Today I have been fabricating some nice wheels.
The box wheels looked really small. Here is a short How-to on wheel and tyre fabrication:
First you need some plastic tubes. I found these 23 mm tubes used for electric installations in walls.
Cut it off using a sharp knife:
For theese wheels I will use the stock rims as a center. I cut off some thinner tubes that fit inside the bigger ones as support for the centers:
Make a chamfer on the edges to get a nice rounded lip of the rims:
Then get the Bare metal foil out:
Then I put the centers in. Looks pretty nice already:
I did some testing today, and discoverd that you can make your own tyres (slicks at least) out of self vulcanizing rubber tape. This tape starts to vulcanize when you stretch it out, and then the tape layers bond together forming a solid rubber layer. If you put the last layer with a little overlap over the "sidewall" of the tyre it will get nice and smooth. Takes some practice, but soon you can get pretty decent tyres that are made out of real rubber !
(I missed a little bit on the edge of the rim where the BMF splitted):
The final result is pretty "bling":
