Brent Posted May 17, 2015 Posted May 17, 2015 (edited) A long story about this build. It all started with a 1/24th die cast snowmobile I had. I built a sled deck for a Chevy truck I had built. I added some products to the deck that I had on my 1:1 sled trailer called Superclamps www.superclamp.net/ This is the original build. Some pictures of the 1:1 sized Superclamps and you can also see the Superglides on the deck (they protect the wood deck from the skags on the skies) Edited May 17, 2015 by Brent
Brent Posted May 17, 2015 Author Posted May 17, 2015 (edited) I posted some pictures of my deck on a Snowmobile forum I frequent and Superclamps (The manufacturer) saw my post. He went crazy seeing his product reproduced in 1/24th scale and approached me. He wanted the model in the worst way and made me an offer I could not refuse. Him being a collector of snowmobile die cast toys he had a pile of the 1/24 scale sleds, the same ones I had so he added another one to the sled deck. Before I turned the truck and deck over to him I changed the deck to balsa wood and added his Superglides to the deck. Here is the finished product. I added sectionalized pieces to the ramp as well, Same as the 1:1 product would be. The Balsa wood really highlighted the Superglides. Some time went buy and Superclamps approached me and said. "I have a distributor in Russia that I went over to visit recently. They treated me like royalty while over there. I have invited them to Canada for Christmas (Russians do not celibate Christmas) and want to have a Canadian Christmas that they will never forget. The Russian distributor also builds and sells a single covered sled trailer, could you reproduce the sled trailer and build another truck for me to give to him as a Christmas gift."? I wasn't sure what I was getting into but said shoot me some pictures and I'll let you know. Here are the pictures he sent me. Edited May 17, 2015 by Brent
Brent Posted May 17, 2015 Author Posted May 17, 2015 As soon as I checked out the pictures I knew I had to go for it. Some additional searching on the internet showed me some more details of how it opened up and tilted. Here are some in progress pictures of the build. He wanted three trailers. One for himself, one for his business partner and one for his Russian distributor. I wont bore you with the truck build up.... Started with the trailer sides. Sorry for the bad coloring, didn't have the white balance set correctly. I'll let the pictures do the talking......
Brent Posted May 17, 2015 Author Posted May 17, 2015 Superclamps and Superglides installed. Almost completed. Superclamps went to a Automotive shop that does full 1:1 scale wraps. They made us up a wrap for the trailer.
Brent Posted May 17, 2015 Author Posted May 17, 2015 (edited) Finished product!!! A display case was custom made and plaques to finish it all off. A video clip of them opening the gift. THEY LOVED IT!! At the end you can see him put his hands up, I was told he was welling up. Randal says "I didn't know I was going to get that reaction". Click on the link to view video clip. http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b267/HHighfly/models/Russian%20Sled%20Trailer/th_Russiantriailerreaction_zps065d856f.mp4 Needless to say I was very honored and proud to be a part of this. I made a CD of all the pictures of the the build up and added a message from the builder. I was told the gift made it back to Russia in one piece. Edited May 17, 2015 by Brent
jeffs396 Posted May 17, 2015 Posted May 17, 2015 AWESOME work!!! Are you gonna offer the covered sled trailer in resin?
tbill Posted May 17, 2015 Posted May 17, 2015 This is by far THE coolest thing I have seen in a long time! Well done!
1930fordpickup Posted May 17, 2015 Posted May 17, 2015 This is incredible. What a great job. So where do you find 1/24 scale snowmobiles?
tmathew1us Posted May 17, 2015 Posted May 17, 2015 Great story & WIP. Its amazing how you can touch someone with skill like that in our hobby. Great job!!!
Atmobil Posted May 17, 2015 Posted May 17, 2015 Wow, really great story and fantastic scratchbuilding skills!!
kilrathy10 Posted May 18, 2015 Posted May 18, 2015 That's a great model and a great story.....Always nice to see something like this.....God bless you....
Brent Posted May 20, 2015 Author Posted May 20, 2015 (edited) This is incredible. What a great job. So where do you find 1/24 scale snowmobiles? Thanks everybody. Really appreciate the comments. The 1/24th scale snowmobiles are extremely hard to find. I've been watching on Ebay and nothing ever comes up. Edited May 20, 2015 by Brent
gatorincebu Posted May 21, 2015 Posted May 21, 2015 Great story and super coo build. I Hope they got it home in good shape. So that they can enjoy that memory for many years .Whenevr they look at the model. Be Well Gator
Brent Posted May 31, 2015 Author Posted May 31, 2015 (edited) Thanks again for your comments. I was told it did make it to Russia in one piece. Edited May 31, 2015 by Brent
Sixties Sam Posted June 1, 2015 Posted June 1, 2015 Great story and scratch building work! The wrap is really cool! Sam
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