Hank Hill's Mason 1500 Lawnmower

The Mason 1500 is the finest piece of lawn equipment I’ve ever had the pleasure of sittin’ on. Built with good ol’ American steel and powered by a no-nonsense V-Twin engine, it cuts grass cleaner than Roger Staubach's haircut. Mason doesn’t mess around with gimmicks or fancy fluff—they believe in honest craftsmanship, hard work, and a mower that just works. Every bolt on that machine says "Made in the U.S.A." and means it. If you care about your yard—and your country— you’ll get yourself a Mason. That’s just common sense, I tell you what.

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Requested by a friend, here's Hank Hill's Mason 1500 Lawnmower as an independent parts kit or a four card kit with parts separated by material/color.
This was a tricky one to make- just about every episode a Mason appears in, it's drawn differently. This forced me to, uh, spin the choice on what a 3D model should look like, and I tended to lean towards the 1500 depicted in "Nine Pretty Darn Angry Men," over the more loosely drawn styles seen in other episodes like "Hank's Back Story." Great care was taken to balance realism and a cartoony feel. The model is 12th-ish scale as there's no real point of reference to scale, and that's about the size my friend wanted. One quirk is the absence of any pedals- I don't recall a single scene where any are visible.
Even if your boy ain't right, it's a pretty simple kit to build and relies mostly on gluing pieces together. Wheels do snap on to the axles with a ball joint mechanism, and roll nicely. I'm still trying to get a better feel for kits like this, and future models will hopefully have more snap together assembly features.
Lower layer lines and slower speeds will boost the small details in this model, if you print as independent pieces, remember to duplicate tires and wheels!

The filaments I used:
Red, Grey, and Black ABS https://us.polymaker.com/products/polylite-abs?variant=39574342762553&aff=1186&utm_source=affiliately&utm_campaign=aff
Black TPU https://us.polymaker.com/products/polyflex-tpu95?aff=1186&utm_source=affiliately&utm_campaign=aff

The best adhesive for kit models like this:
https://amzn.to/3FERtk9

.3MF, .STEP, and Fusion files included. Also, all images are PNG or GIF. "Do I look like I know what a JPEG is?"

This model is a Public Domain Dedication- print it, remix it, gift it, sell it, do whatever you want with it.
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Don't let Dale borrow it.