet showing all sides of it, I traced the pictures to get its general shape. I kept detailing low, which is consistent with the Melissa & Doug vehicles, but I wanted to get the grill and hood right. The hood was the hardest for me to design, particularly the slopes at the front corners. Knowing what I know now about 3D modeling, I could've accomplished the same thing easier with Blender instead of Fusion 360.
The chassis and bed are separate, so I basically have an M809 chassis that I can attach different stuff to. I want to make a wrecker body next! I opted for super singles to keep parts count down, and I think they look good. The wheels are flippable so someone could actually flip the "hubs" if desired
So really the wheels are all the same printed design, just flipped for the tandem axle.
An improvement I want to make to it is hollow out the body more - this is a huge chunk of plastic with 2 mm walls and about 7% infill. I'd also print the exhaust pipe as a separate piece as shortly after I gave it to my kids to play with it snapped at the layer lines I expected that to happen, so it's run with a short straight pipe now! There is provision for a trailer hitch on the back. It can accommodate different hitches, so I can design one to pull Melissa & Doug trailers, or trailers of my own design.
I want to make another one to see how it looks vapor-smoothed...
Using canvases made of pictures of various M813 trucks I found on the internet showing all sides of it, I traced the pictures to get its general shape. I kept detailing low, which is consistent with the Melissa & Doug vehicles, but I wanted to get the grill and hood right. The hood was the hardest for me to design, particularly the slopes at the front corners. Knowing what I know now about 3D modeling, I could've accomplished the same thing easier with Blender instead of Fusion 360.
The chassis and bed are separate, so I basically have an M809 chassis that I can attach different stuff to. I want to make a wrecker body next! I opted for super singles to keep parts count down, and I think they look good. The wheels are flippable so someone could actually flip the "hubs" if desired
So really the wheels are all the same printed design, just flipped for the tandem axle.An improvement I want to make to it is hollow out the body more - this is a huge chunk of plastic with 2 mm walls and about 7% infill. I'd also print the exhaust pipe as a separate piece as shortly after I gave it to my kids to play with it snapped at the layer lines
I expected that to happen, so it's run with a short straight pipe now! There is provision for a trailer hitch on the back. It can accommodate different hitches, so I can design one to pull Melissa & Doug trailers, or trailers of my own design.I want to make another one to see how it looks vapor-smoothed...