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Originally Posted by whulsey
Good work on the model.
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Thx a lot for your kindness.
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Originally Posted by whulsey
Was there a reason for adding the 2nd axle...or just to look cool?
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Hard to say, in the case of the Garage 54, it's first about style, inspired by the modification of the Mercedes AMG G63 6x6.
I only have that one photo about the other Nive from the garage, where it is made of green and red and I didn't find anything closer about it, but there are more photos of Niva 6x6 on the internet, they are probably all DIY projects inspired by 6x6 versions of Ford (Hennessey VelociRaptor 6x6). ) or Land Rover Defender (Flying Huntsman 6x6, but exists older 110 Heavy Duty 6x6 Heavy Truck version too).
The basic engine is already weak for the extended version of the Lada Niva URBAN 5D, and I read that Russian car manufacturer AvtoVaz also wants to produce a semi- trailer truck from Niva with an engine that is 17HP stronger, the payload on an 11m long semi- trailer would be 1.5t ... thats would be a nice model too. In any case, I like these modifications and the Mercedes AMG G36 6x6 as a paper model exists (but I'm not sure if it's also available to the public ), the paper Land Rover Defender 4x4 exists and a friend drew and published in the ABC magazine Ford VelociRaptor 4x4 and the 6x6 variants from these could also be converted without much difficulty. All you need is effort and time.
I will return to my model. I designed this (non-existent) Dakar variant because I wanted to take part in an event in honor of the 90th birthday celebrations by the creator thousands of paper models, Richard Vyškovský.
It is an incredible number of often (at the time) very complex and demanding models, which he drew exclusively in his free time with a pencil, ruler and painted with watercolors for us, papermodelers.
The 4x4 version has the rear of the body higher than the front and it would be a problem to have all 3 axles in one plane so that all wheels touch the ground (due to inaccuracies in gluing, etc.). In the end, I decided to create a subframe with oval holes so that the wheel axles could move freely and touch the terrain, which is not ideally flat.
I promise that in the next post there will be photos of the paper model.
