Jürgen M.

Thanks Guys! Nice of you to say that. I like it too. If everything goes well you'll see it on the truck in a few days! 👍

Thanks Jeff! There's still a lot to do though. Just put the second layer of base coat on the hood! The grille needs a longer time to cure! The trailer needs to be primered and painted, a couple of parts need to be printed. Can't say how long it will take. Depends on how much other work I have!

First layer of base coat on the new hood and the grille is chromed!

The ramps are almost all printed. Still missing the small ones at the front of the axles. I'll fill up the rest with perforated plates. I was thinking about wooden inlays first but the I thought metal might look better! (Of course not real metal plates, Just printed and painted to look like metal).

This is gonna be a great build Gary! I love your ideas on the fitting of the bumper!

Thank you Gary and Jeff, I'm glad it looks good to you! What I haven't been able to reproduce are several cabover and conventional cabs. I'm still practicing things I saw on turorials but I'm afraid I'm a bit too impatient! Just won't work yet. But I won't give up.

A little bit of progress: The main body is assembled. This is a mock-up with the driving ramps and (not really) hitched to the Mack, which is still waiting for his hood to be finished! It arrived a few days ago, just didn't have any time to do anything with it! At least I got the hood, the new grille, the back end and the ramps of the trailer primered! Hood looks great! Thanks again very much to Bren who printed it on his resin printer for me. Big difference! 👍 Can't wait to finish it and mount it on the Mack!

Wow! Amazing!! That's what I call prepwork! I'm already fighting myself through the details of my lowboy and that's simple compared to a car carrier. Keep going. I'm following this with great enthusiasm!

Amazing! I've never had the nerve to build a car carrier! It's a quite complex construction and I tend to lose the over view on parts and function after a while! My respect to anyone who pulls it through!

Nice dash! 👍

Pre assembly of the printed trailer parts: Mock-up of the pre-assembled components: The white stuff is styrene sheet to stabilize. I'll design further stabilizers for the rear part which is quite long for a free hanging component! The complete front section will be printed this weekend!

I corrected the plumbing! If I understood right it was just the lines to the brake drums that were wrong! I also began printing the trailer parts:

Looks great. I agree, the weathering on the exhaust is perfect!

Thanks everyone for your help. Sounds logical! I'll do my best to correct it! 😊

But doesn't the truck produce the high air pressure and then leads it via air line to the trailer brakes or did I misunderstand you? Sorry!

I tried some plumbing but I don't know if it's good! View from below: ...and from above: Looks a bit chaotic but I think I'll leave it that way! I added that little distributor box so I could attach the brake lines coming from the front!

Wow!!!!! Gary, that is one beautiful truck! The mixture of an old truck with modern elements is a great idea and you made it look like a real truck. Chapeau! What a build!

Looking good Ron! Just amazing what you know and how you executed it! Impressive!

Looks so beautiful Gary! Can't find the words to describe it !

For the pros! I know, I used a truck suspension! That was accidental. I wanted to use the one of the belly dump I built last year which I had lengthened to a tri-axle suspension like the truck one but I hit next to it when programming the printer and printed the truck suspension instead! I noticed that when it was finished and didn't want to waste it. Don't know if I'll ever build another tri-axle so I used it.

Thank you very much! Very nice of you to say that! I'm glad my ideas find approval ! 😊

This is the "making of" of the trailer chassis: Tires are also printed cause I didn't have any small ones in the box! Assembled chassis with axles and brake drums! The white "stoppers" we're box parts. Assembled wheels: Chassis almost complete! I chose smaller wheels because as far as I know lowboys mostly do have smaller ones. Here you can see the difference in size compared to the truck wheels:

Thanks Steve! I thought a lot about it till I finally decided what to pair it with. I want to put two other Mack trucks on the lowboy, sort of a Mack family thing!

Hi everyone! Been a while since I last posted to this thread! I'm waiting for the resin hood Bren printed for me. It's on its way across the ocean! Meanwhile I thought about a possible trailer and decided to make a lowboy! Something like this: This is the first shot of a virtual mock-up: Still a lot missing but I guess it'll be OK!

Any time Pal! Just name it! 👍 It'll be a great project!