Alvis Stalwart toy car

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Stally is back! More or less by coincident I found the nice model from WindhamGraves of an Alvis Stalwart MK 2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvis_Stalwart). At the moment I saw it, I remembered that I had it as a toycar from Matchbox when I was a small boy at the early '70s: https://matchbox.fandom.com/wiki/Alvis_Stalwart As a child, I loved this model, because of its 6x6 drive and the swimming capability of the real car. Now, after seeing the source model, I was fascinated again (and thought of pimping the model a bit as a weekend project). So what did I change? First impression after inspecting the original thing: It needs spinning wheels and a bit more detail!! Here is what I did: - redesigned the lower body part to give a bit more detail: Added headlights, water impeller in- and outlet, and the characteristic 4 shocks to the front wheel double wishbone suspension - put some rectangular holes in the wheel/axle support, so that the modified axles and wheels can spin and travel up and down (kind of swing axle) to give some more playing fun - redesigned the wheels: You can either print the whole wheel in TPU as a one-piece part (file Wheel_TPU_Alvis_Stalwart.stl - easy to insert the axle made from 1.75mm filament), OR print the tires separately in TPU (two kinds provided: files Wheel_TPU_Alvis_Stalwart.stl and Tire_slim_TPU_Alvis_Stalvart.stl ) and the rims as separate PLA parts (file Rim_Alvis_Stalwart.stl) . When doing this, you may have to tinker a bit to get the axles in the center hole tight and straight. -aligned upper and lower body part for better assembly with corresponding holes in front and rear (just cut two 5mm pieces of filament as dowels and glue both halves together) - made inserts for the windows... I thought it may add a bit for quality and realism if the windows are black. Painting is not easy on the printed surfaces, so I made a set of 0.5mm thin stl which can be glued in the window recesses. This is an option of course... Length of the model as in the provided .stl-files is about 70mm As much as I like the technical aspects of such cars, tanks, machinery, I am not happy with the military use of them... so why not print the Stalwart in gray or white PLA as an exploration vehicle, just like the good old Matchbox one ? :-) On the pictures you can see the white stalwart with the slim tires, whereas the sand-colores one features the wider ones. Hope you enjoy and a big THANKS to WindhamGraves for sharing!