32 Ford Chassis

[TarheelRick]

As popular as the 32 Ford chassis is for building hot rods I am surprised no one has begun 3D printing them. The distinctive side rails and K crossmember should be fairly simple to build. Some possible issues would be warpage and enough difference in scale between 1/24 and 1/25 to make maintaining inventory a problem. But I believe the market would sustain such an endeavor, what say you hot rod builders?

[Ace-Garageguy]

Well, if you just print to order, you could do any scale someone wanted.

I know of several 3D printers who print to order, payment in advance.

I'd think the problem would be getting your frame price down enough to be really competitive with buying '32 kits that have a lot of other parts, and still make some profit yourself.

There's something of a market for '32 ford frames in 1/12 and 1/16 as well. I'd certainly buy at least one of each, more if they were GOOD.

1/8 is covered with the Revellogram Big Deuce kit parts, but they're kinda spendy, so there's that too.

I have bought 3D parts that are gooey messes prone to warpage, or are brittle, and other 3D parts that seem to be very stable, so apparently no-warp quality CAN be done if you know what you're doing.

 

Edited December 20, 2024 by Ace-Garageguy
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[bobss396]

Iceman Collections has a nice one I want to get, zeed IIRC. 

I have a cleaned up one from Norm Veber as well, I'm not sure if he still makes them. 

[echo]

I would like to see a traditional rear end with the buggy spring conversion for the Revell '32's.

[catpack68]

18 hours ago, echo said:

I would like to see a traditional rear end with the buggy spring conversion for the Revell '32's.

Maple Leaf Modelworks made one for the Revell 29-30 Ford kits and the Revell 32 Ford kits too.

[Mr. Metallic]

On 12/20/2024 at 7:12 AM, bobss396 said:

Iceman Collections has a nice one I want to get, zeed IIRC. 

I have a cleaned up one from Norm Veber as well, I'm not sure if he still makes them. 

Norm actually used to make 2 different 32 frames. One was the Revell 32 frame, but with the trademark stuff removed (which is worth the price of admission because where Revell put that it was tricky to remove). But he also did a traditional near stock frame with separate floorboard that was set up to accept the suspension parts from the Revell 29 ford pickup for a traditional hot rod look.

 

[Mr. Metallic]

There are three 3D printed ones available that I know of, they all seem pretty similar style-wise with a heavy Z in the rear

Iceman Collectables- website

Juan 4 U -eBay

Custom 3D Scale Creations- eBay

[sfhess]

I have a couple of the cast metal frames/chassis.  IIRC, R&D Unique made them

[bobss396]

I have the juan4you chassis. It is pretty nice and cleaned up well.

[68shortfleet]

On 1/21/2025 at 12:46 PM, Mr. Metallic said:

Norm actually used to make 2 different 32 frames. One was the Revell 32 frame, but with the trademark stuff removed (which is worth the price of admission because where Revell put that it was tricky to remove). But he also did a traditional near stock frame with separate floorboard that was set up to accept the suspension parts from the Revell 29 ford pickup for a traditional hot rod look.

 

Any idea if Norm still has the stock style chassis available?

[Mr. Metallic]

19 hours ago, 68shortfleet said:

Any idea if Norm still has the stock style chassis available?

I don't see it in my most recent catalog.

But he often keeps molds when he takes stuff out of the catalog so I would reach out to him if you're interested.

Edited January 27 by Mr. Metallic

[Bullybeef]

I went through the process of building my own stock frame and if you have lots of patience it can be done! Parts were sourced from a couple of Revell kits(glue bomb rescues) 

The Revell 32 ford kit as a starting point and there are tons of them out there so I don’t really see the need for 3D printing the frame, now the k member and front and rear buggy spring mounts as a conversation would be a great idea for a 3D platform

[bobss396]

That K member on the Revell kit, I find it too restricting. I have a coupe in the works (BACK IN THE BOX...) and will be making something simpler for it.

[Bullybeef]

On 3/1/2025 at 8:56 AM, bobss396 said:

That K member on the Revell kit, I find it too restricting. I have a coupe in the works (BACK IN THE BOX...) and will be making something simpler for it.

I made my k member from an amt Vicky frame