Hummer

Beautiful build, congrats.

There is sure a whole heap of detailed work in the Hummer, very well done sir….

I had seen your Hummer on T&J already and he is so incredibly beautiful. All the detail is so minutely and precisely made. GREAT.

Thanks for sharing here at LJ. Keep on going.

What a thing of beauty. Great job

A real beauty here for sure….... well done.

It's so purdy I just went and ordered the plans and it's all your fault.
I've liked the looks of these plans from day one, right up there with the caboose on my list for wanting no needing to build.

Another great build by you. Your attention to details.
Bruce

Thanks for all your kind words. I'll now have to go and give the guy that built it for me a few more shekels…...

Just kidding… but not about the thanks.

Very Very nice great job just beautiful very well done
Dee1

I'm always fascinated by the detail in the beautiful models. Very nice work.

Great job and I like the animation video. You are one talented dude.

Wow!, that is a beautiful miniature and so nicely done.

helluvawreck aka Charles
http://woodworkingexpo.wordpress.com

Truly incredible detailed replica of Humwee. I would spend any money for it to have it.

exceptional, detail is amazing, very well done!

How much do the plans cost I am not familiar with computer drawing packages and just need a few pics of the plans to draw myself and work out in my head the sizes.I made a few nice trucks that way one from a fee set of plans in a woodworking magazine looks wonderful take care and nice to see Charles answer there he was very kind to me about my woodshop a number of years ago when I built it he is truly a beautiful spirit and a great gentleman. Alistair

Hi Scottie man,
The plans are available from Toy and Joys at $18 US. They charge $11+25% of purchase price (with around 10 days delivery to Australia). You may be able to buy from a Pommie-land retailer/distributor. Personally this is not too severe when you consider the cost of timber now-a-days especially if you use better type timber rather than cheap scraps and of course the cost of the tools used to convert that bit of firewood into a presentation piece. I used walnut and American maple for most of my T&J models.

... I am not familiar with computer drawing packages and just need a few pi…

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What I have done is imported JPG scans the plans into SketchUp and "traced" over them to create the model. The plans are in the SU model, however, if you wanted to seriously build a hummer the scans are not very legible. The SketchUp drawing helps me familiarise with the build and gives me a better understanding of the carpentry I'll need to perform. Sketchup is a free piece of software and may look intimidating, however there is a load of tutorials and videos on the Internet to enable you to come to grips with it fairly quickly (as it did with me). Also you don't need to master it's use to view a model. Download the 'MAKE' (free) version of Sketchup 2016. Just install and open the file. Just come to grips with the "pan", "orbit" and zoom commands and you should be ale to navigate.

ALso find the use of the X-ray button to you see the insides.


P.S. Did you notice I pressed the keys on my keyboard while typing, with a Scottish brogue?

Huge work. I take off a hat…...

Sasha, Thanks… I hope you don't live in a cold area or your ears may get cold :-( ..

All you models are above first class.