Rex Ross

Originally, this was going to be an R/C project, but that quickly became a project I wouldn't be able to deal with successfully..... I just couldn't figure out a practical way to make it R/C on land and in the water as well. Space was a limiting factor. However, the Ford GPA amphibious Jeep interested me, and I decided to build it as a push me - pull me toy.

Then I started scrounging around in my parts boxes for suitable things to use to build it. I found a boat prop. Wowie! That made me check my electric motor stuff, and by golly, I found a small motor that ran on a single AA cell. Wowie again!

I ended up with this mechanically crude motorized floater, but it floats properly (without leaking or sinking) and runs in kind of a straight line in water. On land it will be a GPA on the side of the road with a wet ignition that is waiting for a Rogers M9 recovery trailer. This is the most realistic and exciting background I could come up with for my water test. It was this or the bathtub. I had to add 13 ounces of ballast to get it to float at the correct displacement.

I'm thinking about painting it up as a GPA that was used by the Russians. I know they used a lot of them. But, I have no idea where/if I can get a Russian driver figure.

Rex

YHR

I like it.

karel47

why not its military even static is alowed

yes indeed nice model , where did you get it rex?

HondoBob

Looks very nice indeed.  What scale is it?

Pah co chu puk

Very nice.

Rex Ross

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It's a scratchbuilt. It took about a month to do from reference material that I found in a Google search.

Rex Ross

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It's 1:16th scale.

yellowshaker

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Man...I wish I could scratchbuild like you. Everything you make is amazing!

Rebellion13

And he scratch built it in a month, I have a Tiger 1 with basically everything I need to get it running and its been 2 years sitting collecting dust[:@]wonderful

Cheers,
Wade

Rex Ross

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Thanks for the encouraging words. If I ever enter anything in a modeling contest, I hope you will be the judge in the large scale/scratchbuilt category.

Airbrushler

Anything you build is allowed here Rex Ross you are amazing the detail and the amount of work you put into your builds
always has me saying OMG how does he do that, just fantastic work Rex Ross

briz

very cool !

karel47

its amezing rex very good work

Pah co chu puk

Hmmm.   With a little bit of modification this guy could be hitchhiking by his GPA...   cause his ignition is wet.  

Rex Ross

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To put that "month" in perspective................ I'm retired, I live alone, and have little else to do with my time. Many years ago (when I had a normal life}, I had a wife and kids, a job, a house to take care of, and a jillion other things that took up my time. I was lucky if I could find a few hours a week to work on a model. So.....a few hours a week would take me over a year to do what I did last "month".

At this point in my life I can work on my hobby all day, every day......It's never too late to have a happy childhood!

I really enjoy scratchbuilding stuff for some reason. Maybe the convenience of having just about every hobby tool ever invented has something to do with it too. In the past 15 years or so I have been able to scratchbuild about eighty (80) 1/16th scale models of one type or another. My house is not a home anymore.....it's a hobby shop.

This amphibious jeep was something a little different......a change of pace from doing "tanks".

I want to do some British tanks soon, but I don't know where to start, there are so many that would be cool.........

Rex Ross

[quote]ORIGINAL: Pah co chu puk

Hmmm. With a little bit of modification this guy could be hitchhiking by his GPA... cause his ignition is wet.

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Good idea........That's a scenario for the diorama for photographing my stuff......If I ever get around to building that thing........