Cat D7s

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Just came across these. Some folks might be interested.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5598329
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5601450

[Jim Starbuck]

Very cool. This showed up on the Milwaukee Road Modelers Facebook page this morning.

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[rodsup9000]

  Thanks Ed, I've been try to find a STL file for one of them for a few years.

[newt749]

Thanks Ed, with a little bit of extras and some weathering, it will look good as a small lumber tractor.

Rob

[Ed Kapuscinski]

My pleasure!

I was busy trying to find funny inappropriate things to print in low-res and these got in my way. Figured someone should get some use out of the thing preventing me from finding the triceracocks.

[bbussey]

Got my own. 

[Jesse6669]

I could see a flatcar load of them on the WP&Y...

[rodsup9000]

 Scaled close to N scale.     Just off the printer

[johnhale]

Scaled close to N scale.     Just off the printer

What did you scale them too? The originals from the description are 1/100, but when I scaled them 62% they still look wrong.

John

[rodsup9000]

  I haven't measured any of them yet, so I don't know how close they are. These are scaled to 55% and they look very close.

[wvgca]

these would fill in rather well for my old D73T, closest would be the ones in the older photo, but only a nit picker could tell the differences, lol

[John]

Dimensions Length: 162.25 inches 412 cm Width: 97 inches 246 cm Height (hood): 80 inches 203 cm Shiping weight: 24,330 lbs 11036 kg Ground clearance: 15.5 inches 39 cm Clearance (drawbar): 17.25 inches 43 cm Gauge: 74 inches 187 cm

Source: https://agro-specs.com/tractors/4842-caterpillar-d7.html

https://www.tractordata.com/farm-tractors/002/9/8/2980-caterpillar-d7-dimensions.html

[haasmarc]

I was playing with this dozer and I made a small scaling error.  Ended up printing at 1/320 scale.




The little hook on the bottom printed just fine at that scale.  I broke the one track and the one platform corner when taking the supports off.  I need to be more careful with the next one.


And the holes in the draw bar printed as through holes too.


N scale D7 with "mini D"!


Every detail in the bigger one is right there on the smaller one.  This mini 8k is impressive.

[mu26aeh]

Use the mini as a yard sign for a construction company or heavy equipment sales company

[MK]

Or a roof sign...