crazyjim

WOW!! Your detail work is amazing. Keep it going.

The teardrop trailer is all scratch built. Somebody posted about making a teardrop trailer available in trade for an unbuilt kit. I researched the internet, made some drawings and then made side templates from glass. I lined the interior walls with Evergreen and them glued on the top and bottom. Evergreen was used again to make a frame underneath. The pickup features a neat hitch receiver. The plan for it came from Dukefan69. Thanks, Nick. It works very well.

The exhaust is plain old 3/32" aluminum tubing from the hobby shop. I polish it, cut it, and glue to the kit exhaust with Micro Krystal Klear. The taillights gave from the parts bin - they might be '61 Chevy bezels with small transparent red plastic. The color is Testor's rattle can in Star Spangled Blue I believe.

This is a scratch built teardrop trailer I built.

Forgot the pics.

I like this car! Engine is plumbed. Leather look interior. Aluminum tubing exhasut.

Bright green and blown. Engine is plumbed. Aluminum tubing for exhaust.

Can't see it but there's rolled & pleted interior (matches the rear panel in the kit), flocking. Brought the car down to a reasonable height. Cut open the hood sides, put in a spacer bar and backed that with mesh grille. It got a Hemi that's blown & injected. I think the block came from the ala Kart kit. I used transparent red fuel lines (somebody posted about using 30 lb fishing line) into a fuel block. Big & little Pegasus Hela wheels/tires. Exhaust tips are polished aluminum tubing. Taillights are small bullets that have been tunneled.

Anybody ever try the SMS fabric spray paint?

Okay. Thanks for the info.

I just noticed that there's a different title for different people - MCM Member, MCM ohana, MCM Avid poster, MCM friend. Who & why makes the decision for the titles, and what do the titles signify?

Great pics. Thanks for sharing.

I thought the shorter wheelbase trucks with short trailers were used for local deliveries in the city. Space is usually at a premium in cities and the shorter version trucks were able to back into cramped loading docks much easier. At least that's what trucker friends have told me.

Here's an update on my car hauler. I used Evergreen to extend the frame and more Evergreen to make mounts for the extra axle. Instead of just cutting round wheelwells, I made atemplate from the Chevy box, transferred the shape and cut them out.

As of yesterday, July 23, 2009 Mission Models has the 2mm replacement tips in stock but not the chisel. On July 9, 2009 he supposedly had both in stock. I used PayPal which means he already has my money.

You're exactly right diymirage! I've never donw a set and wa wondering how it's done. Looks I meant be doing a tandem axle and will run 23" t"s all the way around. Decision time tomorrow and I get my chores done.

Hey Ed, I was planning to put a set of dualie wheels/tires under my car hauler. Working on it today, I'm thinking that 23" T's with a tandem axle might look better. If I do that, I wouldn't need to run a dualie set up. My original question was meant as "How do you build a set of dualie wheel/tires?"

The base truck is the cusom 1999 Chevy Silverado. I'm thinking of running 23" T's with a tandem axle. The second one would be just a dummy and not a drive axle. Working on the frame and looking at those T's. I'll try to post pics tomorrow.

I don't think I've done a set of dualies and I'm going to need them on my car hauler. Any suggestions on how to make a set? Or maybe I should add another axle?

A most excellent model. Hope you don't mind if I steal some of your ideas for my car hauler?

I don't know what happened, but here's the pica again. Sorry for whaatever I did wrong.

I don't know what to tell you - actually I don't know what to do to try and help you out. The pics are in photobucket. Want me to email the jpegs to your real email address? You'll have to provide it.

There's a couple of guys waiting to see this thing since re-doing the original drawings, so yeah, I'll keep posting as it progresses.

Got started on the car hauler today. I used Evergreen .040 plain sheet for the sides that was reinforced with Evergreen .100 Angle #293. For support and rigidity, I used Evergreen 1/8" square tubing #252. The ramps were made with Plastruct 1/16 scale diaamong plate #91683. Here's some pics of the haauler so far and the Chevy truck that I'll be using with it. I'll be working on getting that frame stretched soon.

Hey Shane, How was your trip to Disney? Did you make it to Big Daddy Don Garlits place? ###### trip to Chicago messed me up there - but I found a pretty decent hobby shop in Rockford, IL.