Here it is! The Typical Pickup Body, (MyRCCar TPB) from now on...
3D-Scan of the pickup with MTC Chassis Independent Suspension Version (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/myrccar-typical-pickup-w-mtc-iss-rc-monster-22a2acf17e5b4641bec70829f87c5ce3)
It is a multipart 1/10 RC car body, in which parts has been separated so you can print them with different materials and colors.
Some parts are screwed to each other, while others must be glued.
If you are thinking about buying this design, please read the "IMPORTANT INFO" at the end of the description
Here you have a few related videos, take a look!
https://youtu.be/EprtyTaEj4c
https://youtu.be/tlIHbWKtQcE
https://youtu.be/BoferANebmE
There are 3 main parts which compose the most part of the body. They are the Front, the Cab and the Bed part. There are 2 different beds you can choose. With the sorter one you will have a 290mm wheelbase body, while with the longer one you will have 310mm wheelbase. The design of these three main parts allow to print them with minimal or no supports.
##Part List
- MRCC_TPB_Main_Front
- MRCC_TPB_Main_Cab
- MRCC_TPB_Main_Rear_290
- MRCC_TPB_Main_Rear_310
- MRCC_TPB_Main_BumperFront
- MRCC_TPB_Main_BumperRear
- MRCC_TPB_Details_Lights_Front
- MRCC_TPB_Details_Lights_Rear
- MRCC_TPB_Details_Lights_Front_Covers
- MRCC_TPB_Details_Lights_Rear_Covers
- MRCC_TPB_Details_Mirrors
- MRCC_TPB_Details_Radiator
- MRCC_TPB_Details_Stickers_Front
- MRCC_TPB_Details_Stickers_RearBump
- MRCC_TPB_Details_Suncover_Front
- MRCC_TPB_Details_Suncover_Sides
- MRCC_TPB_Details_Handles
- MRCC_TPB_Details_TYP_logo
*This thing have actually more than 60 makes in Thingiverse (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2996717/makes) * but, why?ΒΏ? I only shared the 3 main parts and a few more, and for getting the rest of the parts you needed to upload your make of the 3 main parts.
After letting those people access the rest of the parts, just a few updated their make with new photos including those new parts.
Now you can just buy it for a low price instead of that "trick or treat"...
##Printing Tips for Main Parts
This project can be printed in a 200x200x200mm build volume. The 310mm bed part is 207mm long, so you will need taller build volume in your 3d printer. Simple and cheap FDM printers should be able to print this.
Take a look to the Cab part finishing printing in this video
The orientation of the parts suggested in the file for the main parts is the one you need if you want to minimize the use of supports and take advantage of the design. Is the way you can expect similar results to my build.
This model involves many grams of material but also many hours of slicing, printing and overwatching your printer.
I suggest you to print the main parts in 0.2mm layers if you don't want it to take forever :S and use something between 0.4 and 0.5 mm for your perimeter thickness. Two perimeters walls, 5 top bottom layers, 15% infill and for the speeds something like 70mm/s /50%outer /80%infill /80%supports.
As you can see the main parts are provided with or without pre-made supports. I can't warranty the correct work of the pre-made supports, but if you print them with 1 perimeter, 3 bottom and 3 top layers, 0% infill you won't waste much material and they will probably work as did for me.
You must separate the meshes in your slicer once imported specially for the BED part, as it has a special extra part (I could not make the boolean correctly). The support parts in FRONT and CAB, the same than the rear windows ones can be correctly printed without separating them, but the bed one is mandatory.
Remember you can use something like "Horizontal expansion" or "Horizontal Size Compensation" to make the walls of the BED part thicker if you need to. I use a negative -0.02mm horizontal expansion to compensate the size of holes and help with tolerances normally.
Times and Weights
With the previous parameters, I took near 30 hours to me to print the 3 main parts. They will weight about 100g for the front and the bed ones and 170g for the cab part.
##Detail Parts
As you can see in the photos, I have used a quite simple color palete... The main body color, ugly red in my build, grey or silver and black for the rest of the parts. I also use transparent PLA fo light covers and very important, TPU plastic for RearViews, Bumper or anti-roll bars and side-platforms.
I print this parts normally slower than the big ones. Using also 0.1mm layer height for some of them like light covers or radiator.
The tricky radiator
You need to be able in your slicer of "separate meshes" and using different process to print different meshes. Simplif3D does this correctly.
So the idea is you separate the meshes in the radiator in your slicer. From there, you create 2 different process to print the whole part. The first one without Top/Bottom layers and very thin perimeter. The idea is the infill you select will be what you see in the back of the radiator.
For the second mesh in the file, the top one, use a more normal printing process, if you can with 0.1mm layer height. This parts should be made over the infill the other process is doing simultaneously. I hope you get it :)
##EXTRA Parts!!!
You are a lucky guy, because this time I'm also including the "Extras" I published in a separate publication in the past. Previously, you had to upload and update your make of all the previous parts of the pickup. As you know, this is the counter-experiment... let's see what happens ;)
With these extra parts you should be able to build the Side-Platforms, the front Bumper Bars, the Anti-Roll bars and a simple trunk. Their filenames are:
- MRCC_TPB_Details_Anti-Rolls
- MRCC_TPB_Details_FrontProtectionBars
- MRCC_TPB_Details_SidePlatf_Bars
- MRCC_TPB_Details_SidePlatf_Plane
- MRCC_TPB_Details_Trunk_Normal
- MRCC_TPB_Details_Trunk_Stretched
With all these parts, you will be able to "Clone" my build perfectly :)
You can also find a few extra parts created by other makers / designers, take a look:
- Ford Grille for MyRCCar_TPB (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3955469) or Light Bar for MyRCCar_TPB (or similar) (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3955548) by Rocco_T (https://www.thingiverse.com/Rocco_T)
- Roll/Light bar for the MYRCCAR TPB (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3702974) by brausefrosch (https://www.thingiverse.com/brausefrosch)
##Body Holders for MTC Chassis
Initially I was using the holding system I designed for FJ Cruiser for MTC chassis, adapted for Typical Pickup, but I realized that I can simply hold the Body using 4 TPU parts. Two of them in the chassis and other two in the body.
- MRCC_TPB_Links_Chassis_FrontBumper
- MRCC_TPB_Links_Chassis_Rear
- MRCC_TPB_Links_Body_FrontBumper
- MRCC_TPB_Links_Body_Rear
These parts provide a high position of the body over the chassis. This is what you need to use big wheels if you want to have enough clearance when suspension is working but same time you will have a higher gravity center so you will increase rolling possibilities. If you are interested in the lower position holders please write me a PM.
You will need M3x16-20mm Screws to join the TPU parts to the chassis or the body, and two long M4x30-40 screws and two M4x30-40 grub screws.
I finally also added the needed link parts for the Standard height position. Remember you have to choose also the right ones for your MTC version, the Rigid Axles one or the Independent Suspension one.
If you plan to build a MTC chassis for your Typical Pickup and use big wheels, I suggest you to use the longest CVDs (HSP 188015) to avoid clearance problems. If you can't you will probably need to "re-sculpt" a little your body in those parts hitting your wheels. I discovered that I can use a pirograph with a dimmer to "re-sculpt" my PLA prints... horrible smells, do it outdoors :S Maybe you preffer to make some cuts with your rotary tool...
Other Body Holders
The main idea under MyRCCar is/was to create a comunity of makers / designers related to RC Cars, but it just partially worked. A good example of it working is what the Thingiverse user BotYoyo (https://www.thingiverse.com/BotYoyo/designs) did for MyRCCar... He started asking about some old files, took a look to the new projects I started and he started building them. Incredible maker, take a look to his pickup (https://www.thingiverse.com/groups/myrccar/forums/mtc-chassis/topic:32411). But that's not all... he was reporting to the comunity all the problems or improvements he found and he created alternative/improved parts to solve some problems, like for example:
- BotYoyo's Light weight roll cage for MyRCCar MTC (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3118459)
- BotYoyo's Clip-On links for pickup body with Light Weight roll cage (MyRCCar MTC) (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3131538)
As you can see, they conform an alternative Body Holder System which doesn't use TPU plastic.
Some more makers / designers contributed with holding systems, like for example francisdb (https://www.thingiverse.com/francisdb) who remixed BotYoyo's roll cage to create francisdb's MyRCCar MTC body posts (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3284765), simpler but probably quite efective ;)
IMPORTANT INFO
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