Hummer Ambulance / Modelik / 1:25

The package from Modelik arrived the other day, and I have decided to try to build the Hummer Ambulance.

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I assume that you scan the book, and store the books for later use, or do you cut directly from the book?
This will be a work build...that I will try to accomplish in the quiet hours at work when I'm on nightshift.

Today some of my gear arrived....so now I'm beginning to get some of the right equipment for this karton stuff.

Got a knifeset,dremel set, and a mat,plus some piano wire from 0,6 to 2mm
still waiting for some hole making tools and a circle cutter and some karton.

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Here are the tools I got today.

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And here are the beginning of my ambulance.

LOL yes the coffee mug is an important tool when I'm on nightshift

All I managed to produce this night....a bumper

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I made theese parts for some of the rear suspencion yesterday.
( don't know the English name for it)

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Here are the cutted parts

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I hate theese small rolls....and out of focus they also is...

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Parts assebled

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And painted....

I'm not any good with colours (I'm colourblind) but it said green on the can
so I hope it is green

LOL I won't actually call it skills when I see all the amazing stuff you guys make...

But here are the newly painted frame....of course I had watercolours....with 3 kids in the house etc etc, so I expropiated one of their coloursets

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Newly painted frame

And some of the smaller parts to connect some of the suspension to the frame

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Another day and another part for the Hummer made.

Parts for the front wheel connection
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Finished part
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Painted and aksel inserted
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Only 3 more to go....

Since I'll be working all Christmas, I have some time to continue the Hummer.
So today I made the rear transmission.

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The work on the Hummer goes on.
I started on the cockpit cause I wanted to build with some larger parts.....

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The frame is also coming into shape.

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Another nightshift....and some more paperwork done.

First I finished the headlights
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Next was the passenger's seat
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Seats mounted, pedals and gear sticks
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Next was the steering wheel...
Instead of making it as the book suggested, I cutted out a circle of 1mm karton
And of course I had second thoughts about this part...
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But I managed to drill o,6mm small holes in the center roll, and also managed to glue the tiny 0,5mm wires to it
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And the result.....
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So now I smile and thinking I did a good job with this part

Making of the underside was not as easy as it looked...so I ended up making two of this part...
But here are the shots
Looks like this in the book
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And after some assebly, and learning from the errors I made on the first attempt,I decided not to glue it completely together before the cockpit is mounted inn.
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And the result when almost finished is fairly good.
Should I try to paint it?
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And when it will be assebled together with the cockpit and the rear part it will look something like this
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Thanks for your nice words guys!!
The work on the Hummer will continue in 14 days, when I'm back at work

In the meantime I'll continue the work on the Schwimmwagen I build at home.

After some weeks I got the 1mm puncher I needed to make rivets.
So now I have started the rivetsmania.....

LOL you did it also Marek
I saw your post , and figured out I had to do it also.
And it does look a lot better!!

Marko.
I don't know for sure how many rivets I'm gonna use, but it is several hundreds....
And I'm not going to paint the upper body of the truck, just the underside.

Now it was time to start to "cover it up"

I had to start finishing the inside.
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Got the roof in place, and started to glue the frame around the doors.
Note the frame is not glued on this pic!
Also glued the interior into place
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Mounted the cockpit and made the cockpit roofing
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A sad day......

I have now come to a point that made me recocider the continuing of this build.I have made the desision to start this build all over.I'm not satisfied with my work at this point.When I came to the point where I should assemble the bodycover, roof,sides,bottom and rear cover, nothing seems to fit properly.
So I have to start over again.....will continue this thread when I come to the same point in the building process

Now I'm pissed!!!!!

Update....

After some cutting and gluing and going down on my demands....I'll just decided to finish the model, although it's not as good as I first wanted.
But I still have the book untouched so I can make the model again If I want.

So the work continues.
Today I but on the bodycover and some smaller details around.
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I'm not sure yet how it will work with the backdoors, but thats another story....

Back on nightshifts....time to work on the Hummer again.
This time it was the back stairs.

The drawing...And a lot of parts to cut
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The finished result....It looks a bit twisted...so I'll make it over again tomorrow I think....have to keep some kind of standard
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So I made another ladder.....

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Another nightshift, and some work done on the Hummer.

Drawing of the backdoors and parts cutted out

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The finished door.back and front.

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And the moon was full
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Finished the backdoors tonight.
Was a bit busy at work, so this is all I managed....
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Had a quiet shift at work this morning and I made the hood.

It contains a lot of parts, and seemed a bit tricky to get it mounted.

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First step ii to get the main part assembled
here I have cutted out the parts for the first step
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I replaced the "papernet" with my own blackpainted gaz because I think it looks a lot better.

I got it mounted, and are ready for the next step.This step also involves a lot of parts....
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The first side done
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Both sides finished, and if I get a quiet shift tonight I will try to put on the smallest parts.That is if I can stay awake.....
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I'm now quitting this project....
The parts does not fit good enough.

When I got to the front window section
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As you can see, the front window itselves takes all the space
And still there is another part to be placed on top of the window.
I found out that the space between the roof and the dashboard is over 5mm too short.
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I tried to make the space bigger by cutting off the top part of the dash, with no luck.The sidedoors does not fit properly either.So it didn't look very good...
I measured the space in the book, and it's the same result.

So I'm moving along to the Kubelwagen......

Thanks Jörg!

it was a big dissapointment....but I move on to the Kübelwagen, and hopefully I'm not getting any surprises there