Plywood wheels can be very easily made on a power mitersaw. Steve Tyng
On Jan 18, 7:43 pm, Xirus <[email protected]> wrote: > Everybody hates making them. Especially if you have a lot of them to > make. > > OK. So, I will soon be needing to make wheels. Now at 1/4 scale buying > wheels is out of the question. I was thinking of making one wooden > wheel plug and making several molds out of it. I can then use the > molds to make more of the exact wheel. This is time consuming though. > And I'm not quite sure what materials to use. > > I don't have a lathe, And I don't think I can justify to the wife why > I need one. The tank in question is a 1/4 scale Tiger II and the > wheels need to be 7-3/4" to 8" in diameter and I would like them to > look realistic as well. I can compromise on the look a bit I guess. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? I was considering cutting out 36 > discs and using 8" poly pipe as the tire just like Dave Manson's tanks > from Scaledtanks.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
