Well here's my first prototype for the first Z scale (1/220 scale) kit I'll be selling. Its a track loader "like" a CAT 955. Soon as I get the chance, I'll put it in kit format to sell. Its broken up in parts to make it easier to airbrush and not require any masking. I think and hope I have have broken the 2 foot visual rule (looks good from 2 feet away) and hopefully got it down to a few inches...
It looks the part. Nice job, especially for a first model. But I guess you have worked with 3D CAD tools before? What's the diameter of the more delicate parts, like the exhaust and the hydraulics? Greetings Karl Heinz
Thanks Dragoman. I'm heavy equipment industrail designer and design full scale heavy equipment like this for a living. This stuff is for fun and for my own Z gauge rail road I'm slowly building. I have been using CAD since about 1998. I pushed the limits on diameter sizes with this and other models in the works. If I remember correctly, the exhaust is about 0.4mm DIA. I have features (like the hing bearings sticking out on articulated joints on the loader arms) down to about .1mm.