Make your own Wheeler drive
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58039: Willy's Wheeler
Status: How To Guide
Date: 31-Jan-2010
Comments: 16
Status: How To Guide
Date: 31-Jan-2010
Comments: 16
Well here's a few basic pics on the making of a Willys Wheeler driver .I made the arm mount tube from a plastic tube donated by Nigel WW-Nut - cheers , this is bonded in with Milliput and a hole drilled through his arm and reccessed on top to 'flush ' the screw below the arm line
I'm no photographer ,so don't kill me !!
collection of parts to start with
cut the hands off SS driver and willys arms
attach hands to SS driver body and cut out neck
head trial fit
slice a section out of body 3-4mm approx
body re-bonded, braced inside with plastic card
filling to helmet joint and thumbs are re-shaped
white primered willy
side view willy
WW-nut Nigels driver for comparison - cheers Nige.
Comments
oldsterolli
Sweet !! well done !!
Spike
The finished article looks great - nice work Kev
Toykid
Very cleaver. Can you show a close up of how the figure mounts to the chassis?
Dante77
So thats what you needed the arms and steering wheel for... Great idea!
KEV THE REV
Thanks guys , *James ,I have some close ups to upload a bit later
WW-nut
With the re-release of the Sand Scorcher I can see a lot of driverless Wheeler owners doing this. Nice work Kev
Goldnest
Cool little lad you created! Btw, that chassis looks like fun. Is it in any way? Never had one of these, so would love to hear from the enhousiasts!
KEV THE REV
Thanks Goldnest , yes these are great fun and a very 'interesting' design of chassis ,lots off stuff to mess around with which I like . I had a Wild Willy 1 years ago and loved it and now after driving the old model Pajeros and experiencing the stunt wheelies again , I wanted one of these as I also love the body shell design - all in all you MUST get one - enjoy
oldsterolli
Again, very well done. Maybe that´s close to the way Tamiya did it with the development of the original prototype of the wheeler driver !? Willy is the best, no doubt !
KEV THE REV
Thanks again , I think so too , the idea came to me when I was looking at an original Wheeler driver and saw the similarites between the SS drivers body and the Wheeler drivers body , a bit of cutting ,sawing and bonding , and here we are
Henk4Focus
Sweet! I am missing the driver in my Wheeler and this sure will come in handy. Great one Kev.
slimmy
Yeah, this is turning out sweet! great work kev!
Victorious Secret
WOW I missed this one Brother Kev! Very nice modification!! NICE CALL!!
waterbok
life got a lot easier now :-D
Willy is back (as sparepart of the VW T2)
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KEV THE REV
Funnily enough , I just bought one of those today , life is good
waterbok
Yes indeed, even finaly got replacement for the missing airintakes.
btw. the boxed driver that comes with the VW T2 does not have the airintakes and the rollbar(which comes without the metal inside)
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