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

[cifenet]

 

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.

 

 

 

 

[Jim B]

Great looking trailer. Well done. 

[freightshaker2]

Good lookin wagon! I like the candy stripes (dot tape) down the sides they look perfect. This would look sweet behind that Pete ya just built!

[Rbray47]

That looks great. Makes me want to start on mine. 

Good to know about the ride height. The old IMC/AMT trailer sits low as well. Put 22s on your truck and it looks worse. 

[Brenton]

Beautiful trailer! I bet it looks great with your Peterbilt California Hauler!

Edited May 6 by Brenton

[BK9300]

Well done, Steve!  The ‘aluminum’ parts of the trailer stand out, very realistic.

[Biggu]

Nice build. It came out perfectly ! You nailed this one!

[PappyD340]

Outstanding trailer build, well done!

[Force]

Nice build of the old ERTL trailer...because that's what it originally is.
AMT had Fruehauf, Trailmobile, Loadcraft, Haulaway and Wilson trailers, no Great Dane wich were ERTL trailers.

Edited Friday at 05:11 PM by Force

[tahiti7]

Very cool and great photography. I really like the detailing on the rear doors!

[Jürgen M.]

Nice Trailer! Looks great with the Titan!

Most of my trailers are scratch built but I've got the AMT cattle trailer three times which I used on my Pig Pen rig and two on my 1/24 White Western Star road train.

Can't say I had the ride height issue on those eventhough both have larger tires. Maybe I was lucky or it's just the reefer that has that issue!

Anyway you solved the problem perfectly!

 

[ChrisR]

Looks great.

[DRIPTROIT 71]

Looks great! Excellent job on the subtle weathering! Excellent work!!