ford explorer airbagged, on sills with scratch built chassis & billets

heres my ford explorer i picked up at a model sale $20 its 1/20 scale
iv scratch build the chassis with worknig 4link & front controls arms
with flake scratch built airbags etc plus iv also doored it which means
iv cut the sills away so it sits lower
here is a pic of before sills were cut off see whats hangn lower then the chassis table



u can see whats been chopped away from the sills here

start of the scratch build chassis

front end with uca's



scratch build 4link that works

with wheels on & laid out

at ride height

now sitting between the chassis rails

scratch built watts link set-up for diff

airbag mock up

now sitting under the body




updates coming soon

OMG That's grouse , Great handy work with the sratch building , will be watching this build

Very well done on the chassis work, great job.

thanx for the comments guys
helps the progreess haha

That's insane, nice work on the scratchbuilding!!..........and I luv the workshop

What? The airbags don't work?

Cracking work. I'm giving up scratchbuilding now...

Nice bit of scratch building

thanx guys i havent done much on this in the last few weeks
to busy doin a bodydrop on my 1/1 minitruck haha
but ill get into it after new years &

happy new years guys

zenrat
dont give up scratch building mate, i started with soldiering wire which blends great & can make some real nice flowing chassis but everything has to be spot soldiered then
id make them double thinkness & bog them to get a nice finish
but then tried greenleaf tubing & square tube which is great,
this my 1st with the plastic chassis's with greenleaf, jus draw out ur chassis design in 1/24 scale using the shell of ur model to find ur wheel track etc then mock up a nice chassis off ur drawing around ur wheels,
i could do a DYO step by step if u wanted, its pretty easy then the rest of ur chassis/suspension is wot u desire as a nice chassis with i-beam front with a z'd front & coil over rear will b my next scratch build chassis jus gota get more supplies 1st which i could do the dyo chassis designs then............................
if ud like haha