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Finished up great trades with @NitroMarty, @Kennyboy and @dust collectors this week.

It's been a good week in the trades department. I'm stupid excited about this fan nozzle kit for my Grex TG airbrush. It replaces the standard cap with a fan (I also sized up to a bigger needle and nozzle with the kit) converting the airbrush into a mini paint gun. Now I can use my smaller standard 0.3mm set for detail painting and metal paints and use the bigger fan for bodywork.

I'll take pics when it arrives and post them here

It's been a few days since I had a chance to sit down and work on the hauler. Getting close to having the exterior done. Really just working out dimensions at this point. I'll have to break it up into separate parts to make a printable assembly model.

@vincen47 I happened to pick this one up when I was on ST Supply's site grabbing some CTM photoetch lights they had on sale. It's also an X15. Curious as to what variant it is, they said it's correct for a LoneStar or ProStar, but it's at least a Cummins instead of the MaxxForce. I don't believe it's the one that you had mentioned but I also know that it's not the Auslowe engine. Maybe it's a new contender?

Smooth trade with @Ken Hart

I don't mind a financial support option (and I'll admit that I use an ad-blocker) to help others not have to see ads. I dip in and out of the hobby for stretches based on what's going on in my day to day. That being said, I also have a gym membership that I pay for each month and also dip out on for stretches so I'm sometimes just free money 😅 My biggest frustration is with the search function especially when I'm on mobile. It seems to only search within the area you're in when on desktop, which is fine, but it'll pull from the whole site when I try and search on mobile for some reason

I've been in Quality for almost 30 years now. Currently the QA manager for ProCharger Superchargers, for the next few weeks anyways before I go back into aerospace on the defense side in St. Louis, so working with prints and reverse engineering are a few skills I've picked up. It's definitely a process though. I've only picked up actual CAD modeling fairly recently helping out our engineering team when they got too busy or were shorthanded. You do gain an appreciation for what they were able to do with far less powerful tools at their disposal.

Can't edit the original post any longer (must have a time limit) The '37 Ford Coupe, '55 Chevy, ZR1 and stock '99 Silverado are taken. The Monte Carlo, '99 Silverado Custom and '32 Ford 5W possibly have deals in the works.

Took a bit of a break this evening before getting the walls and roof shelled in. Next up will be adding detailing, the stabilizer legs up front and the between axle storage framed in so to finish up the exterior bodywork. My personal version will be a "double stacker" in the garage with a "full floor lift" so that I can have more living area in the front of the trailer. Basically, an internal four post lift would be able to raise a platform to make room for a lower car to be parked on top of the wheelhouses (slightly lengthened of course). Then I'll rollback the model some and draw up the more traditional fixed upper deck, lower workspace area. That one I'll likely put out on Cults3D or offer to print up to spec for the public.

Deck plate and flooring added. The math on the Featherlite print that I'm working from worked out to be .75" between whatever deck plate they're using and flooring materials. Almost looking like a real trailer now. Also went ahead and reworked the front corners for an 8" radius on the leading edge of the trailer.

Reworked the frame to eliminate the C-section. I'll just draw up some major drop axles to get the clearance that I need to run the standard height super single trailer tires. I don't need to pass a DOT inspection 😅. At this point, I don't actually see myself using any parts from the Moebius Smooth Side but it's good to have for taking reference dimensions off of. I don't claim to be an expert at trailer design but I am working from a few images that I've been able to find of "unskinned haulers". The floor is aluminum 2x4s on 12" centers with 4x4s at critical junctions. Basically, I'm just framing it in like I would a house. The wheel house frames are 2x2s on 16" centers as will be most of remainder of the trailer's structure. For printing purposes though, I may model the walls and roof as solid pieces exterior to interior. Also, if there's interest, I'll go back in and rework the structure around the wheel wells to the proper proportions for the more correct low profile duals setup and save it as a separate configuration. I'd just have to lower the upper part of the framework and maybe make the opening length wise not quite as big since the tires will be of a smaller diameter. Now on to the fun stuff of fleshing out the actual "race hauler" part of the trailer. I've got 3 weeks before we move so I'm hoping to have this drawn up by the time we settle in and I can get my 3D printer set back up since I really can't do much in the way of physical building at the moment.

Sorry, I just had a chance to look and the chrome tree to my spare '67 kit is missing the vents

Great trade with @chryslerjunkandstuff

I had given my youngest son a tote of kits when my ex wife and I split. He told me the other day that he's been more into his Gundams than car kits and that I could pick them back up. He did keep a few that he really wanted but wasn't planning on ever getting to these. AMT 70 Monte Carlo - Open, sealed inside, can be built stock Revell 94 Impala SS - Open, complete, sealed inside except for one chrome tree, can also be built somewhat stock Revell '99 Silverado - Traded Revell C6 Corvette ZR1 - Traded

This is on my wants list as well. I may just have to model it up in CAD and print it myself

I'm on the hunt for someone doing a 3D printed IFS and IRS for the '32 Ford myself. I believe that I've seen the Jag style IRS but can't remember where. Someone has to have done the Mustang II style IFS that was so popular back in the billet days at the least.

Reviving this ancient thread. Has anyone offered up a 3D printed or resin version of the non-RS grille for the '67 that's more accurate?

I'm 99.9% certain that I have several sets. I'll check when I get home tonight.

Looking for a set of the riveted wheel flares from the Revell Jeep Rubicon. These are from either the original kit with the diecast body or the first re-issue with the plastic body (green Jeep on the box). Willing to trade for the stock flares in the most recent issue (yellow Jeep on box). TIA

Edited to reflect trades completed and took a few off my wants list that I got at HL with their sale.

Got the base frame for the race hauler laid out in Solidworks. Not at all prototypically correct but I had to C-notch the frame to make clearance for the axles if I'm going to run the Super Singles on the trailer. The print that was passed along to me showed that the frame should be 17" from the ground but my axle centerline would be at 21" and I needed a few more inches to allow for suspension travel. I'm not replicating any particular brand of hauler but combining elements that I liked from several. They all seem to share similar proportions in their basic design of the exoskeleton. I'll likely end up 3D printing this once we get established in our new house next month. Not exclusive to this project but the I had searched high and low for larger opening wide hexagonal photoetch mesh material for my pro-touring projects and finally found some overseas that's a scale 3" on the openings. This will look great behind the grille of the LoneStar once I remove the vertical spines and in the front bumper opening.

Slow boat from China finally arrived today. I had been searching high and low for a wide hexagonal photoetch mesh to use for grille material on my pro-touring builds that has larger openings similar to what's used on modern performance cars. Found this stuff from Killerbody that's intended for 1/10 RC cars. It's openings are roughly 3MM or 3 scale inches which is perfect for what I was looking for. Couldn't find it state side at all so I had to order from overseas. As long as it took to arrive my only regret is that I didn't get more sheets.

The final major pieces to the puzzle arrived today. I got a screaming deal on a Moebius Smooth Side to convert into a drop deck race hauler with living quarters. I think this makes the most sense for a private race team. Several of them that I have seen have an internal car lift in the garage to serve as double stackers. That way I could transport two race cars or one off road rig. A few of them even have slide outs in the living quarters. Since these appear to be 100% custom built, I also don't have to worry about rivet counters crucifying me if I deviate from a true Featherlite replica 😅. For those wondering, or it may be common knowledge, idk, the Super Singles on the trailer use the same 455/55/22.5s that the rears in the tractor set do with the steer tires on the tractor being a different tread pattern and 425/65/22.5s.

Fingers crossed that Revell will get around to the Z06 and/or ZR1 versions of the C8