2002p51 Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 Some of you may or may not know that my "day job" is a race photographer. Sometimes this job includes selling photos to racers and teams, etc. Well, one of my dreams has always been to fix up our trailer and equip it to do photo editing, printing, and sales right on site at the race track. And since I can't afford to do this in real life what better than to at least build a model of what it might look like. So here it is. Of course I used a Galaxie trailer kit. As an aside it's funny that, for being basically just a simple box, this thing is pretty fussy to build. But I digress. Here's an overall view of the inside. Just about everything you see here is scratch built from Evergreen styrene shapes and sheet. Here's the "customer entrance". All of the photos on the walls are mine, reduced to size and printed on photo paper. The frames for the photos are made from Evergreen square stock painted flat black. The lap top on the right side of the counter is used by the "sales clerk" (me probably) to help the customer see the photo he wants on the larger slave monitor on the left. Behind the sale counter is my work area with another lap top and a printer. Both are scratch built. The lap top's "keyboard" is simply a photo, reduced to scale size in Photoshop and printed on glossy photo paper. The printer and stool are also scratched from Evergreen. The overhead cabinets are for storage of supplies and equipment. At the front of the trailer is a closet for coats and jackets, a microwave, the face of which is another photo, a small refrigerator, and a few drawers for whatever. Anyway, while I may never do this for real, it was fun to build in scale.
slusher Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 What a cool build and so much detail. Excellent work Drew..
afx Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 (edited) Nice Drew, maybe you could sell model cars and decals out of your trailer as well. I got hooked on model cars when I was a kid. My Dad took me to a dirt track, Jennerstown Speedway (it was dirt then). There was a vendor there selling built-up models of the race cars - $10 each if I remember correctly. That was a lot of money back then so Dad shot down purchasing one. I bought my first kit soon thereafter when I had enough money. Been building every since. Edited February 20, 2014 by afx
Danno Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 Outstanding build, Drew! Clean. Superb detailing. Nicest motorsports trailer I've seen in years!!
TooOld Posted February 20, 2014 Posted February 20, 2014 Beautiful model and excellent detailing ! Looks like it has everything you'd need except maybe a cot under the bench so you can steal a few winks . I bet one day you'll have the real thing , good luck !
twopaws Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 Very nice work Drew and what an interesting subject. Now that is Modeling.
Scalper Posted February 21, 2014 Posted February 21, 2014 Thats cool. would look great in a race track diorama
Wade Hoskins Posted March 2, 2014 Posted March 2, 2014 Very nice build. Hopefully you can use that as a "blueprint" for a 1:1 build sometime in the near future.
o-man Posted March 5, 2014 Posted March 5, 2014 That is very cool! I've seen similar setups at road races around the Southeast. Good luck in the future.
vaughn Posted March 9, 2014 Posted March 9, 2014 Cool build and idea ! You just need to win the lottery and you already have your design ! Good luck !
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