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Have any of you guys scratch built a trailer before?


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You can go back a couple of pages in the  "big rig under glass" section bottom of page 2 (A few more trailers) page 5 (53' lowboy) and see several of mine. As is Bill, i'm a 100 miles from the nearest hobby shop, so I build from what I can find, Walmart carries a for sale sign(when u can find it) that is 12"x18".040 styrene. The last 4 I bought were $2.50 each! I order most of my angle,tubing, etc. online.

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I've been looking into this and have decided to go with aluminum profiles.  Super easy, you can acquire them in all kinds of sizes and shapes, plus there are lots of 2 component cements out there that leave a neutral colored cemented joint.  The best dump bodies I've ever seen on models are from aluminum mini-profiles.  Trailers too.  My opinion, the only way to go.  Why mess with plastic, when you can have real metal.

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I have scratchbuilt a few trailers:

 

 

 

 

 

I buy most of my styrene online. It helps to have a bunch of different shapes and sizes of styrene round stock, round stock, and angle. Since I do so much scratchbuilding I keep most sizes of the common shapes on hand. Then I just buy some .040, .060", and .080" thick sheets for larger components.

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Many of the trailer manufacturer websites have drawings online for thier products.  I know of a few builders that utilized this for their builds, makes it much easier than trying to designing everything yourself. The cool part is you can scale the drawing by using say a known size like a tire..then print it for your own drawings.

 

Jeff

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