1/25 AMT Great Dane 40 ft. Dry Goods Trailer

cifenet · Monday at 11:07 PM

Build this over the weekend as a "quick, easy, out of box, no frills, see how it goes" type of build.

This was an easy kit for me and went quite well. It was also my first trailer build and I did not try to do any fancy stuff.

Built it out of box except I ended up adding some brake hoses and marker lights receive lens covers (clear resin).

The only major problem I faced was the ride height where I had to raise the height of the rear trailer wheels so that this trailer sits parallel when attached to a truck.

I double checked instructions to see if I miss anything obvious, but couldn't figure out why I was having the ride height issue (I tried multiple trucks to confirm that the trailer was sitting too low).

Things I liked:

Easy build and the overall fit is decent
Made no effort to correct or improve, but the final kit still turned out to be nice.
When attached, turns your truck into something "more" meaningful.
It is big!

Things I didn't like:

The ride height had to be corrected.
Painting was somewhat of an issue as my spray booth was too small for the trailer.
Decals were very thick and all of my decal softener solutions wouldn't work.
Need bigger space to display

Next time, I might try to get a different set of fleet decals to make things more interesting.