mini camera rotary snow plow

Bill Pontin

Bill Pontin

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About a week ago I responded to a post about making a car to hold a mini camera. When scratch building, I like most of us, could not leave well enough alone. This front end, to house the camera, looked too much like a rotary snow plow.
 

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Ruined a number of styrene pieces trying to get a curved roof. Found an easy solution by sectioning a piece of 1 1/2 inch PCV pipe. I heated the .04" styrene with the wife's embossing heat gun. (shhhh, not suppose to touch her stamping stuff) When the plastic softened I then formed the curve with a section of 1" pvc.
 

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Now you just need a snow storm. Looks great.
Thanks for the idea of using the two pieces of pipe as a mold this will no dobt come in handy, I'm thinking caboose roof. However I'll have to use the B&D heat gun, I'm not married, I have to provide my own tools.
Brady
 
Tyson the last thing I will do is bend the antenna back about 45 degrees. It will still hit tunnel portals but should bend or flex to clear. The one I saw being demonstrated at a show was going through tunnels and under an overhead signal the antenna was just pushed down further. In either case, my module is the only one in the club that has several tunnels and those can be avoided by staying off my blue line.
Added a little more detail while watching TV tonight.
 

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Bill Pontin said:
Tyson the last thing I will do is bend the antenna back about 45 degrees. It will still hit tunnel portals but should bend or flex to clear. The one I saw being demonstrated at a show was going through tunnels and under an overhead signal the antenna was just pushed down further. In either case, my module is the only one in the club that has several tunnels and those can be avoided by staying off my blue line.
Added a little more detail while watching TV tonight.
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I curl mine back 'til it's just above the roofline by an inch. It still catches low scenery, with a special appetite for signal towers but it works well and doesn't affect the reception.

Gotta see that thing painted and weathered...too cool :thumb: :thumb:
 
Mark, when forming the curved roofs, heat the styrene in the sectioned PVC. When it starts to sag slightly press it down to form the curve with the smaller piece of PVC. Took a little practice to evenly heat the styrene, it seems to reach the softening state slowly and if you go too far with the heat it will deform. Good Luck. :)
 
Very nice work there Bill and quite clever how you concealed things. I like Randy also hope to one day have all these skills aswell. The more I get into this hobby the more I am amazed with the constructive ideas some people have.

And Brady you don't know what your missing by not haveing a wife to borrow tools from. Mine has a vast resource of implements from glue guns to tweezers and I must say the most useful of all was her reading glasses.
 
Bill, the model looks great! :thumb: :thumb: The only drawback is if you were modeling the deep south, the southwest or some part of the country that doesn't get much snow (although as I think about it that leaves most of the the country as well as Canada. :D Won't even get into the rest of the world :D ) As I said before, great modeling and imagination,. :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
 
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