Snow-Trac (WIP)

boofredlay

Nice detail, looking forward to the rest.

unigami

Thanks for all the nice comments!

Here's an update showing work completed on the fenders and hood.

BTW, note the deflector shield over the rear set of bogie wheels. This was used to prevent the snow fall-off from the crawler from getting on the wheels and increasing their diameter - which could cause a failure of the crawler track due to the increased tension.

These vehicles were also used in the Sahara!

Dave R

Cool!

Fletch

Fantastic modeling!

hellnbak

This is gonna be a nice model! Can you show us some other examples of your work?

Marian

Very nice so far.Good job

unigami

@hellnbak said:

This is gonna be a nice model! Can you show us some other examples of your work?

Thanks! You can see most of my stuff over on my Flickr group here: http://tinyurl.com/3e9sx6b

unigami

I think I have the overall shape of the body nailed down....going to start working on some details inside the cab now.

BTW, if you saw the movie "The Shining", you might remember seeing one of these featured in it.

Dave R

Cool, cool!

I could use one of those to get to work in the winter.

solo

Anxious to see this rendered.

numbthumb

What? Jack Nicholson?
Excellent work, unigami

Bryan K

Wow! One of my all time favorite toy vehicles as a kid and still is to this day, only now I'm old enough to be able to drive one!

Great model.

unigami

Thanks for all of the nice comments!

Here's an update showing work completed on the interior. Pretty simple stuff...these machines were very utilitarian.
Just a driver's seat, and two bench seats along the side.

You can't see it here, but the gas tank was inside the passenger compartment as well, under the bench seat in the rear.

rangerrick

That's some fine modeling

Roidsan

Unigami - anything with a track like that is awesome to us newbies. Most incredible! Did you just do that from the photograph you showed, or did you have some other better source?

Solo, you just HAD to show Jack Torrance. We all had his image in our minds. Obviously hard to resist and very intense.
Lloyd

unigami

Rick and Lloyd, thanks for the nice words! There are quite a few resources that I've discovered for the Snow-Trac...it is a beloved machine and I've found several owners groups online that have lots of pictures. One of the most helpful resources that I found was a parts manual with exploded drawings of the entire vehicle!

Another interesting bit of trivia that I discovered was that the FBI used one of these back in 1971 to search for D.B Cooper - the infamous hijacker who jumped out of a 727 near Portland OR with $200,000 and was never found. That machine is still in use today and is privately owned.

Here's an update with two SkecthUp views and a couple clay renders. Going to start working on textures now.

Oops!

Dave R

numbthumb

Indeed,
Great stuff. Can´t wait to see it textured & rendered.

majid

wow , this is gonna be a great model, seeing forward to see the texturing/modeling

Dave R

Rick, that last render is really good. I almost thought it was a photograph. By the way, I like your clay renders with the lines overlaid.