kilrathy10 Posted November 6, 2013 Posted November 6, 2013 Looking good....I like that Italeri bunk you put in...Fits right on in there....Nice work....
Bennyg Posted November 7, 2013 Posted November 7, 2013 That's looking great. I'm going to start mine soon. I'm going to build mine out of the box and paint it tamiya metallic orange from the 86 Toyota colour option. Ben
SBourget Posted November 9, 2013 Posted November 9, 2013 Looking good. I am really interested in how you are going to do the doors. Where I am stuck with mine at the moment..
martinfan5 Posted November 9, 2013 Author Posted November 9, 2013 Looking good. I am really interested in how you are going to do the doors. Where I am stuck with mine at the moment.. After building three , I am still stuck at doing the curbside door, but I did figure out how to do the compartment doors , the lift gate is auctally pretty easy, I just started on, I will get pics soon
martinfan5 Posted November 10, 2013 Author Posted November 10, 2013 Got a little bit of work done on the trailer, roof is cut, but I had a hard time getting a straight line traced so, I have some work still left to get it even with the sides, and added strip styrene to the sides as well and the track for the lift gate, dont mind the un evenness, I will take care of that, and dont mind the cardboard, just there to give some support for the sides
Mopar - D Posted November 10, 2013 Posted November 10, 2013 Jonathan this is a really nice scratch built trailer you have going. Keep up your excellent work on it. I'll be checking back to see more progress.
Force Posted November 13, 2013 Posted November 13, 2013 Interesting build. I'm planning to do a Featherlite type 53 foot race transporter trailer myself in the future so I'm following this with great interest. What are you going to use for the trailer suspension?
martinfan5 Posted November 13, 2013 Author Posted November 13, 2013 (edited) Interesting build. I'm planning to do a Featherlite type 53 foot race transporter trailer myself in the future so I'm following this with great interest. What are you going to use for the trailer suspension? Probably wont to be honest, I am just going to attach the wheels to the frame rails, I have not figured that part out, I will try and find the picture that I found that shows some of how the axle's are attached. Did some work on the interior, borrowing the idea, I used two different thickness of sheet plastic, I used .15 to make the cabinet doors Right side Left side and most of the work is done on the lift gate, this all in mock up , so excuse the masking tape, it is fully functioning up/down/closed position Edited November 13, 2013 by martinfan5
JamesW Posted November 15, 2013 Posted November 15, 2013 I need this trailer in my life. LOL VERY nice work.
outkast1027 Posted November 16, 2013 Posted November 16, 2013 piece of round tubing and a wooden scewer makes great axles. you can ask kilrathy on here about them he can give you more details. he has built a couple for me and thats what he used and they work out pretty well. his name is jt so check with him and maybe he can send you some pics. trailer is looking amazing keep up the good work.
kilrathy10 Posted November 16, 2013 Posted November 16, 2013 Dude, I really like your lift gate work....I never really knew how to approach that part of my trailer builds....I like this....I'm gonna have to "borrow" that one for my next trailer build....And I'm with you on the suspension....Doesn't really seem necessary when everyone is only gonna see the interior.....And thanks Jeremy for the "shout out"....
outkast1027 Posted November 18, 2013 Posted November 18, 2013 no problem sir just passing along some info to another fellow modeler and giving credit where it is due.
martinfan5 Posted November 25, 2013 Author Posted November 25, 2013 Making a good bit of progress, re did the roof, and starting to get the all the interior bits ready to go in, also cut the piece's for the lower level ceiling/upper level floor, no pics yet, but will soon, but I do have pics of the extension part of the lift gate,
Truck parts Posted November 25, 2013 Posted November 25, 2013 That's going to be a sweet looking rig.
Johnny1973 Posted November 26, 2013 Posted November 26, 2013 Great work!You are putting a lot of great details into the rig.
martinfan5 Posted November 26, 2013 Author Posted November 26, 2013 (edited) Up first a rear view, and darn bunnys, they are everywhere Looking towards the front of the trailer on the upper deck rear portion of the lower level, still working on the lower level interior, took some more pics, but didnt like how it looked, I need to try and fix some things in the front part of the trailer Edited November 26, 2013 by martinfan5
kilrathy10 Posted November 28, 2013 Posted November 28, 2013 Looking pretty darned good, Man....I like it....
DrKerry Posted November 30, 2013 Posted November 30, 2013 Man, that trailer is really nice!!!! Great work on that!!!
SBourget Posted December 7, 2013 Posted December 7, 2013 Looking good. What, or how are you going to make the compartment doors work?
martinfan5 Posted December 8, 2013 Author Posted December 8, 2013 Looking good. What, or how are you going to make the compartment doors work? That is a good question, I am going to use plastic rod and shape sort of in a z shape, then use just a little bit bigger round stock that is drilled out, and fit the ends into them, I will take some pics when I get to that point
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