Styrene trailer; scratchbuilding...

[bigfrit]

On another forum a guy made a trailer (got to give props for inspiring me of course) and was building a trailer from scratch. I was pretty impressed and decided to make my own interpretation of it.

After an afternoon of cutting and planning and a bit of glueing, i got to the following stage...

the white is styrene,
the red is a part from a straw and the black parts from the box.
BTW, fujimi rims ( I was going to keep them for my caterham, but I ve got way better ones

these pics were crappy and taken with a phone...







then after a coat of paint on... it looks like this...









if you look at the back, the system for the attachment of the ramps...




with the raising and lowering from the front wheel, it's possible to tilt the trailer, just like a real one...

That's it for now, mostly...

I ll keep in touch, gotta go start building the hauler now!
might look good...


TATAH!

Oli

[Merkava]

A to the mazing! That's awsome, especially for only "an afternoon of cutting and gluing"... Very nice!

[Technoman]

Very nice, what is going to pull it though?

[ales]

S'ok

[nugundam93]

nice work!

i love the weathered lanevo7 wrc as well.

[blubaja]

That's pretty neat!

[quadzero]

Great idea for displaying models thats for sure. This turned out pretty nice, actually looks like an elaborate kit.

[sportracer02]

Hi,

this trailer shows, how scratchbuilding works.
Very nice, well executed

[malscar]

Lovely execution oli.

Just one idea for you. Put a brace across the 'A' arm and mount a spare wheel on it.

Mal

[MPWR]

Cool project Oli!

It'll look terrific with a Caterham on it, ready for a day at the track.

Did you use pics & dimensions for a real trailer, or figured it out as you went along?

[klutz_100]

Alex, I am totally underwhelmed by your enthusiasm for this great project!

Nice one Oli and I am still waiting for that damned Jaggy of yours!! and I thought Jean Paul was taking me forever...

[bigfrit]

Thanks all for your nice comments!

To answer some of your questions...

@technoman
the thing that's going to pull it, is very probably a G55 AMG that I m working on.

@ales
meh.

@sportracer
thanks man, i hold your opinion in high regard!

@malscar

yeah, but I have only got four of these nice rims, so I guess it' ll have to stay like this, except some thingies here and there, like a towing hook... and reflectors, lights, cables...

@mpwr

Yup, i checked the dimensions on some real life manufacturers and figured I d take the lancer evo to be the benchmark for this. I wanted it to be realistic for some kind of weekend racer (7 ) to be on.

and finally Klutz...

i know bout the jaggy that's taking forever, it's my eleanor, everytime I try something i kinda fuck it up more or less... repainted, cleared and polished tho .

But I got this trailer project going now!


Thanks all for your nice comments. and the progress might be quite slow to the fat-melting temperatures, my excuses for that.


Oli

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Wow, that's a great way to display models. Never thought of that. BTW really tidy work. Looks great.