Scratch built race car transporter

[martinfan5]

Hey guys

Here is a scratch built race car transporter, I built this a while ago, this is a second I built, this one is based off of Featherlite 2010/2011 model 1075 race car trailer. It is made out of evergreen sheet styrene, I used to thin of sheet plastic for the sides and roof.

Well its not perfect, there are a lot of things that I could of done differently. I didn't get the scale right, I was trying to build it in 1/24th scale, but I think I am in the middle of 1/24-1/25th. There are things I still need to add to it like marker and tail lights, just cant find any, I need to come a with a better hinged system for the lift gate. I need to paint the outside. since those photos were taken, I added a mast on the front, I am not sure what there are used for yet.

Now with the new Lonestar kit that is out, I have a new reason to build a third one.

these are the first set of pics I took, since these photos were taking I added Photo etched door handles.

Edited July 8, 2011 by martinfan5

[martinfan5]

Now these are more current pics I took a few months ago, all loaded up and ready to go to the race track

Edited July 8, 2011 by martinfan5

[mikemodeler]

Nice attempt at a subject that is probably long overdue for a kit manufacturer to offer.

My advice for your next trailer is to take your time and concentrate on clean details. You have the right idea and I think if you really wanted to, you could make something that looks like it came from a kit. Some practice with foil and it would look much better, take your time gluing and painting and don't be in a rush.

[ra7c7er]

Looks really cool a great first attempt. Keep building them and honing your skills. I agree the model companies need to produce a overhead trailer at some point.

Edited July 8, 2011 by ra7c7er

[disabled modeler]

Nice work and looks great.

[Brinx]

Good looking trailer. Your engineering is pretty good for the tail-gate to be able to hold the car on it.

I'd love to see more about that.

[martinfan5]

Thanks for the nice words, I know a lot of the areas that I didn't do right, on the foil I was just using tin foil, which doesn't really work that well, when I just should of used BMF. One of the things that messed me up, was I took the dimensions from the real trailer, and converted them to 1/24th scale, but during the building process things didn't look right, so I had to correct it, then that messed things up.

Last night while going thru the truck forum I found a few threads on race transporter's , so I wanted to post pics of what I have done to help some other members out, showing that's its not really hard to do, just takes a lot of sheet plastic to do it.

I would love to see a kit for a double decker race car trailer.

For the lift gate, I am using the fabric rope that came in the Revell of germany peter built tow truck, once the rope is secured it has enough strenght to support a model . Now there are some parts of the lift gate that I am still working on. I have not been able to recreated the style hinges used on the real trailer.

I have good idea on how to build it, just havent found a way to do it were it will work on this trailer with out having to rebuild everything concerening the lift gate.

Edited July 8, 2011 by martinfan5

[martinfan5]

Here a the only pics I have of the hing set up