The life of Moglite in 1/43 scale

I'm not much of a model maker, but I've managed to take this police car



Acetone take off the decal, and some filler and paint got me a vinyl roof like my car.
Much better




That was one of my favourite cars, so I'd like to redo the wheels to match the original car at some point.
Shame I crashed it, and broke it up 

Talking of 3D printing.
I have decided to step out of my comfort zone, and make a couple of models from scratch.

This is the first, I built this 1/2 Unimog 1/2 Ranger Rover back in the day.



If I can make it out of metal, then I'm up for making it at 1:43 scale in plastic.

With only old photographs, and some Range Rover measurements from the internet, I was able to make a start on drawing it in 3D.
Unbelievably I was able to find Unimog 404 wheels and the Zil  tyres I used already modeled !!

After many hours pulling my hair our in the Fusion 360 CAD program - I was getting there.



That gave me the confidence to order up a new 3D printer - and see if I was on the right track.
A few days later the printer - a Elegoo Mars 3 and a few accessories turned up.
I was able to run some test prints.



Yes - I think this is going to work.
Especially if I can find some bionic eyes and a steady hand or two.

Some of the details such as the spring platforms and winch mounts need to be thickened up.
I've drawn everything at 1:1 as accurate I can make it, but not everything scales down perfectly.
Easy enough to add some extra thickness where i need it.

Watch this space.

Has a kid I was fairly prolific with the model car thing but then the full size real thing took over and I've never really gone back to it - I have though been doing exactly what you've been doing and slowly building a model collection of all the motors that I have owned over the decades 

NB - That half RR / half Unimog pic needs to go into the 'Monsters & Beasts' thread with a bit more info and any further pics - Please