| Author | Message | ||
     Lastcyclone |
Anyone know where to get on of these in the US?Made in China for a Spanish company. 1:24 scale <http://www.motomini.com/museumpix2/alt08.jpg> | ||
| Doughnut |
Can't see it. | ||
| Spiderman |
I work in a tool and die shop that specializes in plastic injection molding and I have been thinking about designing and building a mold to make a scale S1... | ||
| 1313 |
This is what Lastcyclone is trying to find:  It's a 1/24 scale die cast of a yellow XB9S made by Altaya. From previous web searches anything from Altaya is very hard to find in the US, so I ended up getting mine off ebay. They make the yellow XB9S pictured above along with a white XB9R.  IXO makes a blue XB9R, which I know of a couple of distributors in the US, but I still ended up getting mine off ebay.  I am not sure which manufacturer makes the black XB12R that I have, but the two XB9R's look as though they could have come from the same tooling.  Spidy, Have you seen this Avon Tires promotional S1 from a few years ago?   I believe it was 1/10 scale, shown below with a 1/10 scale V-Rod for comparison.  I used to be a scale car model freak, so after I became a Buell freak I've been trying to collect all the scale Buell's I can find. 1313 | ||
| Spiderman |
Yes I have, but I want to make the S1 more stock looking... | ||
| Seth |
I would give my left nert for a scale model S-1! | ||
| Bruce_bueller |
Spiderman, that would be mint. I'll have da keep the nerts though. | ||
| Peter |
Do it! Please. | ||
| Spiderman |
I was thinking about it today. TO build it the way I would want to there would have to be 3 molds. 1 for rubber to make the tires, grips, hoses and seat. 2 for plasics like Body, frame, motor, etc. 3 for the clear like lens for headlight tail and turn signals. ( I can run 3 colors in one mold by haveing a switchable gate) All in all I would be looking at about 150 to 200k to make the molds. That is not including if I do it, and design it. Then we could be talking less, But it is still muchu denero. Soooo, where are my investors?? | ||
| Paulson |
Ummmm..... Ebay is sounding better already.  | ||
| Steve_mackay |
Spidie... I am a mold designer/maker. Get me some models, I'll design you a mold  Heck, get me a point cloud, and I'll design you a mold (Message edited by Steve_mackay on October 14, 2005) | ||
| Spiderman |
SM, I work in a mold shop and that is the going rate here at least. What are your thoughts on price, design etc?? | ||
| Steve_mackay |
I would built a single family parts mold, switchable gate/runner shutoffs for all the parts. Buy the tires from someone else(why re-create the wheel?). $150K ot $200K is EXTREMELY expensive IMHO. It would be a short run/prototype type of mold for sure. Make the A & B halfs out of aluminum "tooling plate", or even 7075AL. But seeing as this would most likely be ABS, I'm not so sure how many shots we'd get out of it. I have 7 Machining centers, and two Makino EDM sinkers at my disposal | ||
| Steve_mackay |
btw, if you give me $150K to make this mold, I could make enough take the rest of the year off | ||
| Spiderman |
We just got a makino at athe shop, that think rules. We also have two drop tank EDM's that can hold 24x38 inch molds and two drop tanks that can hold 5x10ft molds! Good point on the tires and rims but I would make this model bigger than anything I have seen yet. I would also make it outta some S7, but good point about one mold and the runner. Should cut down cost considerably. Ok enough shop talk I have to be there tommorow  | ||
| Bikertrash05 |
I have seen those on ebay and have been very tempted to bid. I am a model freak too.  |
